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Oath Keepers to Muster on Lexington Battle Green, MA on April 19, 2013: Stewart Rhodes Will Conduct Oath Renewal Ceremony

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:49

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Captain John Parker: “Stand Your Ground. Do Not Fire Unless Fired Upon. But If They Mean To Have A War, Let It Begin Here.”

Oath Keepers will be mustering on Lexington Green, in Lexington Massachusetts, this April 19, 2013! Stewart Rhodes, Founder of Oath Keepers, has been invited to speak at a rally being held on the Green by the Massachusetts chapter of Gun Rights Across America. The organizers of the rally have also extended an invitation to all Oath Keepers to attend the rally and take part in honoring our fallen heroes of the first battle of the American Revolution, and in taking a stand in defense of our right to bear arms.

At the conclusion of Stewart’s speech, he will lead the audience in an oath renewal ceremony.

RALLY #1: April 19, 2013. 12pm to 4pm

Gun Rights Across America “Muster on the Battle Green” Rally. Lexington Battle Green, Lexington, Massachusetts. Additional info below.

RALLY #2: April 19, 2013. 3pm – 7 pm. West Springfield Town Common, West Springfield, Massachusetts, conducted by Massachusetts Oath Keepers. Additional info below.

RALLY #3: April 20, 12 – 3pm, Connecticut State Capitol, North side of grounds, in Hartford, CT. This will be a massive CT gun owners rally. Stewart Rhodes will speak there as well. Come support your CT brothers and sisters! More infohere.

APRIL 19 EVENT UPDATE: Mike Vanderboegh, the Founder and Leader of the “Three Percenter” gun owners movement, will be speaking at both the Lexington Battle Green event and at the later rally in West Springfield, Massachusetts. The Three Percenters are hard-core gun owners who will not back up another inch, will not submit or comply with any more infringement on our right to bear arms, and will resist. The name alludes to the small percentage of Americans who actually took to the field in combat during the American Revolution (not counting those who supported them but did not actually fight). You can read more about it here.

Mike also helped break the story of the Fast and Furious “Gun Walker” scandal of the Obama Administration intentionally running American guns to the Mexican Cartels, leading to many deaths, including of a US Border Patrol Agent (with the obvious intent of capitalizing on the resulting deaths to push for more infringement on the right to bear arms here in the United States to “stop the flow of illicit gun trafficking to Mexico”).

Mr. Vanderboegh’s message is one that needs to be heard by both sides in the current battle over the right to bear arms – both the gun owners in the NE and the oath breakers who are assaulting them.

APRIL 19 EVENT UPDATE: Pastor Chuck Baldwin (Oath Keepers National Chaplain) will speak at both the Lexington Battle Green event, and at the later rally in West Springfield, Massachusetts. He is a dynamic speaker, and will add tremendously to both events.

Pastor Chuck Baldwin is our Oath Keepers National Chaplain and is a giant in the liberty movement. He ran for President in 2007 on the Constitution Party ticket, and was the only candidate for President endorsed by Congressman Ron Paul. Pastor Baldwin is the embodiment of the fiery spirit of the Founding Generation and of the pastors who helped light brushfires in the minds of men from the pulpit in the years leading up to the American Revolution, and during the Revolution. He is doing the same work today. I am honored to attend his Liberty Fellowship church in Kalispell, Montana, and I am very glad he is able to make the trip to Lexington Battle Green and to our second rally in West Springfield on the same day. – Stewart Rhodes

INFORMATION:

Here are the details on the Lexington gathering:

Gun Rights Across America “Muster on the Battle Green” Rally.

Lexington Battle Green, Lexington, Massachusetts

APRIL 19, 2013

12pm to 4pm

From Gun Rights Across America: Massachusetts:

Gun Rights Across America: Massachusetts, cordially invites one and all to attend our Pro-Second Amendment Rally.

Please join on us on April 19th, from Noon to 4:00pm, on the Lexington Battle Green, in Lexington MA. for the “Muster on the Battle Green” rally.

We will have many keynote speakers to charge the rally. We want our elected officials to hear the voice of the majority, the law abiding, Constitution loving Patriots.

Tell one and all that we will be rallying on the Battle Green that changed America forever. Where the famous “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” occured. It’s time to call on the ghosts of our ancestors and forefathers to engergize us into continuing the good fight to protect our 2A rights.

Like and share this, lets make this a rally to be remembered!

Please remember concealed carry only. No open cary of any type of firearms.

Go to the Muster on the Battle Green Facebook Page for more info. And here is a local newspaper write up about the event.

Pastor Chuck Baldwin, the Oath Keepers National Chaplain, will also be speaking. Larry Pratt, of Gun Owners of America, has also been invited, and we are waiting on confirmation that he can make it. Other speakers are being lined up now.

Please note that there will also be an additional rally on April 19^th 3 – 7 PM, at the West Springfield Town Common, West Springfield, Massachusetts, conducted by Massachusetts Oath Keepers (see below for details).

NOTE FROM STEWART:

Oath Keepers, I never expected to have another chance to stand on Lexington Battle Green and conduct an oath renewal ceremony, like we did back on April 19, 2009 (which is listed as our official birth-date and place, as an org). But here we are, in 2013 and we have been handed yet another opportunity to do something remarkable, yet again. Hat’s off to Stephen Redfern of Gun Rights Across America, Massachusetts for jumping through all the hoops to get the permit to use the Green, and for inviting us to participate.

