Hoping to attract the folks who were supposed to constitute their core membership - AD military and LEOs, who placed their treasured pensions and security clearances above their allegiance to a free country - OK shut down all talk of militias or anything even remotely resembling active resistance to tyranny.
Mamby-pamby feel-good land, IMO. Irrelevant now, and irrelevant when the time comes.
'Conservative groupies'? You do realize you're on a conservative forum, right? You realize that statement insults almost everyone on FR, right?
I have read and listened to Steward Rhodes a lot. I saw what happened in New Orleans during Katrina-- people were disarmed in violation of the Constitution. Oathkeepers does a lot of good.
I smell troll. And maybe ozone.