Conservative Refocus

By Barry Secrest

Volunteers from the 35,000-member group known as Oath Keepers had been keeping silent vigil in an effort to protect apartments and businesses in downtown Ferguson after a large number of businesses were either destroyed or severely damaged.

The reason for the Oath Keepers’ intervention, and what happened next, is where the story becomes even more compelling.

By the account of some highly appointed officials, the Democrat governor of Missouri had actually withheld the National Guard from protecting the businesses due to political interests in concert with both the Obama regime and the DOJ, whose primary interests fall in line with the community organizing activists in charge of roiling Ferguson.

A list of Ferguson businesses destroyed

The Oath Keepers, as a result, had decided it was time to respond and assigned volunteers to keep silent vigil in both the high risk and unguarded areas. Unfortunately for those businesses and individuals still at risk, the Oath Keepers can no longer keep to their mission.

According to the St Louis Dispatch, Stewart Rhodes, the founder of Oath Keepers, had this to say of the latest governmental absurdity:

“We thought they were going to do it right this time,” Rhodes said of government response to the grand jury decision released Monday in the Michael Brown case. “But when Monday rolled around and they didn’t park the National Guard at these businesses, that’s when we said we have got to do something.

“Historically, the government almost always fails to protect people,” he added.

The reason for the abrupt deactivation of their mission had nothing to do with any Oath Keepers decision, but rather, from the actual officials in charge who haven’t exactly executed their assigned mission of protecting life and property very successfully.

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In what amounts to an order of  ’cease and desist,’  the Oath Keepers were shut down under threat of arrest by authorities, if they contined their mission of guarding lives and property.

That not being quite enough, it gets even better.

In fact, the police had known of the presence of Oath Keepers earlier in the week, it wasn’t until the Media, who’re largely in support of the often riotous protesters, complained to police with regard to the Oath Keepers’ presence, that the police eventually ordered the Oath Keepers to get out of town or else.

Indeed, the members who were carefully assigned to Ferguson have not just been guarding the businesses. The Oath Keepers there have actually helped many businesses by boarding up storefronts and keeping stores of water and fire extinguishers at the ready, in addition to their weapons, if needed….

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