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Beck, Drudge hype "Oath Keepers" who have vowed to "prevent dictatorship" in the U.S.

October 19, 2009 12:54 pm ET

From the October 19 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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    • Author by usp (October 19, 2009 12:59 pm ET)
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      What? Is there a meeting room they all sit around in and dream up outlandish things? my head hurts now.
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    • Author by The_Cat (October 19, 2009 1:10 pm ET)
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      More with the concentration camps. I thought FEMA was building those. Now they're going to convert existing cities instead?

      'The people' aren't saying the government is getting too big, Glenn. You are. You have been since, what? January 20th, 2009? Bush and the Patriot Act? Necessary. Iraq War? Necessary. Department of Homeland Security? Necessary. Bush/Cheney added more government than Obama has so far, and yet, somehow, this is never pointed out by you.

      You are a fear-monger, Mr. Beck. That is all you have. And they aren't even legitimate fears, but the specter of some imaginary America that might someday be. Look around. There are real people in real distress because of real problems that really need solutions. You not only ignore these problems, you campaign against those people who try to solve them. You've become one of the problems.
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    • Author by mjh (October 19, 2009 1:11 pm ET)
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      Beck, Drudge hype "Oath Keepers" who have vowed to "prevent dictatorship" in the U.S.


      I think they're a day late and a dollar short . . .

      "If this were a dictatorship, It would be a heck of a lot easier -- so long as I'm the dictator." -- George W. Bush


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      • Author by wolf kotenberg (October 19, 2009 2:29 pm ET)
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        Conveniently forgotten. The Patriot Act, ( who oesn't want to be a patriot ? ) was designed todiminish the power of constitutional lawbrick by brick.the problemwas it takes more than eight years to do so.
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    • Author by blesscurse (October 19, 2009 1:13 pm ET)
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      Glenn Beck himself is an oaf keeper.

      Timothy McVeigh, anyone?
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    • Author by achorn316 (October 19, 2009 1:13 pm ET)
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      Alex Jones had the Oath Keepers leader on a couple days ago.

      Glenn Beck is Alex Jones 2.0

      (p.s. Glenn.. the founding fathers would HATE you.)
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      • Author by mjh (October 19, 2009 1:41 pm ET)
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        "Glenn Beck is Alex Jones 2.0"


        And the "Oath Keepers" are the Promise Keepers 2.0.

        Or maybe 1.1 . . .

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        • Author by epkklk851 (October 19, 2009 2:38 pm ET)
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          I am sure there is overlap, but the mission of the Promise Keepers was religious first, politics second. I think the Oath Keepers will be politics first, religion second. In either case, it isn't a mix I would feel comfortable with.
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    • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (October 19, 2009 1:22 pm ET)
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      The Oaf Keepers
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    • Author by SLRTX (October 19, 2009 1:27 pm ET)
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      The so-called "promise keepers" come from Ron Paul's form of the Republican party. They may claim that their position is non-partisan, but it is clearly a right-wing extremist organization.

      It looks like these are the same folks that disrupted a lot of the town hall meetings.

      They misinterpret the constitution to fit their agenda.

      Extremely paranoid, and possibly dangerous.

      http://oathkeepers.org/oath/about/
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    • Author by worrierking (October 19, 2009 1:39 pm ET)
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      Fill the jails with these oath creepers.
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      • Author by Kurt Hofmann--St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner (October 21, 2009 6:15 am ET)
           
        On what charge? What crime is committed in vowing to disobey illegal, unconstitutional orders? What kind of unconstitutional order are you so keen on having obeyed that you would advocate arresting anyone who vows to disobey it?
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    • Author by shaggles (October 19, 2009 1:48 pm ET)
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      Where were they 2001-2009?
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      • Author by SLRTX (October 19, 2009 2:15 pm ET)
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        Building their "momentum". At least, that's the excuse they use.
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      • Author by Kurt Hofmann--St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner (October 21, 2009 9:58 am ET)
           
        Stewart Rhodes (the founder of Oath Keepers) may not have started the organization during the Shrubya years (Yale School of Law being somewhat time consuming and effort-intensive), but he wasn't being silent about abuse of government power then--one example.
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    • Author by osusnowman8 (October 19, 2009 2:25 pm ET)
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      I hope that law enforcement would not take orders to turn cities into concentration camps you know like the police did during hurricane Katrina. Where was Beck then? Again he goes off on something that just isn't true to hype up his people, and all he has to say is "I'm just asking questions here". This is Glenn Beck 101.
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      • Author by noneyabidnis (October 19, 2009 4:55 pm ET)
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        Beck talked about Katrina. He said he never hated a group of victims faster than the ones of Katrina. Then, more recently, he said ACORN conspired to make the levies fail on purpose so that all their records would be destroyed.

        Apparently a so called criminal organization like ACORN wasn't smart enough to simply burn their building down like any normal criminal - they launched this vast and powerful conspiracy to flood the entire city of New Orleans.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (October 19, 2009 2:45 pm ET)
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      Last evening, I happened to turn on the Hysteria Channel...I mean the History Channel and I caught a show about the 1980's rise of the Skinheads. Many of the followers in those days were teenagers. If you do the math, a boy of 15 in 1988 is now a man of 36 today. Most of them are no longer marching around in Doc Martens with white or red laces, and most of them have let there hair grow out, but I will bet you that many of them are just as disaffected and anti-government as they were twenty years ago. How many of these Teagbaggers or Oath Keepers are the men who still have their Doc Martens in the back of the closet? And are these Oath Keepers the disaffected former military that the infamous report warned about earlier this year? I would trust the SPLC over Glennie and his ilk, any day.
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    • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (October 19, 2009 3:29 pm ET)
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      So now Beck and Drudge are sowing their wild oaths?

      I'll bet Drudge isn't into it unless eggs are involved.
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    • Author by noneyabidnis (October 19, 2009 4:51 pm ET)
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      No, Beck, it's worrisome that militias who have about as much understanding of the Constitution as you do are taking up arms to defend it.

      After all, that whole Supreme Court thing - that third arm doesn't mean anything, I guess. Best replace with Supreme Court with a bunch of redneck militias. The militias obviously know better.

      In Beck's world, "Lady Justice" will be wearing "Truck Nuts".
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    • Author by noneyabidnis (October 19, 2009 5:10 pm ET)
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      Look at all the crazy comments on this article:

      http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/61320122.html?corder=reverse

      I thought conservatives wanted privatization of everything? Smaller government. Privatize, privatize, privatize. Guess not.
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