Kim Davis is worried for her safety, ya’ll. You know, because of all those killer gays out there. So she’s getting her very own team of armed bodyguards, courtesy of anti-government extremists the Oath Keepers.
The Oath Keepers is a “patriot” group that stations armed civilians, or as they prefer to call them “constitutional sheriffs,” outside of government buildings and other public spaces. They’re best known for showing up with assault weapons during the Furguson protests. Then there was that time they staged a government protest/armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management at the Bundy Ranch and announced plans for a “second civil war.”
Well, now they’re offering complimentary protective services to the Notorious K.I.M.
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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes announced that he has offered a 24/7 armed protection detail after Davis was she was “illegally detained by the federal judge who held her in contempt for violating multiple court orders.”
Rhodes said he is disappointed with the Rowan County sheriff, who he believes should have blocked U.S. Marshals from arresting Davis, thereby instigating a tense and useless standoff. Since the sheriff refused to step in, the Oath Keepers will.
“As far as we’re concerned, this is not over,” Rhodes said. “If the sheriff, who should be interceding, is not going to do his job and the governor is not going to do the governor’s job of interceding, then we’ll do it.”
Um, well, dude, you are at least a week late, so you guys would appear to be paper tigers.
And as for the conservative-appointed federal court judge who held Davis in contempt, Rhodes isn’t serenading him either.
“This judge needs to be put on notice that his behavior is not going to be accepted and we’ll be there to stop it and intercede ourselves if we have to,” he said, before adding that the group originally planned on grabbing their guns and surrounding the judge’s home but changed their minds after Davis was released from jail.
Probably a good decision.
“This is exactly the kind of thing that our Founding Fathers dealt with when dealing with the magistrates and the officers of the crown who wanted to run roughshod over the rights of the colonists without a jury indictment, without any of that,” Rhodes added. “Same thing. They’re going to show their power and show you who’s boss!”
Related: Oregon Judge One-Ups Kim Davis: I’ll See Your ‘No Gays Allowed’ And Raise You A Hitler!
h/t: Right Wing Watch
Erik Dell
is that how it works now? when you know you’re gonna break the law you can hire security guards to make sure you don’t go to jail?
Londale Foster
LMAO!!! What a bunch of Idiots!
Brian Tyler
Desert Boy
Kim ‘Misery’ Davis is a pig.
John Malin
Who the F#CK CARES? Have a house fall on the bitch! Oh, wait, that witch, isn’t it? How about witch bitch?
Ben Bullock
If she’s paying for it herself fine but I suspect tax payers are footing the bill..time to throw a bucket of water on this twat and watch her melt away
Michael Finnegan
Mercurical Memo
Wow. Wow. So first they came for the Blacks, now they’re coming for the gays. And the LGBT STILL refuses to see how discrimination is all connected. How the same hateful tea party, republican, 2nd amendment, right-wing nut bars are America’s version of al-queda? Seriously Americans, time to get out of imperialistic wars and clean up your house, eh? Because before you know it, you’ll have ISIL in your own backyard. It’s like Afghanistan in the making all these tribal savages in power.
David Red
Realitycheck
Please! the Oath Keepers will just get arrested if they try to stop law enforcement agents
from trowing that nut case back in jail, plenty of gay couple are heading to Rowan county to get licenses, the second she denies one license, Kim Davis will fly back in the slammer,
and those Oath Keepers idiots will not be able to do anything about it.
Steve Russell
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=14C3TZg6NQM&feature=youtu.be
Hector Pagan
Wow wth she dnt need security !!ð??¡she’s not important
Ron King
Whale that swallowed Jonah….
duecers
Her biggest fear should be tripping over that wagging toungue that isn’t connected to her pea sized brain!
Brian JC Kneeland
I love how he says she was illegally jailed – even though she was warned time and again!
Bad Ass Biker
@Realitycheck: Not necessarily, remember that the feds backed off from the idiots “protecting” Cliven Bundy. However given their prowess, if I was Miz Kim, I would be more afraid of being shot by one of the Oaf Keeperes than going back to jail.
