May 28th, 2012

Karen Kwiatkowski’s Memorial Day Message

As we all know, Oath Keepers as an organization does not endorse candidates for political offices. The message below is a sharing, and is not to be construed to be an endorsement from Oath Keepers. However, a number of Oath Keepers have been following the liberty work of Karen Kwiatkowski, Ph.D., (Retired Lt. Col., USAF), for years. Her libertarian/Constitutional writings are archived at Lew Rockwell dot com, among other places. This year Karen is running for Congress, and as I’m one of her fans, I chanced to find this message on Dr. Kwiatkowski’s campaign website and wanted to share her message with our readers here at Oath Keepers.

USAF (ret.) Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski

I hope you and yours enjoyed a wonderful Memorial Day weekend, as my family and I did.

On the first Memorial Day on May 30th, 1868, General John Logan asked that we “renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nation’s gratitude, the soldier’s and sailor’s widow and orphan.”

On this 144th Memorial Day, we remember and honor the dead of more recent wars. We remember the sacrifices in war made by our grandfathers and grandmothers, our aunts and uncles, our brothers and sisters, and our children and grandchildren.

In 1971, Congress transformed Memorial Day into a popular “three day weekend.” In celebrating outdoor cooking, family, and the promise of summertime, we may forget the nature of war, the sacrifices of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, and the ongoing sacrifices and suffering of those they left behind. We may forget our responsibility as Americans, as the descendants and beneficiaries of great men and women, to live and to celebrate our precious liberty each day.

This weekend, and I hope every day, let us remember the ideals of a free and noble America, and know that these ideals are worth fighting for. Let us say a silent prayer for our fellow veterans, our brothers and sisters in arms. Let us make time to aid and assist the widows and widowers, the children who have lost a parent, and the parents who have lost their beloved children because those brave ones heroically answered the call of service to their nation.

God bless them, and God bless America.

In liberty always, and in faith,

Karen Kwiatkowski

www.karenkforcongress.com

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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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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.