President Obama visited Denver on
April 3, 2013 to push his excessive gun legislation. Not one sheriff in
the state of Colorado was included in the event. The sheriffs of
Colorado representing 62 counties were kept out of the event because
their legislative needs were not useful to the president. Obama's
purposeful shunning of the state sheriffs could not silence them. Listen
as Sheriff Shayne Heap from Elbert County Colorado responds to the
president's comments.
CO Sheriff Speaks Out Against Democrats Threats, For Speaking Against Gun Control
Published on Mar 12, 2013
Sheriffs pay, raises and pensions held above there heads if they speak out against gun control? What is America coming to?
225 Sheriffs Stand Up For The Second Amendment
Below is a list of 225 Sheriffs that are saying NO to Obama's Gun
Control as compiled by CSPOA whose founder and President is Former
Arizona Sheriff Mack.
Sheriffs have risen up all over our great nation to stand up against the unconstitutional gun control measures being taken.
The
following is a list of sheriffs and state sheriff’s associations from
who have vowed to uphold and defend the Constitution against Obama’s
unlawful gun control measures. I applaud these public servants for
their courage and conviction.
I
call on sheriffs all over this nation to add their voices to the
growing numbers of faithful protectors of our freedom. -Richard Mack
To see the list of the 225 Sheriffs standing up against this tyrannical dictatorship:
The following is in response to the outrageous actions by ICE/DHS. They have released hundreds of criminal illegal aliens under the guise of budget shortages under sequestration....that hasn't even happened yet!
Published on Feb 27, 2013
"The president of the United States
has opened up the jails," Rush Limbaugh remarked on Wednesday.
Questioning why the release of hundreds of undocumented immigrants,
ahead of the sequester, hasn't received more coverage, the talk radio
host asserted the president has committed an "impeachable offense."
"This
is exacting harm on the country, and it's entirely unnecessary," he
said. " Can you imagine any other president doing this in a fit of
pique?"
Arguing that the president has violated his oath of
office, Limbaugh deemed the move "childish" — but one that has very real
consequences. There's a reason those people were in jail, he added:
They broke the law. And what the president is doing is an "impeachable
offense."
He then went on to post:
"The pure cynical view
is that Obama has just let loose 30,000 new Democrat voters. It's
unreal, folks. It's unreal. [...] It was the regime that detained them
in the first place. These are not Bush's prisoners. These are Obama's
prisoners. They were detained and imprisoned by the regime in the first
place."
This, he asserted, is how far Obama is willing to go to "punish" the country.
CALLER: Rush, dittos, to start with. Mega, mega dittos. All the best to
you, my friend. This regime that is elected by the clueless and the
uninformed has come very, very close to -- and, in fact, crossed the
line of -- breaking the law by releasing these people out of prison
illegally like that. Something like this happened in the seventies in
Europe, and this is the reason why I'm so impressed with you that you're
so astute that you can understand details that people who have lived
here all their lives would have no access to.
They're being pounded with false information all this time. The
details are that nobody in their right mind ever tried to enter/cross
illegally and run into a communist country, but everybody try to escape.
What Ceausescu did in the early seventies is he gave the common thieves
and pickpockets and basic criminals that were in prison a choice. They
could take a passport to go to Western Europe or stay in prison. So, of
course, they chose to leave. That was everybody's dream, thieves or not.
RUSH: This would Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania we're talking about, right?
CALLER: That is correct. That is correct. The purpose for --
RUSH: By the way, for those of you low-information, Romania is where
Nadia Comaneci come from. Just wanted them to know where Romania is,
Sarine.
CALLER: Thank you. (chuckling) Yeah, so the real purpose was to
create absolute havoc in the Western world, in Western Europe, for those
who tried to escape -- risking life and limb; crossing at night under
the hail of bullets; leaving family, possessions, memories, childhood
behind -- just escape and be free. They would ask for political asylum
in places like West Germany or France or Italy. The impression given by
these criminals that were allowed emigrate freely was bad.
Of course, once they hit the streets and saw the naivete of the rich
world, which is what everybody looked at it as being, they started
pillaging there. The setup was such that the governments over there,
being faced with this kind of crime, would refuse the acceptance of the
people who risked their lives just to escape the moral crime that
communism is. So the fact that you mentioned the Marielitos and the
intent of creating havoc by releasing these people, it is so close in
reality and to the truth.
