- The office of sheriff is a unique and special Constitutional
office. It is a part of the Check and Balance System. When a man becomes
a 'sheriff', he takes on the special responsibility of preserving and protecting
the rights, liberties, and freedoms of the people within his county against
unlawful acts, including any unlawful act committed by public officials
working in the government. He has a direct obligation toward the people
living within his county.
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- For over 200 years, the office of sheriff in the United
States has been an office that is controlled by the people through the
election process. He is elected as their choice to take hold as the chief
law enforcement officer in the county. The people place great trust in
him to provide protection for themselves against unlawful acts of all kinds,
including usurpation and sedition. This also includes illegal acts by agencies
of government. He takes an oath to uphold, preserve, and defend the Constitution
of the United States and the Constitution of the State in which his county
exists.
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- There is no lawful authority for judges or a court to
direct the law enforcement activities of a county sheriff. He is not part
of the judicial system. He holds executive power. He can set up a court,
empanel a jury, and can even try judges or federal officials who violate
the law.
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- The federal government is a servant of the people, and
the states, and has only the powers that have been enumerated and delegated
to it in the Constitution by the action of the people and the states. The
people retain all other powers not delegated to the federal government.
James Madison made it quite clear that delegated power of the people is
not surrendered power.
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- It is the duty of the federal government to guarantee
a republican form of government. It has no authority to build a military
government to satisfy desires for a New World Order. Ultimate authority
resides in the people. The federal government may not substitute its will
for the best interests and the will of the people, nor exercise authority
beyond the limits set out in the Constitution. Laws repugnant to the Constitution
are void.
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- The Sheriff must be advised of the instances in which
unlawful acts are committed. Power change is like electricity: not easily
seen, but the effects are strongly felt. This nation is undergoing massive,
frightful, and outrageous changes in its power structure, so much so that
an unwelcome militarized form of government is quietly spreading its network
over us.
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- The people's control over their local government ended
when the federal government took control over the "General Plans"
for cities and counties. Local control over city police departments ended
when the federal government acquired the nationwide "Standard-setting
Process" by using devices created by the Law Enforcement Assistance
Administration, a commission that was instituted under the Gun Control
Act of 1968.
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- Now, our sheriffs are being replaced by federal marshals
who are non-elected personnel, who are not obligated to take an oath to
the Constitution, and who are not beholden to the best interests of the
people. Marshals are federal legmen. Sheriffs have been elected to protect
our freedoms and to keep control local. The sheriff takes an oath to uphold
the Constitution of the United States and that of his State.
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- Have you checked your state Constitution? It should include
a stipulation that the office of sheriff must be an elective office. Does
it? This effort can be enhanced by having the county Board of Supervisors
pass an ordinance to support the urgency of retaining the sheriff as one
who must be elected by the people. It is important to make sure that this
requirement is there as it is a barrier erected against the plans of the
federal government to federalize all civilian law enforcement systems.
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- Voters in some states have been persuaded to reduce the
steadfastness of good sheriffs by approving propositions at the polls that
reduce sheriffs to an appointive position. This action is the first-step
in a two-step maneuver to eliminate the sheriff entirely and replace him
with an appointed federal marshal. Speak to trustworthy elected officials
in your county, including your county attorney, to see what defense you
may undertake against these plans to eliminate sheriffs and replace them
with appointed federal marshals.
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- Don't let happen to your State that which has already
happened in the State of Connecticut:[1] a movement which threatens to
destroy the nation's Constitutional system of sheriff authority. Is Connecticut's
problem not a classic textbook example of "thesis, antithesis, and
synthesis"?
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- The sheriff, the last vestige of local control of government
by the people, is being engineered to fall under the consolidated power
of the federal government for military operation of the United States under
international sovietized management. Only an informed population will prevent
it from happening!
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- Second Amendment Committee
- P.O. Box 1776 Hanford, California 93232
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