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Patrick Buchanan on “Middle American Radicals”
From Taki’s Magazine, October 20, 2009
In the brief age of Obama, we have had “truthers,” “birthers,” Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters.
Comes now, the “Oath Keepers.” And who might they be?
Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where one stands, are “either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia.”
Formed in March, they are ex-military and police who 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,” says founding father Stewart Rhodes, an ex-Army paratrooper and Yale-trained lawyer. “My focus is on the guys with the guns, because they can’t do it without them.
“We say if the American people decide it’s time for a revolution, we’ll fight with you.”
Prediction: Brother Rhodes is headed for cable stardom.
And 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.
Yet, 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. . . . Read the whole article.
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“Oath Keepers” are warmed over patriotards.
I have always been 100% committed to preserving freedom, but as the article says at the end:
“America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right.”
We are already long-since no longer free. That we do not notice it so much is a testament to the power of the modern media and the education system. Our minds are not free. Speaking of education system, the article also states:
““The whole point of Oath Keepers is to stop a dictatorship from ever happening here,” says founding father Stewart Rhodes, an ex-Army paratrooper and Yale-trained lawyer.”
Which pretty much parrots what we have all been taught in schools and media so long as the #1 boogeyman. That is the least of our worries… In fact, a powerful honest and intelligent leader might be just what we really need to truly restore freedom under some sort of temporary martial law or something. One thing I do know is that we need radical social and cultural change, and we need it soon or we are dead. Opening people’s eyes so that they can once again be free thinkers and exercise their first amendment rights is priority #1.