The Oath Keepers have shown up in the tiny western Montana town of Lincoln, answering a “call to action” issued earlier this month to protect the “constitutional rights” of a local mine owner in a dispute with the federal government.
Jade Helm –– this summer’s U.S. military training exercise painted as a government takeover conspiracy by extremists –– appears to be causing a reaction just short of deadly at this point.
To hear the plotters tell it,the plan was like something out of a Batman comic book...
In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., schoolhouse slaughter, more than 400 sheriffs are promising to “oppose and disallow” any new federal gun control measures. Much of their brazen talk about taking the law into their own hands, even at the cost of their lives, has its roots in the radical and racist Posse Comitatus organization.
Far-right gun enthusiasts say they are planning to build a walled city in northern Idaho for “Patriots” who love the Constitution and hate “liberals, Marxists and blue voters.” But a convicted con man is the primary promoter of the fantastic scheme, and there’s little to suggest that it will ever become what its backers are promising.
File this under the “What is he thinking?”
Exploiting a local Arizona controversy, the antigovernment Oath Keepers portray themselves as patriots fighting ‘martial law’
The White House this spring released the president’s “long-form birth certificate” after declining to do so for years. It confirms that Barack Hussein Obama II was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu — precisely what the president has been saying for his entire life.
Once again, the antigovernment ‘Patriot' movement is taking up Western land-use issues. Could a return to violence be next?
