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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anyone here know anything about an organization called Oath Keepers?
Is it a militia group? I saw a big pickup truck festooned with their stickers and was kind of wondering about it.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)That was the sense I got, but was not sure.
Thanks!
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)From Wikipedia:
The Oath Keepers feel that their sworn oath to the American Constitution, grants them not only the right, but the duty to refuse unconstitutional orders. The Oath Keepers organization has published a list of orders that they claim they will not obey:
Orders to disarm the American people.
Orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people.
Orders to detain American citizens as unlawful enemy combatants or to subject them to military tribunal.
Orders to impose martial law or a state of emergency on a state.
Orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.
Any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
Any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
Orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to keep the peace or to maintain control."
Any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.
Any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Keepers
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Mainly cops and veterans who believe in 2nd amendment solutions.
RC
(25,592 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Keepers
List of refused orders
The Oath Keepers feel that their sworn oath to the American Constitution, grants them not only the right, but the duty to refuse unconstitutional orders. The Oath Keepers organization has published a list of orders that they claim they will not obey:
Orders to disarm the American people.
Orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people.
Orders to detain American citizens as unlawful enemy combatants or to subject them to military tribunal.
Orders to impose martial law or a state of emergency on a state.
Orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.
Any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
Any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
Orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to keep the peace or to maintain control."
Any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.
Any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.
Additional reports
MSNBC's political commentator, Patrick J. Buchanan, quoted Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, as saying "Oath Keepers, depending on where one stands, are either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia. Mr. Buchanan explained their existence on the alienation of white America, concluding that "America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right." [13]
adigal
(7,581 posts)I would like to see that one on there.
Nuts.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)More so than your average Ron Paul fringe nut.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)while villifying women's rights. All in God's name. You should see the dad/ daughter balls they put on to celebrate the virginity.
GObamaGO
(665 posts)I did Google Oath Keepers. It appears to be a militia type organization, not a "purity ball" group.
librechik
(30,674 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)FSogol
(45,491 posts)Fuck Ron Paul.