Oath Keepers Pledges to Fight ISIS in U.S.
(This is an audio recording of my side of an interview with a journalist
on my response to the Orlando terror attack, taped Sunday afternoon
6/12/2016)
As the Founder and National President of Oath Keepers, I hereby issue the following statement and a
CALL TO ACTION to our membership, in the wake of the horrific Islamic/ISIS terrorist attack that took place in the early morning hours of
Sunday June 12th, 2016 in Orlando, Florida.
First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims
and family members of this nation’s most deadly terror attack since
9/11.
This senseless attack against our citizens, and the LGBT community
specifically, is proof beyond all doubt that ISIS has now brought their
murderous, radical Islamic hatred for freedom, and their total war on
Western Civilization, to American soil. The terrorist himself proclaimed
his devotion to ISIS and ISIS has officially claimed responsibility.
It has always been the mission of our Oath Keepers members to defend the constitutionally guaranteed rights of
every citizen
of this nation. It is our mission to train and advise them how
to defend themselves and their loved ones. We Oath Keepers have declared
ourselves to be “Guardians of the Republic” and have adopted “Not On
Our Watch” as our official motto.
In response to this act of war by ISIS here at home, we are now honor
bound to fulfill those promises and to honor our oaths by standing
physically, shoulder-to-shoulder with our local peace officers and with
fellow veterans and patriots, in direct defense of our communities
against ISIS and their sympathizers and supporters. We must also fulfill
our pledge to train our fellow Americans to FIGHT against this evil
that aims to wipe liberty from the face of the earth.
I will say what Obama refuses to say: The horrific attack on the
Pulse Nightclub in Orlando was an ISIS Islamic terror attack on America,
an attack on Western Civilization itself, and an attack on our core
principles of individual liberty (the inalienable right of the people to
“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as Jefferson wrote in our
Declaration of Independence in 1776).
There will be more. As both Navy SEAL veteran Matt Bracken and
I have been predicting for well over a year, we are now in the beginning
stages of an Islamist “Tet Offensive” type wave of terror attacks on
U.S. soil that will dwarf anything we have seen since 9/11. Both of us
have also argued that this wave of Islamist terror attacks will be part
of a “perfect storm” of intentionally orchestrated “Cloward-Piven” chaos
-inducing economic devastation, social and political disruption and
violence, and the use of intentionally undefended borders and mass
illegal and “refugee” immigration as weapons of destabilization (and to
provide cover for and facilitate more violence and terrorism by multiple
proxy agents of the elites, including the cartels, gangs, well funded
Marxist and racist agitators – such as La Raza and Black Lives Matter
– and radical Islamist cells and individuals).
I encourage you all to read Bracken’s excellent piece “
Tet Take Two: Islam’s 2016 European Offensive” on what is now clearly happening in Europe and compare it to what we are now seeing here in the U.S. as well.
I also encourage you to watch my speech from the 2015 New York Oath Keepers Banquet where I predicted this “perfect storm”:
As you watch it, reflect not only on the San Bernardino attack and
this horrific ISIS attack in Orlando, but also on the Soros funded
street thug and communist agitator violence we saw in Ferguson, Missouri
Baltimore, Maryland; San Jose, California; and their most recently
stated goals of shutting down both the Republican and Democratic
National Conventions coming this July.
It really sucks to be right about predicting bad things happening to
our own country. Only a fool will fail to see that what is happening is
not an accident; but all according to plan. As for radical Islam
itself, Bracken has correctly pointed out the unholy alliance between
the Sharia loving, Caliphate worshiping, woman and homosexual hating,
13th Century minded Islamacists and the Western Civilization hating
Marxists in both Europe and in the U.S. Just one example of this
alliance is demonstrated through Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison,
who clearly views his to radical Muslim as a more effective way
to advance his Marxist ideals.
I submit that this strange alliance goes all the way up to the White
House, and, as expected, the blood dancing domestic Enemy-In-Chief and
his ghoulish comrades such as Chuck “the Schmuck” Schumer, wasted no
time in attacking your right to bear arms after this horrific ISIS
Islamist terrorist attack on U.S. soil. While refusing to even call
this an act of Islamist terrorism, they insist that the problem is our
guns, and the solution is using Orwellian watch lists, that any of you
can be listed on by some faceless agency minion. With no due process you
can be stripped of your right your right to bear arms in many states.
