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Militias with Badges: Here come the sheriffs of MAGA-town: militias with badges, guns, and formal law enforcement powers

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" If you are not alarmed, you ought to be. The Claremont Institute — the home of John Eastman has a new initiative for undermining the rule of law. It is launching a program to weaponize "patriotic law enforcement officers" to counter "the perversion of the justice system by which the revolutionary left seeks to advance its totalitarian agenda!" In the "Sheriff’s Fellowship," the institute tied together last year’s urban disorders, Covid-19 lockdowns & “the electoral disaster of 2020,” and declared that “our nation's conservative movement needs a countervailing network of uncorrupted law enforcement officials.” Specifically, it envisions a cadre of sheriffs “not beholden to bureaucratic masters, and whose geographic boundaries, jurisdictional latitude &, most important, direct connection and responsibility to citizens, places them on the frontlines of the defense of civilization.”

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have additional Master' Degrees in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side Middle School, which (more...)

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