Sipsey Street Irregulars: Open Letter of Warning to Governor Nixon From Missouri Oath Keepers

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Open Letter of Warning to Governor Nixon From Missouri Oath Keepers

The militarization of our police is not a "black problem." It's an American problem, and it affects all of us. Senator Rand Paul is right. We must demilitarize our police. Governor Nixon, you stand at a critical moment in history. You must reverse course and set the example for other states to follow, to demilitarize our police and bring police methods back within the bounds of the Constitution. A failure to do so will further place millions of us American veterans who still take our oaths seriously on a fateful collision course with a burgeoning police state that is going down the same road that other nations have traveled, with tragic ends. Our grandfathers and fathers fought against totalitarian police states overseas. Please don't force us to fight against one here at home. Demilitarize the police now, and let us all live in peace under the Constitution, with liberty, and justice, for all.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: More meaningless talk from Oath Keepers. Ho hum.; August 24, 2014 at 10:26 AM
Anonymous said...: Taking any bets on his response?

Merle; August 24, 2014 at 10:39 AM
Anonymous said...: He cant do that, hes taking his orders from his party leader, the white house mullah.; August 24, 2014 at 12:10 PM
Anonymous said...: Nixon is a clueless piece of crap democrat. If the SOB read The Constitution, he wouldn't understand it or be able to relate to it.

- Old Greybeard; August 24, 2014 at 3:48 PM
cognitive dissonance said...: I, too, doubt this will have any effect. What it DOES point out is that there are ways to have handled this mess (and much more effectively!) than what was done.

What's lacking here is the desire to solve the problem, because the problem "allows" TPTB to go where they want to go with regard to our natural rights.; August 24, 2014 at 9:53 PM
Anonymous said...: The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on...; August 25, 2014 at 10:09 AM
Dakota said...: Missouri Oathkeepers huh? I gotta ask, what exactly did you plan on changing, accomplishing? I have read thru it twice now and I still can't figure out why you wrote it. Do you actually think that they (MO). L E is going to change their tactics because of this letter? If memory serves is MO not one of the States that got that letter from DHS about all us bitter cling ers? A cop killed a citizen, there has to be an investigation. The investigation will probably show a justified killing, it usually does whether that is the case or not.

I don't like militarized police either, the powers that be don't care what I like or dislike. It's a great distraction though from the huge list of problems that are taking a back seat because of this crap.

We shall soon see I suspect .... We shall see; August 25, 2014 at 10:28 PM
T. Paine said...: I'm not completely sure what the point of this letter is. To 'warn' the MO governor about fielding 'militarized' police or tell him they're own militarized members could control the crowd better.

Oath keepers (cough cough): Lead, follow or get out of the way!; August 26, 2014 at 7:17 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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Open Letter of Warning to Governor Nixon From Missouri Oath Keepers

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