The society's membership is rather large, but relatively exclusive. Only a small percentage of the citizens of our great nation can claim the honor..., and the honor-bound duty.
Entry into the ranks of this society is fairly simple. Raise your right hand. Swear a solemn oath.
The oath's most critical component, its salient point, is the promise to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States..."
Every person enlisting or appointed as an officer in federal service to the Republic does it -- from private to president. And, when one swears the oath, all other personal considerations and duties are subordinated.
Once bound, always bound. There is no expiration on the requirements of the oath. Likewise, there is no limit beyond which one who swears the oath may be excused from it. It is a "to the death" duty.
It was the utmost honor for the Colonel to pledge his life to the defense of the Constitution, and the rights of our Republic's citizens therein enshrined. It was an honor with which he was bestowed at his commissioning and on the occasion of every subsequent promotion. It was the Colonel's distinct privilege to administer the oath to countless subordinates as they assumed the office of the next rank to which they had just been promoted.
Some of those subordinates subsequently gave their lives fulfilling their oaths.
You can not begin to fathom the fury the Colonel feels at the news that a person in public trust, holding an office upon entry into which that person swore the same oath to "support and defend the Constitution...," has broken that oath for personal political reasons.
"Secret Society" indeed!
Shameful.
Despicable.
Treasonous.
Dishonorable.
A "secret society," composed of high office-holders sworn to defend the Constitution, with intent to machinate extra-constitutionally, is a dire threat to the rule of law guaranteed by that Constitution.
The Colonel knows that his fellow oath-keepers -- throughout the personal political affiliation spectrum -- share his fury.
Mark the Colonel's words carefully.
It is not conspiratorial for those bound by the oath to band together to do everything within their legal power to hold those that do conspire to break their solemn oath.
For the record, the Colonel despises Donald Trump, the man. But, the Colonel's life is pledged, as are the lives of millions like him, to defending the constitutional legitimacy of President Trump against "all enemies, foreign and domestic."
Traitors beware.
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