Pogo, I'm not sure what your problem is with The Oath Keepers. Sure you may disagree with their philosophy, but are they doing or representing anything illegal? I don't know much about them, but the answer so far seems to be: no.
Being an armed American is NOT illegal. Encouraging others to arm themselves in NOT illegal. Expressing opinions is NOT illegal.
For all the claims of right wing fear mongering...you seem to be engaging in left wing fear mongering.
From the
Oath Keepers website:
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"About OathKeepers
Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, veterans, peace officers, and firefighters who will fulfill the oath we swore to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God.
Our oath is to the Constitution, not to the politicians, and we will not obey unconstitutional (and thus illegal) and immoral orders, such as orders to disarm the American people or to place them under martial law and deprive them of their ancient right to jury trial."
What We Are Not
We are Not advocating or promoting the overthrow of any government whether local, state or national. We want our governments to return to the Constitutional Republic which the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution defined and instituted.
We are Not advocating or promoting violence towards any organization, group or person. We are determined to Keep our Oath to support and defend the Constitution.
We are not advocating or promoting the removal of any person from his or her elected office. We want all elected persons to live up to their Oath to “support and defend the Constitution” as it is written or to leave of their own volition."
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You may or may not agree with that, but until they start advocting violence as
THESE GUYS did...You and the article seem to be blowing all this out of proportion for the purposes of fear mongering.