Posted on 10/18/2009 6:47:38 PM PDT by GVnana
Ready to Revolt: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States
Group asks police and military to lay down arms in response to orders deemed unlawful
Depending on your perspective, the Oath Keepers are either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia.
In the age of town halls, talk radio and tea parties, middle ground of opinion is hard to find.
Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a nonpartisan group of current and retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to the Constitution.
More specifically, the group's members, which number in the thousands, pledge to disobey orders they deem unlawful, including directives to disarm the American people and to blockade American cities. By refusing the latter order, the Oath Keepers hope to prevent cities from becoming "giant concentration camps," a scenario the 44-year-old Rhodes says he can envision happening in the coming years.
It's a Cold War-era nightmare vision with a major twist: The occupying forces in this imagined future are American, not Soviet.
"The whole point of Oath Keepers is to stop a dictatorship from ever happening here," Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper and Yale-trained lawyer, said in an interview with the Review-Journal. "My focus is on the guys with the guns, because they can't do it without them.
"We say if the American people decide it's time for a revolution, we'll fight with you."
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
Doesn’t Obama plan to sign away some of America’s Constitutional freedoms as soon as this weekend??? Better move fast, this creep is. My prayers are with America. CO
Great post Wpin. I’ve been praying that this would begin SOON!! CO
FRiend, their sorry butts are not safe this time, even if they hide. There has never been a time quite like this one. CO
You would be correct in that assertion.
I still wonder where the Feds would start. Going after the obvious ones. Searching out everyone who registered as a Repub? Registered gun owners.? People who go to certain churches? Just White folks in general?
Choices, choices.
Hi Luct. Please keep me on the ping list. Thanks girl. CO
Well, the first choice would be those who expressed an interest or willingness to actually make a firm stand against the traitors.
I suppose you could take out their support groups, at least some of them first, like churches, Republicans etc. Most of those people who merely go along like sheep anyway, so I’m not convinced they bother with them.
I fear that BEFORE the midterm elections Mr. Fraud is going to create a false crisis, declare Martial Law and suspend the elections. This pr*ck will NEVER get out of the White House or power unless he has to. Remember they have “seized” power by their own words. They are going to put in a “whole new system”.!! God Speed. CO
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That will be rather complicated given the distances between us and , as you said, the willingness to be involved.
OTOH, there are only so many bodies in the military/LEOs and only so many who will follow THAT order.
Guess these things are not so black and white? Never are.
When the call comes, folks will get to where they need to be. I’m sure of that. CO
Hi CO, good to see you. Done.
IMO, you would be surprised how many would spontaneously join the fray if it were to come to that.
Things may not be black and white, but there are lines some folks just won’t cross even for a zero.
Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a nonpartisan group of current and retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to the Constitution.
I think will have an answer really soon.
People are getting tired of this fast.
Eyes open and powder dry...
I’m there!
I’m in Texas. That’s where I need to be.
God, guns and some refreshments.
You are under the right circumstances. Even good causes sometimes have real flakes for leaders. There must be a very compelling set of circumstances that would warrant something like this.
We mustn’t be itching so bad for a way to defend our nation, that we run off to do something we should have.
It’s the itching that gets us in trouble.
Cool heads, powder dry...
“Get out and do some exercise, you need it, Your country will need you soon.”
I hear ya’.
We do not advocate or call for revolution. We will not roll over and hide, either.
Made folks think.
Alabama.
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