Going Viral - 2010 Oct 08 FR

"Government Agents Seize Oath Keepers Associate's Newborn Child From Hospital"

The gist of the story is that NH government agents and local police officers seized the newborn child of John Irish and placed the child in state custody based, in part, on an affidavit stating that Mr. Irish associates with a violent militia known as Oath Keepers.

Oath Keepers is, of course, NOT a militia, but rather a professional organization that simply asks members of the military and law enforcement to be mindful of their sworn oaths and to pledge that they will not follow certain types of potential orders that would violate citizens rights. There is a list of such orders and a fuller explanation HERE.

Before Friday is over we should know how accurate the early "reporting" of this story has been. I hope it's not true, just because of how awful that truth would be. On the other hand, if it proves to be a hoax of some kind it will have been one of the most vile, disgusting ones in quite a while. Maybe at worst it will turn out to be something in between.

A lot of information has been put online as of Thursday night -- sheriff's office phone number and email address; contact name, phone number & email address for NH Youth and Family Services office; etc., etc. And the father in the story has been in direct contact with Stewart Rhodes [founder and director of Oath Keepers]. His measured but forceful response is worth reading HERE.

I am not absolutely sure, but I think Mr. Irish will be on The Alex Jones Show briefly today [hour 2?]. If you are not a regular Alex Jones listener, this might be one broadcast you will want to catch. For that matter, I can't imagine any talk show in the whole "patriot" landscape that will not be talking about this today.

Update ::

The baby's parents were on the phone with Alex from mid first hour through mid second hour of today's Jones show. They seemed to be having problems with their phone connection, and naturally Alex did most of the talking, but they did a decent job of telling their side of the story. This article at Infowars is a good summary of what is currently known.