First, some background on the Oath Keepers, for those of you who are thankfully unaware of this certain clique of right wing crazy. The Oath Keepers are military and former military “patriots” who are
Launched in March 2009 by Las Vegas resident and former paratrooper Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers claims to be a nonpartisan group of current and retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to the Constitution.
More specifically, the group’s members, which number in the thousands, pledge to disobey orders they deem unlawful, including directives to disarm the American people and to blockade American cities. By refusing the latter order, the Oath Keepers hope to prevent cities from becoming “giant concentration camps,” a scenario the 44-year-old Rhodes says he can envision happening in the coming years.
“The whole point of Oath Keepers is to stop a dictatorship from ever happening here,” Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper and Yale-trained lawyer, said in an interview with the Review-Journal. “My focus is on the guys with the guns, because they can’t do it without them.”We say if the American people decide it’s time for a revolution, we’ll fight with you.“
More random stuff including their pledge on the official site.
But back to the story here:
Marine Sgt. Charles Dyer, aka “July4Patriot,” has been accused of raping a 7-year-old girl. He has spoken at at least one teabagger protest (July 4th) and is also a bigwig in connecting the Oath Keepers movement and the Tea Parties. But the Oath Keepers are disavowing him thanks to these charges:
An ex-military man has been arrested on charges of rape of a child and forcible sodomy.
Charles Alan Dyer, 29, of Marlow, was arrested Tuesday afternoon by Stephens County Sheriff’s deputies, said Sheriff Wayne McKinney. Dyer served in the United States Marines in Iraq.
The second amendment of the Constitution is the only amendment:
(also some of the Oath Keepers show up in the comments on CrooksandLiars and get mocked to shreds, for those of you who like that stuff check it out!)
Meanwhile, unsurprisingly, the folks at American Resistance Movement — a group Dyer was also prominently involved in — are claiming that Dyer was set up, and the girl who accused him was “programmed” to do so. Accordingly, they’ve set up a “Free July4Patriot” fund, with a little button on their front page so you can donate.
http://www.americanresistancemovement.com/ (hey, a message board!)
Look at all them July4Patriot defense threads stickied! At least one of them has a bajillion YouTube videos of various Patriots defending their boy from the evil programmed 7 year old girl.
The PayPal donate button.
Let’s see what these American Resistance Movementers are all about
I see…
We need a crazy leader to lead us in killing government dudes!
Obama is chemtrailing the frak out of these guys!
Fun Fact: All traffic jams are caused by police cars just frakking with traffic!
UPDATE: CrooksandLiars posted more info on the Oath Keepers running for their lives away from July4Patriot