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 ...
Huah.
The government has been taken over ..lets face reality. Obama has just started. Look at the insane people he has in power around him. I’m afraid there will be a revolution in this country . Im ready .I assure you Obama will take total control of the media in a years time. FR will be no more. We will have to get our information through underground means.
Keeping the population armed is the only solution.
And there's whole bunch of 'em who won't. And a whole lot more former military who remember what it was we swore our Oath to.
I'm one of those.
I'll make 'em pay for every word and every yard.
Groundwork for more legal action.
We’re all in this together!
“most soldiers in any organized Army or militia are only issued one firearm. How many of “we” 50 million have more than just one gun”
Very interesting point. Never thought of that, but yer right!
“””Its said that Admiral Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, declared the impossibility of a land invasion of the United States by noting that there will be a rifle behind every blade of grass confronting any invader.”””
Maybe the commies have learned from this quote. And now they have decided to become the enemy from within! Getting elected and destroying this country from within. No guns and not a shot fired from behind every blade of grass.
Amen
3/4 of what the Federal government spends money on NOW, is unconstitutional...violating the 10th Amendment and more. Has been that way at least since the 1930s.
Do you obey accept it now?
FReeping is fun and educational...who knew???
“In a July report titled “Return of the Militias,” the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center singled out Oath Keepers as “a particularly worrisome example of the Patriot revival.””
Yes, to a communist like Neas, patriotism is indeed worrisome.
“The SPLC doesnt like me either.”
You must be “worrisome” to them ;-)
Dont forget the Muslims and the Illegals.
Sometimes I feel like I am on a fast moving train that I cannot get off. But, it is time for those of us willing...to declare our resolve in restoring freedom to America.
These bastards who I believe are working hand in hand with evil must be stopped. Hopefully stopped by peaceful means, but stopped by any and all means if necessary.
God Bless All Patriots and God Bless America!
I have anew motto: STOP THE GOVERNMENT - I WANT TO GET OFF!
Ma Deuce can be your bestest friend in the WHOLE world!!!
“I have anew motto: STOP THE GOVERNMENT - I WANT TO GET OFF!”
I like it...I like it a lot! With your permission I would like to use it in my tag line.
“I will not accept unconstitutional government.”
Unless you are over 90 years old, you have for your whole life. I don’t like it any more than than you.
Please do so...I would be humbled and honored!!!!
Thanks, it says exactly how I feel...
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