If you missed the chance to stand on the Lexington Battle Green in 2009 and renew your oath, you now have that chance, this April 19. And if you can make it, I urge you to do so (we apologize for the short notice, but that really couldn’t be helped).

I can tell you that it is a very moving, powerful experience to stand on the exact spot where Captain Parker and his men stood, where patriot blood watered the tree of Liberty, and the “shot heard round the world” was fired on April 19, 1775. And even more powerful to do so on the anniversary of that battle, April 19, and to then stand on that “venerable spot” and renew your oath to defend the Constitution – a truly amazing, once in a lifetime kind of experience.

When we conducted an oath renewal ceremony on the Battle Green in 2009, we were not doing something novel that had never been done before. To the contrary, we were following in the footsteps of men of the Founding generation who had also stood on Lexington Battle Green in 1798 to renew their oaths. Men of the First Brigade of the Third Division, Militia of Massachusetts – some who had fought in the battle back in 1775, along with their sons who now served in the militia – stood on Lexington Battle Green in formation and renewed their oaths, and then sent a proclamation to President John Adams, describing what they had done, and why. It is President Adams’ formal, written response that we quote on the back of our green “Lexington” shirt:

Oaths in this country are as yet universally considered as sacred obligations. That which you have taken and so solemnly repeated on that venerable spot, is an ample pledge of your sincerity and devotion to your country and its government. – President John Adams

The men of the Militia of Massachusetts had felt compelled to gather on the Battle Green and renew their oaths in a time of crisis in America, during the Quis-War with France, when many Americans were very divided politically, and passions were high. The men considered it essential that in that time of crisis they should come together and make it clear that their loyalty was first, and foremost, to the Constitution they swore to defend. And it should be noted that similar oath renewal ceremonies were conducted in multiple states, and by both Federalists and by Jeffersonian Republicans. Americans of both political parties renewed their oaths.

So, when we stood on Lexington Battle Green on April 19, 2009, to renew our oaths, we were merely honoring our forefathers and walking almost directly in their footsteps. And from that day forward we have conducted similar oath renewal ceremonies wherever we gather, as Oath Keepers.

It came as no surprise (a sad sign of the times) that immediately after our muster on April 19, 2009, we were viciously attacked by the radical left, and in particular by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Apparently, current serving and retired police and military are not supposed to renew their commitment to defend the Constitution, and specify certain things we will not do if ordered. The radical left considers that dangerous. Instead, according to them, we who are still serving have a duty to “just follow orders” and do whatever we are told to do. And the very existence of this organization, devoted to sincere keeping of oaths, and the improvement of constitutional knowledge among the current serving and veterans, is considered “dangerous” by the Marxists on the far left. So be it. We expected it.

But oddly enough, we have also at times been criticized by people on the Right for conducting oath renewal ceremonies, with some of them asserting we are asking people to take some additional oath, to Oath Keepers, or that we are being foolishly redundant. I have heard some say “I already took the oath, so why are they taking it all over again?” They are, of course, free to do as they please, but they display their ignorance of our own history when they condemn us for doing exactly the same thing the Founding Generation and their sons did back in 1798. Again, a sad sign of the times.

I invite you to join me on the Battle Green, on April 19, 2013, and renew your oath on that venerable spot, and by doing so, help revive and expand, and make it once again true, that fundamental requirement that “Oaths in this country are as yet universally considered as sacred obligations.“ We know that among the political class in this country, that is certainly not the case, but we can make it so among the warrior class – among our brothers-in-arms. And by doing so, we can change history. Let us lead by example.

And let us also revive the tradition of showing honor and respect to our war heroes of 1775, by making April 19 a day of remembrance and celebration for their having the courage and sense of duty to take up arms, in resistance, against tyranny. Let us honor them. April 19 – Patriots Day – SHOULD be celebrated across the land, just as solemnly and energetically as we celebrate Veterans Day or Independence Day. Let us make it so.

If you cannot join us, this April 19, on Lexington Battle Green or at the following rally by Massachusetts, then hold a gathering of remembrance and celebration wherever you are this April 19. Hold a rally if you can. But even if it is just you and a few friends at the shooting range, or having beers in a pub, take a moment to remember the men who stood their ground and only fired when fired upon, and their brothers who turned the tide at Concord Bridge, and then chased the bloody Regulars back to Boston, with their tails between their legs. Say a toast to them, give them a cheer, and then pledge to each other your mutual commitment to make sure that all their sacrifice was not in vain, and that you will do your part to keep alive the Sacred Fire of Liberty.

As you know, this nation is now following almost exactly in the same footsteps our Forefathers experienced in the lead-up to the American Revolution. Like them, we have suffered a long train of abuses, and our backs have been pushed up against the wall. Let us look for strength and courage by remembering their example, and by seeing clearly how we are standing in an unbroken line of defenders of liberty, that began at Lexington and Concord, and stretches through history to us here, today.

It is our watch now. Let us pray to God for the fortitude to do as they did, to defend home and liberty, at all costs, when our moment comes.

For the Republic!

Stewart Rhodes

Founder of Oath Keepers

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