Sipsey Street Irregulars: From Stewart Rhodes: 13 June Oath-Keepers Rally is Cancelled.

Friday, May 15, 2009

From Stewart Rhodes: 13 June Oath-Keepers Rally is Cancelled.

Vanderboegh will be polite and have no comment. We still need to support Oath-Keepers in whatever fashion and venue we can.

Mike
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http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/2009/05/june-13-rally-in-washington-dc-has-been.html

SOME BAD NEWS:

I just got off the phone with Navy Seal Capt. Larry Bailey (Ret.) of Gathering of Eagles, and he told me that Gathering of Eagles and ProTroopEvents.com, regretfully, have no choice but to cancel the rally scheduled for June 13 on the National Mall in Washington D.C.

Capt. Bailey said that the reason he had to cancel the rally is because the wealthy individuals who had promised considerable funding failed to come through with the necessary funds - in other words, they turned out to be "all hat, no cattle."

This was very frustrating for him because if he had not relied on their word, which he thought was good, he could have tried to raise the needed funds another way - he has done two other rallies on the Mall and it takes a minimum of $75,000.00 to do it right, with a big stage, sound system, and all that goes with it.

We here at Oath Keepers regret that we will not be able to attend that rally as part of our outreach to spread the Oath Keepers message, and this also means we Oath keepers will not be meeting on June 14 (we had planned on an additional meeting the next day).

We hope that not too many of you had already scheduled transportation and rooms. Please pass on this information to anyone you know who had planned on attending.

SOME GOOD NEWS:

Oath Keepers is getting invitations from all over the country to speak at July 4 Tea Parties, and to hold oath ceremonies like we held at the Knoxville Tea Party on April 15 and at Lexington on April 19.

We will post announcements about those Oath Keepers speeches and oath ceremonies at July 4 Tea Parties just as soon as they are 100% confirmed (and once we are absolutely positive they are going forward).

Stewart Rhodes

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Better to find out those folks are "all hat and no cattle" now rather than later, when the consequences go up a notch or three.

Bobcat; May 15, 2009 at 9:02 PM
oldfart said...: Sorry about the let-down but is there any sort of ceremony set up for Oregon? I know, Oregon is a liberal bastion but it would be nice if we could make a proper showing in the belly of the beast.; May 15, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Anonymous said...: Aye, tis the Lairds o' Fairfax............again!

HABCAN.; May 16, 2009 at 10:19 AM
govpreston said...: I sent Oath Keepers $50 this week. Let's pitch in and help however we can.; May 16, 2009 at 12:23 PM
O.K. said...: Anon, you got that right. Capt. Bailey is a good man who trusted other men at their word, only to have them flake big time. Talk about Sunshine patriots - they couldn't even part with some of their millions of FRN's.

Olfart, if you have any "Tea Party" events scheduled in Oregon, why not make an Oath Keepers oath ceremony part of that, if you can, or at the least attend 4th of July events with an Oath Keepers sign and/or banner and hand out some home made fliers? Email me at stewart.rhodes@gmail.com and I can send you a brochure you can print up and any artwork you need for a banner.

We Oath Keepers plan on attending as many July 4 events as we possibly can to spread the word, and to remind folks that the Declaration of Independence was not just about independence, but also about a timeless statement of the principles of liberty and the right of the people to revolution in the final recourse.

For the Republic,

Stewart Rhodes

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Stewart; May 16, 2009 at 1:49 PM
O.K. said...: govpreston said...

"I sent Oath Keepers $50 this week. Let's pitch in and help however we can."

Thank you sir! We now have no less than five possible July 4 events that have asked for an Oath Keepers speaker to conduct an oath ceremony. As soon as they are all confirmed, We'll post the info at oath-keepers.blogspot.com; May 17, 2009 at 9:23 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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