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| The "Three Percent" refers to what the Oath Keepers and other radical militia groups believe is the percentage of support they need from the population to overthrow the government. |
EDITOR’S
NOTE: Among the many radical connections of our newly elected state
Representative Blake Filippi, the Oath Keepers are a stand-out for their
extremist views and threat of violence. Here’s their latest escapade. – WC
Formed
in 2009, the Oath Keepers were founded with the goal of overthrowing the US Government.
Built on the premise that their interpretation, and only their interpretation
of the US Constitution, the organization has come out in support of pedophiles, rapists, arsonists, thieves, tax cheats,
and terrorists.
Much
like a domestic Taliban, they care nothing for the people of the United States,
only in imposing their will upon others.
Their
call is for armed vigilantes with suitable training to engage in armed
operations, for photographers and videographers to help create propaganda pieces,
and those with the training in arson management.
They
put it in the best light, but that is the selection of skills asked for. It is
not difficult to imagine how a tense situation can turn any unorganized group
into a mob, and that is precisely what the Oath Keepers are creating here.
According
to an interview with Sky News, organizer Sam Andrews, says that the vigilantes
are prepared to use lethal force to
impose their will upon the town, to put down the people and enforce order for
their corporate oligarchs.
Throughout
the interview, he dismissed the concerns of the protestors, and reiterated that
it was corporate and business interests which he was there to protect. Profit
before people, that’s what the Oath Keepers are for according to him.
Like
many fanatics, Sam has fallen for his own hyperbole. Of course the Oath Keepers
do not think that they are doing wrong, and firmly believe that they are the
good guys – like every other terrorist organization in the world. Government
bad, Businesses good – that sums up their mindset.
But
this squad he is forming is not the law, it has no accountability to the
people, it holds no trust. It is no different from a lynch mob, who in a blind
rage cause pain and suffering on others. It is a vigilante squad, not some
noble venture but a bunch of thugs little different than the Islamic State.
The
Oath Keepers have no place in civil society. Their actions and oaths mark them
not as patriots to the US Constitution, but as traitors to her core values.
Rather than rely upon the methods given by the system to reform it, they rely
upon coercion and threats of violence.
They
imagine the Constitution a perfect document given by religious-like messiahs,
rather than as the framework designed for interpretation and revision that our
founding fathers intended. We do not use medical science from the 18th century,
how well would a rigid government from the 18th century designed without any
ability to grow or adapt work?
It
wouldn’t, which is why the founding fathers, in their wisdom, did not set down
a rigid structure, but instead a framework designed for interpretation. The
interpretation allows for our society to mold it to fit the needs of modern
society. If it were rigid, voting would require a local caucus in each town, as
it did in the 18th century.
But
the Oath Keepers imagine it as a religious text, and not a government
framework. In their misguided view, they seek some enlightened meaning, and
seek the one true vision from it. This failure causes them to take actions
which when taken in the aggregate make them not loyal patriots, but domestic
terrorists, the very people the Constitution warned against – the one crime
listed specifically within the Constitution itself, Treason.
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