November 2nd, 2009

I Do Not Take This Oath Lightly

CoastGuard I took my first Oath in 1972, at age 18, when I first enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard. I took it again when I reenlisted, and a number of times in later years as I enlisted in the Army Reserves, and then was awarded a commission. I also had the very great honor and privilege of administering the oath to numerous soldiers as they re-upped or extended their service. I have also taken a slightly different oath as a police officer in the city of Fort Worth, Texas. This oath is a bit different, but is just as significant to me as the first one I took.

I do not take this oath lightly, and just because I am now in the Retired Reserves, I am not dismissed from that obligation. It sickens me when I see what the members of Congress (both houses) and the President are doing to our country, after each of them has taken the same oath to Support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic. I feel that most of them are the greatest threat we face. They seem to have forgotten the great price that has been paid for our freedoms.

Daniel D.

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4 Responses to “I Do Not Take This Oath Lightly”

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Eddie Gilbert Says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:54 am
Daniel, thank you for your service to our Nation.

I’m proud to stand with you, Sir!
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Amber Weinacht Says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Thank you for posting this. As a former military member myself, I took my oath very seriously, and remember repeating the phrase about protecting us from terrorists both foreign and DOMESTIC. I love your list of orders we will not obey. YOU DO NOT STAND ALONE! If anyone has Facebook, please look up the group: ARISE AND AWAKEN:The time has come. We need to protect our constitution and our civil as well as human RIGHTS. The political polarization of this nation will someday come to an end, and we may have to suffer greatly before we get to that point, but we need to stand united against our domestic terrorists until that day comes. Keep up the good fight! THANK YOU.
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michele Says:
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Thank you for taking your oath seriously and continuing to honor your oath. Thank you for joining Oath Keepers. Thank you for keeping your oath. Our country needs you, thank you for taking a stand
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Anthony Tetzloff USCG Says:
November 25th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I just finished my 14 year in the Coast Guard.
Good to have you with us brother!!
Semper Paratus!!

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OATH KEEPERS: ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY
Click here to read full length version. 1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people. 2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people 3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal. 4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state. 5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty. 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." 9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies. 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.
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OATH KEEPERS: ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY

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1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.

2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people

3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.

4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.

5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.

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."

9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.

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.

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Stewart previously wrote the monthly Enemy at the Gates column for S.W.A.T. Magazine

Stewart graduated from Yale Law School in 2004, where his paper “Solving the Puzzle of Enemy Combatant Status” won Yale’s Miller prize for best paper on the Bill of Rights. He assisted teaching U.S. military history at Yale, was a Yale Research Scholar, and is writing a book on the dangers of applying the laws of war to the American people.