Tea Party Nation: Oath Keepers is Last Line of Defense Against Tyranny
The , one of the more extreme factions of the Tea Party movement, has dipped deeper into the conspiratorial waters of antigovernment lore, most recently promoting the Oath Keepers and other antigovernment 鈥淧atriots鈥� as the last line of defense for Americans increasingly confronted with 鈥渁 government verging on evil.鈥�
In a post published over the weekend on the Tea Party Nation鈥檚 website, regular blogger Alan Caruba painted a dire picture of the threats to freedom that lie in wait under President Obama, whom he calls a 鈥渞ed diaper baby鈥� and a far-left functionary 鈥渞aised from birth and mentored to embrace communism.鈥�
鈥淥bama鈥檚 disregard for the Constitution, its separation of powers, and Americans suffering greatly from his policies, suggests that he is not beyond making the greatest grab for power using a bogus 鈥榥ational emergency鈥� or manufactured 鈥榗risis鈥� to declare martial law,鈥� Caruba wrote. He goes on to cite three recent executive orders as proof positive that Obama is setting up the nation to abandon its constitutional mandates and wage an all-out campaign against freedom.
And that鈥檚 where the Oath Keepers comes in.
Founded three years ago by former Army paratrooper and Yale Law School graduate , the group operates under the defiant banner of 鈥淣ot on our watch,鈥� plying thousands of politically disaffected men and women with ideas of a totalitarian 鈥淣ew World Order鈥� looming on the horizon. The group is composed of active and retired military and law enforcement personnel who vow to uphold their oath to the Constitution and disobey orders they deem to be in conflict. Inherent in the group鈥檚 鈥淭en Orders We Will Not Obey鈥� is a roster of far-right conspiracy theories involving domestic prison camps, the dismantling of the Second Amendment and more.
Caruba is also the communications director for the anti-New World Order American Policy Center, so it鈥檚 no surprise that he would repurpose the Oath Keepers鈥� paranoid talking points. 鈥淭he biggest question facing Americans is whether the members of our military and our law enforcement authorities would obey [Obama],鈥� Caruba wrote. 鈥淢y bet is that they would not.鈥�
In a series of , Caruba lashed out at immigrants, Muslims, the LGBT community and, of course, Obama. In one of those articles, he likened Obama to Casey Anthony, the single mother from Florida who had just been acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter. He has also been a perennial opponent of Agenda 21, a benign multinational agreement signed 30 years ago to protect the environment that has increasingly been compared on the far right to a blueprint for the New World Order.
