Oath Keepers - Armed conspiracy group will defend Republicans at Minneapolis Trump rally

[womanofthehills]

No one’s expecting Donald Trump’s Thursday rally in Minneapolis to go seamlessly. Some 20,000 mostly out-of-towners will descend on the Target Center. An even larger crowd of locals will be frothing outside. It's a recipe that makes collisions inevitable.

So Republicans will be escorted to and from their cars. That duty will fall to Oath Keepers, a “patriot” group whose members fancy themselves as “guardians of the republic.” Or as the Southern Poverty Law Center calls them, “one of the largest radical anti-government groups in the U.S. today.”

http://www.citypages.com/news/armed-conspiracy-group-will-defend-republicans-at-minneapolis-trump-rally/562562061

[dchill]

1. Brownshirts.

[COLGATE4]

2. You misspelled it. It's Oafkeepers.

[Captain Zero]

3. did this bunch start out as a prayer group in the vineyard church

over a decade or so ago?
Seems they had a big convention in Indianapolis when they were starting.
As I recall some true believer inviting me. It didn't seem quite right and I did not go.

[NCLefty]

4. So the people that hate government are going to protect the fans of an authoritarian president?

"pledge to fulfill the oath that all military and police take in order to 'defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic'.[9] It encourages members – some of whom are current and former U.S. military and law enforcement officers – not to obey orders which they believe would violate the United States Constitution."

How come they aren't going to defend the Constitution from Trump and his criminal buddies? Just more right-wing phonies, bonded by racism and gun addiction.