Honor Your Oath Rally Archives

Tracker From Honor Your Oath Spotted Again

September 26, 2018May 29, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Back on April 14th Mike Rogers reported on a guy who looked to be a Democrat tracker of some sort.

As Susan stated, we mistakenly labelled this photographer as an SEIU lobbyist/troll yesterday, so we quickly corrected the error, and removed the original post.

Nonetheless, commentators and a tipster are certain that the gentleman is at least an “opposition researcher”, as he’s been seen at several similar events, and if he were press, or a conservative blogger, he’d have introduced himself.

Well over at Red Hampshire--(go ahead and take a moment to think, “No shiite, Red Hampshire is Back?”)–someone took a picture of a guy sitting in a Green 4-door Subaru Outback, taking pictures of people in the parking-lot outside the NHGOP Dinner on May 20th.

Pictures are on the jump. It’s the same guy.

Some thoughts on the Pindell / Cline / Douglas criticisms of the Honor Your Oath Rally – Part 1

September 26, 2018April 26, 2013 Skip

I’m not even sure that James Pindell, Chuck Douglas, and Drew Cline were even at the same rally I was from reading their criticism (one at the WMUR site, two Union Leader Op-Eds) – or even bothered to watched the videos that were up at several sites. Each of them decided to tear the folks apart that stood up for their beliefs without seeing what was, to me, the obvious. In fact, I’m not even sure they even saw the obvious reason why 600 folks turned out to participate, volunteers doing the grunt work necessary to put on such an event, and the dozen or so speakers up at the podium. Yes, when you put yourself out in public, this is what happens – others will take pot shots at you, at the rally, or the issue for a variety of reasons: their sense of “professionalism”, their overarching specialized knowledge has been “violated”, their standing within their own specialized communities “demands” they take a stand, or they decided to reject the perceived issue out of hand as “being without merit”. None of them seem to have caught the intense sense of importance of the actual subject to the speakers and the attendees.

Or, to put it simply, wielding a hatchet just because they have an audience to impress or a thinly veiled purpose that may be getting set for the future. Or both.

Honor Your Oath. It wasn’t about journalists worried about column inches, punctuation, and delicately chosen words and sentence structure; it is about keeping a promise. It wasn’t about case law, or legal briefs, or court battles (even if from a former Supreme Court Justice); it is about a man and the importance of his word. It was not about bright lights, teleprompters, self-absorption, politics, or even the crowd; it is about judging a man and his bond. It wasn’t about guns or self-defense or “Stand Your Ground” (although that’s all these three seemingly heard), it wasn’t about Right or Left; it is about answering the question “Do we trust this person when their actions do not match that Oath”?

Honor Your Oath rally – Ed has a good summary video

September 26, 2018April 18, 2013 Skip

Ed runs GovernmentOversite – a site that is a labor of love in bringing citizen journalism via video to the public by going to board meeting after commission meeting after public hearing. He was at the rally and here is his compendium of the afternoon: (H/T: GovernmentOversite)

“Honor Your Oath” rally – Closing remarks by Jack Kimball and Jeff Chidester

September 26, 2018April 15, 2013 Skip

The last video from yesterday’s Honor Your Oath Rally – which, er, isn’t much of a video. It seems that the e-Gremlins decided to go nest in my camera for the last part of the rally – the files holding the closing remarks by Jack Kimball and Jeff Chidester got corrupted when I went to do the regular post-prodution processing. I was able to (sorta) save them, but the video and the audio aren’t sync’d up at all.

So, I present for your listening pleasure:

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“Honor Your Oath” rally at the State House in Concord, NH

November 8, 2019April 14, 2013 Skip

Yesterday in at State Capital Building, the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC (GSPLPAC) held its “Honor Your Oath” rally. It was meant to reawaken the understanding that when those in military, those in law enforcement, and those elected officials, that the words they stay in taking the Oath that they did, they swore an Oath … Read more

“Honor Your Oath” Rally – Master of Ceremonies, Jeff Chidester

November 8, 2019April 14, 2013 Skip

Jeff Chidester: former soldier, former policeman, software guy, radio host – everything he touches turns to gold. A political activist on the Right, he is par excellence! As he does with a number of events held by Liberty and Freedom groups, he served as the Master of Ceremonies for the the Honor Your Oath rally … Read more

