This is a lot better than all the whining that's been going on too long. Time for action.
Of course there will be legal challenges. But the right to nullify unconstitutional federal acts is constitutionally presumed and supported by the Supremacy Clause and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. Time for action!
We need more of this across the nation.
I wonder what would happen if every county did things like this, and not just on this issue.
It is the only way back to the Constitution. Congress and governors all have the Right of nullification and the people have the DUTY to DISOBEY unjust laws.
“When Law ceases to be “Just” (virtuous), it ceases to be Law”. Our “Justice” system is only based on “..the Laws of Nature and nature’s God”===not on satanic or Marxist ethics which promote vice and slavery.
When ANY “law” is antithetical to the Constitution (IRRATIONAL) it is null and void-—and Nuremberg Trials reiterated that-—that we have the DUTY to disobey unjust (evil) Law.
MLK,Jr. stated the same in his Birmingham address.
It’s a good law, and since all gun control laws are unconstitutional (they all infringe on our God-given individual right to keep and bear arms), it should get a lot of use.
Can’t viably enforce a law if you have strong reason to believe it’s not a viable law.
Congratulations to the citizens of Coos County.
Let's hope that the Mayor of Coos County has pair of brass ones.
He is going to need them if he is going if he is going to make use of this ordinance.
Once he invalidates or refuses to enforce a state or federal law he is going to feel the weight of the world fall on him.
Link to text of the law? might help get it passed elsewhere if we can give our local legislatures a solid starting point.
pass a law so a chief LEO can determine if an unconstitutional law should be void or enforced?? The Constitution of the US is not now nor ever been an abstract document. The governors of every state and every public official from there down needs to be held strictly to their oath of office. If they DO NOT defend and protect our Constitution they need to be removed, post haste. This needs to apply to those in DC as well.
There was some very good analysis and comments on the article posted a few days ago.
Oregon County Passes Measure Directing Sheriff To Block State And Federal Gun Laws
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3356949/posts
I thought this one by DiogenesLamp was very interesting.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3356949/posts?page=35#35
Very clever. This is the exact tactic used by states to prevent the return of fugitive slaves. When the Federal courts ruled that states could not be compelled to enforce Federal Laws, they passed laws forbidding state officials from enforcing the fugitive slave laws.
This puts the courts in a funny position. Because this so closely resembles the tactic used to stop the enforcement of fugitive slave laws, if the court says this tactic is invalid, they would have to legally invalidate what happened with the fugitive slaves.
I predict they will be loath to condemn this methodology because of it’s prior history. No one wants to be seen as saying the fugitive slave laws should have been enforced.