Heinlein's If This Goes On -- and Oathkeepers, Orders We Will Not Obey

When I was a child I discovered science fiction. My mother had to sign a waiver at our local library for me to be able to check out as many books as I could read during the lending period. Usually about 20 books over a two-week span. I loved the works of Ray Bradbury and one short story, The Veldt, made a huge impression on me because of the virtuality of the home he described. And we are so close now, to a virtual world, it's hard to believe that enough time has passed for fiction to become reality.

Unfortunately, we are even closer to Robert Heinlein's 1940 short story, If This Goes On, (set in 2012) from his Future History series. Heinlein wrote If This Goes On because he was concerned about a right-wing evangelical usurption of the Constitution and envisioned the response that would be required to return freedom to the American people.

It's not quite 2012 and the usurpers of our Constitution are not right wing evangelicals. They are radical leftists, maoists, atheists, socialists, obamaists. Whatever their choice of title -- they are a threat to our Constitution, to our Civil Liberties, and to the continued existence of our Nation.

Thank God for all those who have sworn to protect and defend our Constitution, from all enemies, foreign and domestic. So chilling when the domestic component is as deadly, or more so, than the foreign.

Thank God for the members of the Oathkeepers. Please support them with your membership, donations, and prayers. Prayers especially, that they will never be called upon to act in response to their oath.

Oathkeepers, Orders We Will Not Obey

1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.
2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people
3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.

4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.
5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.
6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control."
9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.
10.We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

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