You may never know where you’ll meet your next good friend.

I met a new friend today, a man who moved from service responder to acquaintance to friend, all in the span of one day. When we began speaking to each other, we recognized that we actually shared much in common. Starting with my Gadsden flag outside.

One of those items involved Oath Keepers.

Which made me realize: I haven’t made much mention of Oath Keepers here on my blog.

I’m a member of Oath Keepers. And Oath Keepers, as they describe themselves, “is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, veterans, Peace Officers, and Fire Fighters who will fulfill the Oath we swore, with the support of like minded citizens who take an Oath to stand with us, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God. Our Oath is to the Constitution

Our motto is “Not on our watch!“

I have made a like vow: I will defend to the death the oath I swore as a peace officer. I don’t take that oath lightly, and neither should any other peace officer in my state — California — or any other city, county, state or FEDERAL law enforcement officer.

These are trying times for those of us who defend this nation on foreign shores: our US military personnel — and on domestic lands: our civilian peacekeepers.

ROEs — Rules of Engagement — seem to change on a monthly, perhaps even daily basis. They certainly change with each new administration, new Chief, new Sheriff, new President. Our Peacekeepers, military and civilian, keep that line drawn and defended as clearly as possible. Because there are Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs. We, my civilian and military brothers and sisters, are the Sheepdogs.

The state and federal courts don’t do much to keep things simple either, in terms of search and seizure, arrest and contact opinions — as well as civil torts.

Peace officers, it is little recognized, can find themselves subject to not just double jeopardy, but triple jeopardy: tried criminally in state courts, tried criminally in federal courts, and then sued in civil courts. And, further, subject to internal agency investigations. Quadruple jeopardy, anyone?

Unlike the rest of the civilian population.

That said, I joined Oath Keepers to support the TEN ORDERS that I will NOT OBEY:

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.

Some people may think this is actual heresy. Frankly, I feel sorry for them.

Because these points are but only based upon the foundational documents of this nation when it was young and revolutionary itself.

Some people, my new friend included, believe that my clear posting of this and other information will place me on the various scopes of federal monitoring. To that I say: been there and done that. And I am not impressed.

If believing in the core foundational documents of this nation places me into the category of a potential “terrorist” then I am comfortable with that. Because when my moral, legal and professional oaths conflict with any temporary administrations fleeting wants, there is essentially no conflict whatsoever.

Because my philosophical tendencies are based upon what is right, proper and moral in consideration of this sovereign nation’s history and its creational documents.

Because the bottom line is this. And it should be the most frightening aspect of any inner or outer corruptive influence: in order to do your potential Bad Works, you absolutely require the “buy-in” of your military and civilian law enforcement bodies.

Because if they refuse to cooperate, your plans are failed.

Which is why Oath Keepers had to be created in the first place.

I am an Oath Keeper.

BZ

P.S.
Thanks to you, Jeff, for enlightening and invigorating me.

The US State Department sometimes — okay — frequently runs counter to common sense, logic, proportion and reality because it is primarily populated by what I term GOWPs: Guilty Overeducated White People. A velvet painting of British PM Neville Chamberlain hangs in every office, illuminated by a hidden black light, as a reminder and inspiration.

So it is, again, with another State Department Loon. This time, she’s the Number Three in charge and its senior career diplomat. From The Weekly Standard:

Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of state for political affairs at the State Department, had some rather nice things to say about the reclusive Kim Jong Il, the dictatorial leader of North Korea who died a few days ago. She had met the rogue dictator, Josh Rogin reports, when Sherman “served as State Department counselor and North Korea policy coordinator under former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, [and had] traveled to Pyongyang with Albright in 2000.”

An NPR obituary quotes the high ranking State Department official as saying that “He was smart and a quick problem-solver,” and that “[Kim Jong Il] is also witty and humorous. Our overall impression was very different from the way he was known to the outside world.”

