“Sheriff Joe might even get one of their old solitary cages for the next 20 years or so and get to call his family for 5 minutes a month.”
In that case I will put aside all other recreations and personally bust him out or die trying.
And that is what it will take. When these brave men stand up and stick their necks out(can you imagine having to say that about a man upholding his Constitutional duties??). They are only as strong as is the Constitution as We The People behind them and what 'We' are willing to do to support those who stand up for us. Otherwise we are powerless and no better then slaves.
Sooner or later the Obamabots in their arrogance and intoxication with power are very likely to do something that may touch off the powder keg of collective resentment and loathing that a seeming majority of Americans currently feel for our own government.
In 1775 it was Lexington and Concord, beyond which for many of the revolutionary principles it was victory or death; there was no going back once those shots were fired.
Who is going to fire the first shot this time?
The violent persecution of a popular figure like Sheriff Joe in order to “make an example” of a recalcitrant local official who dares to stand up against federal tyranny might well do it.
They’ve gotten away with this sort of abuse before with Ilian Gonzalez, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Ramos & Compean etc. so often that it would surprise the hell out of them if any mere subject or rabble of insolent subjects had the audacity to actually dare resist them the next time they go out to terrorize imprudent subjects who get out of line.
Of course these systemic government terror tactics are intentionally designed to intimidate the greater population into cowed compliance, and by all appearances they have thus far worked perfectly.
Terror and intimidation are the tyrant’s favorite tools.
Always have been.
Anybody who goes busting such a persecuted friend out of a Federal lockup is going to need help, and lots of it - not to mention some pretty sophisticated technology and skill.
There is a very strong possibility that someone will get seriously hurt or killed along the way, and there is always the law of unintended consequences to consider.
Collateral casualties are a strong possibility.
If, (hypothetically speaking, of course) anyone could pull such a liberation of a political prisoner off from the clutches of a powerful rouge, anticonstitutional, criminal tyranny, then we could probably assume that the tea parties were over and the revolt was officially on.
I have a feeling that the established ruling elite would see it that way and respond accordingly. The Obama Syndicate would not be amused, to say the very least.
Need I remind you that communists and Fascists are a notoriously vindicative lot?
Then it would be up to History to ultimately determine whether the inevitable bloodbath which follows would be recorded as a “Revolution” where the agents for reform or change ultimately prevail, or a “Civil War” where they do not, and the previous system prevails and continues.
Either way we end up with a lot of shallow graves, rubble and ashes, vacant chairs, and broken hearts.
Is there any other alternative to revolt besides we the People failing to push back while being steadily bulldozed down into penury and servitude by our ambitious and greedy ruling elite?
God; I hope so.... but is there even such an option yet remaining to us?
...Anybody???
There was a time when it was thought that the “unpleasantness” of 1861 - 5 could have been avoided, and some in retrospect wonder if it might have been.
But at some point it became inevitable, didn’t it?
Can the gathering storm which now casts it’s dark and ominous shadow across America still be avoided, or is it already too late?
Has our History become so unlearned that we must again repeat it’s bloody, horrible lesson?
Will we ever learn?
Stay tuned; we live in interesting times.