Richard Paige
Arming yourself against Federal Authorities is called terrorism….. And if she is to be taken back into custody and theses uneducated backwoods buffoons get in the way they should be arrested for being a terrorist.
Burt A Dunham
So am I.
msc1208
I have to re-work a line from one of my favorite movies “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion”…aww poor thing, look they won’t let her hate.
Atomicrob
Nothing like an anarchistic survivalist group taking charge. What a bizarre country filled with nasty people spoiling for a fight.
Anthony Howard
Can’t wait for them to all get arrested!
Patrick Healey
Maybe one of the yawhos will accidentally cap her!
Dr Not Doctor
Wait, I thought she would be protecting by the Gods that she worship?
No seriously, what happen to your God Kim? Why can’t for you when you fight to discriminate for him?
Patrick Healey
Dr Not Doctor
She’ll find out real quick what it means to be famous- or infamous. See how long she can stand not having a privacy.
Danny Tidmore
Oh Lordy!
Santiago Patrocino Sánchez
SteveDenver
All we can hope for is one of these OAF keepers freaks out and starts shooting uncontrollably.
Ron Jackson
I can’t wait for the US Marshall Service to stomp on these dipshits. Threatening a Federal judge is taken pretty seriously by these guys.
Bob LaBlah
It does not surprise me at all these people calling themselves The Oath Keepers have surfaced. Back in the 1990’s the Nation of Islam held a One Million Men March in Washington, D.C. and drew a crowd of well over one million men. Within a few months these Oath Keepers organized a similar march that drew well over five-hundred thousand men but not quite as many as the Million Man March.
I lived in Washington, D.C. at the time and was called to the off to the side and told by a supervisor that if I wanted to attend to go ahead and I would NOT be counted as absent. I looked at that humorless blob and with my poker face accepted his “offer” because if I didn’t I knew there was going to be hell to pay. So, just for the hell of it, I went down to the area with no intentions of doing nothing else but looking. It took all of a minute to come to the conclusion that “it” was now on. Christians my ass that was nothing more than a rally for losers who had an ax to grind about damn near everything they thought was the problem. They, as those who attend KKK rallies, were never told to look at themselves and why they viewed the world as they did. That was twenty years ago. They have had more than enough time to get their guys trained and placed in strategic positions just waiting for the word “go”. These guys have NO authority whatsoever but yet the Ferguson police dept. nor the “god fearing, white Christian state of Missouri” objected about their antagonizing display of weapons. What does that tell you?
Now along comes this ignoramus who, if I had my way, her and her god WOULD/SHOULD go on trial. Let her and these armed little boys in the bodies of grown men PROVE that this god of theirs exists and HE said those things that they “claim” to believe. This fool has let a genie out of the bottle that is NOT going to be contained. Folks, I hate to say this but you had ALL better start paying attention to just what the hell is going on here. Armed men who have more or less been given a green light to do as they please while armed to the teeth have obviously been turned loose on a public who care more about their brand of smart phones and profiles on Facebook and Grindr than what is going on around them.
Karen Piercy
Oathkeepers,silly ,silly,silly. Publicity whores.
TheBigOne
Personally, I’d love to see them go up against the government…see how fast they puss out.
Bill Hohn
Maybe she’ll be hit by a stray bullet
Wooly
Kentucky is going to become the laughing stock of the world.
Bob LaBlah
@Mercurical Memo: “So first they came for the Blacks, now they’re coming for the gays. And the LGBT STILL refuses to see how discrimination is all connected. ”
They have been here for over twenty years. They first surfaced back in the 1990’s as the Promise Keepers but changed over to the Oath Keepers. If it is not involving social media (Facebook etc..) buns, abs and Grindr expect NO support from the gay community. Keep in mind, they couldn’t see that social science project from that talentless family gracing the pages of the tabloids for what it was either.
