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by Stewart Rhodes
by Stewart Rhodes
by Stewart Rhodes
by Stewart Rhodes
by Stewart Rhodes
Oath Keepers Operation First Defenders
Calling
on all Oath Keepers (and all Three Percenters, military veterans,
patriot police officers, bikers, and all other brave American
patriots):
Seeking capable volunteers
for an overt security detail for the "Patriots Day Free Speech Rally"
to be held on April 15, 2017, at 12PM PDT, in the Martin Luther King
Jr. Park, 2151 M.L.K. Jr Way, Berkeley, CA 94704.
Team
Leader for the Oath Keepers on the ground April 15 will be John
Karriman (Missouri police academy defensive tactics instructor and team
leader on both of our Ferguson operations in 2014-2015).
Contact email for security volunteers: berkeley@oathkeepers.org
It's
time, once again, to step up and stand in the breach to defend the
rights of the American people to free speech and assembly, in the face
of radical leftists who use violence and the threat of violence to shut
down and silence free speech they don't like (just like we did with
roving security teams at the Inauguration in Washington DC, on January
20, 2017).
Confirmed Oath Keepers members will be
given priority for this April 15 detail, but if you are from another
group, or a qualified individual with the right training or experience,
please contact us as well (but please understand there will be a
vetting process). If you are leadership from another patriot
organization that would like to help with security by sending your own
security detail to this event, please contact us and we will put you in
touch with the event organizers and also establish the necessary lines
of communication with our security team leadership.
Our
local Alameda County Oath Keepers chapter has committed fully to this
operation. In addition, one of our local members, a young Marine
Afghanistan veteran, is part of the event organizing team for the event
sponsor, Liberty Revival Alliance. This means we have the necessary
competent local leadership that we need in place to conduct such an
operation
And with John Karriman agreeing to fly out to California to be the team leader on the ground for our security element, we also will have an extremely experienced and respected field team leader our members from around the nation know and trust.
And with John Karriman agreeing to fly out to California to be the team leader on the ground for our security element, we also will have an extremely experienced and respected field team leader our members from around the nation know and trust.
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I
(Stewart Rhodes) will also be there in person, because I never ask you
to do anything I am not willing to do myself. But John Karriman will
be the man in charge of the security detail.
We will post up
more details on Monday, but I wanted our members and supporters to know
about this call to action ASAP, so those who can help will have as
much notice as possible (two weeks out, at the moment) so they can
participate.
DESIRED SKILL-SETS AND CAPABILITIES:
If
you are able-bodied and have applicable training and experience (such
as police and military veterans with riot control training, personal
security detail/body-guard experience, police or infantry veteran, or
other applicable training), and can keep a cool head, and be the "quiet
professional" who is there to be a defender, not to engage in shouting
matches, then you are the kind of man we want on this detail (much
like during our Ferguson operations when we put a premium on
well-trained, capable, serious professionals who could keep cool under
pressure).
In particular, we call on our police
veterans and retired police officers to participate in this security
operation, since your training, experience, and capabilities are
especially valuable in such circumstances. We will place you in
leadership positions and also ask you to serve as liaisons to the local
and state LEOs who will be on scene.
I also want to
put a special shout out to my brother infantry veterans, whether Army
or Marine Corps. Your service amply demonstrates that you were willing
to risk all to fight foreign enemies, but now you are needed to defend
liberty here at home with the same commitment and resolve. And
likewise for fire-fighters, EMTs, or other first responders. Your
skillsets will be much needed and appreciated. But even if you are
not prior service, if you have other training or experience that you
think is applicable, please volunteer.
Those of you
who want to simply attend and celebrate free speech are of course
welcome to just show up (keeping in mind the potential violence, you
should come prepared to defend yourselves even if not on the security
detail). But if you want to be on our formal security detail,
please email us at berkeley@oathkeepers.org
If you
cannot make it to the event, but want to help support this operation,
and especially help with gas money, food, lodging, supplies and
logistics for our Oath Keepers volunteers, please make a donation here:
DONATE
We appreciate your support!
EVENT DETAILS:
This event is being organized by Rich Black,
of Liberty Revival Alliance, who was the organizer for the March 4
Trump rally in the same location which was attacked by violent leftists
on March 4, 2017.
