[CitizensTruth] Fw: Good news. Wyoming sheriffs put Feds in their place.

[Daniel Stafford]

Wow. Someone tell me this is true.

Dan

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> *Sent:* Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:46 PM

> *Subject:* RE: Good news. Wyoming sheriffs put Feds in their place.

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> Yeah, I was just gonna ask, how does that affect Joe in Maricopa 

> Country, who's a total nutcase.

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>     Subject: Fwd: Fw: Good news. Wyoming sheriffs put Feds in their

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>     That's welcome news, because our Maricopa County sheriff Joe

>     Arpaio in AZ has gone wild and lawless.  Like Bush, he thinks he's

>     above the law. :(

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>         Subject: Fw: Good news. Wyoming sheriffs put Feds in their place.

>         Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:40:37 -0700

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>         *Sent:* Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:11 PM

>         *Subject:* Good news. Wyoming sheriffs put Feds in their place.

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>         Wyoming sheriffs put Feds in their place.

>          

>         Here's one the mainstream media isn't going to tell you:

>         County  sheriffs in Wyoming are demanding that federal agents

>         actually abide  by the Constitution, or face arrest. Even

>         better, a U.S. District  Court agreed according to the Keene

>         Free Press:

>          The court decision was the result of a suit against both the

>         BATF  and the IRS by Mattis and other members of the

>         WyomingSheriff's  Association. The suit in the Wyoming federal

>         court district sought  restoration of the protections

>         Constitution and the Wyoming Constitution.

>          Guess what? The District Court ruled in favor of the

>         sheriffs. In  fact, they stated,Wyoming is a sovereign state

>         and the duly elected  sheriff of a county is the highest law

>         enforcement official within a  county and has law enforcement

>         powers exceeding that of any other  state or federal

>         official." Go back and re-read this quote. The court confirms

>         and asserts that "the duly elected sheriff of a  county is the

>         highest law enforcement official within a county and  has law

>         enforcement powers EXCEEDING that of any other state OR 

>         federal official." And you thought the 10th Amendment was dead

>         and  buried — not in Wyoming, not yet.Bighorn County Sheriff

>         Dave Mattis  comments:

>          "If a sheriff doesn't want the Feds in his county he has the 

>         constitutional right and power to keep them out, or ask them

>         to  leave, or retain them in custody." "I am reacting in

>         response to the actions of federal employees who  have

>         attempted to deprive citizens of my county of their privacy, 

>         their liberty, and their property without regard to

>         constitutional  safeguards. I hope that more sheriffs all

>         across America will join  us in protecting their citizens from

>         the illegal activities of the  IRS, EPA, BATF,FBI, or any

>         other federal agency that is operating  outside the confines

>         of constitutional law. Employees of the IRS and  the EPA are

>         no longer welcome in Bighorn County unless they intend  to

>         operate in conformance to constitutional law."The

>         implications  are huge:

>          But it gets even better. Since the judge stated that the

>         sheriff  "has law enforcement powers EXCEEDING that of any

>         other state OR  federal official," the Wyoming sheriffs are

>         flexing their muscles.  They are demanding access to all BATF

>         files.

>         Why? So as to verify  that the agency is not violating

>         provisions of Wyoming law that  prohibits the registration of

>         firearms or the keeping of a registry  of firearm owners. This

>         would be wrong.

>          

>          The sheriffs are also demanding that federal agencies

>         immediately  cease the seizure of private property and the

>         impoundment of private  bank accounts without regard to due

>         process in Wyoming state courts.

>          This case is not just some amusing mountain melodrama. This

>         is a BIG  deal. This case is yet further evidence that the

>         10th Amendment is  not yet totally dead, or in a complete

>         decay in the United States. 

>          It is also significant in that it can, may, and hopefully

>         will be  interpreted to mean that "political subdivisions of a

>         State are  included within the meaning of the amendment, or

>         that the powers  exercised by a sheriff are an extension of

>         those common law powers  which the 10th Amendment explicitly

>         reserves to the People, if they  are not granted to the

>         federal government or specifically prohibited  to the States."

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