Defend the Constitution against enemies "foreign and domestic"

"The Bundy Standoff" is a 20-year legal dispute between the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and cattle rancher Cliven Bundy. After 20 years of battling the US government for use of his family's land, the Nevada rancher’s “one-man range war” turned into a "Wild West Showdown." The family says heavily-armed federal agents surrounded their ranch.

The wordings of the first part of the current oath of enlistment and oath for commissioned military officers are as follows:

"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;" and this oath puts U.S. military and Federal agents in a pickle when they are Ordered to wage war against a U.S. cattle rancher (because he lets his cattle graze on open land his family has ranched since the 1870s).

The United States Oath of Allegiance (officially referred to as the "Oath of Allegiance," 8 C.F.R. Part 337 (2008)) is an oath that must be taken by all immigrants who wish to become United States citizens. The first officially recorded Oaths of Allegiance were made on May 30, 1778 at Valley Forge, during the Revolutionary War, but it has been adulterated over time.

"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic;...."[1]

In some cases, the United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) allows the oath to be taken without the clauses regarding the bearing of arms and performance of noncombatant military service.[2]

There has been some controversy about the wording of the oath, parts of which are based on the British Oath of Supremacy, which was written in the 16th Century.

The Oath of Supremacy required any person taking public or church office in England to swear allegiance to the monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England (similar to Catholics recognizing the Pope as the "Vicar of Christ" and head of the Roman Catholic Church). Failure to do so was to be treated as treasonable. The Oath of Supremacy was originally imposed by King Henry VIII of England through the Act of Supremacy 1534, but repealed by his daughter, Queen Mary I of England and reinstated under Mary's half-sister, Queen Elizabeth I of England under the Act of Supremacy 1559. The Oath was later extended to include Members of Parliament and people studying at universities...

However the Pope and Queen are not the head of Christ's church;

Ephesians 5:23 (NLT)

23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church.

In the fall of 2003, CIS planned to change the oath of citizenship in time for Citizenship Day (September 17).[3][4]

Influence of the English Bill of Rights of 1689 on the U.S. 2nd Amendment "to keep and bear arms."

The right to bear arms in English history is believed to have been regarded in English law as an auxiliary to the long-established natural right of self-defense. One of the issues the Bill resolved was the authority of the King to disarm its subjects, after the Roman Catholic King James II had attempted to disarm many Protestants (protestors), and had argued with Parliament over his desire to maintain a standing (or permanent) army. The bill states that it is acting to restore "ancient rights" trampled upon by James II, though some have argued that the English Bill of Rights created a new right to have arms.[5]

James Madison's initial proposal for a bill of rights was brought to the floor of the House of Representatives on June 8, 1789, during the first session of Congress. The initial proposed passage relating to arms was:

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.[6]

REMINDER:

"The Bundy Standoff" is a 20-year legal dispute between the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and cattle rancher Cliven Bundy. After 20 years of battling the US government for use of his family's land, the Nevada rancher’s “one-man range war” turned into a "Wild West Showdown." The family says heavily-armed federal agents surrounded their ranch.

Cliven Bundy – the “last rancher in Clark County, Nevada” – has since 1993 refused to pay fees to the federal government for the right to raise cattle on land his family has ranched since the 1870s, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

After years of legal wrangling, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) attained a federal court order to have Bundy’s nearly 1,000 head of cattle removed, according to the family.

Bundy says the government is taking the task seriously, arming the agents with military-style weaponry. “They’re carrying the same things a soldier would,” he told the Free Beacon. “Automatic weapons, sniper rifles, top communication, top surveillance equipment, lots of vehicles. It’s heavy soldier type equipment.”

