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Made up of radicalized ex-military members, the Oath Keepers have decided to train their own "Special Forces" in response to the upcoming "Apocalypse." Do I even need to mention that they hate Obama?

Courtesy of Mother Jones:

Up until now, Oath Keepers has mainly been a bunch of pissed-off white dudes talking tough and holding meetings and rallies and so forth, but now the group is setting out to train Special Forces-esque "civilian preservation teams" to contend with the apocalyptic future they see coming to America. "We are flat running out of time and we need to get as prepared as possible as fast as possible," the group's founder, a lawyer named Stuart Rhodes, wrote to the group's members. The Daily Beast's Caitlin Dickson has the update:

"We think this is what Americans should do anyway, but now we see that we're seriously in a vulnerable position because most Americans don't," Rhodes told The Daily Beast. "After Hurricane Katrina and Sandy, we saw Americans dependent on FEMA, on a government that can't do anything. People have been desperate, vulnerable to crime and vulnerable to dying" in such emergency situations, he said.

But it's not a natural disaster that Rhodes thinks will catapult the country into chaos. In his email announcing the launch of the plan, Rhodes lays out the course of action he predicts "the enemy"—the government—is preparing to follow, including "intentionally triggering a catastrophic economic collapse" as a means of creating disorder that they will then use as an excuse to impose martial law, destroy the constitution and use the billions of dollars in ammunition, armored vehicles and weapons he claims the Department of Homeland Security and local police have been stockpiling "to control and contain us."

Rhodes, who has been somewhat measured in the past, is now straying into serious wack-job territory. The group's rhetoric is also pretty disingenuous, given Oath Keepers' tight relationship with the tea party movement, whose faction in Congress is the one holding a gun to America's head and threatening to put the economy at serious risk. (It's perhaps also worth noting that American civilians already pack far more heat than the government does.)

A glimpse at the Oath Keepers' website will tell you what this is really all about: A large graphic bearing the president's face reads: "Snowden Honored His Oath...Honor Yours! Stop Big Brother!" And the site's "featured" posts include: "Mr. Obama, Tear Down Those Walls! Veterans, Oath Keepers, and Friends Tear Down 'Barrycades' In D.C.," which faults the White House for the closure of the WWII Veterans Memorial in DC while featuring a photo of tea party leader Ted Cruz—one of the federal shutdown's primary architects—speaking to the protesters as though he were some kind of hero.

They vilify the President, whole deifying Ted Cruz, and they are heavily armed and military trained. And the sign for action that they are looking for as an excuse to take up arms against the government, "intentionally triggering a catastrophic economic collapse," is an action actively being pursued by the Tea Party faction of the Republican party.

Does anybody want to disagree with me about my Bill Maher post from yesterday now?

Believe me that just because we finally got a deal to reopen the government, and avoid default, these assholes are not going to suddenly be placated.

Their hatred for this President is deeply ingrained, and it will only take one or two more instances, that the Right Wing can unfairly or not lay at the President's door, for one of these wackos to break off from the pack and make a serious attempt on his life.

In my opinion this group, which openly attempts to convince military and law enforcement personnel to disregard their orders if they come from the President, are a domestic terrorist organization and they need to be treated as such. Because they ARE dangerous, and they ARE advocating a violent response to the government.

In Alaska we had our own "Oath Keeper" and we did what was needed to render him impotent. I think it behooves the Federal government to take a similar approach in dealing with this group of terrorists.

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