Oath Keepers Establishing Rotating Honor Guard to Ensure WWII Veterans’ Access to Their Memorial

We thank God for the growing national resistance to tyranny and our nation's domestic enemies.  Oath Keepers has truly been in the vanguard of citizen patriots ready to defy the anti-American thugs of the Obama regime, a cabal of domestic enemies that is determined to destroy our constitutional republic.  Oath Keepers has now committed to protecting what belongs to the American people until that day when we again have a "government of the people, by the people, for the people".

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To be part of this noble resistance movement, see the Oath Keepers website. 

From Oath Keepers:

First Honor Guard Shift: 

Wed., October 16 to Sunday, October 20

Every Day, Dawn till Dusk (you pick the day(s) you can serve)

World War II Memorial, Washington D.C. (and other D.C. area war memorials, if we have enough volunteers)

In yet another intolerable act, the Obama Administration has ordered the barricades back up at the World War II memorial, even after angry veterans, Oath Keepers, and dedicated citizens tore down the barricades at the World War II memorial on Sunday, and dumped them at the White House gates.

Clearly, Obama thinks that what happened over the weekend was a mere flash in the pan, and now he can get back to his perverse, calculated, vindictive insult to our WWII veterans, by yet again shutting down their memorial.  We need to prove him wrong.

On Sunday, the veterans made sure the Memorial was open to the WWII vets, and many Oath Keepers were there, directly helping.  There were no Honor Flights on Monday, and on Tuesday there will be another mass protest by The Military Coalition, so, they have Tuesday covered.  But our concern is that on Wednesday, and thereafter, when the crowds and cameras are gone, the barricades will go back up yet again, as they did today.   There are Honor Flights scheduled for everyday this week, and those WWII veterans need to be guaranteed access too.

Therefore, starting Wednesday, October 16, Oath Keepers is establishing a rotating “Honor Guard” of volunteer veterans and concerned Americans at the WWII Memorial, to ensure that WWII vets can get in to pay their respects to their fallen brothers in arms.   They risked all, in combat, to stop arbitrary, oppressive governments over there.  We need to step up and keep them from being victimized by arbitrary, oppressive government here.  Let’s get it done!

Oath Keepers will take the first shift of this rotating standing Honor Guard, from dawn to dusk each day, from Wednesday, October 16, through Sunday, October 20.  All veterans, and all concerned Americans, are invited to join us in this vigil.

We also call on other veterans groups to commit to taking the next shift, starting Monday morning, October 21, so we can maintain an unbroken Honor Guard, dawn till dusk, for as long as this Shutdown lasts.   Please contact us if you are part of a veterans group that can take over on Monday, or thereafter, and please put “Group Volunteering to Take Over Honor Guard,” in subject line.

Ready to Stand in the Door One Last Time, at Age 90

World War II Airborne combat veteran Warenn (Renn) Bodeker, from Plains, Montana, will be leading the Oath Keepers standing guard Wednesday at the WWII Memorial.

On February 23, 1945, Renn, along with his brother paratroopers of Co. B, 511^th Parachute Infantry Regiment, parachuted in at dawn’s early light, 40 kilometers behind enemy lines, into the Los Banos prison camp and rescued 2,100  prisoners of war – men, women, and children – from their brutal Imperial Japanese guards, before those guards could slaughter them, as they had planned (read more about Renn, and that daring rescue, here).

Now Renn will be making one last “jump” behind enemy lines, this time into Washington D.C., with bolt-cutters in hand, to make sure his brother WWII veterans can continue to get into their memorial.

WWII Heroes Getting Ready to Jump in Behind Enemy Lines.  Time for One More Jump!

Maxine Waters: ‘Obama Has Put In Place’ Secret Database With ‘Everything On Everyone’

"The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life," Representative Maxine Waters told Roland Martin on Monday.   "That's going to be very, very powerful," Waters said. "That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it's never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that. They're going to go down with that database and the concerns of those people because they can't get around it. And he's [President Obama] been very smart.  It's very powerful what he's leaving in place."

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• Social Security Administration to Purchase 174 Thousand Rounds of Hollow Point Bullets 

• DHS Preparing For Civil War In The US?

• Change You'd Better Believe In: Obama Regime Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile

• Bombshell: FEMA Camps Confirmed

• Obamanation Readies FEMA Detention Camps

• Staffing Up the FEMA Detention Camps

• Obama Seizes Control Over All Food, Farms, Livestock, Farm Equipment, Fertilizer and Food Production Across America

• Democrats Attempt to Silence Unfriendly Bloggers

• Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention Plan

   

 

 

Obama / DHS Putting the Tools of Tyranny in Place

Footage of hundreds of armored trucks, similar to ones reportedly purchased recently by the Department Of Homeland Security has appeared online, raising more questions over their intended use.

