Notes from the Resistance
One anonymous defense official was quoted in the report saying, “Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders.” [More]
And here we’ve been told Oath Keepers were an anti-government insurrectionist militia, with most of the information refuting that scrubbed from all but the Wayback Machine…
Trump’s election has also raised questions inside the Pentagon about what would happen if the president issued an unlawful order, particularly if his political appointees inside the department don’t push back. “Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders,” said another defense official. [More]
And here I thought a top priority was to purge Oath Keepers…
An Oath Keeper Talks Civil War Over Pastrami on Rye [More]
With a Wired propagandist who clearly holds him in disdain? Why?
California law bars non-residents from carrying a gun. Does that violate the Second Amendment? [More]
No one who is not a prohibitionist would even ask.
Or as Democrat Roger Taney wrote when horrified at the prospect of Dred Scott being considered a citizen:
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State … and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”
Wait… that last link is from Oath Keepers…? What are racist Nazi rightwing insurrectionists doing defending rights for all…?
Elias Alias is writing a sequel and working on a project, and is asking for some support. [More]
I talked about Targeted Red here.
And as noted before, I never ask readers to do anything I’m not willing to do myself. My stamped envelope is ready for mailing.
If it all goes wrong, with whom will the police side?… As with our military, cops tend to be conservative. Duty, honor and integrity are part of their everyday lives, as are grooming standards. If a cop loses his reputation for integrity, his career is over. [More]
There will be a few, but for every one of these, there are superiors, colleagues, and underlings who kept their mouths shut.
[Via bondmen]
Watkins… testified that she … never heard any commands for her and other Oath Keepers to enter the building on Jan. 6, 2021… Rhodes … told jurors that there was never a plan to attack the Capitol. He testified that he was surprised and upset when he learned that some group members had joined a pro-Trump mob in storming the building… [More]
Most of Codrea’s writing is about gun politics: commenting on the alleged threat posed by particular gun control proposals, arguing that supposedly pro-gun politicians aren’t sufficiently pro-gun, and suggesting that having more Americans regularly carrying firearms will make the country safer from violent crime. Codrea also writes about illegal immigration, frequently promoting a conspiracy theory that political elites are orchestrating the “cultural terraforming” of America. [More]
I talked about this guy and his BS assessment of Oath Keepers in my latest piece.
We can see from his first observation that reality isn’t his strong suit. And there’s a way for him to prove I’m simply spreading a conspiracy theory — all he’s gotta do is what no one else who dismisses it has had the integrity to do and take the challenge.
One way to keep a balking population in line is through the time-tested method of tyrants – cowing it into submission by making a highly publicized example of prominent members, which the J6 “uprising” at the Capitol more than provided. And no one was more high-profile in Oath Keepers than founder Stewart Rhodes, sentenced to 18 years in prison for “seditious conspiracy” and “obstruction of an official proceeding and tampering with documents and proceedings.” [More]
Part Three wraps up my series on why those in power are bent on utterly destroying the one concept that could render them powerless: Enforcers learning they have the power and the duty to say “No.”
But there are others in power who know perfectly well what the implications of “10 orders we will not obey” are, and that’s something they cannot allow to be considered. That it could spread scares the hell out of them, no doubt because there are some orders in Oath Keepers’ list they retain the power to issue when it suits their purposes. So, any thought of disobeying them must be destroyed – along with anyone daring to spread the idea that the oath is to the Constitution, not to a regime and its unlawful orders. [More]
Part Two of a three-part series notes that anti-regime is very different from anti-government…
Far Left anti-Israel Protesters Interrupt and Shut Down Tony Blinken’s Testimony in Senate Appropriations Hearing – No Mass Arrests, No Transfer to the Gulag, No indictments with 1512 Charges [More]
Well, it’s not like they’re Oath Keepers or anything…
[Via bondmen]
Traditional American patriotism is now deemed “extremist,” and traditional Americans are now portrayed as domestic enemies. [More]
All the “best” regimes rely on enforcers who “just follow orders.”
This was waiting for me this morning on Facebook:
Again…? And with the not-so-veiled threat to banish me forever…?
Looks like their AI is going full tilt to enforce GIGO. This is what must be suppressed.
Mustn’t allow anything to cast doubt on the directed narrative… like the truth.
I wonder how long it will be before Google removes it from Blogger… along with everything else I’ve posted. Don’t forget what prompted this new incarnation of WoG.
They evidently find voluntary humanitarian relief by believers in the Constitution goes against everything they stand for.
This book is a “must read” for anyone interested in knowing the truth about the Oath Keepers organization, who like all patriotic groups in America have been unfairly demonized and targeted as home-grown terrorists by the unconstitutional US Government. [More]
We talked about it here and here.
I finished reading it and will be doing a review before too long.
It really helped me understand how things devolved in my relationship with Stewart Rhodes from here to here, where he evidently considered that post an unforgivable betrayal.
[More]
Lying leftist motherf***er says that’s “ambiguous.”
Elias Alias deconstructs more of his moronic and deceptive foolishness in Oath Keepers: Targeted Red. I finished it and need to find time to write a review.
I recommend people buy it. I’ll explain why in my review.
A right-wing sheriffs group that challenges federal law is gaining acceptance around the country [More]
Can’t have these upstarts thinking their are orders they don’t have to obey, so it’s time to pull an Oath Keepers on them: Demonize them as militia racists then pump the conflation up to full-blown domestic terrorists followed by trumped-up conspiracy charges, arrests and sentences.