RUSH: I tell you, I'm finding myself in a difficult situation here,
because I know that certain words and phrases happen to turn people off
in this country. For example -- it's been this way a long time -- in
this country and in the media today, if you say to somebody, "That
person over there's a communist," you lose 'em. That doesn't work. So
you say, "Okay, socialist." Well, okay, that may make more impact. Call
'em a totalitarian or a statist, they still don't want to hear it.
But it's challenging because that's exactly what's happening. Barack Obama is employing tactics
that have been used by people like Nicolae Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein,
and Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro released hundreds of thousands of just
the most horrible characters from his prisons and they infested south
Florida in the Mariel Boatlift -- and the same thing with Ceausescu and
releasing his prisoners. Not all of them are political. Some of them
were hardened criminals.
I mean, Ceausescu was trying to pollute Western Europe. He wasn't
sending a bunch of freedom fighters to Western Europe. He was polluting
it. Castro was trying to pollute south Florida. He was trying to corrupt
it, and the United States in general. Saddam Hussein was trying to
corrupt Iraq and Baghdad by letting his most hardened criminals go. It
was a punishment, a punishment to the citizens of Iraq for not
supporting him, for being complicit in the forthcoming US invasion.
So what happens is, Ceausescu... Well, use the Mariel Boatlift. What
happened in this country was the Mariel Boatlift -- and, of course, the
nice, compassionate people of America welcomed them in at first.
"They're escaping the dungeons of Fidel Castro! These are people seeking
freedom, and we are people of freedom." The same with Ceausescu's
release, and the same thing with Castro's and Saddam's. They end up
corrupting the places that they go, and that's the purpose of it.
Now, when you say that Obama is
imitating the behavior of people like that, my guess is that any
low-information voters in the audience who hear me say this are gonna
pooh-pooh it and they're gonna start calling me names: "Reactionary,
controversial statements," whatever, "extremist racist, sexist, bigot,
homophobe," what have you. Because the low-information voter looks at
Obama as a prisoner himself of the Republican Party. "Obama's doing
everything he can to make life better! He's trying to create jobs. He's
trying to prevent the deficit from growing. He said that no policy of
his was gonna grow the deficit by a dime and if it did, he wouldn't do
it."
Well, the deficit's growing. It must be the Republicans. Obama's got
his jobs councils. He's trying to create jobs, but the unemployment
number is static or getting worse. It must be the Republicans. It was
Bush. I saw the exit polls from the 2012 election. Something like 56
or 57% of the people that voted still blame Bush for the economy. I've
told you when I saw that, my heart fell. I knew it was over, but I
wasn't able to explain to myself why. I was still bamboozled by it.
I've never in my life have known a president who has escaped any
accountability for four years of his presidency until this guy came
along.
The media is only part of it. It's a big part of it, but it's not
the entire explanation. We've reached a point in our cultural evolution
where the clueless dominate, where low-information, uneducated, who
think they know everything, by the way, dominate. I appreciate the
call. END TRANSCRIPT
Pinal County, Ariz – Sheriff Paul Babeu blasted the Washington gridlock regarding the “Sequester Budget Battle” and
says it is already harming public safety in Arizona by ICE’s mass
release of hundreds of illegals and plans for the release of nearly
10,000 more criminal illegals from prison.
Many of these ICE detainees
are held at private facilities, which are contracted to house criminal
illegals. ICE reportedly plans to reduce their available beds to 25,700
from their current 34,000. Sheriff Babeu said, “Clearly,
serious criminals are being released to the streets of our local
communities by this mass budget pardon. These are illegals that even
President Obama wants to deport. This is insane that public safety is
sacrificed when it should be the budget priority that’s safeguarded.”
ICE agents were paid overtime
Saturday and Sunday to release over 500 detainees in Pinal County
alone. These criminal illegals were scheduled for deportation, yet now
they receive a pardon and once again become the problem of local law
enforcement and a burden to the state of Arizona. The President predicts
a doomsday scenario and his plans are already being implemented.
Sheriff Babeu concluded, “President
Obama would never release 500 criminal illegals to the streets of his
home town, yet he has no problem with releasing them in Arizona. The safety of the public is threatened and the rule of law discarded as a political tactic in this Sequester Battle.”
