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Nevada counties join anti-federal government sheriff’s group

Stevicus

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Nevada counties join anti-federal government sheriff’s group (apnews.com)

ELKO, Nev. (AP) — Rural Nevada residents and local law enforcement last weekend celebrated decisions by two county commissions to become members of a group that believes sheriffs have the final say on any given law’s constitutionality.

So, I guess the Supreme Court doesn't get to decide what's constitutional in Elko and a few other Nevada counties. That's up to the sheriff.

Hundreds of people gathered for festivities in Elko City Park on Sunday, where the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association presented county commissioners with a plaque to honor their membership, the Elko Daily Free Press reported.

“You know what I train sheriffs to do? Kick ’em the hell out of your county,” association founder Richard Mack told an applauding crowd, referring to criticism of federal government and the Internal Revenue Service.

Mack, a former county sheriff from rural Arizona who is also involved in the Oath Keepers militia movement, denounced white supremacy and compared sheriff’s bucking federal laws to Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.

So, they think they can just kick IRS agents out of the county? I wonder why our sheriff didn't think of that.

Mack founded the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association in 2011. The group believes county sheriffs have a duty to interpret and uphold the constitution that supersedes other elected officials up to the president. It is against federal gun laws and COVID restrictions and sees sheriffs as a final defense against government overreach.

The group has recruited support from local law enforcement for years. But in May and June, Elko and Lander County became the first two local governments to join the organization as members.

The counties passed resolutions and paid $2,500 for a lifetime membership in the organization, drawing the funds from donations instead of taxpayer dollars. It was not immediately known how the association plans to use the funds.

The resolutions state that “any conduct contrary to the United States Constitution, Declaration of Independence, or the Bill of Rights will be dealt with as criminal activity.”

“We maintain that no agency established by the U.S. Congress can develop its own policies or regulations which supersede the Bill of Rights or the Constitution, nor does the executive branch have the power to make law, overturn law or set aside law,” Elko County commissioners wrote in the unanimously approved resolution.

The association has grown in popularity among law enforcement officials and people skeptical of federal government overreach — particularly in states like Nevada where ranchers have clashed with federal land management. It has capitalized on hostility to restrictions put in place to contain the coronavirus.

“The sheriffs of the counties and the state of Nevada and the United States don’t answer to the President, we don’t answer to Senate, we don’t answer to Congress, we don’t answer to our governor, and by all means we really don’t answer to our county commission except for the purse strings,” Eureka County Sheriff Jesse Watts said.

He added: “We answer to you the people, because we the people manage the government, the government doesn’t manage us.”

Some people are getting rather testy out there.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
They want their county to be their country?
Build a fence around them and let nobody in or out without a visa.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
An interesting wrinkle....
Many of us also use our own judgement when
we see rulings go against the Constitution.
(I have....felonious draft dodging & all.)
The sheriffs are just taking it to the next level.
In doing so, one should prepare for consequences.
 

esmith

Veteran Member
Maybe they are getting tired of the direction that the country is going.
We out here in the West feel that the ideas of the east and west coast do not represent us.
We don't mind people moving here to flee the policies of many east and west coast cities as long as they remember why the left and don't try and insitute those policies here.
Just saying
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Maybe they are getting tired of the direction that the country is going.
We out here in the West feel that the ideas of the east and west coast do not represent us.
We don't mind people moving here to flee the policies of many east and west coast cities as long as they remember why the left and don't try and insitute those policies here.
Just saying
I'd be out of the People's Republic of NY in a heartbeat if I had the chance.

In the meantime, I guess I'll continue to wave my red hammer and sickle flag and praise our Supreme Glorious Chairman.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
They want their county to be their country?
Build a fence around them and let nobody in or out without a visa.
Its usually Texas that does stuff like that but it seems others have the same or similar thoughts.

Personally if possible. Take a saw and cut away New York and California, and let them float very far away from this country. .
 

pearl

Well-Known Member
Reminds me of New Hampshire couple,
Edward Lewis Brown (born 1942) and his wife, Elaine Alice Brown (born c. 1940), residents of the state of New Hampshire, gained national news media attention as tax protesters in early 2007 for refusing to pay the U.S. federal income tax and subsequently refusing to surrender to federal government agents after having been convicted of tax crimes.[1] After the conviction and sentencing, a long, armed standoff with federal law enforcement authorities at their New Hampshire residence ended with the arrest of Edward and Elaine Brown on October 4, 2007.[2][3][4] In July 2009, while serving their sentences for the tax crimes, the Browns were found guilty by a federal district court jury of additional criminal charges arising from their conduct during the standoff.
Edward and Elaine Brown - Wikipedia
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Reminds me of New Hampshire couple,
Edward Lewis Brown (born 1942) and his wife, Elaine Alice Brown (born c. 1940), residents of the state of New Hampshire, gained national news media attention as tax protesters in early 2007 for refusing to pay the U.S. federal income tax and subsequently refusing to surrender to federal government agents after having been convicted of tax crimes.[1] After the conviction and sentencing, a long, armed standoff with federal law enforcement authorities at their New Hampshire residence ended with the arrest of Edward and Elaine Brown on October 4, 2007.[2][3][4] In July 2009, while serving their sentences for the tax crimes, the Browns were found guilty by a federal district court jury of additional criminal charges arising from their conduct during the standoff.
Edward and Elaine Brown - Wikipedia
A friend & his father refused to pay income taxes.
Well, some time in federal prison elicited compliance.
 

blü 2

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Reminds me of New Hampshire couple,
Edward Lewis Brown (born 1942) and his wife, Elaine Alice Brown (born c. 1940), residents of the state of New Hampshire, gained national news media attention as tax protesters in early 2007 for refusing to pay the U.S. federal income tax and subsequently refusing to surrender to federal government agents after having been convicted of tax crimes.[1] After the conviction and sentencing, a long, armed standoff with federal law enforcement authorities at their New Hampshire residence ended with the arrest of Edward and Elaine Brown on October 4, 2007.[2][3][4] In July 2009, while serving their sentences for the tax crimes, the Browns were found guilty by a federal district court jury of additional criminal charges arising from their conduct during the standoff.
Edward and Elaine Brown - Wikipedia
And more recently Kent Hovind. (More curiously with Kent as a pastor, in an earlier law case the court had ruled he'd lied on oath.)
 

ecco

Veteran Member
Maybe they are getting tired of the direction that the country is going.
We out here in the West feel that the ideas of the east and west coast do not represent us.
We don't mind people moving here to flee the policies of many east and west coast cities as long as they remember why the left and don't try and insitute those policies here.
Well, you could always start or actively work for a secessionist movement.
 
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