Who are the "Oath Keepers" that are wearing that shoulder patch on their uniforms, what do they stand for and what do they want?
According to the linked article, Oath Keepers are a non-partisan group of current and
retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to obey the Constitution.
Launched in March of this year by Stewart Rhodes of Las Vegas, NV, they repledge themselves to defend the Constitution, even if it means disobeying orders. If the U.S. government ordered law enforcement agencies to violate Second Amendment rights by disarming the people, Oath Keepers will not obey.". . .
"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."
Patrick Buchannan in his October 21st article on www.LewRockwell.com noted that". . if the Pelosi-Reid progressives went postal over town-hall protesters, calling them "un-American," "Nazis" and "evil-mongers," one can imagine what they will do with the Oath Keepers. . .
As with Jimmy Carter's long-range psychoanalysis of Joe Wilson, the reflexive reaction of the mainstream media will likely be that these are militia types, driven to irrationality because America has a black president.. . the establishment's reaction seems more problematic for the republic than anything the Oath Keepers are up to. For our political and media elite seem to have lost touch with the nation and to be wedded to a vision of America divorced from reality."
The "establishment" is automatically opposed to anything that might limit or threaten their power or vision of what is best for America including Czars, rules, regulation and submission by the masses, therefore expect a gradually increasing outcry from the media and special interests who will try to color the Oath Keepers with the para-military dissident group's radicalism.
Buchannan reports that [these far-leftists]". . cannot comprehend what would motivate Middle America to distrust its government, for it surely does, as Ron Brownstein reports in the National Journal:
"Whites are not only more anxious, but also more alienated. Big majorities of whites[and many blacks] say the past year's turmoil has diminished their confidence in government, corporations and the financial industry ... Asked which institution they trust most to make economic decisions in their interest, a plurality of whites older than 30 pick 'none' – a grim statement.
. . .we had seen these folks before. They were Perotistas in 1992, opposed NAFTA in 1993, and blocked the Bush-Kennedy McCain amnesty in 2007.
In their lifetimes, they have seen their Christian faith purged from schools their taxes paid for, and mocked in movies and on TV. They have seen their factories shuttered in the thousands and their jobs outsourced in the millions to Mexico and China. They have seen trillions of tax dollars go for Great Society programs, but have seen no Great Society, only rising crime, illegitimacy, drug use and dropout rates.
They watch on cable TV as illegal aliens walk into their country, are rewarded with free educations and health care, and take jobs at lower pay than American families can live on – then carry Mexican flags in American cities and demand U.S. citizenship.
They see Wall Street banks bailed out as they sweat their next paycheck, then read that bank profits are soaring, and the big bonuses for the brilliant bankers are back. Neither they nor their kids ever benefited from affirmative action, unlike Barack and Michelle Obama.
They see a government in Washington that cannot balance its books, win our wars or protect our borders. The government shovels out trillions to Fortune 500 corporations and banks to rescue the country from a crisis created by the government and Fortune 500 corporations and banks.
America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. . ."
With Love and Kindness,
THE HATMAN
Addendum
After the article on the Oath Keepers was written, but not published ,the propaganda establishment's shill, Chris Matthews appeared http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Li_CoNazI on so called 'hardball" with the creator of the Oath keepers, wherein he used his abusive,
interrupting style to beat up his guest and shamefully imply that the guest was forming a vigilante group to try to overthrow the government by force, when in fact they are only going to honor their oaths, by not participating in unconstitutional acts.
The predicted tirade has begun!
According to Thomas Frank, writing in the WSJ, October 20, 2009 if your opinion differs from the view presented by the establishment and national television and print media, you are paranoid and a conspiracy theory nut. If you are concerned about the U.S. drifting toward fascism and communism or if you question the veracity of the Federal Reserve, Swine flu hysteria etc,etc, etc. you are a fanatic. As per usual, their defense is to show that anyone differing from their distorted positions must be a crazy.
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