{"id":358167,"date":"2010-02-22T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23007"},"modified":"2010-02-22T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:33:58","slug":"oath-keepers-and-the-age-of-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358167","title":{"rendered":"Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Beck loves them. Tea Partiers court them. Congressmen listen to them. Meet the fast-growing &#8220;patriot&#8221; group that&#8217;s recruiting soldiers to resist the Obama administration. By Justine Sharrock for <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/oath-keepers\">Mother Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The .50 caliber Bushmaster bolt action rifle is a serious weapon. The model that Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pray is saving up for has a 2,500-yard range and comes with a Mark IV scope and an easy-load magazine. When the 25-year-old drove me to a mall in Watertown, New York, near the Fort Drum Army base, he brought me to see it in its glass case\u2014he visits it periodically, like a kid coveting something at the toy store. It&#8217;ll take plenty of military paychecks to cover the $5,600 price tag, but he considers the Bushmaster essential in his preparations to take on the US government when it declares martial law.<\/p>\n<p>His belief that that day is imminent has led Pray to a group called <a href=\"http:\/\/oathkeepers.org\/oath\/\">Oath Keepers<\/a>, one of the fastest-growing &#8220;patriot&#8221; organizations on the right&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Beck loves them. Tea Partiers court them. Congressmen listen to them. Meet the fast-growing &#8220;patriot&#8221; group that&#8217;s recruiting soldiers to resist the Obama administration. By Justine Sharrock for Mother Jones: The .50 caliber Bushmaster bolt action rifle is a serious weapon. The model that Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pray is saving up for has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}