RUSH: I tell you, I’m finding myself in a difficult
situation here, because I know that certain words and phrases happen to
turn people off in this country. For example — it’s been this way a long
time — in this country and in the media today, if you say to somebody,
“That person over there’s a communist,” you lose ‘em. That doesn’t work.
So you say, “Okay, socialist.” Well, okay, that may make more impact.
Call ‘em a totalitarian or a statist, they still don’t want to hear it.
But it’s challenging because that’s exactly what’s happening. Barack Obama is employing tactics that have been used by people like Nicolae Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein, and Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro released hundreds of thousands of just the most horrible
characters from his prisons and they infested south Florida in the
Mariel Boatlift — and the same thing with Ceausescu and releasing his
prisoners. Not all of them are political. Some of them were hardened
criminals.
I mean, Ceausescu was trying to pollute Western
Europe. He wasn’t sending a bunch of freedom fighters to Western
Europe. He was polluting it. Castro was trying to pollute south Florida.
He was trying to corrupt it, and the United States in general. Saddam
Hussein was trying to corrupt Iraq and Baghdad by letting his most
hardened criminals go. It was a punishment, a punishment to the citizens
of Iraq for not supporting him, for being complicit in the forthcoming
US invasion.
So what happens is, Ceausescu… Well, use the
Mariel Boatlift. What happened in this country was the Mariel Boatlift —
and, of course, the nice, compassionate people of America welcomed them
in at first. “They’re escaping the dungeons of Fidel Castro! These are
people seeking freedom, and we are people of freedom.” The same with
Ceausescu’s release, and the same thing with Castro’s and Saddam’s. They
end up corrupting the places that they go, and that’s the purpose of
it.
- See more at:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/02/epic-rush-limbaugh-why-totalitarians-release-prisoners-audio/#sthash.tiNrTa3N.dpuf
Rush Limbaugh slammed Barack Obama today for “opening up the jails” and releasing the criminals like fellow totalitarians.
RUSH: I tell you, I’m finding myself in a difficult
situation here, because I know that certain words and phrases happen to
turn people off in this country. For example — it’s been this way a long
time — in this country and in the media today, if you say to somebody,
“That person over there’s a communist,” you lose ‘em. That doesn’t work.
So you say, “Okay, socialist.” Well, okay, that may make more impact.
Call ‘em a totalitarian or a statist, they still don’t want to hear it.
But it’s challenging because that’s exactly what’s happening. Barack Obama is employing tactics that have been used by people like Nicolae Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein, and Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro released hundreds of thousands of just the most horrible
characters from his prisons and they infested south Florida in the
Mariel Boatlift — and the same thing with Ceausescu and releasing his
prisoners. Not all of them are political. Some of them were hardened
criminals.
I mean, Ceausescu was trying to pollute Western
Europe. He wasn’t sending a bunch of freedom fighters to Western
Europe. He was polluting it. Castro was trying to pollute south Florida.
He was trying to corrupt it, and the United States in general. Saddam
Hussein was trying to corrupt Iraq and Baghdad by letting his most
hardened criminals go. It was a punishment, a punishment to the citizens
of Iraq for not supporting him, for being complicit in the forthcoming
US invasion.
So what happens is, Ceausescu… Well, use the
Mariel Boatlift. What happened in this country was the Mariel Boatlift —
and, of course, the nice, compassionate people of America welcomed them
in at first. “They’re escaping the dungeons of Fidel Castro! These are
people seeking freedom, and we are people of freedom.” The same with
Ceausescu’s release, and the same thing with Castro’s and Saddam’s. They
end up corrupting the places that they go, and that’s the purpose of
it.
- See more at:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/02/epic-rush-limbaugh-why-totalitarians-release-prisoners-audio/#sthash.tiNrTa3N.dpuf
Jan 30, 2011 Nullify now , Oath Keeper, Sheriff Richard Mack, nullification, violent revolution, peaceful revolution, bradey bill
Nullify Now! Tour WOWS Phoenix
January 29, 2011
On Saturday, January 29, the Nullify Now! 2011 tour began with a bang in Phoenix, Arizona. Hundreds of people gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Phoenix as the Tenth Amendment Center promoted nullification of unconstitutional acts by the federal government. With an array of reputable speakers like Arizona’s State Senator Sylvia Tenney Allen and The John Birch Society’s CEO, Art Thompson, the event proved to be an educational success. A national tour sponsored by WeRefuse.com and the Tenth Amendment Center, Nullify Now! focuses on the Founding principles of the United States Constitution and educates attendees about the Tenth Amendment, as well as the powers of the state including that of nullification, and a variety of issues that can be resolved by state nullification.
