by Jeff Davis

The Las Vegas Review Journal reports: “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.’ ”

Naturally anti-American, pro-tyranny liberal organizations are alarmed by the thought of American patriots making plans to fight the Leftist tyranny, that just about everyone sees coming. Some active duty soldiers now wear oath keeper and three percenter badges on their uniforms. The “three percenter” movement involves gun owners and a reference to the three percent of Americans who fought tyranny in the American Revolution.

The article notes “Oath Keepers is not preaching violence or government overthrow, Rhodes said. On the contrary, it is asking police and the military to lay down their arms in response to unlawful orders. The group’s Web site, www.oathkeepers.org …liken Obama to England’s King George III during the American Revolution. One member, in a videotaped speech at an event in Washington, D.C., calls Obama ‘the domestic enemy the Constitution is talking about.’ “

The fact is that we are coming closer and closer to the point where American police and military are going to be ordered to do things which are quite clearly in violation of the Constitution and their own oaths, not to mention basic human decency, such as forcing people to take inoculations or arresting people for having an anti-Obama bumper sticker on their car. It is a hopeful sign that some soldiers and law officers are not total and complete robots who will turn on and destroy anyone Obama points them at in exchange for their pay checks.

The U.S.Army used to tell trainees that a soldier not only doesn’t have to obey an order that is illegal or immoral, he has a positive duty to disobey it. I doubt if they’re still teaching that in basic training.