The video was uploaded to YouTube last week by a user who stated that it was shot in the middle of the desert between Hackberry and Peach Springs, Arizona.

It shows hundreds of military style trucks loaded on to a train, presumably in the process of being delivered domestically for law enforcement or military purposes.

Read more at Infowars.com

Change You'd Better Believe In: Obama Regime Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile

Will the American people and their Congress ask what is going on, or find out only when the infrastructure of tyranny is completed?

From Gateway Pundit

This is getting a little creepy.

According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm.

DHS also purchased 2,700 Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles (MRAP).

Modern Survival Blog reported:

The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.

Although I’ve seen and read several online blurbs about this vehicle of late, I decided to dig slightly deeper and discover more about the vehicle itself.

The new DHS sanctioned ‘Street Sweeper’ (my own slang due to the gun ports) is built by Navistar Defense (NavistarDefense.com), a division within the Navistar organization. Under the Navistar umbrella are several other companies including International Trucks, IC Bus (they make school buses), Monaco RV (recreational vehicles), WorkHorse (they make chassis), MaxxForce (diesel engines), and Navistar Financial (the money arm of the company).

DHS even released a video on their newly purchased MRAPs.

Via Pat Dollard:

The MRAP featured in this video is was in Albuquerque, New Mexico for Law Enforcement Day which was held at a local area Target Store. This MRAP is stationed in El Paso, Texas at The Homeland Security Investigations Office. MRAP is a Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicle.

US Bishops Launch Major Offensive to Protect Religious Liberty

From Catholic World News

With a strong new statement on religious freedom, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a nationwide campaign to protect “our most cherished freedom.”

“It is the first freedom because if we are not free in our conscience and our practice of religion, all other freedoms are fragile,” explain the US bishops in their statement, entitled Our First, Most Cherished Freedom. The USCCB statement, lengthy and strongly worded, signals the beginning of a major drive by the hierarchy to alert Americans to current threats to religious liberty.

TYRANNY: Feds Shut Down Website Without Due Process

From The Guardian

The US government has closed down one of the world's largest filesharing websites, accusing its founders of racketeering, money laundering and presiding over "massive" online piracy.

According to prosecutors, Megaupload illegally cheated copyright holders out of $500m in revenue as part of a criminal enterprise spanning five years.

A lawyer for Megaupload told the Guardian it would "vigorously" defend itself against the charges, dismissing the criminal action as "a civil case in disguise".

News of the indictment – being framed as one of the biggest copyright cases in US history – came a day after major internet firms held a 24-hour protest over proposed anti-piracy laws.

Founding Fathers Foresaw Threats of Tyranny

The New EU: Definitely a Superstate

From The Brussells Journal

By Michael Huntsman

Across Europe there are plenty of people who care not for the European Union’s appetite for unaccountable power. Some want to extract their countries from the Union in order to restore real power and independence to their country. Some simply want to halt the constant one-way cession of power to the Union. Others just want to have their say.

With the latest, and arguably the most far-reaching, power-grab, the new Union Constitution effected by the Treaty of Lisbon, the political élites of almost every member state have concluded that they know what the right answer to the question is and have determined that they are not, under any circumstances, going to allow their electorates to give the ‘wrong’ answer to that question.

Thus, without your say-so or mine, the EU is to be given all the institutions which, in customary international law, are recognized as those which identify a state as independent and sovereign. If the EU opts to exercise power in the manner of a sovereign independent state, that presages the subsuming into what is now to be called, simply, “The Union” the twenty-seven member states and their powers.

To those of you who doubt so bold a claim, I recommend that you look no further than the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, a treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay on December 26, 1933, at the Seventh International Conference of American States. Although signed by only nineteen Latin American and North American States, the criteria it laid down for the identification of what is and what is not a sovereign independent state are now accepted in customary international law as the criteria for identifying such states.

What are those criteria?:

ARTICLE 1

The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications:

(a) a permanent population;
(b) a defined territory;
(c) government; and
(d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.

Importantly these criteria were considered by a commission set up by the European Union at the time of the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia. This was the Arbitration Commission of the Peace Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, better known as “The Badinter Commission” which in its Opinion No. 1 laid out what must now be regarded as the EU’s opinion on the issue:

“The President of the Arbitration Committee received the following letter from Lord Carrington, President of the Conference on Yugoslavia, on 20 November 1991:

We find ourselves with a major legal question.

