Posted on 02/03/2015 8:51:31 PM PST by servo1969
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson threatened US sheriffs today. Johnson told the sheriffs that they will not receive federal grants they are counting on if the Republican Congress does not fund amnesty.
Sheriff Justin Smith from Larimer County Colorado posted this tonight on his Facebook page:
I received a very interesting veiled threat letter from Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of Homeland Security addressed to all police chiefs and sheriffs around the country.
His letter made it clear that if Congress didn’t send President Obama the DHS funding bill that he wanted (rubberstamping the president’s executive amnesty), local and state public safety agencies would not receive federal grants they were counting on because the president would veto the DHS funding bill.
Let me get this straight – the president believes he has the authority to nullify federal laws that don’t serve his personal agenda, but if Congress dares to exercise it’s responsibility of controlling the purse strings, he will willingly hold public safety grants hostage just to get his way?
Mr. President, you don’t have to love the Congress we elected, but you do have to respect their role as established under the Constitution -and Mr. Johnson, please show some integrity and stop with the threats. Sheriffs don’t take kindly to them.
My blood boils every time I see TSA. I'm never forgiving him for that.
In all areas of government, tea party county commissioners, tax assessors and sheriffs have been elected all over this country and in my county!
Oh yes moaning and gnashing of teeth by the R's too. Yet 9 months later, they swept all the gnashers of teeth out! What is wrong with the pundits? The R's won a landslide victory even after the severe warnings of the people in the know that the R's would never recover from shutting down the government and all the open air memorials!
DHS is sounding like a terrorist organization, complete with threats and demands.
The problem here is that the D’s, the R’s, the pundits, the president, and almost everyone else involved with the affairs of this country are serial liars.
Isn’t this essentially the same thing Rick Perry is being prosecuted for, at least in theory?
I know a drunkard Austin elected official who won’t resign is not the same as this, but if what he did was illegal, why isn’t this? Dear God, I’m so sick of the govt corruption, I could chew nails.
Meanwhile in response, most of the republicans twiddle their thumbs, gaze at their navels, scratch their privates and whistle ‘Beautiful Dreamer’ under their breaths.
“The Sheriff departments should know better than to depend on Federal money and the cables that are on it...”
like they will. Please. Most sheriffs will fold. It’s all about money and job security. And I’m not calling them out. It’s this way with most everyone in every field.
Who has stood up to our present in your face tyranny? Who will?
Answer - not many. Until things get chaotic and hopeless. And then it might be too late. As long as things are somewhat steady and stable, don’t look for any true warriors to make a stand anytime soon.
yup, when the mob gave you money or did you a favor, it wasn’t because of their benevolence.
yup - like sending in a DOJ/FBI team to the Ferguson PD to see if a cop just doing his job ever said anything that could be construed as “Racist” so that the DOJ could lynch an innocent man.
While our country is being destroyed. Not a good trade off.
Read the context of the replies I was engaged in.
Start with the president
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