[CrackMonkey] SHERIFFS PUT FEDS ON CHOKE CHAINS (fwd)

Mon Jul 24 12:58:06 PDT 2000

I really gotta' run, but this looked too cool to pass up.  I'll read it
later.  -g

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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:41:11 -0700
From: American Patriot Friends Network <apfn at apfn.org>
To: American Patriot Friends Network <apfn at apfn.org>
Subject: SHERIFFS PUT FEDS ON CHOKE CHAINS

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Tenth Amendment
" The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited 
by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. "
http://www.azstarnet.com/~sandman/tenth.htm

SHERIFFS PUT FEDS ON CHOKE CHAINS
By V.N.S.
Edited for Publication by Sierra Times-
Posted: 07.24.00

VNS - County sheriffs in Wyoming are insisting
that all federal law enforcement officers and
personnel from federal regulatory agencies must
clear all their activities in a Wyoming county
with the Sheriff's Office.

Speaking at a press conference following the
recent US District Court decision (case No
2:96-cv-099-J) Bighorn County Sheriff Dave Mattis
stated that all federal officials are forbidden
to enter his county without his prior approval.

"If a sheriff doesn't want the Feds in his county
he has the constitutional power and right to keep
them out or ask them to leave or retain them in
custody."

The court decision came about after Mattis &
other members of the Wyoming Sheriffs'
Association brought a suit against both the BATF
and the IRS in the Wyoming federal court district
seeking restoration of the protections enshrined
in the United States Constitution and the Wyoming
Constitution.

The District Court ruled in favor of the
sheriffs, stating that, "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."

The Wyoming sheriffs are demanding access to all
BATF files to verify that the agency is not
violating provisions of Wyoming law that prohibit
the registration of firearms or the keeping of a
registry of firearm owners.  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 state courts.

Sheriff Mattis stated, "I am reacting 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."

This case is evidence that the Tenth Amendment is
not yet dead in the United States.  It may also
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 Tenth Amendment
explicitly reserves to the People, if they are
not granted to the federal government and
specifically prohibited to the States.

BIG HORN COUNTY INDEX
http://spacr.state.wy.us/cr/archives/county/bighorn/bighorn.htm

SHERIFFS
http://www.alacourt.org/ag/SHERIFFS.HTM#No.96-141

U.S. Constitution: Tenth Amendment 
Tenth Amendment - Reserved Powers 
Amendment Text | Annotations   
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor 
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, 
or to the people. 
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data/Constitution/amendment10/

RESERVED POWERS 
The Tenth Amendment was intended to confirm the understanding of the people at 
the time the Constitution was adopted, that powers not granted to the United States 
were reserved to the States or to the people.
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data/Constitution/amendment10/01.html
http://lakeland.cc.il.us/~bscism/ANG/sg/Glossary/Reserved_powers.htm

Constitutional Defense of Municipal Sovereignty:
http://www.bmoh.com/articles/260660.htm

NPR's "Talk of the Nation": The Tenth Amendment 
http://www.cato.org/links/tenth.html

This amendment, known also as the 'reserved powers amendment' addresses the 
legitimate authority and power of state government. It is establishing that: 
http://lakeland.cc.il.us/~bscism/ANG/sg/Glossary/10th_amend.htm

SHADEGG INTRODUCES TENTH AMENDMENT LEGISLATION
http://reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-7.25.1996.3.html

United States v. Lopez (93-1260), 514 U.S. 549 (1995). 
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1260.ZS.html
http://adnetsolfp2.adnetsol.com/ssl_claremont/lopez.cfm

JUSTICE THOMAS, concurring. 
http://terminal-frost.simplenet.com/document/thomas.html

Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court.
http://hcl.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/dye/docs/lopez.htm

Laws: Cases and Codes
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/

Case Law: 
   "Silence can only be equated with fraud when there is a legal or moral duty to   
speak, or when an inquiry left unanswered would be intentionally misleading... 
We cannot condone this shocking conduct... If that is the case we hope our message 
is clear. This sort of deception will not be tolerated and if this is routine it 
should be corrected immediately"
U.S. v. Tweel 550 F2d 297, 299-300. 
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/itsthelaw.htm

LawCrawler: Sheriff
Number of documents found: 82662 
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/scripts/lc.pl?entry=SHERIFF&sites=any&focus=CHECKED&context=top

THE WACO INVESTIGATOR
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagencies/july-dec99/danforth_9-9.html

FIVE WORDS AND TEN COMMANDMENTS TO VICTORY:
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