Wendy Sherman, now the No. 3 official in the State Department, who served as counselor to Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and accompanied her to North Korea, said in 2008: “He was smart, engaged, knowledgeable, self-confident, sort of the master-director of all he surveyed. He was a conceptual thinker,” Ms Sherman had said.

Let me also add, if I may, that he was kind to his cat named Class Envy, changed underwear daily, flossed when the filet mignon from the Kobe beef got caught in his upper back molar, and religiously put the toilet seat down for his nightly mistresses.

In consideration of Undersecretary of State Sherman’s loving statements, even the left-leaning Wikipedia writes:

Human rights record

See also: Human rights in North Korea

According to a 2004 Human Rights Watch report, the North Korean government under Kim was “among the world’s most repressive governments”, having up to 200,000 political prisoners according to U.S. and South Korean officials,^[49] and no freedom of the press or religion, political opposition or equal education:^[50] “Virtually every aspect of political, social, and economic life is controlled by the government.”

The Hermit Kingdom continues, now under the 27-year-old four-star general Kim Jong-un. Up to and until other military forces intercede.

Eight million North Koreans still struggle to overcome starvation every winter. North Korea can’t even produce window glass that isn’t flawed, pebbled and distorted. North Korea is, at its base, a suicidal and purposely-isolationist country that impedes commerce in Asian markets.

And why the massive disparity between North and South Koreas?

The clear answer: leadership, anyone?

Wendy Sherman, at least you don’t disappoint; you loyally continue the US State Department meme of tinfoil caps and beautifully-iced shrimp at evening DC parties.

BZ

From The Weekly Standard, in Boston, Massachusetts:

Today, after deliberating for less than ten hours, a federal jury found Tarek Mehanna guilty of the most serious charges leveled by federal prosecutors against him, including providing material support to terrorists, conspiring to kill in a foreign country, and lying to counterterrorism officials. He faces a possible life sentence.

When Islam is shut down, on any level, for any reason — particularly in my country — I rejoice.

As I reported in the July 25 issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Mehanna, a young Egyptian-American pharmacist who self-radicalized shortly after 9/11, gained notoriety as an English-language al Qaeda propagandist who helped plan multiple terror attacks. Mehanna’s dreams of waging physical jihad against the United States never materialized—mostly thanks to the incompetence of Mehanna and his terrorist cohort.

Islam is here, ladies and gentlemen. It is in our country, actively recruiting the dregs of society, the brain-damaged, the ignorant, the ill-educated, and is making serious inroads because of Do-Goody-ism in our prisons via GOWPs (Guilty Overeducated White People in the guise of pastors, priests, fathers, sisters and others brimming with irrational religious naivete.)

Continuing, from The Weekly Standard:

Misguided Boston leftists had come to view Mehanna as some sort of authentic Muslim civil rights activist. Here was a young man who took joy in the 9/11 attacks, celebrated Osama bin Laden as his spiritual father, and called for moderate and liberal Muslims to be brutalized for daring to challenge Islamism in their communities. Nevertheless, not long after my piece was published, Mehanna’s cause became a staple of the local Occupy Wall Street protest. Boston “occupiers” dressed in pink spandex and organized a flash mob near Boston’s South Station to bring attention to his “plight.”

An “authentic Muslim” means that all disbelievers must convert or die. An “authentic Muslim” believes that women are subservient and must be covered from head-to-toe, endure clitorectomies, walk behind their men, have no votes or rights in Muslim society. They can be killed for any perceived affront. They are chattel.

By delivering a guilty verdict, the Boston jury decisively repudiated the nauseating message put forth by this bizarre—and politically sophisticated—alliance of the far left and radical Islamism.

And because of this decision, I find it unusual that a jury somehow managed, in this Politically Correct and guilty climate, to deliver a finding based upon fact, history and logic.

My hat is off to this Boston jury who, despite their surroundings and the heat they’re clearly now having to take, made the proper decision here.

I say once again, people: “demography is prophecy.”

You can do the Logical Extension on that one.

BZ

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