Terrorists and other violent thugs don’t obey gun laws. The fully
automatic AK-47 rifles used in the Paris attack were completely illegal
and banned in France, but that didn’t stop them being smuggled in by the
terrorists along with explosives.
As “Navy Jack” said in his
excellent piece,
the only real answer is for you, the American people, to step up and
defend yourselves and each other. The only people who could have saved
the lives of the 50 Americans in the Pulse Club in Orlando where those
50 Americans themselves. The lone uniformed officer serving as security
for the club was the first one shot as the terrorist came through the
door. Sadly, that shows the vulnerability of uniformed, easily
identified security. The same thing occurred in the Charlie Hebdo
attack.
What is needed in such an attack is the unseen, concealed carry,
armed American who the terrorist does not even know is there until hot
lead is sent his way. An armed patriot who is an intended victim can
ambush the terrorist and “shoot him to the ground” as firearms trainer
Gabe Suarez puts it. It ends with a bullet to the terrorist’s head to
make sure he is shut down and cannot fire another shot or detonate an
explosive vest.
A layered security protocol, combining overt, official security
deterrents and hidden, armed “first-responders” among the intended
victims, is the right answer. And that means armed staff and patrons of
any club, church, mall, or other “soft targets” of terrorist attacks (as
well as armed teachers and school staff, just as is done in Israel).
Above all, it requires a change in mindset, such that the American
people fight back and attack the attackers. They need to know that even
when unarmed, they can take down a shooter.
In the wake of the Oregon college shooting, Oath Keepers committed to
teaching college students how to counter-attack against an active
shooter. We are now forming College Oath Keepers student groups on
campuses across the nation, for that express purpose and to also stand
up for free speech on campus against Marxist attempts to shut down
opposing views with force and intimidation.
Similarly, we will train any other American or group of Americans who
are targeted by Islamist terrorists, be they churches, Synagogues,
school staff, or LGBT groups or nightclubs. We stand for the right of
all Americans to defend themselves, and we stand united against all terrorists who would murder them.
Just as we guarded military recruiters (disarmed by idiotic
government policies) after the Chattanooga Islamist terror attack, we
will offer our protection to any and all Americans now targeted by
Islamist terrorists so long as we have the resources to do so.
That is the whole point of our Community Preparedness Team (CPT)
Program. Our highly trained and experienced military and police members
are here to serve as direct protection for our communities against
terrorists and, even more critically, to serve as training cadre to
teach the American people to protect themselves.
I call on all Oath Keepers members and chapters to offer their
protection, advice, and training to any and all in their community who
are targeted by Islamist terrorists. Show them the way toward effective
defense against the wave of ISIS attacks that we know are coming, teach
them to defend themselves, and lead by example. Step up and Honor your
oath by defending all Americans from these evil Islamist enemies of
liberty and enemies of Western civilization. We of course support the
moderate Muslims like Maajid Nawaz, author of Radical: My Journey out of
Extreme Islam, that condemn these acts of terror and are attempting to
reform Islam from the inside.
Today I call on our national membership to directly assist local
police as well as those members of the LGBT community who may continue
to live in fear by the threat of future attacks, and any other potential
“soft” target in our community such as churches, synagogues, schools,
etc.
We are offering our organization’s full resources/personnel which
includes our many former federal, state and local law enforcement and
military personnel to deploy to Florida or any other area, nationwide,
where citizens feel a threat may exist.
With Community Preparedness Teams (CPTs), chapters and members in
every state, we are willing to provide private protection to families of
victims, organizers of any high-risk events. Club and bar owners as
well as any other groups or individuals who feel their lives may be in
danger from the threat of future attacks by radical Islamic groups or
other domestic terrorists.
We are all Americans and any attack on an American citizen on our
soil by Terrorists against any Americans exercising their most basic
rights as guaranteed by the Constitution we swore to defend, will be
countered by Oath Keepers to the utmost extent of our power.
Once again, our thoughts and prayers are with all affected by this heinous attack.
To request our assistance or join our efforts, please email us using our
contact form and put either “request for help” or “offer of assistance” for “Oath Keepers Operation Guardian” in the subject line.
For the Republic,
Stewart Rhodes
Founder and President of Oath Keepers
