As I worry about violent backlash against Obama and the liberals overt assault on our liberties, it comforts me to know an organization like Oath Keepers exists. Soon the House begins consideration of H.R. 45, a bill that is nothing less than a blatant attempt to infringe upon your privacy rights as a gun owner by enforcing registration of all firearms. There will now be a firearm registry, just like a sex offender registry.

The abuse of power by government and military is not limited to liberal administrations as evidenced by this video from Oath Keepers. Part of the video deals with the aftermath of Katrina and the role the government, police, and military played in infringing upon the constitutional rights of the citizens of New Orleans. Whether you are liberal or conservative does not matter, the theft of these rights knows no ideology. Watch as what appear to be armed police or military literally attack an old woman, forcefully remove her firearm and then arrest her.

All military, police, politicians, and judges take an oath to protect the constitution. This is not an oath to follow the President’s orders if they conflict with constitutional rights. Or any orders by any politician, superior officer, or judge for that matter if those orders violate another’s constitutional rights. The oath itself is to “uphold the constitution”, not “uphold the President”. Oath Keepers is an organization which reaffirms this oath and identifies oaths they will not obey. It is an organization that is growing by the day. Military and police personnel should search their souls. As the protectors and warriors of society, they must make up their minds how to wield the powers they possess and decide for themselves the meaning of the oath taken. It is clear to me, however, that if an order violates the constitutional rights of any citizen, then duty demands the order be disobeyed – regardless of who gives it.

The Oath Keepers Declaration Of Orders We Will Not Obey (go to the link for the full-length version):

• We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.
• We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people
• We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.
• We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.
• We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.
• We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
• We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
• We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control.”
• We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.
• We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

I hope a certain person hears the above loud and clear. I will leave it to the reader’s imagination to discern who I am referring to.

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Read Obama’s Imperial Decree: Target Oklahoma:

Remember the good old days, when one only had to watch out for the Federal Government’s twisted interpretation of the commerce clause to justify tyranny?

Well those days seem to be long gone. The Obama Administration has been employing an old tactic lately – what some might call an imperial threat – and they’re not doing it overseas, either.

STATES UNDER THREAT

The state of Oklahoma is now the target of a direct challenge from US Attorney General Eric Holder, who is using the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as justification to violate Oklahoma’s sovereignty as affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

In a letter written to the State Attorney General in April, the Federal government used aggressive language, bringing up the possibility of withholding Federal funds appropriated for Oklahoma. The reason? A proposed amendment to the State Constitution, which requires voter approval, that would make English the official language of the State.

“What it indicates is the Federal Government’s contempt for the states, in this case Oklahoma, and for the idea of federal — as opposed to national — government. AG Holder believes that Oklahoma is an administrative subdivision of the USA, and that it is perfectly right for him to coerce Oklahomans to do his will. Who cares whether he has ever been to Oklahoma, met an Oklahoman, or thought about Oklahoma?” said Kevin Gutzman, an American historian and New York Times bestselling author.

Oklahoma is not alone as a state challenged by central authority in recent months. Recently, federal firearms licensees in Tennessee and Montana received a letter from another Federal agency, the ATF, who had also issued a decree wrought with hubris – claims by the Federal government of their legal supremacy across the land.

DESTROYING LOCAL GOVERNMENT

“Both of these letters, particularly this letter to the Attorney General of Oklahoma, are very officious,” observed Rob Natelson, professor of law at the University of Montana. “It reminds one eerily of the kinds of communications that started to come out from the Emperor to the local cities of the Roman Empire, beginning the course of the ultimate destruction of local government.”

Professor Natelson is a widely-recognized expert on the framing and adoption of the United States Constitution, and on several occasions, he has been the first to uncover key background facts about the Constitution’s meaning. I knew this before our conversation. What I didn’t know, however, was that he’s also been studying Roman Law and history for the past 50 years, and is responsible for several works in that field.

“During the 2nd century AD, the Roman Emperors began increasingly to interfere with local government and they did this with…letters…letters that look something like this,” continued Natelson, indicating the letter from Holder to Oklahoma. “They started out as almost advisory and they got increasingly peremptory. By the end of the 2nd century, there was very little local government left. You had very few people, therefore, willing to participate in local elections; very little patriotic spirit towards one’s own province or city. And this was the harbinger for the ultimate centralization of the Roman Empire.”

He continued with a strong, decisive tone, “Almost everyone who’s studied in that area agrees that the effect was to sap the life out of the empire, so that everything flowed to the center. All that counted was the Emperor and his bureaucrats…and his courtiers. I look at this and I see this letter which gets close to looking like an order from the central government down to a sovereign state legislature, and I say…WOW. This looks like something that Septimius Severus would have sent to the local officials.”

In Columbus, Ohio last weekend, a rally in support of State Sovereignty drew around 7,000 people. Judge Andrew Napolitano addressed the rally and made similar comments indicating the nature of our current point in US history.

“In the long history of the world, very few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its maximum hour of danger. This is that moment and you are that generation”

Read the whole thing.

Spy programs for flagging fishy emails, the consolidation of centralized power, the attempted remaking of health care which accounts for 1/6 of our GDP, government bailouts, sky high deficits, the takeover of GM, clash for clunkers, dictating executive pay and now this. Spread the wealth? More like spread the wealth and grab all the power. It is truly an Alice in Wonderland through the looking glass moment when a liberal administration has the ACLU all up in arms about privacy. Trust me folks, this is just the beginning. It’s going to be a long 3 1/2 years.

Don’t forget to enter your name in the National ObamaCare Opt Out Registry – Opt Out Now!.

Also, remember ObamaCare Can Be Defeated. It’s going to take action on your part and time is running out.

Related: Florida, Utah May Opt Out Of ObamaCare By Asserting State’s Rights Under The 10th Amendment. Ten Other States May Join.

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