Oaths and Obligations

In this day and age, individual oaths taken, and the individual obligations associated with said oaths freely taken, are lacking in solemnity.  This lack of solemnity in oaths and obligations is exemplified most notably, today, within the coterie of individuals with ready access to the ear of Obama, with the complacency of Congress as an accessory.

I mention this today because Bill St. Clair, in a post titled ‘Shout Our Oaths in the Tyrant’s Face’ - Washinton D.C.—June 13, 2009 notes that the Western Rifle Shooters Association is encouraging individual Americans to renew their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic. (bold by ed.)

What interests me the most, though, from St. Clair’s post, is the Oath Keepers: Orders We Will Not Obey.  They are as follows (commentary on the orders can be read at the link).

1. We will NOT obey any order to disarm the American people.
2. We will NOT obey any order to conduct warrantless searches of the American people, their homes, vehicles, papers, or effects - such as warrantless house-to house searches for weapons or persons.
3. We will NOT obey any order to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to trial by military tribunal.
4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state, or to enter with force into a state, without the express consent and invitation of that state’s legislature and governor.
5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty and declares the national government to be in violation of the compact by which that state entered the Union.
6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control” during any emergency, or under any other pretext. We will consider such use of foreign troops against our people to be an invasion and an act of war.
9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies, under any emergency pretext whatsoever.
10. We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

Ten (10) orders I willing take an oath to support.

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