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 ...
“They’ll just ignore the current Constitution and do what they want.”
You got that right. Continue to listen to this video AFTER Judge Nepolitano finishes - there’a clip of theobamination saying JUST THAT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYbqta-BdfY&feature=PlayList&p=F3F9C7740858198F
Ready to Revolt: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States
Yep. We're the counter-revolutionaries, the folks their beloved Mao hated and purged, but we are not going to go at all, much less quietly.
yep I am the guy your government warned you about! :) proud Oath Keeper in arizona...
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Ready to Revolt: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States
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Good on them!!!...
Agreed FRiend. They’ll have to kill me - I’ll not surrender to tyranny - and I can guarantee that MANY of the traitorous enemy will go before I do.
The SPLC is afraid of the Oathkeepers only as much as they think The 0ne will become a dictator.
They seem to be very afraid.
Can Citizens take a Oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States ?
Oath Keepers bump!
As long as rank and file troops were told that the “new constitution” had been enacted legally and validly, I believe they would accept it. Most of them.
I'm not saying a bogus Con/Con would work out any better. I'm just on guard against them trying.
That's the main plot hook in my third novel.
I would never ever claim to be in rebellion or to be a counter-revolutionary or a revolutionary. I would only say I am upholding my oath to defend the Constitution (against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC), and leave it right there.
Don’t be silly; if they didn’t like you they wouldn’t have written such a glowing review of “Domestic Enemies”.
Oh yeah!
This next couple of sentences is more troubling.
“But these kinds of conspiracy theories are what drive a small number of people to criminal violence. ... What’s troubling about Oath Keepers is the idea that men and women armed and ordered to protect the public in this country are clearly being drawn into a world of false conspiracy theory.”
The word *conspiracy* thrown around as a conversation stopper. IOWs *conspriracy* = *nutjob, tin foiler, etc*.
Keeps the sheep from wandering (or wondering).
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