Luis H. Lopez
She is supported by billionaires through her liberty counsel legal team it’s a plot to roll back marriage equality and we gays need too organize protest to protect our freedom .
Shaun Adams
what she dosnt trust that her god will save her!
Roger Donato
Perhaps they can find her a fourth husband
Captain Obvious
@Mercurical Memo: We can’t even get gay people to stop segregating by skin color… I don’t think we’re going to see a united front against discrimination when our own “community” can’t stop doing it from within.
Graig
My eyes rolled so hard.
TampaBayTed
These Oath Keepers call themselves “constitutional sheriffs.” What constitution are they referring to? Certainly isn’t the Constitution of the United States that Ms. Davis took an oath to uphold. BTW, does anyone know her married name when hooked up with her first husband. Biblically, she is still married to him and should be addressed by that name.
crowebobby
Unfortunately, law enforcement (even federal) does back down if the threat to the general public (or the possibility of bad publicity) is great enough. Allowing rioters to “vent” is a perfect example. Since they are forewarned in this case, one would hope they would go in with the National Guard straight away and set an example, but I wouldn’t bet the plantation on it. I think they’ll try to be as accommodating as possible; letting Kimmy out enough though she still refused to do her job is a perfect example of it.
crowebobby
@crowebobby: “even” though she still refused…
Sweetie Pie
She should have a fortress built on her forhead
Damon Robbins
I want to throw up just looking at this POS !
GG
So let’s recap. A county clerk 1) breaks the oath she freely took to uphold the U.S. Constitution, 2) breaks the oath she freely took to perform her duties as county clerk, and 3) broke her religious oath to follow the teachings of the bible [i.e., Romans 13:1-7 states, “Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.”]. And now rushing to her defense is a group called, um, Oath Keepers?
You can’t make this stuff up.
Mercurical Memo
Are you serious? How come Queerty keeps deleting my comments? I have to be pro-USA, conservatism and not talk about racism? Seriously? What is this, Fox News adjacent? Not even the wall street journal is this patriotic.
mdhess
You can never be too careful when you’re at risk of being glitter bombed.
BriBri
This is more fun than going to the movies!
Mercurical Memo
@Captain Obvious: that’s a problem, isn’t it? When people say things like ‘there is no systemic racism’ and ‘this has nothing to do with race!’ It’s very reminiscent of those who say ‘I don’t care who you sleep with, keep to yourself’ or people who say of Pride parades ‘we don’t have straight pride’.
See how it all moves the same? It reminds of that Sylvia Plath poem ‘daddy’ ‘if I can kill one man, why not two?’
Indeed. If the law makers and those who are meant to enforce the law can kill a threat so callously with the support of a public that says ‘it has nothing to do with race!’ then why not deny legal protections to another group that threatens the social fabric?
Bob Ameral
BULLSHIT lADY
Bob Ameral
gET A LIFE kM!!
Eddie Shiever
that should give her gay body guards…lol
1EqualityUSA
GG, brilliant.
mezzacanadese
She reminds me of an annoying gnat that buzzes around you, and no matter how many times you swat at it, it keeps coming back, only she’s much more lethal.
Finrod
If I took a photo at an airport, I’d be investigated as a ter rorist. How is it that an ar med ter rorist group like the Oath Keepers is operating with impunity? Oh, yeah. They’re ra cist, se xist homoph obes. That’s a government-sanctioned form of ter rorism.
Since my previous try was auto-flagged, and since Queerty never bothers to check auto-flagged comments, I’ll just try this with some spaces in it.
darkanser
@Mercurical Memo: Interesting comment. I say don’t blink or you’ll might miss the coming of the republic of Gilead!!
Douglas Schlitz
Where are their pointed white hats and white robes ? Busy burning any crosses lately ?
scotshot
@Captain Obvious: Another blanket statement blaming 95% of gays for the words / actions of 5%.
