December 22nd, 2009

As I was saying the oath I knew I was doing something sacred and special

Logo3USAF I first took the Oath in January 1982, at 19 years of age when I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. As I was saying the words I knew I was doing something sacred and special even though I didn’t fully understand the power and meaning behind them; I think I was changed that very day.

Since then I’ve had the opportunity to read and study the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I’ve also studied the men who wrote those words. I’ve come to have an even greater respect for the Oath I took after I learned these things. The U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights are miracles on paper.

Today and in recent years, I have become more and more frustrated with our local, state, and federal governments. They clearly have no respect for these documents and I am convinced they are on a road that will take us only further away from them.

Oath Keepers is the first organization that I have come across that espouses beliefs similar to my own. It is the first organization that I have EVER joined outside of my military experience. This is because I do not throw my support behind anything easily. Or lightly.

Paper and words are not the sum total of the founding documents: they are a way of life and a system of beliefs; they espouse Justice and, because they have Christian principals as their foundation, they help light the path of Morality for the immoral. The founding documents do not replace the book, but those that spend time researching it will see they are a road sign for it.

For me, the Oath I took is for the things above and the founding documents are the written reminders that must be preserved for all of us, now and in the future. They cannot be allowed to perish.

I am here with Oath Keepers and with you, because I believe in the mission. I’ll do whatever it takes to preserve the founding documents and I am glad to stand next to others that share my system of beliefs.

A man or woman that defends this way of life and system of beliefs automatically has my respect and friendship. Those that know what the founding documents represent are above having their Loyalty, Honor, and Character questioned. I would be proud to call any of you brother or sister.

God Bless America and God Bless the Oath Keepers.

Steve

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4 Responses to “As I was saying the oath I knew I was doing something sacred and special”

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Anne Chgristine Says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:52 am
When I became an American Citizen in 1995. I took the pledge to uphold the constitution. It appears to me that even though I am not an important person
to anyone but God.

The Congress and President who are supposed to be people we should be able to look up to cannot uphold the constitution. So basically I have done more than they have.

God Bless the USA and God Bless the Oathkeepers.
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Anne Christine Says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:53 am
When I became an American Citizen in 1995. I took the pledge to uphold the constitution. It appears to me that even though I am not an important person
to anyone but God.

The Congress and President who are supposed to be people we should be able to look up too cannot uphold the constitution. So basically I have done more than they have.

God Bless the USA and God Bless the Oathkeepers.
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Eddie Gilbert Says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
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Hey Steve,

Well said.

Welcome to Oath Keepers.

Thank you for your service to our Republic and its people.

Eddie Gilbert
USMC SSgt 70-78
Peace Officer 97-present
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Roger Says:
December 28th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Share39 Watada Discharged
Saturday 26 September 2009

by: Gregg K. Kakesako | The Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Lt. Ehren Watada was the first commissioned military officer to refuse deployment to Iraq because he believed it was an illegal war. (Photo: PD-USGov-Military)
The Army grants the officer’s resignation under “other than honorable conditions.”

First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned military officer to refuse deployment to Iraq because he believed it was an illegal war, has won his three-year legal battle with the Army.

With little fanfare the Army at Fort Lewis, Wash., accepted the resignation of the 1996 Kalani High School graduate, and he will be discharged the first week in October.

Rather than seek a second court-martial against the artillery officer, the Army will grant Watada a discharge under “other than honorable conditions

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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 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.