Get a group of cops and soldiers who say they will obey their oath to defend the Constitution and the MSM and the left immediately see racists and Oklahoma City bombings:
…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…
…”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…
…That type of rhetoric has caught the attention of groups that track extremist activity in the United States.
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.”…
“Patriot” is liberalspeak for “racist”, by the way. Rhodes denounces racism and does not advocate armed resistance. All his group is doing is urging police and soldiers (active and retired) to refuse to obey any unlawful order – especially any order to suppress the American people. Not to open fire, but to merely stand down and refuse to obey – and Rhodes is trying to get together a legal defense fund to help any officer or soldier who does decide that an order should not be obeyed.
Hardly the stuff of racist hate-crimes, but you can’t tell that to the left – anyone who for any reason opposes anything Obama does or might do is a racist, a hate-monger and a guy just an inch away from blowing up a federal building.
The plain fact of the matter is that all of us who have worn our nation’s uniform have taken the oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. While our enlistments had an end date, the oath doesn’t. When I said, “so help me God” on that oath, I promised God that I would do just that – defend the Constitution against all enemies for the rest of my natural life. If I fail to do so, I’m breaking an oath – I would be breaking my word to God. Not going to do that.
What will come of all this? Almost certainly nothing – unless the left tries to use the powers of the federal government to suppress the right in the name of fighting “hate”.
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