The Left is attempting to intimidate us into silence.

For those who haven't been paying attention, the totalitarians...er...the government has charged Stewart Rhodes, the head of Oath Keepers with having conspired to run a paramilitary operation to prevent Congress from certifying the election of 2020. Spoiler alert, they did no such thing, as you will find out when you read John Green's article at the American Thinker entitled Who Are the Oath Keepers? Green accurately describes the Oath Keepers, and what they stand for. Essentially, the Oath Keepers are people, mostly law enforcement and military, who have reaffirmed their oaths to defend and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Let's be clear, this position should be the very center in American politics. While people might be, the organization itself should not be described as "right wing," and if it is, what does that say about those describing it?

Media coverage of the group is sprinkled with terms like “right-wing extremists,” “anti-government extremists,” and “far right militia.” Like any story, the reporting about the Oath Keepers can be spun to support a narrative, or to give an unbiased assessment. The MSM has chosen to go with the narrative. One has to look beyond the scare quotes, and assess what the organization has actually done to get a true sense of its nature.

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Stewart Rhodes is an army veteran (a paratrooper) and a Yale law school graduate. He understands what our founders intended for America, and has served to defend it. He believes that the Democrats see illegal immigration as a way to get more votes -- pay no attention to those cancelled boarder wall contracts. He also believes the Democrats would like to confiscate everyone’s guns -- because that’s exactly what they’ve said. He considers BLM to be a communist front organization -- which isn’t a big leap given that its leaders are trained Marxists. Such crazy thinking can’t be tolerated -- if you’re a Democrat or a deep state operative. In short, Rhodes is only an extremist if the ideas of freedom, limited government, and self-determination are now extreme.

The organization’s name is a reference to the oath that all soldiers and law enforcement officers swear -- to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Although anyone can join, a large percentage of the membership is comprised of people who have taken that oath in either law enforcement or the military. Is that what the propaganda ministry calls “extremist”? Consider this: If all of our government officials complied with the oath they have sworn (looking at you Merrick Garland), would America be better or worse?

Green then takes us on a tour of some of the Oath Keepers past actions, which have been entirely within the Constitution. Do these things go against the Leftists and their narratives? Well, they seem to, but then, doesn't that put the Left in a bad light, not the Oath Keepers? After all, if the Oath Keepers maintain the center of American politics, doesn't that paint the Left as the "extremists."

As the financial guys say: Past performance is the best predictor of future behavior. So, what have the Oath Keepers done in the past? They’ve defended the property rights of private citizens, protested an election that half of America thinks was stolen, and accused Biden of being a Chinese puppet. Stewart Rhodes must have learned a thing or two about the Constitution at Yale Law. All of his organization’s past activities have been entirely consistent with the Constitution -- freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, property rights, and government by the people. Unfortunately, we live in an America in which one of the two political parties believes those positions are extreme. The issue isn’t the Oath Keepers. The issue is our current political environment.

Green puts it too politely when he says that the issue is our political environment. The issue is that the Left is attempting to intimidate us into silence. We can not allow it.