According to libertarian website The Free Thought Project, the domestic terrorist group Oath Keepers have proposed to arm fifty black residents of Ferguson, MO with AR-15 assault rifles for a "Flex Your Rights" march.
The Oath Keepers, best known for their role in coming to welfare rancher and BLM fee-dodger Cliven Bundy's defense last year, are apparently trying to change the perception that there are racist elements in the group.
I find it overwhelmingly unlikely that many Oath Keepers are going to move to Ferguson to keep "protecting peoples' rights", as they claim they are doing, nor is it likely that many current Ferguson residents are going to join that group. So what happens when the Oath Keepers move on to their next action, taking their guns and cameras with them? You can call me a conspiracy theorist if you want to, but if I was a racist with a devious streak, this could be a perfect opportunity to put some people of color right in the crosshairs of the already-nervous police.
According to MO Oath Keepers leader Sam Andrews:
"Every person we talked to said if they carried they would be shot by police."
Perhaps they mean well, but even if that is the case, the notion that armed resistance is the first resort of civil disobedience rather than the last is absurd and terribly, terribly destructive.
You can read the entire article here. Please note that the article is overwhelmingly pro-Oath Keepers (abbreviating the name to "the OK's"), so take it with a grain of salt.