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Old 04-21-2010, 02:05 PM
 
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This is great. The SPLC has all the major players listed in this article. So this is where the military and law enforcement folks play into hte militia groups thinking and the Patriots.

Stewart Rhodes......founder of OATH KEEPERS.

(Excerpt from link in OP):

A former aide to Texas congressman Ron Paul (see profile in "The Enablers"), Stewart Rhodes founded a group called Oath Keepers in early 2009. The rapidly growing organization is comprised mostly of active-duty police and military, as well as veterans, who fret about things like gun control and the much-feared "New World Order." Members swear (a second time) to uphold their oath to the Constitution and not to obey orders they think conflict with that. Among those orders (10 "Orders We Will Not Obey" are listed on the Oath Keepers website): Imposing martial law or a state of emergency on a state, and forcing those who resist into detention camps. "
Rhodes insists his group isn't antigovernment, but he and other Oath Keepers do describe the government as tyrannical and repressive. "We saw a dangerous increase in power of the executive branch and a dangerous increase in government power over the American people," he told Watergate felon G. Gordon Liddy on the latter's radio show in April 2009.
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Old 04-21-2010, 02:17 PM
 
Location: The ends DO NOT justify the means!!!
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Ridicule all you want
LOL...I will. There are countless people willing to tell you who is evil in the world if you want their opinion. They don't fill any unique purpose. I could get the same list of "evil" people from ABC news.
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Old 04-21-2010, 02:42 PM
 
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Judge Napolitano has more integrity in his little toe than you have in all of your posts combined and then some. He probably has more intelligence than your entire government staff that you work on x 2.
Your sappy, umbilical-like attachment to a troll such as Andrew Napolitano is noted, despite the lack of any fact at all being included in your post.
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Old 04-21-2010, 02:45 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Your sappy, umbilical-like attachment to a troll such as Andrew Napolitano is noted, despite the lack of any fact at all being included in your post.
Nah, he's right.
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Old 04-21-2010, 02:46 PM
 
Location: The Woods
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Great link. Hopefully lots of people will actually read it. Here's a good excerpt:

"These men and women have helped to put key Patriot themes — the idea that President Obama is a Marxist, that he and other elites in the government are pushing a socialist takeover,
He has filled his cabinet with marxist radicals, he long associated with them, the GM takeover was socialist, his plans for national healthcare were socialist...


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that the United States plans secret concentration camps and so on — before millions of Americans, many of whom actually believe these completely false allegations.
REX 84 in fact called for that:

FEMA And REX 84 (http://uweb.txstate.edu/~lf14/conspire/rex84.html - broken link)

FEMA has made contracts for "camps," you judge the motives.

You should research a bit before you believe the SPLC.
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Old 04-21-2010, 02:49 PM
 
Location: The Woods
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The SPLC did great things against the KKK and some white supremacists. However, they've become a hate group that smears any libertarian or conservative they can think of. And they rake in millions in dinations after lying that they're still fighting the KKK, etc.
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Old 04-21-2010, 02:55 PM
 
Location: The ends DO NOT justify the means!!!
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LOL...a left-wing hate group that identifies others as hate groups...how completely ironic.
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Old 04-21-2010, 02:56 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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The SPLC is probably bored and has to make up new boogeymen. Perhaps they could convince people that the Joker and Riddler were going to invade the WH?

"Oh noes, Ron Paul and Andrew Napolitano are going to incite a insurrection.....DOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!"
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Old 04-21-2010, 02:57 PM
 
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LOL...I will. There are countless people willing to tell you who is evil in the world if you want their opinion. They don't fill any unique purpose. I could get the same list of "evil" people from ABC news.
If you could, the only reason would be that one of their staffers had contacted the SPLC. Despite your low opinion of them and certain wasteful excesses that they may go to in the area of fund-raising, the SPLC, as pointed out above, has long been a principal vanguard against domestic hate and terror groups such as the KKK, and assorted skinhead, white supremacist, neofacsist, and other similar groups. The people on their list of Enablers are only contributing to the further proliferation and support of such groups. This is not something that can be much viewed as a step in any positive direction...unless you tend to enjoy events such as the Holocaust Museum guard shootings...
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Old 04-21-2010, 02:59 PM
 
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Nah, he's right.
If he were, that would put him once ahead of you on the day...
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