Randy McKay
Thugs protecting their own
silveroracle
Any chance of turning on a little button called IGNORE!
charlieeod74
@Mercurical Memo: We have the US version of ISIS, they are called born again evangelical chritians. They want America to be a Christian theocracy
Franklin
It’s funny. Some of the some people that support the actions of the people like these oath keepers are probably some of the same people that previously said things like, “Well if black people just did what police said, and stopped resisting or giving the police the police a reason then maybe bad things wouldn’t happen to them”. The people are pretty much daring law enforcement to make a move on the, yet no national guard was called and no beefed up police presence was called.
Giancarlo85
In other developed countries like in Europe, groups like the Oaf Keepers are considered domestic terrorists and would be arrested immediately. And yes I called them the Oaf keepers. Look up what an Oaf is… And you will see how accurate it is. These fringe idiots are irrelevant to the real world. They don’t care for the US Constitution. If they did, they would respect the rule of law.
NJjoe
This whole Davis thing is becoming a joke. She’s afraid now. Is some drag queen going to go after her for bad wardrobe. This bi@#ch is basking in the attention. You’d think with 4 husbands she would have had plenty of attention but apparently
not.
GayEGO
Kim Davis is definitely a homophobic, she should get some help for her mental problems.
alanh1249
I hope she gets a security detail. With all the Vets from Viet Nam to present day who qualified expert on the range as snipers and are now out of the closet, an “armed military type escort” would protect her from zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzip she’s down.
martinbakman
Onward X-tian soldiers. Praze Jeebuz.
youarekiddingme
@scotshot:
You can’t expect anything better from him, can you?
Billysees
I…must be obedient to…the Word of God, Ms. Davis once wrote.
Then why isn’t she obedient to Romans 13:1-5?
1. Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God.
2. So anyone who rebels against authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and they will be punished.
3. For the authorities do not strike fear in people who are doing right, but in those who are doing wrong. Would you like to live without fear of the authorities? Do what is right, and they will honor you.
4. The authorities are God’s servants, sent for your good. But if you are doing wrong, of course you should be afraid, for they have the power to punish you. They are God’s servants, sent for the very purpose of punishing those who do what is wrong.
5. So you must submit to them, not only to avoid punishment, but also to keep a clear conscience.
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Read this also — http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/us/kentucky-clerk-a-local-fixture-suddenly-becomes-a-national-symbol.html?_r=4
Dakotahgeo
I love government drones and how they work against traitors/rebel forces! RIP, Oathkeepers!
youarekiddingme
This guy Rhodes from this “group” Oath Keepers is a real historian huh? His now infamous statement:
“This is exactly the kind of thing that our Founding Fathers dealt with when dealing with the magistrates and the officers of the crown who wanted to run roughshod over the rights of the colonists without a jury indictment, without any of that,” Rhodes added.
No indictment? Didn’t need one. Look up proper judical procedure. All appeals, requests for stays, etc were granted and subsequently denied.
“Any of that”…shows he is grasping at straws to make any sound argument.
He doesn’t know shit about founding fathers, the constitution or the bill of rights. Total idiot!
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bambamboom777
These “Oath Keepers” are the future Christian version of ISIS. Imagine if these psychos ever took control of this country. Keep an eye on these people. The Christian Right is feeling like a wild animal backed into a corner. They’ve convinced themselves that we’re on the verge of an apocalypse and this is a battle of good vs. evil, with God on their side. His authority is the only thing they answer to and that grants them the right to use any means necessary to defeat the “enemy” (lgbtq community, feminists, liberals, Democrats, progressives, atheists, intellectuals, environmentalists, non-Christians, “foreign” people, and though they won’t say it out loud: blacks, hispanics, Jews not living in Israel, and any other minority they view as not on their side.)
Don’t underestimate the danger the Christian Taliban puts us in. They’re dead serious, motivated, well-funded and organized.
Billysees
@bambamboom777:
” Keep an eye on these people. ”
” They’re dead serious, motivated, well-funded and organized. ”
Your whole comment is very true.