On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, veterans who are involved in the Tea Party movement joined Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon to discuss why they joined the movement to fight for the country at home after serving abroad.
Christian Stevens, an Army veteran, said he often sees the same people at VFW and Tea Party meetings, and he emphasized that he took an oath to "protect against all enemies foreign and domestic--and Tea party is doing the domestic side."
Mark Herr, an Air Force veteran, is involved in the Center for Self-Governance and the Mid-South Tea Party movement, and he told Bannon that he never understood the oath to the people of America until after he joined the military. He said there is a "sense of obligation to stand up and defend the republic so that the next generation can enjoy the freedom and liberties brought to us by the Founding Fathers."
Stevens emphasized that the Constitution is a limiting document and what worries him is that he has seen countries abroad break apart because of too much government, and that is a major reason why he has been so involved in the Tea Party movement.
Mark Hager, an Army veteran, also emphasized that the "commonality" among veterans in the Tea Party movement is they had to "give an oath to preserve the Constitution and save it from all enemies foreign and domestic," and it was only fitting to protect the Constitution on the domestic side.
Herr, the Air Force veteran, said that veterans have been galvanized because of the "realization that the Constitution is the most unique type of government in the history of mankind" in that it allows average citizens to "control institutional government."
