Posted on 09/27/2014 11:09:48 AM PDT by Q-ManRN
An increasing number of county sheriffs are rising to resist federal overreach in their counties. About 100 of them met in mid-September at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
The gathering was organized by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association -- a group that was formed by former Sheriff Richard Mack.
Sheriff Mike Lewis of Wycomico County, Maryland was one of the sheriffs in attendance. He got national attention recently for saying that the feds better not try grabbing guns in his county.
Sheriff Rogers is a GOA Life Member who interposed himself between the Food and Drug Administration and a raw milk dairy farmer. The feds were on the verge of confiscating the farmer’s equipment which would have bankrupted him.
But Sheriff Rogers communicated with the head attorney at the FDA and told her that if they put one more foot on the farmer’s land, he would arrest them. She, in turn, threatened to arrest him. Rogers simply ended the debate by replying: “Game on.” That was almost three years ago, and the FDA has been MIA ever since.
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With the militarization of the police, it is comforting to know that their are Constitutionally-minded sheriffs out there and Second Amendment organizations like the Gun Owners of America that stand with them.
With the politicizing of many county sheriff’s jobs in counties with large urban areas, it would be nice to see a nationwide database of those who are constitutionally minded.
I would like to have the addresses of those who aren’t.
Friggin traitors.
I was just going to post that. Thanks.
Our guy in Park County seems like a good sheriff, but I haven't been here all that long.
I’m sorry, he’s sufficiently distant that I don’t have any opinion.
There is a significant structural and conditional difference between a police man and the traditional sheriff, although this vary widely from state to state.
In general Sheriff is a law enforcement position created at a time and in such a way as to be predisposes to remain loyal to the people s/he has been hired to protect. In contrast the modern police force was created by political actors in large cities as a mean’s of better controlling their populations. This is why for a very long time many people saw the police officer as an element of urban corruption and control, and found it difficult to respect them as law officers.
The Police man after all was hired by politicians for politicians as a tool to more directly enforce their will upon the people. The Sheriff on the other hand at least in the west was elected by the people, and not empired to make law but to enforce only that law already made in a way respectful of the people’s rights.
This fundamental difference in constitutional origin and structure of theses kinds of law enforcement systems & officers also extended in no small part to the way they structured their force.
Where as the traditional sheriff in the west was directly elected and had at most a few men full time deputies relativity speaking. When necessary, instead of disciplined armies the Western sheriff could and would called upon his people to help him. A formation classically known as a posse, but informally it is very much the law enforcement equivalent of a militia.
Just like the militia of the military context, a Sheriff is unlikely to find sufficient volunteers in his community as to be able to enforce a tyranny upon that same population. A Sheriff is thus by the same mesure thus reliant upon a far greater level of consent among the community he helps protect. This was one more basic institutional check upon Government inehirt to the Western Sheriff’s office and deliberately avoided with the creation of professional police forces.
Indeed it is no accident that the first police forces were invented in urban envorment by politicans otherwise frustrated with their lack of control over their own population. Indeed for many decades the first police forces were offen shunned as potentaly corrupt political actors. This is probably because they were an army, the Mayor’s own army of occupation.
I am inclined to say he’s being ‘Herman Cained’, I too think he’s a god guy. And I also think they’re trying to nail him for the wildfires a couple years ago, over which he had no control.
God guy = Good guy. Doh.
To protect you, your family and your neighborhood, elect a pro-2nd amendment, constitutional sheriff in your county. I have one in my county. A constitutional sheriff can:
1. Investigate leftists in your local and county government.
2. Remove thieving leftists in your county or village government, indict them and throw them in state prison.
3. Protect you from SWAT raids from the fascist federal government.
4. Legally purchase serious weaponry to take on fascist federal government goons.
5. Muster a 2,000 man armed (one battalion) auxiliary deputy force to stand by for “emergencies.”
Conservatives need to get on the ball and elect a constitutional sheriff in their counties. Do it for your families.
Depends on your state.
Good post, Monorprise.
The elected sheriff is accountable to the people who elect him, while the politically-appointed police chief is accountable to the politician who appointed him.
“Depends on your state.”
I don’t know what that means.
True statements all. A sheriff is the last bastion of federalism. They can make a real difference if they are good.
For example, In Ohio, the Coroner is head of all LE in the county. The Sheriff is second, the town cops are third and the Highway Patrol is...relegated to the Highways. In PA the AG is #1, the PSP (Police, Not Highway Patrol) is #2, the town cops are #3 and the Sheriff is told to control the jail and the Constables can only serve warrants and run prisoners back and forth to jail/court. It was ONLY in the last five or six years that a Sheriff could write misdemeanor tickets for speeding. Other than that, a deputy or the Sheriff himself could only break up a crime the same as any citizen.
If what you’re saying is factual, and I do not doubt it, the situation only exists because you don’t have a constitutional sheriff who will exert his elected authority.
What you’re posting is an order of authority as established by whom?
The US Supreme Court has ruled in numerous cases that the county sheriff is a sovereign. That means that the sheriff is NOT a stooge who carries out the commands of some unelected state bureaucrat or an elected state or federal politician.
I hope you understand this important distinction between what some political hack claims vs the sheriff’s sovereign and constitutional authority.
I’m only telling you about two states I am extremely familiar with. In PA the Sheriff has no real authority. His deputies ONLY take care of the jails, writs, warrants and MAY write tickets (but they damned better well know what they are doing). In Ohio, the sheriff can Deputize town cops and take them on raids WELL out of the cop’s jurisdiction (remember Patty Hearst? I was in on that search because she supposedly passed through our county. 200 miles later I was laying in the bushes looking at some farmhouse). In Ohio, the coroner can take ANY sworn officer and make him do anything he wants to, as long as it is legal, lawful and pertains to a crime.
I’m only telling you about two states I am extremely familiar with.”
Understood, Safetgiver. May you receive the Lord’s blessings and maybe a delicious banana-strawberry chocolate sundae.
Cheers, FRiend
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