On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Natalie Golovin <[email protected]> wrote:
There’s a group called Oath Keepers that vow to protect civilians from police power. Some may regard it as an extreme right wing group preparing to protect US from Leftist tyranny. It will be interesting to see if they will become involved. Small contingents have been present at our local Occupy group. I’m idealistic enough to see them as they have defined themselves-not as they’ve been portrayed. Time, and how police power is used, will provide clues-if not an answer on the OK’s
They've been presented in very scary terms by the usual managerial-liberal suspects: Morris Dees, Mark Potok, Sarah Robinson, etc. Some SPLC mook on the Olbermann show some time back (obviously) was warning of the sheer extremism of LA officers promising not to enforce martial law declarations: oooh -- cops refusing to follow orders! The horror! These were the same people who were warning a few years earlier about the totalitarian potential for USA PATRIOT and who would have -- I'd bet my left nut on it -- praised any cops or soldiers who promised to resort to civil disobedience under a Bush martial law regime. There are some principled people like Paul, Wellstone, Kucinich, etc., who take the same position regardless of which party's in power. But not many. -- Kevin Carson Research Associate, Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Super-Empowered Individuals http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html