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Related: About this forumTrump rally in Dallas: What to know about the Oath Keepers militia group
AUSTIN A 10-year-old self-styled militia group called Oath Keepers is seeking volunteers to help "protect Trump supporters" during the president's rally Thursday in downtown Dallas.
"As always, we are confident that the interior of the venue itself will be safe (the Secret Service will see to that)," Stewart Rhodes, who founded the organization of military veterans and former law enforcement officers in 2009, wrote on the organization's website this week. "But we have serious concerns for the safety of attendees as they walk from their vehicles to the venue, and then especially as they walk back to their vehicles in the dark afterward."
The group that calls itself defenders of the Constitution also lists a series what is says are potential government directives it will not obey, including disarming citizens.
The group was at Trump's rally last week in Minneapolis, and says it also will be at Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke counter-rally to Trump's appearance in nearby Grand Prairie.
Read more: https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/texas/state-bureau/2019/10/15/trump-rally-dallas-who-are-oath-keepers/3987462002/
(Corpus Christi Caller-Times)
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)dchill
(38,472 posts)And ready to trigger off and ask no questions later?
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)dchill
(38,472 posts)Hangingon
(3,071 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,588 posts)However, other legal law enforcement agencies probably do not.
I don't like these situations at all--there could easily be trouble between these jokers and the police, or the crowds.
Onyrleft
(344 posts)No good will come of this.
larwdem
(758 posts)to scared to walk to their vehicles! fucking cowards.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)They would probably blame others. Why would they be needed at the
counter-rally in another town?
Liberal In Texas
(13,546 posts)These "Oath Keepers" are nothing but self-styled vigilantes using this event to lord themselves around in camo and assault rifles.