“Honor Your Oath” Rally – NH State Reps John Hikel and Dan Itse

September 26, 2018April 14, 2013 Skip

Verified Complaint of Breach of Oath of Office and Conspiracy against Rights

At the rally yesterday, the next speaker was NH State Rep. John Hikel. As the above line (and link) shows, he along with Jack Kimball signed the complaint that was delivered to the correct authorities on Thursday. The reason? If you swear an oath, there is the expectation that you will keep your promise as there is still great emphasis put on the phrase “A man’s word is his bond”. I have been writing about Trust lately and in the case of our elected leaders, we do expect some semblance of acknowledgement of the purpose of their service and that is “we will not violate the Constitution and its values”. That, of all things, should be the minimum of expectations of actions by them.

Why should we not keep folks accountable? For if you break your bond, what good are you? If you cannot keep your promises (and yes, we can excuse and forgive the ocassional “Oopsies!”), what good are you? And if you are merely mouthing the words and your imaginary fingers crossed behind your back as you do this, why shouldn’t we give you a collective (um, one of the few times that word makes sense) “SCREW YOU” and have you suffer the consequence of LYING? If you CANNOT or WILL, then we should remove you, yes? This is not a partisan thing – for I believe there are both Republicans AND Democrats who have failed to uphold the basics!

And yes, WMUR’s Jimmie Pindell, this is also part of the answer to your question!

Here is John Hikel explaining why he signed and delivered his Complaint and NH State Rep Dan Itse fulfilling his role, once again, on the importance of part of the Constitution:

NH State Rep John Hikel NH State Rep Dan Itse

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“Honor Your Oath” Rally – Skip Murphy, co-founder GraniteGrok

November 8, 2019April 14, 2013 Skip

Yeah, they let me speak as well and I was asked to speak on “self-responsibility” in terms of “Honoring Your Oath”. Unlike most that spoke, I gave mine as a locally elected official in my town – and yes, I paid attention to it twice and I still do today. I tried to do what I did mindful of that Oath, for once a promise is given, it should be kept. Given that it was handling other peoples’ money as a Budget Committee member, I often thought of these (“It is not mine to give”: here, here, here, and here).

No, Jimmie Pindell of WMUR, this was not a gun rally (even as TMEW reported that WMUR called it one; I guess they really didn’t listen to what Jeff Chidester said it WAS and what it was NOT. Simply, they either didn’t REALLY cover the rally, only bothered to show up for a snippet of the rally, or just plain made it up.

Let me ‘splain what the rally was a bit more:

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“Honor Your Oath” rally – Wayne Peabody, Chief Warrant Officer Jon Worrell, Laurie Pettingill

September 26, 2018April 14, 2013 Skip

Continuing on with the speakers at the “Honor Your Oath” rally, we have:

Wayne Peabody, musician “Don’t Tread on Me; Live Free or Die”
Chief Warrant Officer Jon Worrell of the Wounded Warrior Project
former NH State Rep Laurie Pettingill

Wayne Peabody Chief Warrant Officer Jon Worrell

Hon. Laurie Pettingill

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“Honor Your Oath” rally – Donna Murphy, NH State Reps. Dan Dumaine and Al Baldasaro

November 8, 2019April 14, 2013 Skip

We first met Donna Murphy at the .223 Day of Resistance; she surprised me AFTER she said “One Million Moms” because I thought I knew what was coming next – and got floored with “against Gun Control” – you can see the micro-interview we did here. Her goal was to have actually had the chance to speak at THAT rally but the speaker list had already been completed. I have to hand it to her – if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And she did – a really big pink sign will most likely get you noticed and it worked with Jeff Chidester!

NH State Reps Dan Dumaine and Al Baldasaro both spoke as well. As prior Marines, they are not too happy with folks that break their bond as they know that in the situations that faced, someone breaking their word can mean someone losing their life. Promises made are to be held sacrosanct – they lived or died by that. So if you think you detect just a smidge (er, boatload?) of scorn for the NH House Reps that violate their Oaths to be faithful to the Law of the Land, THE social contracts that we agree to – the Constitution of the US (and NH).

