LF: Oath Keepers Founder: Traitor McCain Should Be 'Hung By The Neck Until Dead'

Title: Oath Keepers Founder: Traitor McCain Should Be 'Hung By The Neck Until Dead'
Source: Talking Points Memo
URL Source: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewi ... tewart-rhodes-hang-john-mccain
Published: May 13, 2015
Author: Catherine Thompson
Post Date: 2015-05-13 16:46:48 by Hondo68
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Views: 1113
Comments: 4

The founder of the Oath Keepers, a loose-knit group of current and former law enforcement officials and military who pledge to defend the Constitution, called for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to be "hung by the neck until dead" for treason last week as the president of the Arizona Senate looked on.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, state Senate President Andy Biggs (R) and "constitutional sheriff" movement leader Richard Mack were all on hand at an event on May 5 in Tempe, Arizona. The stated topic of discussion at the event, which was hosted by a group called the Arizona Liberty Caucus, was the "Dangers of an Article V / Constitutional Convention."

Rhodes recalled serving as a Nevada delegate for former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) during the 2008 presidential campaign. He accused McCain and the "GOP machine" of manipulating the convention to sabotage Paul's chances of winning the state's delegates, according to a video of his speech posted by Right Wing Watch.

“John Cain (sic) is a traitor to the Constitution,” Rhodes later said, misstating the senator's last name. “He should be tried for treason before a jury of his peers — which he would deny you."

"He would deny you the right for trial to jury, but we would give him a trial by jury," Rhodes added. "Then after we convict him he should be hung by the neck until dead. But that was their candidate!”

Biggs, the state Senate president, later told The Arizona Republic newspaper that he didn't know Rhodes personally or even know who the Oath Keepers were. He told the newspaper he thought "an Arizona liberty group" had invited him to speak.

As for Rhodes' comments about McCain, Biggs told The Arizona Republic that he didn't agree with the sentiment but didn't think it was his place to interrupt the Oath Keepers founder's speech.

A spokesman for McCain, Brian Rodgers, told the newspaper that the senator had no comment.

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It all sounds so good but they never tell us what treason the Stain actually committed.

Apparently they're still butt-hurt over the 2008 Nevada state GOP convention which, admittedly, was a dishonest circus. So there is considerable cause for complaint.

However, even if NV GOP had done exactly what the Paulians wanted and sent a full delegation of RP supporters to the GOP national convention, the outcome would have been the same.

It isn't the Stain's fault that RP just didn't have the numbers to capture enough states to pose a convention challenge.

It looks like Rhodes has put on a few pounds. I wonder why this leader of a nationwide “anti-government” group with allegedly 30,000 members is now having to go to a bar in a strip mall outside of Phoenix where 20 people show up for his speaking engagement. My assessment is that I don’t think his organization ever really got started so it could grow, but that it has come a long way down from where it even started. Rhodes and Mack sitting in that bar and talking to the crowd reminded me of musicians standing on the street playing for money. I think Rhodes and Mack may be in the wrong business. It is a fact that some street musicians make up to $1k a day. I don’t think the crowd in the bar paid $1k to hear them talk.

The Bundy spectacle didn't help at all. The Oathers went in big on that. Also that recent case, what, in Oregon with the miners? Can't recall the details at the moment but we had a thread 3-4 weeks back, I think.