Posted on 02/24/2011 2:16:03 PM PST by Kartographer
With each bill, newly elected tea party lawmakers are offering Montanans a vision of the future.
Their state would be a place where officials can ignore U.S. laws, force FBI agents to get a sheriff's OK before arresting anyone, ban abortions, limit sex education in schools and create armed citizen militias.
It's the tea party world. But not everyone is buying their vision.
Some residents, Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer and even some Republican lawmakers say the bills are making Montana into a laughingstock. And, they say, the push to nullify federal laws could be dangerous.
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“That’s the stuff of urban legend. I lived in Nevada in the early 1980’s and no such law existed then.”
ONLY because your local sheriff was a liberal wuss who failed to exercise his duty!! There was a sheriff in WY who arrested any fed who showed up in his jurisdiction hasseling citizens without prior notice, coordination AND approval beforehand. Cut down on the BS considerably.
JC
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