November 15th, 2009

I will sign on with Oath Keepers if for no other reason than as an example to those I once led

CoastGuardlogo I served 9 years in the U.S. Coast Guard – 6 of them as a Search & Rescue Aircrewman and 2 as a Criminal Investigator assigned to Coast Guard Intelligence (now the Coast Guard Investigative Service). After leaving the Coast Guard I spent 2 1/2 years as a municipal Police Officer before going back onto the federal payroll as a Special Agent with the U.S. Customs Service.

In April 2007 I retired after 30 years of Federal Service from U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (the agency that was created when the Customs Service was abolished under the Homeland Security Act) I retired as a Supervisory Special Agent. The one important thing I learned during my 20 years with Customs and I.C.E is that there are two types of Federal Agent. Those that are honor driven and actually listen to the words of their oath of office – and those that are mere toadies driven by ambition who will follow blindly whoever is in charge longing for the day they are given a free ride on someone’s coattails. These are chameleons who change shape for whomever is in command.

I also learned there are two types of leaders in the Federal Service. Again, those who are honor driven and take seriously their role as a leader and struggle to walk that fine line between Mission Accomplishment and responsibility to those they lead. The other is, once again, the type led by blind ambition whose sole goal in life is to get as far up the ladder as quickly as they can and to one day have coattails of their own so they can look back and swell with self pride as they see all those who are clawing to hang on to a scrap of the coattail cloth. These leaders have no respect for their oath of office or to the people of the United States whom they have allegedly sworn to protect; nor to the people they are empowered to lead. Their subordinates are nothing more than lambs to be offered to the gods when a sacrifice is called for, and their only god is their own ambition and they would willingly fire into a crowd of American citizens if ordered to do so by someone whose coattails have a spot they lust after.

It is these people I fear as much as I fear a government out of control – because it is through these people that a corrupt government will take its power. It is because of these people I will sign on with Oath Keepers if for no other reason than as an example to those I once led.

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7 Responses to “I will sign on with Oath Keepers if for no other reason than as an example to those I once led”

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C. Cope Says:
November 15th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Welcome to Oath Keepers Patriot!

“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth – to know the worst and to provide for it.”- Patrick Henry
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William Duck Says:
November 15th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Fear no evil, we’re going to honor our Oath!
Thank you for your service and sacrifices to our country!
Thank you for being an Oath Keeper!
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Bob shirley Says:
November 15th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Semper Paratus

COTP Boston 63-65
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Eddie Gilbert Says:
November 16th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Thank you for your service to our Nation.

And as for the “toadies”, “chameleons”, and “piss-poor leaders”…

It has always been that way, my friend.

It’s up to us to make sure that WE outnumber THEM, eh?

Good to have you aboard.

Eddie Gilbert
USMC SSgt 70-78
Peace Officer 97-present
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Kristen Kipp Says:
November 16th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Thank you for your service to our great Country and welcome to oathkeepers. We are all proud to stand with you.
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Dave B Says:
November 18th, 2009 at 3:50 am
I’ve already addressed in other sections what you have stated. Federal officers might be the key. By default, they are some of the best and the brightest but it is their ambition and/or motives for being in that position that might make the differnce. I’m in law enforcement and quite frankly I’ve seen more lemmings than leaders in the Federal arena. I’m hoping that by pure intellectual prowess and common sense they actually realize what has been going on, and what is currently the situation. I’m hoping that they have enough guts to question, the ability to act, and the intestinal fortitude to do the right thing if required even if it means bucking the system. If not, then I guess us veteran cops and soldiers will have to lead the way without them or in spite of them. We’ll have to do their jobs for them in these historical times if necessary. The rights of all Americans are in peril at the moment and although one would think Federal agents would have that as their priority, I fear the opposite is taking place when reviewing what has transpired recently. I would hope each and every agent would take a moment to self-reflect and review the Constitution, then review what our Founding Fathers did and what they expected us to do in this exact circumstance.
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Anthony Tetzloff Says:
November 20th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
I just finished 14 years in the Coast Guard myself..
God bless you brother!!!
Semper Paratus!!!!!

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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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Founder Stewart Rhodes

He is a former firearms instructor and former member of Rep. Ron Paul’s DC staff.

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.