The "Oathkeepers" Just Showed Up In Ferguson Again

[freeplessinseattle]

According to postings on twitter.

Here is more about them, in an article from last year.

There, on the rooftops and streets, members of this little-known national group now stand guard, ready, they say, to protect residents and the Constitution against forces known and unknown. They wear military fatigues and speak of lending a sense of security to the bewildered community

....Local cops didn’t agree. Over the weekend, they threatened keepers of the oath with arrest, forcing the men to abandon their positions, but not the group’s founding tenets. “
.......

Oath Keepers came into being after founder Stewart Rhodes wrote a 2008 manifesto calling for men and women to protect a complacent America besieged by what he described as dictatorial leaders.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/01/the-oath-keepers-the-militant-militia-now-roaming-the-streets-of-ferguson/

[Babel_17]

1. Yikes (nt)

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Just ran a photo via tim poole

this shit should be on major media, not small indie media.

http://reportingsandiego.com/2015/08/10/ferguson-more-arrests/

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Gets better

they are there to protect inforwars "reporters"

http://soopermexican.com/2015/08/11/holy-crap-the-oath-keepers-are-preaching-to-ferguson-protesters-about-the-glory-of-donald-trump/

[murielm99]

4. They need to go home. n/t

[Nuclear Unicorn]

7. During the protests last year lots of people here were mocking 2A rights claiming

that those claiming a 2A right to resist an oppressive government weren't really in it for the people by virtue of their being absent from the protests in the face of militarized police. Then the Oathkeepers started showing up and the tune changed.

[murielm99]

10. I don't trust them.

And it is not because they are armed. They have some very odd beliefs.

[freeplessinseattle]

5. How thoughtful. n/t

[notadmblnd]

6. They're on the side of the protestors, they say

They just want to help BLM dismantle the system, I'm sure

[Lunabell]

8. OMG, this is some scary shit

Just what we need, some white supremacists invading a town that is already on fire.

[alarimer]

9. THESE are the people we should fear the most

not some unarmed protesters, not even government agents, as sinister as they are.

But the unelected, unaccountable white guys with guns who have decided they are everyone's savior. They are a menace, worse than any criminal gang. They are fascists at heart.