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Police shut down mysterious 'Oath Keepers' guarding rooftops in downtown Ferguson
St Louie Post Dispatch ^ | November 29, 2014 | Jesse Bogan

Posted on 11/29/2014 3:29:48 PM PST by Second Amendment First

Police questioned group members early in the week and allowed them to stay. But Saturday, after an inquiry by a reporter, St. Louis County Police officers ordered the Oath Keepers to leave the rooftops.

Threatened with arrest for operating without a license, the volunteers argued but eventually left their positions early Saturday morning, Rhodes said.

"We are going to go back as protesters," Rhodes said Saturday afternoon.

Rhodes, who said he is Mexican-American, stressed that Oath Keepers is not anti-government. He said the group volunteers pulling rooftop security in Ferguson were current or former government employees and first responders, many who have intense military, police and EMS training.

“We thought they were going to do it right this time,” Rhodes said of government response to the grand jury decision released Monday night in the Darren Wilson case. “But when Monday rolled around and they didn’t park the National Guard at these businesses, that’s when we said we have got to do something.

“Historically, the government almost always fails to protect people,” he added.

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: banglist; darrenwilson; ferguson; missouri; oathkeepers; secondamendment
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Perhaps the Guards came, and perhaps they never came, and this was the usual progress of a mob.

- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

61 posted on 11/29/2014 5:27:03 PM PST by conservativeimage (I Won't Go Underground http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wema3CNqzvg)
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To: WildHighlander57
Notice that the about-face came AFTER a reporter asked questions...

Probably the infamous Julie Bosman.

62 posted on 11/29/2014 5:35:38 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Second Amendment First
Threatened with arrest for operating without a license,...

License? License for what? To protect private property?

63 posted on 11/29/2014 5:36:12 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: easternsky

Feds or Oathkeepers?

Remember the threat of a Drone strike sent them running at the Bundy Ranch.


64 posted on 11/29/2014 5:48:01 PM PST by Big Red Badger ( - William Diamonds Drum - can You Hear it G man?)
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To: Lazamataz

Card has license on one side,

Other side has ‘Ability to Operate without License’


65 posted on 11/29/2014 5:50:12 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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To: Second Amendment First

Of course they don’t want real patriots doing their jobs.


66 posted on 11/29/2014 5:54:12 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ex91B10

They talked a good game at the Bundy Ranch then folded when a Drone was mentioned,,,

maybe all that ex this and ex that means they still can’t buck The Man.


67 posted on 11/29/2014 6:00:13 PM PST by Big Red Badger ( - William Diamonds Drum - can You Hear it G man?)
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To: Big Red Badger

Disappointing.


68 posted on 11/29/2014 6:03:33 PM PST by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!a)
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To: ex91B10

Well I was gonna say.....I would’ve made them arrest me....with my attorney on speed dial. I don’t think I would’ve just tucked tail and left after going there.


69 posted on 11/29/2014 7:18:32 PM PST by sheana
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To: Second Amendment First

BTTT!


70 posted on 11/29/2014 8:10:17 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Second Amendment First

You need a license to stand armed on a rooftop? Where’s the NRA?


71 posted on 11/29/2014 8:27:40 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Funny how the Ferguson PTB saw fit to post a gauntlet of riot-gear attired police around their own station and the firehouse ... But for the rest of us insignificant peasants ... too bad ... Oh, and do not even attempt to organize your own defensive perimeter - or we’ll arrest you, for your refusal to be victimized by the jackasses “in charge” of doing absolutely nothing to “protect and serve you,” the taxpayer.


72 posted on 11/29/2014 9:33:09 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: gaijin

Ironic, is it not? This all began because a cop DEFENDED his person and property against a thug attacking him ... And most of America - excepting the worthless knuckle-dragging black sh*t heads in Ferguson - sided with the police ... Now, the cops stab the same citizens in the back, all for want of our own protection.


73 posted on 11/29/2014 9:41:44 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: Big Red Badger

Drones? Drones need to be parked on a ramp, or else hangared and serviced somewhere. They are easy targets in that circumstance - if you get my drift. I’ll bet Google maps can pinpoint every Drone operating facility - the rest is up to those who know how to put such machinery out of business. There is nothing more easy to do than to sabotage a flying craft. Redundancy CAN be defeated.


74 posted on 11/29/2014 9:56:22 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: Pollster1

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3232129/posts?page=60#60

What about for non residents of Missouri?


75 posted on 11/29/2014 9:58:01 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: Second Amendment First

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3232201/posts?page=1#1

Guys in above link were ultimately left alone by the cops.

Why were the cops rousting the oath keepers?


76 posted on 11/29/2014 10:38:40 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: Second Amendment First
Bull crap. Since when is a license needed? If you are operating a business and making money that's when. Why? Because the local government wants fees - made from paying for the license - they want part of the revenue made.

Volunteers don't have any revenue. Some neighbor can't drop by and help out? By this reasoning anyone helping to clean up trash and rubble needs a license. More Stupidity.

77 posted on 11/30/2014 1:03:42 AM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Lethal force can’t be used by an individual to protect property - just for self defense. Even then you have to be in fear for your life or the life of others.

LEOs get more leeway, but even then, the better be in fear for their life - look at Officer Wilson.


78 posted on 11/30/2014 1:07:25 AM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes

“Lethal force can’t be used by an individual to protect property”

which is bogus and needs to change


79 posted on 11/30/2014 1:08:34 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: old curmudgeon

The Post Disgrace is that kind of Newspaper. We used to have the Globe, now the Disgrace is all we have. So I don’t even get a paper, just use the internet.


80 posted on 11/30/2014 1:10:31 AM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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