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At that March 4 event, communist flag
flying, American flag burning, radical leftists from groups such as
Anti-fa (I prefer to call them "LEFTY-FA" because they act just like
Brownshirts), and BAMN (By Any Means Necessary), attacKed the Trump
supporters just for being there, and for being Trump supporters. That
was their stated intent - to shut it down, just as they shut down the
Milo Yiannopoulos event sponsored by the Berkeley College Republicans
on February 1, 2017. And they are openly stating that they will do
all they can to shut down this rally on April 15.
Unfortunately,
at both the February 2 Milo event, and at the March 4 rally, the
Berkeley PD utterly failed to take effective measures to protect people
from violent assault, including being hit in the head with flag poles,
being sprayed with pepper spray, and being assaulted by multiple
assailants, resulting in severe beatings. In sharp contrast to other
departments, such as Salem, OR, where the local PD put themselves
between the Trump supporters and the masked "Black Block" leftists and
were very effective in keeping them apart, the Berkeley PD did not even
attempt to do so on March 4.
Watch these two videos to see the contrast:
In
the above video, the Oregon cops did it right. Hats off to them! In
the below video, it is clear the Berkeley PD didn't even try:
It is because of that failure, twice now, of the Berkeley PD to
defend people from felonious assault, or even try to keep the two sides
apart, that we feel honor bound to step in. We certainly do hope that
this time around the Berkeley PD will step up their game and actually
try to keep people safe, but since hope is not an operational plan, we
will be there to do it if they won't.
Why are we going? Because duty, honor, and our oaths demand
it. Because free thought, free speech, and the right to peaceably
assemble are non-negotiable core human rights, fundamentally essential
to a republican form of government (to self-government by the people),
and expressly protected by the Bill of Rights in the Constitution we
all swore to defend. Because without free speech, there is no free
America, and there is no free world. There can be no such thing as a
"no free speech zone" in the Founders Republic. There can be no such
thing as "no-go zones" where patriotic Americans cannot go, under threat
of violence from America hating Marxist thugs (as always, we stand in
defense of the free speech rights of all Americans, but it is the far
left at the moment that has declared war on free speech and assembly).
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Berkeley then - the Epicenter of the College "Free Speech Movement"
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Berkeley Now: the Epicenter of the College "No Free Speech" (or "F - Free Speech!") Movement.
All of us who swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution
against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and were willing to risk our
lives in the defense of our nation and our communities while in
service, need to step up now to defend the peaceful rally participants
who will be there on April 15 to take a stand for free speech. And
then we need to do the same at all future rallies where there are
threats of violence intended to shut down free speech. As always, we
will stand up for the right to free speech and assembly for all
Americans, regardless of their politics or views.
Remember, we Oath Keepers call ourselves "Guardians of the
Republic" and our motto is "not on our watch!" This is a matter of
duty. We have an obligation to be defenders of the lives, liberty,
and property of the American people, as we have already done on many,
many occasions, such as when we protected recruiting centers across the
nation against terrorists after the Chattanooga, TN attack, when we
protected shop owners and residents of Ferguson Missouri against
violent arsonists who threatened to murder them (there were apartments
above the shops with families living in them), when we stepped up and
directly backed local police and their families as part of our
Operation Backstop (aka Operation Back Our Blue), offering our help
after the deadly terrorist attacks on police across the nation, and
when we protected attendees at Trump's Inauguration in DC on Jan 20
(and also protected some of the attendees of the "Deploraball" the
night before), and when we provided both overt and covert security
details at March 4 Trump rallies across the nation on March 4, and again
at MAGA rallies across the nation on March 25.
May we live
up to the expectations of the men and women who went before us, and
who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to this nation, and to whom
we owe our own fullest measure of devotion in ensuring that their
sacrifice as not in vain. It is now our watch, and as we all know,
freedom isn't free. It must be defended, even if it costs us all we
have to give. And clearly, now in America, free speech won't defend
itself, as it is under direct assault by people who hate their own
nation, hate the Constitution, and hate free speech. Let us be the
"First Defenders" as we are foremost in the ranks in defense of the
First Amendment.
For the Republic,
Stewart Rhodes
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