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DHS SECRETARY THREATENS US SHERIFFS: Obama Will Cut Their Grants If Congress Does Not Fund Amnesty
The Gateway Pundit ^
| 2-3-2015
| Jim Hoft
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.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; dhs; dhsfundingbill; jehjohnson; jehjohnsonthreat; obama; obamadhsfunding; policechiefs; sheriffs; smugmug
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:51:31 PM PST
by
servo1969
To: servo1969
He needs to post a copy of the letter.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:53:34 PM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
To: servo1969
None dare call it extortion by the clothe-less Emperor
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:53:43 PM PST
by
lightman
(O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
To: servo1969
Well then whores, make do without the grants and live inside your means, and forgo the MRAPS.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:53:48 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: servo1969; Old Sarge; EnigmaticAnomaly; Califreak; kalee; TWhiteBear; freeangel; Godzilla; ...
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:55:33 PM PST
by
LucyT
To: DesertRhino
Yep. I have no problem with this.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:55:36 PM PST
by
RC one
(Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
To: servo1969
Now we are beginning to seeing the REAL Obama.
A dangerous Thug who lives for power.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:56:43 PM PST
by
Zathras
To: Zathras
Two words - Full Mussolini.
8
posted on
02/03/2015 8:58:14 PM PST
by
43north
(BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
To: Zathras
Odinga instinct... The bush W keys on keyboards being ripped out aint nothing.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:58:16 PM PST
by
lavaroise
(A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
To: servo1969
Sheriffs today continue to use their common law posse comitatus power to summon armed citizens to the aid of law enforcement against tyrants.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:58:26 PM PST
by
bunkerhill7
(re (`("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))
To: servo1969
If there is no money, there is no money.
The Sheriff departments should know better than to depend on Federal money and the cables that are on it...
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:59:25 PM PST
by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: servo1969
So Obama will shut down police protection in order to ensure his tyranny eh?
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:59:53 PM PST
by
chris37
(heartless)
To: Zathras
Many of us knew the real Obama all along. Despite the fact that Romney was a horrible choice, we had no choice. Some FReepers still have no regrets about Romney’s loss. Yes, we disagree with much of his agenda, but he would not be pulling this. And he would not turn a blind eye to Iran developing nukes.
13
posted on
02/03/2015 9:00:58 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
To: 43north
Great term. The Full Monty and now the Full Mussolini.
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posted on
02/03/2015 9:01:44 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
To: doug from upland
You don’t know that, Doug.
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posted on
02/03/2015 9:06:48 PM PST
by
SatinDoll
(A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE US OF US CITIZEN PARENTS.)
To: SatinDoll
No, I do not know that with 100% certainty; but it is pretty close. We do know what Obama is doing. And many of us knew this kind of stuff was going to happen in a second term.
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posted on
02/03/2015 9:09:34 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
To: doug from upland
17
posted on
02/03/2015 9:12:46 PM PST
by
Gator113
(Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
To: Zathras
Now we are beginning to seeing the REAL Obama.
A dangerous Thug who lives for power.
We haven’t seen anything yet.
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posted on
02/03/2015 9:15:27 PM PST
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: doug from upland
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posted on
02/03/2015 9:18:50 PM PST
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: LucyT
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