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In reply to the discussion: Is Open Carry for whites only or would someone explain [View all]haikugal
(6,476 posts)54. Oath keepers are military and law enforcement....
oathkeepers.org/
Into this agenda-mandated leadership void stepped Oath Keepers, a national organization of current and retired military and law enforcement personnel.
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http://oathkeepers.org
They are very RWReligious too....anyway, here more from Mother Jones shortly after they organized.
Photos by Lucian Read.
THE .50 CALIBER Bushmaster bolt action rifle is a serious weapon. The model that Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pray is saving up for has a 2,500-yard range and comes with a Mark IV scope and an easy-load magazine. When the 25-year-old drove me to a mall in Watertown, New York, near the Fort Drum Army base, he brought me to see it in its glass casehe visits it periodically, like a kid coveting something at the toy store. It'll take plenty of military paychecks to cover the $5,600 price tag, but he considers the Bushmaster essential in his preparations to take on the US government when it declares martial law.
His belief that that day is imminent has led Pray to a group called Oath Keepers, one of the fastest-growing "patriot" organizations on the right. Founded last April by Yale-educated lawyer and ex-Ron Paul aide Stewart Rhodes, the group has established itself as a hub in the sprawling anti-Obama movement that includes Tea Partiers, Birthers, and 912ers. Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and Pat Buchanan have all sung its praises, and in December, a grassroots summit it helped organize drew such prominent guests as representatives Phil Gingrey and Paul Broun, both Georgia Republicans.
There are scores of patriot groups, but what makes Oath Keepers unique is that its core membership consists of men and women in uniform, including soldiers, police, and veterans. At regular ceremonies in every state, members reaffirm their official oaths of service, pledging to protect the Constitutionbut then they go a step further, vowing to disobey "unconstitutional" orders from what they view as an increasingly tyrannical government.
THE .50 CALIBER Bushmaster bolt action rifle is a serious weapon. The model that Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pray is saving up for has a 2,500-yard range and comes with a Mark IV scope and an easy-load magazine. When the 25-year-old drove me to a mall in Watertown, New York, near the Fort Drum Army base, he brought me to see it in its glass casehe visits it periodically, like a kid coveting something at the toy store. It'll take plenty of military paychecks to cover the $5,600 price tag, but he considers the Bushmaster essential in his preparations to take on the US government when it declares martial law.
His belief that that day is imminent has led Pray to a group called Oath Keepers, one of the fastest-growing "patriot" organizations on the right. Founded last April by Yale-educated lawyer and ex-Ron Paul aide Stewart Rhodes, the group has established itself as a hub in the sprawling anti-Obama movement that includes Tea Partiers, Birthers, and 912ers. Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and Pat Buchanan have all sung its praises, and in December, a grassroots summit it helped organize drew such prominent guests as representatives Phil Gingrey and Paul Broun, both Georgia Republicans.
There are scores of patriot groups, but what makes Oath Keepers unique is that its core membership consists of men and women in uniform, including soldiers, police, and veterans. At regular ceremonies in every state, members reaffirm their official oaths of service, pledging to protect the Constitutionbut then they go a step further, vowing to disobey "unconstitutional" orders from what they view as an increasingly tyrannical government.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers
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can't argue with that. maybe modify it to white male, although occasionally a female nut gets in on
magical thyme
Aug 2015
#62
Might as well stop reading right here. You win the thread. But I'll read more. n/t
freshwest
Aug 2015
#112
The NRA has been successful in pushing through bills in different states which allow the "open carry
Thinkingabout
Aug 2015
#32
It's legal and only those with money can afford this crap, so they look the other way. BUT:
freshwest
Aug 2015
#113
Exactly. If I were black, I'd feel like I needed a gun, but would know that I would be
Nay
Aug 2015
#51
Not recognizing the issue causes any "logic" to go askew or become a joke...
Eleanors38
Aug 2015
#156
that viewpoint is 'right wing propaganda', even if it comes soley from your own personal experience
HFRN
Aug 2015
#87
No. There is nothing in the 2nd Amendment guaranteeing the right to conceal a weapon.
Maedhros
Aug 2015
#95
There is one reason to carry a concealed weapon: to be able to kill someone with it.
Maedhros
Aug 2015
#101
When I was a young woman walking around Berkely in the 60s, there were Black Panthers
senz
Aug 2015
#61
per CBS: they claim they were hired to "protect reporters" for (Alex Jones/InfoWars)
Solly Mack
Aug 2015
#13
You are wrong. The police didn't "do nothing". They welcomed them, saw them as
jtuck004
Aug 2015
#41
My post was primarily about Infowars and their rifle toting "Reporter" but I agree with you
951-Riverside
Aug 2015
#35
It is information war, and the mass media does not care to become involved, hence the TrumpAThon.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#75
Very True. Juries seem to accept the premise that white folks can be in fear of their life just
Hoyt
Aug 2015
#14
Don't get me started on Cliven's bunch. Sooner or later, government is going to have to do something
Hoyt
Aug 2015
#25
Says the guy who got all nasty rather than admit he was wrong about BGC being destroyed after 24 hrs
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#40
Please do, if you can. Don't see what it has to do with yahoos and their gun love.
Hoyt
Aug 2015
#90
I support the right to RKBA regardless of race. The only make it about race is you.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#106
Nope, I was right and you wrong. You should have checked with your gun dealing buddies in Gungeon.
Hoyt
Aug 2015
#109
I think you're referring to denied checks. Permitted checks are destroyed --
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#110
Nope, the DEALER has to keep information on the sale, and consequently the BGC. Read.
Hoyt
Aug 2015
#114
And that's the problem that started the debate months agi with the gun fancier above.
Hoyt
Aug 2015
#118
In the 1960's the civil rights movement actually worked with the NRA here in NC
Lee-Lee
Aug 2015
#34
Read up on the Black Panther Party for Self Defense taking a trip to the State Capitol...
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2015
#42
As a Texan who is just beginning to see "open carry", it all scares the hell out of me.
hamsterjill
Aug 2015
#45
"White supremacists are another safeguard that the 1% uses to prevent and/or contain revolution."
senz
Aug 2015
#68
Firearms are for white men, conservative and True Christian(tm) by upbringing. Tea baggers.
Rex
Aug 2015
#55
Your last sentence explains the whole thing. The marchers in Ferguson MO know that so they
jwirr
Aug 2015
#57
If you are the least bit interested, Google Huey P. Newton Gun Club pictures...
Eleanors38
Aug 2015
#67
The 2nd amendment was written by terrorists, slave owners and genocidal maniacs (nt)
951-Riverside
Aug 2015
#100
In most places, I would bet that the life-expectancy of a law-abiding black male
hifiguy
Aug 2015
#130
I've always said the way to change gun laws in this country is for black men to follow them.
Vinca
Aug 2015
#141
Open Carry, Peaceful Civil Disobedience, among many other aspects of society...
NCTraveler
Aug 2015
#145