Oath Keepers

What is Oath Keepers:

Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, veterans, Peace Officers, and Fire Fighters who will fulfill the Oath we swore, with the support of like minded citizens who take an Oath to stand with us, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God. Our Oath is to the Constitution

What does that mean?

1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.

2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people.

3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.

4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.

5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.

6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.

7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.

8. We will NOT obey 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."

9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.

10.We will NOT obey 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.

Who founded this group?

Stewart Rhodes

Stewart is the founder and Director of Oath Keepers. He served as a U.S. Army paratrooper until disabled in a rough terrain parachuting accident during a night jump.

He is a former firearms instructor and former member of Rep. Ron Paul’s DC staff.

Stewart currently writes the monthly Enemy at the Gates column for S.W.A.T. Magazine

Stewart graduated from Yale Law School in 2004, where his paper “Solving the Puzzle of Enemy Combatant Status” won Yale’s Miller prize for best paper on the Bill of Rights. He assisted teaching U.S. military history at Yale, was a Yale Research Scholar, and is writing a book on the dangers of applying the laws of war to the American people.

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I just found about this group. This isn't about right or left, Democrat or Republican, it's about protecting our constitution.

Right now about 3% of our military belongs to this group and it's numbers are growing fast. I am not a member, but will join as an associate if funds permit. (Things are tight for me right now)

The reason I am posting this is because I now feel like our situation is not hopeless. We now have a core group of military and law enforcement who WILL NOT be following orders to round up an exterminate or otherwise take action against their fellow Americans. This is important. We know some of what was going on under Bush 43 and we know Obama is continuing much of this stuff. The FEMA camps were set up by Reagan back in 1984, but for the non-nefarious purposes for which they are now envisioned.

Oath Keepers gives us an important and powerful ally in defense of the constitution and our liberties.

Please Digg and Reddit this and pass this post along to anyone you think may still care about our country. The good guys may finally be getting a foothold against the evil elite who are planning our demise.

Link: http://oathkeepers.org/oath/

The above photo shows an Oath Keeper patch being worn by an active duty soldier in Mosul, Iraq.

Obama gets the Prize.

Well, it looks like BHO getting awarded the Nobel Peace Prize caught just about everyone off guard. Of particular interest is the fact that nominations for the 2009 prize ended on February 1st, so Obama had only been in office for a couple of weeks or so.

The 1.4 million dollars he gets along with the medal is a nice little personal stimulus package. Those who voted for him and were hoping for a big stimulus package of their own will just have to be joyful and happy that at least Obama scored big. (How's that Detroit stimulus working out?)

Clearly, Obama got the prize for his campaign rhetoric. The socialist world was tiring of Bush and along comes Obama promising hope and change and touchy-feely encounter group sessions with the world's most evil leaders. All we are saying........is give peace a chance.

Unforseen by anyone is just how bad the timimg of this award is.  McChrystal is begging for 40,000 more troops for  Afghanistan and it looks like an attack on Iran will be happening any day now. Obama may be humbled to get the peace prize, but you can bet his head just swelled considerably. The narcissistic, publicity loving Obama is not going to want to disappoint those who gave him the peace prize by suddenly becoming a war monger.

I would wager he will now try to be even more pacifistic than Chamberlain. Our troop morale is already suffering. Not allowing our guys to go kick some ass is just going to exacerbate an already bad situation. Our "rules of engagement" only allow our troops to fire on specifically identifiable targets, thus limiting their ability to neutralize threats, but it does limit civilian casualties. Sorry, but if you are actually tring to win a war, then NO targets are off limits. (Where's "Stormin' Norman when you need him?)

The other side of the coin is that overtly Obama becomes more of a pacifist, but covertly things heat up.....in terms of torture in an effort to extract information that might result in the elimination of the enemy with reduced casualties so that we still make progress but look like we are not so brutal in our overt efforts. (Basically a continuation of Bush/Cheney information extraction policies times ten)

Things are just going to continue to pile up for Obama. How much more can he deal with? How much longer are the powers that be going to put up with his incompetence?

 

 

 

 

 

 

The French: Money for Nothing, Chicks for Free.

From the Guardian:

"The deputy chief executive of France Telecom today resigned in the wake of a spate of staff suicides that unions have blamed on a bullying management style and brutal approach to restructuring.

The former state monopoly, now Europe's third-biggest phone company, has seen its brand name, Orange, suffer a public relations disaster as 24 workers have killed themselves in shocking circumstances in the last 18 months, with at least a dozen others making failed attempts to take their lives. Some staff were found dead in their workplace or left harrowing notes blaming the company for "management by terror" and bullying.

In the latest death, a 51-year-old threw himself off a bridge in the Alps after being moved from a back-office job to one in a call centre. Previously, a 32-year-old jumped from her office in front of colleagues at the end of the working day. Both left notes blaming unbearable working conditions and enforced job changes."

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So, why are the French really killing themselves? Because they finally have to work for a living. No more 30-35 hour work weeks, no more 30-90 day vacations, shucks, life is hell. (Well, they still have that stuff, but not for much longer)

Although the under 35 crowd in America would not know a good days work if it bit them in the ass, the United States as a whole is still at least twice as productive as other countries.

In less than 200 years from the Declaration of Independence, we have gone from musket technology to developing the technology and infrastructure to put a man on the moon.

Meanwhile, cave paintings discovered in France indicate a human presence in that area for at least 13,000 years; and in that entire span of time the French have learned how to do three main things: Stomp grapes, make a souffle and invent gay porn movies.

Yet, for some reason, the world is enamored with French culture--of which there really isn't any. (If only von Choltitz had carried out his orders)

I particularly have to laugh at the fact the French are pissed that McDonalds wants to open a restaurant at the Louvre as it is seen as an insult to French culture. Yeah, I guess those French produced golden shower videos are so much more high culture than a Mickey D's.

This illustrates why we never should have rebuilt an ungrateful Europe after WWII.

One also has to wonder about any country where their females do not know how to use a razor. Men do not find hairy legs or armpits particularly appealing. (Though some French chicks do shave now--progress)

Frankly, it's pretty pathetic that you have people killing themselves over a changing job assignment because it is too stressful. Ask any American small business owner, many of whom work 12-14 hrs./day 7 days a week, about stress. Ask any American salesman who works on straight commission about stress. We aren't jumping out of windows because we have learned how to develop a thick skin and understand what it is to work for a living, unlike much of Europe.

Even in the midst of a horrible economic situation, most of us Americans are bucking up and dealing with it as best we can.

If you French want to keep killing yourselves 'cause y'all finally have to work for a living and may be losing that big government tit to suck on (I'm not talking about a safety net), then go ahead and keep up the good work.