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The Queen of Battle, and her modern descendants, are the birth-right of every American.
"Guard with
jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who
approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but
downright force: Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably
ruined." - Patrick Henry
My
conscience, and the urgency of our current situation, compel me to
speak out. The victim disarmament freaks are now telling us that they
don't want to disarm us- oh, no! They just want to take away
our "assault weapons" - our semi-automatic, magazine fed, military-style
rifles - and the "high capacity" magazines that feed them. They want
us to believe that so long as we can own some kind of firearm, after our semi-auto military rifles are taken, we are not disarmed. That is a LIE.
The truth is that our semi-automatic, military pattern rifles are the single most important kind of arm we can own,
and are utterly necessary for effective defense of our lives,
property, and liberty. When you are disarmed of your military
rifles, you are DISARMED. At that time, the lion's share of your
military capacity to effectively resist tyranny is removed (yes,
accurate bolt action hunting rifles are useful in that role too, but
the semi-auto battle rifle is truly the Queen of battle, as Col. Jeff
Cooper correctly noted). It is a significant force on the
battlefield, and as Patrick Henry said, when you give up that force,
you are inevitably ruined.
It
is the height of Orwellian perversion of language and logic to say
that disarming you of the most effective arms for combat that you still
have is somehow not really disarming you, because you still have
hunting rifles and shotguns. And you can bet that if you let them take
your military semi-autos, next on their list will be your bolt action
rifles, which they will call "sniper rifles" (and by God, that is
certainly what they are good for!). And then when they have those,
they will go after any weapon that holds more than a few rounds, or is
capable of any degree of long range accuracy and penetrating power,
telling you that you really don't need one of those to hunt or
target practice (a shotgun will suffice), and then they will take
everything except single shot shotguns or .22's (as was done in England)
and on down the line. So long as you have at least a .22, they will
say you are not "disarmed" while they take everything else (and then
they will take the .22s, or insist that you keep them at a gun-range).
We need to call a spade a spade and teach our fellow citizens that taking away military style semi-autos is disarmament.
And we need to throw down the gauntlet and take a hard stand against
it, right now. When we, as Oath Keepers, pledged to not obey any orders
to disarm the American people, this is what we meant. Any attempt to
disarm the people of any arms currently in their possession is illegitimate and must be nullified, refused, disobeyed, and resisted.
And so, in response to this obvious assault on our right to keep and bear arms (as in military arms), I feel compelled to make the following personal pledge:
I Stewart Rhodes, as an American, as a military veteran, and as a father, pledge the following:
I Pledge to never disarm, and in particular, to never surrender my military pattern, semi-automatic rifles
(and full capacity magazines, parts, and ammunition that go with them),
regardless of what illegitimate action is taken by Congress, the
President, or the courts.
I also pledge to pass on those military pattern rifles to my children and my children's children,
as well as the full capacity magazines, parts, and ammunition to
needed to use them, regardless of what illegitimate action is taken by
Congress, the President, or the courts. As Founding Father Tench Coxe
said, while attempting to allay the fears of critics of the proposed
Constitution:
The
powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from
sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and
accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must
be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom?
Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier,
are the birth-right of an American... [T]he unlimited power of the
sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments,
but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the
people. - Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
And
that "power of the sword" - those "terrible implements of the
soldier," includes the people's battle rifles and carbines - their
M1As, their FN-LARs, their HK 91s, their Grandfathers' M1 Garand, their
AK 47s, their ARs and M4s, etc. - all of the weapons listed as being
targeted for Feinstein's new and improved "Assault Weapons Ban."
The whole point of the Second Amendment is to preserve the military capacity of the American people
- to preserve the ability of the people, who are the militia, to
provide for their own security as individuals, as neighborhoods, towns,
counties, and states, during any emergency, man-made or natural; to
preserve the military capacity of the American people to resist tyranny
and violations of their rights by oath breakers within government; and
to preserve the military capacity of the people to defend the
Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, including
those oath breaking domestic enemies within government. It is not about
hunting, and at its core, the Second Amendment is not really even
about self-defense against private criminals. It is about
self-defense against public criminals - against tyrants, usurpers, and foreign invaders. (and that is the whole point of the crucial upcoming film, Molon Labe).