On March 27, 2014, 145,604 acres of federal land in Clark County, Nevada were temporarily closed for the "capture, impound, and removal of trespass cattle." [7] BLM officials and law enforcement rangers began a trespass-cattle roundup on April 5, and an arrest was made on April 6. On April 12, a group of protesters who had gathered there for the previous week, and some of whom were armed,[8] advanced on what the BLM described as a "cattle gather."[9] Sheriff Doug Gillespie negotiated with Cliven Bundy and newly confirmed BLM director, Neil Kornze, who elected to release the cattle and de-escalate the situation.[10][11]

During the standoff, the Federal government agents and their contractors seized 234 of the 908 cattle. The permanent removal would have cost the federal government as much as US $3 million, the Free Beacon reported---much  more than what the government claims Bundy owes ($1.1 million) in unpaid grazing fees and penalties---for continuing to let his cattle roam free on land near Bunkerville, 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) called on Republicans to condemn rancher Cliven Bundy, who made a series of remarks about Black Americans in an interview with the New York Times recently. In a piece published Wednesday April 24, 2014, the Times reported Bundy wondered aloud about "the Negro," asking if black people were "better off as slaves." Although Cliven Bundy's remarks are racist, Senator Reid used the newspaper article to justify the Federal government's confiscation of Bundy's cattle and land taken by the Fed.

Brad Knickerbocker of the Christian Science Monitor saw the events as echoing the Sagebrush Rebellion, a 1970s movement to transfer control of public domain lands to the states.[12] An extension of the older controversy of state vs. federal powers, Sagebrush Rebels wanted the federal government to give more control of federally owned Western lands to state and local authorities. This was meant to increase the growth of Western economies.

The combination of 1946 of the General Land Office and the Grazing Service into the new Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was filled with ambiguity. In terms of bureaucracy, there has been a constant tension between the local district rangers, who have typically been oriented toward the mining and ranching interests, and the centralized leadership in Washington that follows presidential guidance. Republican Ronald Reagan declared himself a "Sagebrush Rebel" in an August 1980 campaign speech in Salt Lake City, telling the crowd, "I happen to be one who cheers and supports the Sagebrush Rebellion. Count me in as a rebel."[13] Since the Reagan years of the 1980s, Republicans have emphasized local control giving priority to grazing, mining and petroleum production, while Democrats have emphasized environmentalism.[14] By Reagan's second term, the Sagebrush Rebellion was back to simmering on the back burner of federal land management agencies like the BLM.

On July 4, 1994, Nye County commissioner Dick Carver plowed open a road that the National Forest Service had declared closed as a statement supporting county supremacy over the Federal government. Carver and his supporters claimed that the Federal government's ownership of 93% of the land in Nye County was illegal.

Jesus Christ did not ask His followers to bear arms. Like Sheriff Doug Gillespie of Nevada, diplomacy, public outcry, peaceful protests and unbiased news reporting can effect change to laws to benefit the rights of "WE THE PEOPLE" for which the original (Not the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871) Constitution FOR the United States of America serves.

"...I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic;" 

The U.S. Oath of Allegiance supports the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, and the Constitution "OF" the United States aka Corporate America run by foreign powers. The American West where, in 13 western states, Federal land holdings include between 20% and 85% of a state's area, supporters of the Sagebush Rebellion movement want more State and local control over these lands, if not outright transfer of them to State and local authorities and/or privatization. The sentiment survives into the 21st century with pressure from some individual citizens, politicians, and organized groups especially with respect to livestock grazing, mineral extraction, and other economic development policy for these lands.

The Holy See, Britain, European Union, U.S., Muslim and United Nations' Faith and Globalization Initiative

Notice (l-r) United Kingdom PM David Cameron, President Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso, and European Union President and Jesuit Herman Van Rompuy in the photo above

WE THE PEOPLE are under attack and are in a spiritual, psychological and economic war against the true conservative religious fanatics of the world---the Vatican-British (Church of England) sponsored United Nations Faith and Globalization Initiative. Just take a brief look at the fact that Monarchy of England claim to be the royal descendants of King David of the Holy Bible, and the fact that the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, is the current Grand Master of the Freemasonry Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Before he became a U.S. Senator, Barack H. Obama was brought to Chicago by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and worked for Developing Communities Project (DCP), a Roman Catholic Church-based organization---originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side.  In 1986, DCP was incorporated as a not-for-profit organization under the leadership of its first executive director Barack Obama. In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School. After graduating with a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago. Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996.