On Saturday, a number of speakers bemoaned the dwindling authority of the states as the federal government continues to grow, and promoted the philosophies of America’s Founding Fathers like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who heavily supported powerful states over a powerful central government.
Tenth Amendment Center’s Derek Sheriff quoted James Madison, who said, “There can be no tribunal above the states.” According to Sheriff, proof that the states should be the highest authority is in the fact that the Constitution is a compact between the states. Likewise, the powers delegated to the federal government by the Constitution are limited. Furthermore, the states’ right to nullify unconstitutional laws indicates that the states are the final judge of constitutionality.
Speaker Bryce Shonka celebrated examples of the states reclaiming their authority, specifically as they are challenging Obamacare.
Most speakers emphasized the importance of reclaiming states’ rights. Stewart Rodes of The Oathkeepers declared the importance of recreating county militias, and Sheriff Richard Mack observed that state nullification was the peaceful solution to the federal government’s overreach. Jason Rink, Executive Director of the Foundation for a Free Society, proposed reclaiming the right to place the government under surveillance rather than continuing to allow the government to do so to the American people.
Art Thompson of the John Birch Society outlined the path that led the American people to this place in history, where the powers of the individual, the states, and the federal government have been inverted. It begins with rewriting history and distorting the truth, educating Americans to believe that the United States is a democracy rather than a republic, and a power struggle between elitist progressives and the American spirit.
According to Thompson, the war on America is deceptive and subversive. For example, Marxists in America have used semantics to deceive the American people, like subtly replacing the term “republic” with “democracy,” “a system of government that is the first step toward a communist state.” Thompson said, “We have had a war of words that have been used to tear down our republic.” Much of the progressives’ success can be traced to the power they have attained in the field of education. There, they can rewrite and change history so that America’s youth no longer knows the story behind the founding of our nation. Without knowing American history, America’s future is doomed and the way to America’s transformation is paved.
Thompson declared, “We have to understand where we started in order to understand what we must do in the long term, to return to the system our Founders gave us. It is not enough to simply nullify certain onerous laws, we must educate the American people to a firm understanding of the basic principles on which our system is based.”
Also at Saturday’s event, speakers challenged the elitism of today’s lawmakers, who contend that they are better equipped to make choices pertaining to the individual than the American people are. For example, radio host Robert Scott Bell discussed the Food and Drug Administration and its emphasis on licensed medical doctors versus homeopathic doctors, whom Bell contends can often offer better alternatives to health care.
Similarly, Gary Johnson, former Governor of New Mexico, promoted the decriminalization of marijuana, asserting that 90 percent of the problem with the drug is caused by “prohibition” and not by abuse of the drug.
Arizona State Senator Sylvia Tenney Allen discussed the overreaching powers of federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, which she contends had a negative impact on her family’s timber business and on Arizona’s timber business as a whole, by seeking to protect endangered species like the Mexican Spotted Owl at the expense of Arizona businesses. Allen asserted that the EPA is now targeting Arizona’s coal plants in much the same way they did Arizona’s timber mills. Overall, Allen emphasized the importance of nullifying unconstitutional federal laws and regulations like those instituted by the EPA.
Overall, the speakers stressed the necessity of reclaiming the authority of the states, and view the nullification of unconstitutional laws as a viable start. State nullification has already begun to gain popularity as it has been addressed as a solution to many of America’s problems on prominent television shows like Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch, which airs on the Fox Business Channel 8pm daily. As a prime example of this movement towards state sovereignty, as of January 31, at least one dozen states have introduced bills to nullify the entire ObamaCare law! (See: "12 States Have Bills to Nullify ObamaCare Entirely.")
Nullify Now! 2010 proved to be largely successful, having made its way through Forth Worth, Texas, Chattanooga, Tenn., and Orlando, Florida, and featured a number of prominent speakers including New York Times best-selling author Thomas E. Woods, author of Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21 Century, and Joe Wolverton II, a constitutional lawyer and professor of American government who writes for The New American.
With a number of scheduled tours nationwide, it looks as through 2011 will reveal continuing success for the Nullify Now! tour.
