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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/oath-keepers-send-armed-guards-protect-kim-davis-us-marshalsOath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes announced yesterday that he had reached out to Davis lawyers at Liberty Counsel to offer the protection of his group, which he says is already forming a presence in Rowan County, Kentucky, where Davis was recently released from jail after prohibiting her office from issuing marriage licenses. Rhodes said in a statement that his position has nothing to do with gay marriage, but rather his conviction that Davis had been illegally detained by the federal judge who held her in contempt for violating multiple court orders.
In a phone call with Jackson County, Kentucky, Sheriff Denny Peyman and other local Oath Keepers activists, Rhodes said that he was on his way to Kentucky to help with the Davis operation. Although the group had originally intended to picket outside the home of the judge who held Davis in contempt, he said, they had changed their plan when she was released on Tuesday.
Rhodes said that the Rowan County sheriff should have blocked U.S. Marshals from detaining Davis, but since neither the sheriff nor the states governor will do their job and intercede on behalf of Davis, the Oath Keepers will have to do it instead. As far as were concerned, this is not over, he said, and this judge needs to be put on notice that his behavior is not going to be accepted and well be there to stop it and intercede ourselves if we have to. If the sheriff, who should be interceding, is not going to do his job and the governor is not going to do the governors job of interceding, then well do it.
Peyman suggested that he meet with the Rowan County sheriff to educate him on his responsibility to block the actions of the federal courts, but in the meantime, Rhodes said, our guys are already there and more coming and they are ready to lead by example by preventing Davis from being arrested again.
These people will have to be dealt with forcibly sooner or later.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Civil War. The government should not have spent the past 150 years appeasing and apologizing to the treasonous traitors.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)enough rebs, starting with Jefferson Davis.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I used to work with and train with the USMS and I can guarantee that they'd be ready and would mop the floor with these wannabes. The mere idea that armed citizens stand a snowball's chance in Key West against the government is beyond laughable.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Some fool shot himself and the gun store didn't want him there in the first place.
This ought to end real good.
Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)There have been roving bands of them down there in the "Constitution Free Zone", guarding America, for quite some time now. Although I haven't heard of anyone shooting someone, I also haven't heard how many illegals they have brought to justice either. I did hear that the border guard and the rangers didn't want them there.
I know someone who claims to be an Oath Keeper, IMO these assholes pose a real threat.
I also believe everyone who attends protest should become familiar with their tactics, one of which is playing agent provocateur.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,326 posts)The one that swears to uphold The Constitution of The United Sates, that has a 14th Amendment saying, according to the Constitutional mandate and subsequent ruling of The Supreme Court, that gay people should be allowed to enter in to a civil marriage contract?
That one?
Or some other oath?
ProfessorGAC
(65,013 posts)You know which one, Hassin.
OnionPatch
(6,169 posts)YabaDabaNoDinoNo
(460 posts)Nobody will do anything about them either
Hopefully President Sanders will
All the other candidates would invite them to the White House or just ignore them
yodermon
(6,143 posts)so there is a history of violence against law enforcement.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)The ChristoTaliban is alive and well.
Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)Thanks Kim, enjoy the reality show crapfest you've created.