From 1994 to 2002, Obama served on the boards of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund the Roman Catholic Developing Communities Project (DCP); and of the Joyce Foundation.

Political and religious philanthropic deception is Not a Democrat or Republican issue, it is a CORPORATION OF THE UNITED STATES' greed issue that serves special interests groups and international bankers, instead of WE THE PEOPLE!

Percy Sutton, who helped Barack Obama get into Harvard, after Obama worked for the Roman Catholic Church, says he first heard of Obama about twenty years ago from Khalid Al-Mansour, a Black Muslim and Black Nationalist who was a “mentor” to the founders of the Black Panther party at the time the party was founded in the early 1960s. Sutton described al-Mansour as advisor to “one of the world’s richest men,” Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has invested $300 million in Twitter, and has invested in Citicorp and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which owns, among other things, Fox News.

The Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding was founded in 1993 at the Jesuit-run Georgetown University in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. 

Following a $20 million gift from Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal in 2005, the center at the Jesuit university at Georgetown was renamed the Prince Alwaleed Bin-Talal Center for Muslim-"Christian" Understanding. The gift was one of two to US universities, with the other going to Harvard.

The ONLY understanding between Muslims and "Christians," represented by the Pope, is the bilateral agreement signed by the Vatican and PLO in 2000---right before the attacks of 911.

Christianity is Not a religion, it is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Would Jesus Christ involve Himself in financial deals, bilateral agreements and world politics?

Did Jesus commission His followers to build a Vatican, or UK palace for the English monarch to claim to be the head of the Anglican Communion (Church of England and its colony churches as well as the Episcopal Church in Scotland and America). Defend the Constitution against enemies "foreign and domestic (2 Corinthians 10:3-6; 1 Timothy 5:17-22; 2 Timothy 4:1-5; Revelation 18:4-6)," especially now that the Roman Catholic Church and Church of England have given legitimacy to the United Nations' Faith and Globalization Initiative (that is the "foreign and domestic" enemy to the freedom of people around the world).

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who fought to preserve our freedom from tyranny and despotism,

Poor Knight for Christ Francis M. Kelly, XU

Footnotes:

1. Oath of Allegiance for Naturalized Citizens, Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

2. Judges Bring History to Naturalization Ceremonies, May 2008 issue of The Third Branch, The Newsletter of the Federal Courts.

3. US Citizenship and Immigration Services Fact Sheet

4. John J. Miller (September 15, 2003), Oath on Ice, National Review Online

5. From the English civil war until the Glorious Revolution, militias occasionally disarmed Catholics, and the King, without Parliament's consent, likewise occasionally disarmed Protestants. Malcolm, "The Role of the Militia," pp. 139–51.

6. Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 1st Congress, 1st Session: p. 451.

7. Bureau of Land Management. "Environmental Assessment Temporary Land Closure Corrals and Cattle Impoundment".

8. Kavanaugh, Shane Dixon (14 April 2014). "American Militias Emboldened by Victory at Bundy Ranch". Vocativ.

9. Cattle Gather Operation Concluded, Bureau of Land Management, April 12, 2014
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10. Tom Ragan and, Annalise Porter (April 12, 2014). "BLM releases Bundy cattle after protesters block southbound I-15". Las Vegas Review-Journal.

11. Turner, Christie (April 11, 2014). "Rancher vs BLM: a 20-year standoff ends with tense roundup."

12. Brad Knickerbrocker (April 13, 2014). "Nevada range fight revises 'Sagebrush Rebellion'". The Christian Science Monitor.

13. Coates, James (16 Mar 1996). "Sagebrush Rebellion On Hold, Group Lights Other Legal Fires". Chicago Tribune.

14. James R. Skillen, The Nation's Largest Landlord (2009)