Why Weren't Oathkeepers Told To Leave Ferguson Or Removed.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Having armed white supremacist militia in Ferguson is hardly the answer during this crisis. They should not be welcomed anywhere in the country.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. BECAUSE

they're armed white supremacist militia.

Can you say Cliven Bundy?

The US government is 'avoiding confrontations' with these sorts of groups.

[JackInGreen]

4. Edit:

The US government is avoiding confrontation with these sorts of groups (As long as they're Caucasian and domestic )

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

7. Nah, just well armed.

Look at how we deal with North Korea. They're neither domestic nor Caucasian.

The key is being too tough for the government to bully you easily. Give up your weapons of mass destruction, and you get Gaddafi'd, keep them and it's kid glove treatment.

[951-Riverside]

2. 1. Missouri is an open carry state 2. Freedom of assembly and association

They can't be "ordered" out.

The smart thing to do is get rid of open carry laws.

[LonePirate]

8. Open carry is a death sentence if the carrier is black.

Open carry is the epitome of white privilege.

[951-Riverside]

9. 100% agreed

[Eleanors38]

11. Google Newton Gun Club.

[JackInGreen]

3. This is what I keep wondering

And then I wonder how many of them are just out of uniform.

[haikugal]

5. Hmmmm....or called them in....

[Nye Bevan]

6. Because they are not breaking any law.

This is the kind of thing that makes people in other countries shake their heads in disbelief.

[packman]

10. Hate to prophesize

But when those white supremacist clash with black militia groups and there is street-to-street warfare (which I pray to God never comes) - those right to carry laws will be changed in a heartbeat.

[Eleanors38]

12. I like how the Deacons for Defense handled it, laws or no.nt

[eridani]

13. Excellent question

Ferguson finds whites openly carrying rifles and peaceful blacks being arrested

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/watch-british-reporter-in-ferguson-finds-whites-openly-carrying-rifles-and-peaceful-blacks-being-arrested/


Morris told her British audience that the commemoration of the one year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death had been interrupted by armed Oath Keepers, who claimed that they were there to protect businesses and conservative journalists.

“But certainly their presence, their state of wearing uniforms, military-type uniforms — some of them are ex-military, some of them are even serving police, we’re told,” she reported. “They were, you know, carrying weapons.”

Morris noted that black protesters faced pepper spray, arrests and other actions by riot police.

The Oath Keepers, however, “openly carry sidearms and semi-automatic weapons as is their right,” she said.

“You and people who look like you, white males, have the sovereignty to walk around with assault rifles,” one black protesters told a white Oath Keeper, “But we [black protesters] can’t even like stand out here and assemble peacefully and exercise our constitutional right to do so without being gassed, maced and arrested.”

“I don’t have a perspective,” the Oath Keeper replied flatly.

Morris said that she had a hard time understanding why police would arrest otherwise peaceful protesters.
Guess which one #Ferguson police arrest: 1) Unarmed black girl. 2) Right-wing #OATHKEEPERS packing assault rifles.