Miranda Blue @ Right Wing Watch reports that the situation has become rather more intense:
The Oath Keepers, the anti-government “Patriot” group that mounted an armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management at the Bundy Ranch, stationed armed guards outside of military recruitment centers after the Chattanooga shooting, and unsettled Ferguson protestors when they showed up carrying assault weapons, is now offering anti-gay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis a “security detail” to protect her from further arrest if she continues to defy the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling. …
[Oath Keepers founder Stewart]Rhodes said that the Rowan County sheriff should have blocked U.S. Marshals from detaining Davis, but since neither the sheriff nor the state’s governor will do their “job” and “intercede” on behalf of Davis, the Oath Keepers will have to do it instead. “As far as we’re concerned, this is not over,” he said, “and 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. 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.”
In an update she notes:
Rhodes reports that Davis, through her Liberty Counsel attorneys, has declined Oath Keepers’ offer and he has ordered members of his group to “stand down.”
Davis’ action should be a relief – to the right wing extremists. After all, for years they’ve complained about the illegal actions of that fiendish elected official, Barack Obama. Such accusations may be found here and here and, well, just point your finger anywhere on the Internet and you’ll find one outraged citizen full of, uh, outrageous claims. But if they’re going to relieve Mz. Davis of the responsibility of actually fulfilling her electoral responsibilities, how can they, in good conscience, hold President Obama to his?
(h/t Steve Benen @ MaddowBlog)
