Posted on 03/29/2013 8:45:49 PM PDT by Red Steel
Soon will be able to enforce Obama gun laws without sheriffs' help
A bill is heading to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk that Republican lawmakers say would give members of the Secret Service broad arrest powers in the state and could provide a framework for federal agents eventually to enforce gun restrictions.
“This is absolutely insane,” Rep. Lori Saine, R-Dacono, said. “In theory if a Secret Service agent is in a county where the sheriff has refused to enforce some of the recent unenforceable gun laws, the agent could arrest an individual if he believes the law has been broken.”
The idea actually aligns with an Obama agenda to create vast new restrictions and regulations on guns. WND has reported that hundreds of sheriffs nationwide, including many in Colorado, have said they cannot enforce federal restrictions that would violate the Second Amendment.
In Colorado, Weld County Sheriff John Cooke said he and many other county sheriffs “won’t bother” with several laws poised to go into effect in Colorado because they would be impossible to enforce.
One of the laws would require private sellers to do a background check on purchasers in private gun transaction, but the sheriffs wonder how to keep track of whether gun owners are meeting the new requirements.
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The new bill regarding the Secret Service, SB-13-013, passed on a nearly party line vote in the Democrat-controlled House and is now awaiting the governor’s signature. The bill grants members of the Secret Service arrest powers by considering them to be a peace officer, putting them on a par with state law-enforcement officials with respect to arrest authority.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Another WND panic attack. Colorado already grants peace officer powers to almost every federal agent under the sun. See C.R.S. 16-2.5-147. In 2011 they added the U.S. Marshal’s Office. The timing is suspect, but you need not worry, Colorado has been federalized for some time...
And, Obozo lost by more than 10% of the vote in the last election in TX. And Romney was NOT POPULAR in TX.
Blue collar workers leaving in droves thanks to the states love affair with cheap Mexican labor. By 2020 the place will be the asshole of the USA and as blue as California.
This is a bad precedent. Colorado is basically tearing up the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
For what?
This is ridiculous. Coloradans, it is time to grab your state representatives by their sport coat lapels and give them a good shaking!!! What they are doing will be to undermine every ‘state’s right’ argument, by playing puppy and rolling over on their backs to obama!!!
This is treason.
So for the first time in history, Federal officers would have authority over all law enforcement.
Guess Obama IS getting his domestic army after all. Who would have thought it would be the Secret Service.
No, this is for enforcement of FEDERAL GUN LAWS that sheriffs deem unconstitutional and refuse to enforce.
In other words, if the sheriff doesn’t trample your constitutional rights, the Feds will go behind them and do it for them.
They aren’t, they are for enforcing FEDERAL laws. Especially the gun one that will be coming up shortly.
I missed that part of the bill, or missed it mentioned in the article. That changes EVERYTHING! (Not that I didn’t think this bill was a bag of crap in the first place)
That was the point that the Republicans were making in the bill. Why the need for it?
An armed standoff between sheriff’s deputies and SS agents is entirely possible. All it would take is involved citizens.
“Report any suspicious persons, vehicles or activities to your local sheriff’s department.”
The SS surrounds a home. County deputies surround the SS. Bystanders with Iphones record the proceedings. Take it from there.
Damned right.
Deputize as many as it takes.
There will be plenty available, for sure.
We can’t rely on Boehner. He could have done the same thing to kill Obamacare and didn’t.
>>Do we recognize one of the effects of pot smoking, yet?
Psychotic Paranoia?
Yep. (D)own the rabbit hole they slide.
Federal “law enforcement” is the “standing army” that the Founders warned against.
>>Can someone explain this?
Fear and Loathing on East Colfax Ave?
http://www.schizophrenia.com/research/cannabis.htm
Probably shouldn’t tell them about the bats. The poor bastards will find out soon enough.
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