A Kollection of Krazy Kooks:

Oath Keepers offers Kentucky’s Kim Davis a ‘security detail’

By Steve Benen

As right-wing groups go, the Oath Keepers organization is more alarming
than most. The group says its members – former military, police and
first responders – pledge to “defend the Constitution against all
enemies, foreign and domestic.� And while that hardly sounds
objectionable, it’s how the organization perceives its duties that’s
unsettling.

A few months ago, for example, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes told
a conservative gathering that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) should be tried
for treason and “hung by the neck until dead� for going “along with the
program of the destruction of this country.�

We last saw very well armed Oath Keepers activists carrying assault
rifles in Ferguson, Missouri, and stationing themselves outside
military-recruitment centers in Chattanooga. But this week, as Right
Wing Watch reported, the Oath Keepers organization offered a “security
detail� for anti-gay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes announced [Wednesday] that he had
reached out to Davis’ lawyers at Liberty Counsel to offer the protection
of his group, which he says is already forming a presence in Rowan
County, Kentucky, where Davis was recently released from jail after
prohibiting her office from issuing marriage licenses. Rhodes said in a
statement that his position has nothing to do with gay marriage, but
rather his conviction that Davis had been illegally detained by the
federal judge who held her in contempt for violating multiple court orders.

Just so we’re clear, the Oath Keepers group isn’t offering protection
for Davis from potentially dangerous critics. This is a situation in
which Oath Keepers intend to “protect� Davis from American law
enforcement if she defies the law and faces arrest again.

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Well, I'm no fan of this sort of lawless violence but if these morons
want to arm themselves to prevent law enforcement from doing its legal
duty, if it comes to pass, of arresting Kim Davis, perhaps an armed
confrontation that removes them from the gene pool would be in order.