Sipsey Street Irregulars: CSGV characterizes oath to obey Constitution as 'treason'

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

CSGV characterizes oath to obey Constitution as 'treason'

There is no denying that there are subversives in this debate. They're the ones trying to demonize those who have vowed not to obey an unconstitutional order. The only logical reason to object to the Oath Keepers is a desire that such orders be carried out. So who are the "traitors," again?

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WarriorClass III said...: Kurt Hofmann does a great job, but I have to take issue with his statement about Treason:

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

Readers have probably noticed that the Oath Keepers have not been "levying War against" the U.S., and CSGV would probably be hard pressed to name any "Enemies" of the U.S. to whom the Oath Keepers have given "Aid and Comfort."

The "them" in the definition refers to the people, not the government. If the government levies war against the people, the government is guilty of Treason.

Other than that, Kurt, I love your columns. Since I dumped Facebook I can't comment there, but keep up the good work!; June 12, 2013 at 6:51 AM
FedUp said...: If resistance is futile, why does Josh Sugartwit have his panties in a constant knot over the prospect of it?; June 12, 2013 at 12:46 PM
Anonymous said...: Dear Oathkeepers:

What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?

Stop enforcing gun laws. Look the other way. Stop being a kapo.

NICS checks, full auto bans, CCW permits, federal licensed dealers, ammo bans, mag bans, and private party sale bans are unconstitutional infringements.

Obey your oath.; June 13, 2013 at 8:58 AM
William Flatt said...: Obeying the Constitution is indeed treason, treason against the tyrants and usurpers.

I believe Patrick Buchanan said it best, back in February 2000: "Loyalty to the Republic is Treason to the New World Order".; June 13, 2013 at 1:35 PM
Conservatarian1 said...: Constitution prohibits the Federal gov't from infringing and interfering. Individual States however MAY institute their own control measures. Now, the feds have no authority whatsoever, for or against and should be butting out, as should the SCOTUS. If you're not happy with your State's decisions, either work to change their legislations against the people, or vote with your feet and get to a desirable State.; June 13, 2013 at 8:27 PM

"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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