Middle Americans Alienated & Radicalized
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.
By Patrick J. Buchanan
In the brief age of Obama, we have had "truthers," "birthers," Tea Party activists, and Town-Hall dissenters.
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."[ READY TO REVOLT: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States, October 18, 2009]
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."
