All signs point to a massive movement coming into existence, involving factions and factors that are all but invisible to those in power. Over the last months the cooperation and communications between those diverse factions has increased.
When historians write the history of this time the continuing oblivion of those in power will strike the reader.
Taking governance back to the local level involves several related steps. Understanding the role of those legally empowered to act on behalf of the people is just one of those steps. Other factors include alternative energy, rejection of the role of Federal power, the swelling peace movement, and the call from Evangelical Christians for no support of the mainstream candidates, a strong indicator of sentiment in the group that was once the mainstay of the present regime. The trends are unmistakable.
The Sheriff in each county can order the Federal government out.
In each county the Constitutional power is placed in the hands of those elected to exercise those powers on behalf of the citizens. The chief law enforcement officer in each county is therefore the Sheriff.
What is clearly laid out is the chain of authority. The broad strokes of the future are therefore determined. The questions here are all details, essential, but just details.
Agents attempting to enforce Federal laws, statutes, or regulatory mandates over the objections of the county sheriff are acting in violation of the Constitution.
The relationship of the Federal government with counties was determined by the Supreme Court in 1997 with the Mack - Printz Decision. That decision affirmed the standing of the sheriff in a county to order Federal agents out when the Sheriff deems federal law to be unconstitutional.
The issue had arisen with the passage of the federal Brady Gun Control Act. Attempts to assert Federal control over local law enforcement failed, resulting in the Mack – Printz Decision. Sheriff Jay Printz of Montana and Sheriff Richard Mack of Arizona, refused to cooperate with the asserted power of Federal law enforcement.
That decision did not stop the Feds.
Today there are more laws that are Unconstitutional than those that stand the test. Despite attempts at conversion of power from the states to what is effectively a federalized serial monarchy, none of those attempts are allowed by American principles or by the Constitution.
When Sheriff Jay Printz walked out of the meeting held in Helena, Montana, having realized that he was being asked to violate the Constitution no other Sheriff got up and followed him. People tend to be herd animals; the herd stayed to be intimidated, deer caught in the headlights of life.
At a sheriff's association meeting in Phoenix, Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack was handed a documents from ATF to all of the sheriffs assembled. Mack read the paper placed in his hands and noticed that there were gross misstatements of even the Constitutionally questionable bill that Congress had passed into law in 1993.
What Mack saw was the most intrusive bill in the history of the country. Sheriffs were threatened with arrest if they refused to comply. “Who ever knowingly fails to comply with these provisions is subject to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine or both.” The phrase was burned into his mind; he had announced on public radio that he would not comply.
Both Printz and Mack sought injunctive relief. Attorney General Janet Reno tried to back off, writing a memo saying this only applied to gun store owners. The transcript tells another story.
The transcripts from Congress showed that it was the intention to arrest local law enforcement. This is clear evident of collusion to commit treason; a long term move to continue the conversion. Those who voted and spoke for this in Congress are therefore guilty. As subsequent moves to militarize local police and shift the nexus of control to the Federal government continues through such measures as LESO, more people in the pay of government are making themselves vulnerable to justice, delayed but inevitable.