On the Firing Line at an Appleseed Rifle Shoot
Above
all other firearms currently available to the American citizen, modern
military pattern, semi-automatic rifles provide that military capacity.
Protecting
the keeping and bearing of such arms of military utility is the heart
and soul of the Second Amendment. Thus, any attempt to ban their
possession, sale, purchase, or transfer, is an attempt to disarm the
American people.
Nor
will I surrender my accurate, scoped, bolt action rifles, which are
also great force multipliers of military utility in the roles of sniper
and marksman. Invaders, tyrants and usurpers fear the sniper
and marksman for good reason, and millions of American hunters have
the well practiced field-craft and marksmanship skills to serve in
those rolls most effectively. We must preserve their means of doing
so, including preserving our .50 caliber sniper rifles, our .338
Lapua's, our .300 Win Mags, and other powerful, long-range capable
calibers.
Nor will I surrender my semi-automatic pistols with full capacity magazines, which provide me with the capacity to effectively defend against close range, sudden attack.
I
will not disarm, regardless of what law is passed by the oath breakers
in Congress, or signed into law by the oath breaker in the White House, and I WILL pass on to my children every terrible implement of the soldier currently in my possession.
Further, I will ask my children to also pledge to never surrender those family arms and equipment,
regardless of what illegitimate, Bill of Rights violating law is
passed by the oath breakers in Washington DC, and regardless of
whatever any oath breaking judge may rule.
Further, I pledge to refuse compliance with any and all laws that attempt to strip me and my children of those arms,
the full capacity magazines needed to load and fire them, or the parts
and ammunition needed to keep them firing. I will use nullification,
civil disobedience, and active resistance against all such laws. I
will nullify, disobey, and resist as an individual, and I will work
with my neighbors to nullify, disobey, and resist as towns, counties,
and states. We will not disarm, we will not comply, and we will
resist.
Further,
I pledge to refuse to vote for, and to actively work to purge from
office any elected official, of any party, who violates their oath of
office by supporting, endorsing, or voting for any law, action, or
decree that attempts to disarm me, my children, or my children's
children of any of the above noted arms. I pledge to root
the oath breakers out, in a scorched earth policy. I will not buy into
the "lesser of two evils" con game, and regardless of what party an
oath breaking politician is in, and regardless of the outcome of
elections, that oath breaker will not get my vote, ever again, once
they betray my trust and violate their oath by voting for an assault
weapons ban or any other attempt to curtail my right to bear arms.
Finally,
I pledge to defend myself, my neighbors, my town, county, and state,
against any attempt to forcibly disarm them pursuant to any "assault
weapons ban" or any other illegitimate "law" passed by oath
breakers within Congress, or pursuant to any illegitimate order,
action, or decree by the oath breaker within the White House.
We will not disarm. We will resist. And if given no other choice but
to fight or to submit to abject tyranny, we will fight, just as our
forefathers in the American Revolution fought against the tyrants,
usurpers, and oath breakers of their day.
If
we are presented with the "choice" of submission to tyranny or
fighting in defense of our natural rights, we will fight, as our
forefathers fought, when the British Empire attempted to
disarm them and confiscate the military pattern arms, ammunition, and
supplies of their time. We will make the same choice as Patrick Henry
made, when he rejected "peace" purchased at the price of chains and
slavery, and said "I know not what course others may take, but as for
me, give me liberty, or give me death!" I too choose liberty or death.
I hereby reaffirm my oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and pledge my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor
in defense of the principles of liberty enunciated in our Declaration
of Independence, for which our forefathers spilled their blood. We
will not let the Republic fall without a fight.
What say you?
Stewart Rhodes
Founder of Oath Keepers
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