Sheriff Mack Announces Lawsuit Against SPLC, Run For Congress
December 10, 2011
At a speech in Sacramento, California, on December 10, Richard Mack, former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, and founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), announced that within a matter of days he will be filing a lawsuit in federal court against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for slander, libel and defamation.
Sheriff Mack, who successfully challenged the 1993 federal Brady handgun control act in a landmark case that went all the way through the United States Supreme Court, has been an outspoken champion of constitutionally limited government and a critic of federal usurpation and abuse of police powers. The forty-year-old Southern Poverty Law Center is notorious for lionizing left-wing extremists (such as unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers) and equally notorious for smearing innocent individuals and organizations with the “racist,” “extremist,” “anti-semitic,” “anti-government,” and “hate group” labels. It is not surprising then that it has targeted Richard Mack for vicious treatment in a number of its publications and web sites over the years. But even more troubling than what it has published about him, says Sheriff Mack, are the lies that it has spread to law enforcement agencies about him in the seminars and training programs the SPLC conducts for federal, state, and local agencies.
Sheriff Mack, who was a speaker, along with this writer at the 53rd Anniversary Banquet of The John Birch Society in Sacramento, also announced to the assembled guests that he would also soon be filing papers to run in the Republican primary for the 21st Congressional District of Texas against incumbent Rep. Lamar Smith, whom Mack describes a “RINO” (Republican In Name Only). The 21st District includes much of San Antonio and Austin, as well as Fredericksburg, where Mack now resides.
In an interview with The New American after the banquet, Sheriff Mack, explained that he had contemplated a lawsuit against the SPLC for the past several months, but the difficulty, time, and expense of taking on such an endeavor against the well-funded organization had prevented him from doing so. In May of this year, however, he received a telephone call from an SPLC “reporter.” Mack says he was amazed and told the reporter: “This is really funny. You guys have been lying about me for 15 years and this is the first time you’ve bothered to call me.”
The reporter asked, “When did we ever lie about you?”
Sheriff Mack recounted the telephone conversation:
I said, well, recently you said I believe in shooting federal agents, killing federal agents — IRS agents in particular. I said I have never said anything like that. I don’t believe in violence. I spent 20 years in law enforcement and never slugged or slapped or hit or maced or shot another human being. So I don’t believe in violence and I’m not a violent perso
The SPLC reporter said he would check into that. Later that day, says Mack, he received a call from spokesman Mark Potok, who edits the organization’s Intelligence Report. Potok said, “Sheriff, we owe you an apology.”
Sheriff Mack says “I knocked on the phone and said ‘Is this really Mark Potok of the SPLC who doesn’t care who they lie about? I don’t trust you.’”
Mack says Potok then admitted, “We went back and reviewed the tape where we reported you advocated shooting agents and that isn’t what you said.”
Potok agreed to reprint a retraction. However, says Mack, the retraction was a tiny paragraph, compared to the massive coverage they had given to the earlier false charges about him. And it could not even begin to undo the vast damage they done in smearing his name and the CSPOA before other law enforcement agencies.
Mack pointed out that Sheriff Dwight Nothstein of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, for instance, has publicly compared Sheriff Mack to Hitler and repeated the SPLC charge that he has advocated shooting federal agents.
“It does hurt me to see that the SPLC, which does training for every federal law enforcement agency, including other police and sheriffs agencies all across the country, will actually tell these people that there’s something inherently wrong with someone who quotes the Founding Fathers and our Constitution,” he told The New American. “That’s all I’m guilty of. And isn’t it interesting that I’m called a racist, a bigot, a hate group monger, and I [supposedly] hate everybody because I simply quote American ideals as expressed by the Founding Fathers? That’s my ‘crime.’ And yet I get slandered all over the country to my fellow brothers and sisters in law enforcement.”
But the Sheriff is not one to let such things get him down; besides a busy speaking schedule, he is very active with a number of positive efforts and is always upbeat and optimistic. In addition to launching his SPLC lawsuit and a congressional campaign, he is also releasing his newly published book, The Magic of Gun Control (cover shown above) and gearing up for his CSPOA “Constitutional Sheriffs Convention” in January 2012 in Las Vegas. He is hoping to bring together 150-200 sheriffs from across the country, together with other law enforcement officers to discuss with them their role in the “lawful and peaceful way to restore the Constitution and its Bill of Rights as the supreme law of the land.”
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