It’s not like the DSM will do anything but cheerlead, with rabid “progressives” on social media laughing at “traitors” getting what they asked for.
[Via Jess]
Jessica, a US veteran, was found guilty in November on crimes she never committed. The corrupt DC Judge would not allow Jessica or her fellow defendants to cross-examine the fraudulent fed informants who lied about her during trial. Now Jessica sits in prison for crimes she never committed. [More]
The harshness of punishment is proportional to the amount of fear corrupt rulers have of those who demand their birthright of freedom.
It’d sure be nice if noisemaking Republicans made finding out who “1%watchdog” is a priority.
[Via bondmen]
Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) says the authenticated GoPro video raises the question of why police officers, who were identified as intelligence officers, were working to stir up the crowd of protesters instead of working to stop an assault on the Capitol. [More]
How’s the Nuremberg excuse go? We were only following orders…?
If the truth is ever known it will show government provocateurs were way more influential in spurring action than Stewart Rhodes ever was.
[Via Michael G]
Gateway Pundit Exclusive: Stewart Rhodes Responds to 18 Year Sentence in His First Interview Since Sentencing – “Everything I Did was Honorable” – AUDIO [More]
I hadn’t realized Matt Gaetz was being a self-serving d!ck about this.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack [More]
I stand by what I said the other day. I may say more, but not today.
[Via several of you]
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and members of his antigovernment group will be the first Jan. 6 defendants sentenced for seditious conspiracy in a series of hearings beginning this week that will set the standard for more punishments of far-right extremists to follow. Prosecutors will urge the judge on Thursday to put Rhodes behind bars for 25 years, which would be the harshest sentence by far handed down in the U.S. Capitol attack. Describing the Oath Keepers’ actions as “terrorism,” the Justice Department says stiff punishments are crucial to send a message to future possible instigators of political violence. [More]
So now the world believes an organization that’s sole purpose is to honor the oath to the Constitution is “anti-government,” one that specifically stated:
Section 8.02. Restrictions on Membership: (a) No person who advocates, or has been or is a member, or associated with, any organization, formal or informal, that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States or the violation of the Constitution thereof, shall be entitled to be a member or associate member.
Rhodes never went into the building. He never committed an act of violence. The prosecution did not prove specific orders to specific individuals to overthrow the government.
Since when do “far-right extremists” bent on the violent overthrow of the government purposely neglect to bring their guns to a planned “insurrection”?
The “crucial message” here is for “future possible instigators of political” dissent.
That came through loud and clear with the sanctioned murder of Ashli Babbit.
The recommendation for Rhodes is the longest thus far for any person charged in connection with the Capitol attack, reflecting what prosecutors see as his role in a key organizing figure for members of the far-right militia — even as Rhodes was never alleged to have entered the Capitol building itself on Jan. 6. [More]
So he not only never went in, they have no direct orders he issued to any specific person. The seditious conspiracy here is by the persecutors.
This is an act of judicial terrorism with a chilling, wider goal in mind. What else would you call “the deliberate creation of a sense of fear, usually by the use or threat of use of symbolic acts of physical violence, to influence the political behavior of a given target group”?
I guess the jurors were impressionable and manipulable enough to embrace the hysteria. It also raises a question I’ve had for some time for those whose liberty advocacy efforts center on Fully Informed Juries: Even though “text, history, and tradition” known to the Founders is on your side, your message is limited by those who control the media, and by prevailing legal establishment interests, to the echo chambers of the political fringes.
The arrogant f*** (from Portland, OR) who wrote that actually cites a law review article that compares telling free citizens about their nullification rights to telling children not to stick beans up their noses (“most of them would not have thought about it had it not been suggested”) and wrings his hands over how difficult the First Amendment makes full suppression.
And potentially sympathetic politicians, mindful of what the Swamp and the media would do to them, have little incentive to touch it.
So why not force wider discussion and open the eyes of more by creating ballot measures in states that allow it? Just the act of collecting signatures will raise awareness “outside the choir” (and I qualify the use of that term), and the fact that something is gaining steam, and maybe even getting on the ballot, will call attention to a freedom safeguard the would-be rulers desperately want to keep citizens from learning about.
We might stick beans up our noses.
Jeremy Brown Sentenced to 7 Years and 3 Months in Prison for Refusing to Work as an Undercover Operative for FBI on January 6 and Then Later Releasing Audio of His Meeting with FBI [More]
He was sentenced on weapons convictions. There should be no need to bury that to gin up outrage.
[Via bondmen]
Elias Alias is seeking crowdfunding help to complete his planned Targeted Red trilogy on Oath Keepers and the January 6 travesty. [More]
Elias Alias shares news about his new book on Oath Keepers and his plans for a trilogy. [More]
A judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the new Illinois law banning assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines [More]
Related, just to show how worlds apart we are:
“They took an oath of office to enforce the laws of the state of Illinois, and they will do so,” Pritzker said of the sheriffs Friday in Chicago after signing a law protecting abortion and gender-affirming care.
That’s not what the oath is to, but funny how this disgusting pig of a privileged elite domestic enemy now demands his enforcers be “oath keepers”…
That’s not without precedent.
[Via several of you]
Leaked documents indicate over 300 members of far-right paramilitary Oath Keepers may be current or former DHS employees, Project on Government Oversight reports [More]
How would government get anything done if the people working in it believed in the Constitution and refused to obey unlawful orders?
[Via bondmen]
