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Anyone from Wyoming know anything about this? I thought Federal law
superceded state law, which supercedes local law. Our givernment teacher is
wondering too.
>
>Someone sent this to me who lives in Wyoming. This is so great=20
>*****
>SHERIFFS PUT FEDS ON CHOKE CHAINS
>V.N.S. - Edited for Publication by Sierra Times - Posted: 07.24.00
>
>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 The Tenth Amendment explicitly reserves powers to the People,
>if they
>are not granted to the federal government and specifically prohibited to
>the
>States.
>
><<It takes a lot of brains to enjoy satire, humor and wit....but NONE to
>be offended by them!>>
>
> <(c=BFc)>
>
>73
>
>David, KBOZKE
>kb0zke@arrl.net
>
>
David Lininger (KB0ZKE), LMS
Hickory County R-1 Schools
Rt 1, Box 838
Urbana, MO 65767
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