{"id":45168,"date":"2014-04-28T09:27:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=45168"},"modified":"2017-04-11T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:32:09","slug":"absolute-lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45168","title":{"rendered":"Absolute lunacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The other day I wrote that I don’t use blogs for sources anymore because some conservative bloggers have crossed over to the lunatic side of the discussion. Here’s another source I don’t use; The Examiner<\/a>, not to be confused with the Washington Examiner. They reported as news yesterday a rumor generated by a cluster of crackpots that Eric Holder had ordered drone strikes on the Bundy Ranch. None of those people have any real inside knowledge, it’s just what they had hoped would happen, so they made it so. Here are the perpetrators;<\/p>\n

On Friday, John Jacob Schmidt of Radio Free Redoubt said that according to Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, Attorney General Eric Holder has approved drone strikes against the Bundy ranch to take place some time in the next 48 hours. According to Schmidt, the information came from a source Oath Keepers has within the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n

That source, according to the report, allegedly said Attorney General Eric Holder authorized what is known as a “hot drone strike” against the ranch. Such a strike, he added would effectively kill everyone at the ranch.<\/p>\n

Schmidt said that as far as he could determine, there has been no attempt to follow through with the alleged threat. He also expressed hope that a planned strike against Americans on U.S. soil could be averted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the Oathkeepers, our sworn enemies led by former Ron Paul staffer, Stewart Rhodes, were the “source” for rumor. I wouldn’t believe Rhodes, an Adam Kokesh supporter, if my life depended on it. If you read further down the “article” you’ll see there no real reason to believe the story, it’s just a bunch of crackpots trying to stir up some shit;<\/p>\n

Leslie Bishop Paul, the national administrator of Oath Keepers, said on Facebook the information “may, or may not” be valid, but hoped that “sunlight’ would cause federal agencies to back down from such an act.<\/p>\n

“Pray it isn’t true and pray it never happens,” Paul added.<\/p>\n

Liberty Beacon went on to say that such a move by the government would be the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. The blog went on to suggest that the information might be intended to provoke violence, giving the government reason to impose martial law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So they have no real evidence that it ever happened but the cranks are all willing to fly off the handle. Since when does anyone in the media not check their sources? Well, that’s the modus operandi of The Examiner. Their intent can only be to inflame low information voters of the Right (yeah, we’ve got some over here on our side, too). <\/p>\n

I’ll admit that Eric Holder is a despicable person, but he does enough real shit that we don’t have to make shit up. Personally, I think that the Oathkeepers are more despicable.<\/p>\n

Be careful, it’s a jungle out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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