Who Are The Oath Keepers ???

I saw this report a few days ago, when Ferguson was still hot:

Following a night of arson fires and bashed storefronts that hit close to home, Greg Hildebrand stood naked Tuesday, drying off from a needed shower, when he noticed somebody on the rooftop.

“I opened the window and said, ‘Hey, can I help you?’” said Hildebrand, 35, a website developer.

The man said he was security and would be up there at night with others to protect the pocket of second-story apartments and lower-level storefronts near the Ferguson Police Department. A day earlier, rioters had broken out windows below Hildebrand’s apartment in the 100 block of South Florissant Road and torched a nearby beauty supply store.

“I am in the middle of a difficult spot,” Hildebrand said. “I feel a lot better having those guys up on the roof.”

But he wasn’t clear exactly who “those guys” were or where they came from.

Puzzled and alarmed protesters have wondered, too — some accusing the mysterious guards in military fatigues of being in the Ku Klux Klan.

In fact, they are volunteers affiliated with a 35,000-member national organization called Oath Keepers. Yale Law School graduate and libertarian Stewart Rhodes said by telephone from Montana that he founded the group in 2009 to protect constitutional rights, including those of protesters confronted by what he described as overly militarized police.

Police questioned group members early in the week and allowed them to stay. But Saturday, after media inquiries, St. Louis County police officers ordered the Oath Keepers to leave the rooftops.

Threatened with arrest for operating without a license, the volunteers argued but eventually left their positions early Saturday, Rhodes said.

“We are going to go back as protesters,” Rhodes said Saturday afternoon.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-shut-down-mysterious-oath-keepers-guarding-rooftops-in-downtown/article_f90b6edd-acf8-52e3-a020-3a78db286194.html

Who are the Oath Keepers? You can read more about them here:

http://oathkeepers.org/oath/

Everyone in government (including the military) takes an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. Not to defend the government, buildings, property, or even people ... to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.

Most people in government either do not take their oath seriously, or they appear to believe it is the government or the leaders or the property they're supposed to be defending.

It's sad that we got to this point, and it's also sad that people who appear to take their oaths seriously are thought to be little more than mysterious vigilantes whom the government considers to be a threat.

Welcome to the US police state. It's here to stay. Did you realize that even after what happened in Ferguson, MO, Obama ad-Dajjal still approves of arming the police with military gear?

President Obama held a series of White House meetings with cabinet members, police commanders and official “civil rights” leaders Monday aimed at diffusing popular anger over the whitewash of the police murder of Ferguson, Missouri teenager Michael Brown and the military-style repression of protesters in the St. Louis suburb that followed.

The major initiative coming out of the meetings was the president’s announcement that he would maintain, with certain cosmetic adjustments, the federal program that has armed local police departments with surplus military equipment from the Iraq and Afghan wars.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/12/02/ferg-d02.html

How the hell could that be?

By the way, I believe that the Oath Keepers are the only group in America which fits the following definition:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State ...

Everyone else with guns (i.e., military and/or police) are little more than thugs in the employ of bankgangsters, corporations, and their collaborators in the one percent.

Update: Here is an interview with Oath Keepers conducted by Ben Swann:

http://benswann.com/exclusive-interview-oathkeepers-surrounded-by-50-police-told-to-stop-defending-building-in-ferguson-from-fires/

The fact that this interview says they were "defending buildings" is somewhat misleading. I think it would be more appropriate to say they were trying to prevent a police state action from getting out of hand. But since I am not a member of the group and was not there, I could be wrong.