Donna Murphy (1MMAGC.org) NH State Rep. Dan Dumaine

NH State Rep.Al Baldasaro

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Why, James? We’ll let you know what you missed later – maybe at the Rally, even.

September 26, 2018April 13, 2013 Skip

On the occasion of the day of the week being Friday, I sometimes go over to WMUR‘s Political Scoop to see what Pindell is yakking about in NH politics. Hey, it’s what we political bloggers do here in NH and everywhere else – find a story and take a riff off it or a fisking … Read more

Have you sworn an Oath to uphold the Constitution? Join us at the “HONOR YOUR OATH RALLY” TODAY!

September 26, 2018April 12, 2013 Skip

HONOR YOUR OATH RALLY

Saturday, April 13, 2013
1:00 to 3:00
At the State House in Concord, NH

Great line-up of speakers: Jack Kimball Chair of the GSPLPAC, conservative talk show host Jeff Chidester; Chief Jon Worrall of the Wounded Warriors; Skip Murphy of GraniteGrok; Laurie Pettingill, former state legislator; Andrew Hemingway, political activist and former Chair of the RLCNH; NH State Reps. Dan Itse, Dan Dumaine, Jane Cormier and Al Baldasaro; and Oathkeeper James Hazard.

Livestream (as possible):

Live broadcast by Ustream

Can’t join us in Concord? We’ll be livestreaming if possible, recording for later anyways. Join us to help secure your liberties. Sponsored by the Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC – for additional info click HERE. RAIN or SHINE! No cancellation or rain date!

Honoring your Oath? Others seem to believe your oath to the Constitution is not mere words. Here’s another one: Accountability

September 26, 2018April 12, 2013 Skip

Accountability – a most hated word in politics. Oh sure, whoever the Political Class doesn’t like will be held to such (after all, they wield the power). But they never like it when the masses play the “turnabout fair play” game (or journalists, from what I seem, but I repeat myself as many in journalism are now card carrying members of the Political Class). Oh to be sure, we hear the high minded platitudes about “elections are when voters hold us accountable” – but some don’t like it when we do. However, what to do during the “in-between” times when recalls are not an option and you think that someone has violated their promise to voters? Hmm, this seems to be novel (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Verified Complaint of Breach of Oath of Office and Conspiracy against Rights

Emergency Verified Complaint

Against

1) Stephen Shurtleff – (see Exhibit “A” – HB135)
2) 12 members of the New Hampshire House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee
3) 189 members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (see Exhibit “B” – March 27th, 2013 Yea Votes)

For

Breach of Oath of Office

and
Violation of 18 USC § 241 – Conspiracy against Rights

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves: and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.” Thomas Jefferson 1820

I, ________________________ one of the People of New Hampshire, come forward to complain against Stephen Shurtleff and 188 other members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for Breaching their Oaths of Office and Conspiring against My Rights. I hereby present facts known and unknown to you in support of this complaint.

1. Stephen Shurtleff, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, for the purpose of “accepting the trust” according to Article 84 of the New Hampshire Constitution, has sworn or affirmed the following Oaths.

More of the document after the jump. So, why SHOULDN’T we hold our elected and appointed officials accountable for the words they utter as the first action of their terms, and to use those solemn words against which to measure their future actions? Shouldn’t they ALWAYS be mindful of what they have promised?

WMUR demonstrates bias in Journalism – covers sparse National Day to Demand Action anti-gun rally, ignores .223 Day of Resistance pro-gun rally

September 26, 2018March 28, 2013 Skip

Sparsely attended indeed for a day where the “kick the Second Amendment lovers” folks decided to have a “National Day to Demand Action”. WMUR decided to cover it, with a quick spot at 5pm by reporter, Jennifer Gannon, sweeping her hand towards the middle of the Portsmouth’s Market Square announcing the soon-to-start rally – showing a completely empty area. Don’t worry, she adds, they will be coming! They sure did!

At 6pm, it was one of WMUR lead-off stories, with anchor Jennifer Vaughn doing the throw-over to Gannon for this rally sponsored by Project for Safer Communities NH. Given that WMUR was covering this, it just HAD to be a big deal, right? Well, as Gannon started her patter, I started to frame-by-frame to count noses. Again, lots of people for this NATIONAL day of protest for one set of folks to take away Constitutional rights from another?

Er, not so much.