http://www.lvrj.com/news/oath-keeper...-64690232.html
Remember "The Minutemen" from long past and recent times, when our government refused to secure our southern border with Mexico. They are a group of very courageous men and women who took it upon themselves to do what our government and Homeland Security would not and still won't do. They are not racist or pushing any type of Aryan agenda, but rather they extraordinary Americans that will lay their lives on the line in defense of our country.
Things are rapidly changing in the United States to the point that the basic rights of it's citizens are almost unrecognizable to that of those laid down and guaranteed in the writing and signing of the Constitution, by men who with out a doubt would join the "Oath Keepers" today, to ensure the safety and freedom for which they themselves fought for so long ago.
Depending on your perspective, the Oath Keepers are either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia.
In the age of town halls, talk radio and tea parties, middle ground of opinion is hard to find.
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.
It's a Cold War-era nightmare vision with a major twist: The occupying forces in this imagined future are American, not Soviet.
"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.
"We say if the American people decide it's time for a revolution, we'll fight with you."
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."