Serbia considers that those Republics which have declared or would declare themselves independent or sovereign have seceded or would secede from the SFRY which would otherwise continue to exist.

Other Republics on the contrary consider that there is no question of secession, but the question is one of a disintegration or breaking-up of the SFRY as the result of the concurring will of a number of Republics. They consider that the six Republics are to be considered equal successors to the SFRY, without any of them or group of them being able to claim to be the continuation thereof.

I should like the Arbitration Committee to consider the matter in order to formulate any opinion or recommendation which it might deem useful.

The Arbitration Committee has been apprised of the memoranda and documents communicated respectively by the Republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, and by the President of the collegiate Presidency of the SFRY.

1) The Committee considers:

a) that the answer to the question should be based on the principles of public international law which serve to define the conditions on which an entity constitutes a state; that in this respect, the existence or disappearance of the state is a question of fact; that the effects of recognition by other states are purely declaratory;

b) that the state is commonly defined as a community which consists of a territory and a population subject to an organized political authority; that such a state is characterized by sovereignty;

c) that, for the purpose of applying these criteria, the form of internal political organization and the constitutional provisions are mere facts, although it is necessary to take them into consideration in order to determine the Government’s way over the population and the territory;

d) that in the case of a federal-type state, which embraces communities that possess a degree of autonomy and, moreover, participate in the exercise of political power within the framework of institutions common to the Federation, the existence of the state implies that the federal organs represent the components of the Federation and wield effective power; […].”

Turning now to how these criteria are fulfilled by the new EU Constitution as embodied by the Treaty of Lisbon, there can be no dispute whatsoever concerning the EU’s possession of a permanent population and a well-defined territory.

Does the EU, then, fulfil criterion 3 of the Montevideo Convention (supra)?

Article 9 of the Treaty of Lisbon sets out the core Institutions of the Union: The European Parliament, The European Council, The Council, The European Commission, The Court of Justice of the European Union, The European Central Bank and the Court of Auditors.

Looking at the powers that each of these has, who can seriously argue but that these amount to the institutions of government, providing, as they do the over-arching institutions that make up the Legislative, Executive and Judiciary branches that all would say go to make up an independent nation?

Turning now to Criterion No. 4, one only has to look at three things.

Firstly the extent to which the Treaty of Lisbon is taken up with the issue of a common foreign and security policy (into which is subsumed, by Article 27 (1), the ‘common security and defence policy’ of the Union): Articles 10a to 31 are taken up entirely with the scope of the common foreign and security policy, which indicates the fundamental importance that this aspect has in the context of the whole Constitution.

Secondly, the fact that, by virtue of Article 22:

The Union may conclude agreements with one or more States or international organisations in areas covered by this Chapter.

Thirdly the fact that by Article 32 the Union arrogates to itself ‘legal personality’.

Given the criteria I have set out, can anyone set out a counter argument as to why, from the day the treaty comes into force, the European Union is not, at the very least, potentially, a Sovereign Independent State?

Can anyone argue seriously that the nature of the Union once this comes into force does not fall squarely within the description given by the Badinter Commission at (d) above? Not least as concerns the phrase concerning the wielding of effective power?

Lest anyone be disposed to rely on that old chestnut, the fact that there is no European Army, the possession of a military is no bar to Statehood: look at, say Costa Rica or Liechtenstein, amongst others, whose lack of military forces is no bar to their independent statehood.

I have set this out because the “Union” which it is proposed shall come into existence in 2009 indeed has all the hallmarks of a Sovereign Independent State with powers superior to all of its component member states.

It is the creation of such an entity that the political elites of twenty-six out of the twenty-seven member states have decided will not for one second be the subject of proper democratic discussion, debate and finally any sort of vote designed to secure the whole-hearted consent of the peoples of Europe to it.

Why? Because these arrogant people know we would never for one moment consent to such a thing if told the truth and given a vote on it.

What they should remember, however, is that they only rule by our consent and if they opt to rule without our consent, then they must be ready to accept the consequences of that decision which may be to face the just and righteous wrath of the people when they realize that a despotic tyranny, of which they are but impotent subjects, has been created by stealth.

As we embark on this crucial year of 2008, it is the creation of this tyranny which all free men must resist with all their might and political acumen this year and thereafter. Each of us may just be a still small voice: but together we can be a crescendo.


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