[Note:
The following letter was sent to Vice President Joe Biden from Josephine
County, Oregon Sheriff Gil Gilbertson regarding the Constitutional rights
of the second Amendment to the US Constitution.]
January
15, 2013
Vice
President Joe Biden
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20501
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20501
Dear
Mr. Vice President,
As
the elected Sheriff of this County, I am saddled with the duty, as well
as responsibility, to uphold the Constitution and protect those people
who placed their trust in me to do what is right.
I
believe in our Constitution and all it stands for. We, you and I, are
sworn to protect and defend our Constitution as required through the
“Oath of Office”. This same Constitutional form of government
provided us with the most privileged, and envied, country in world history.
Someone
once said our country would collapse from within, without a shot being
fired. No nation in the world can do more damage to the United States
than we can inflict upon ourselves. We are keenly aware of just that
by the accelerated pace in which our central (federal) government is
usurping the Constitution. This lends itself to a much broader discussion,
but for brevity sake I remain focused upon the Second, and Tenth Amendment
issues.
It
is so typical of the “big brother” mentality to punish the
masses, for the heinous crimes committed by a few despicable individuals.
The
Constitution, and Bill of Rights, guarantees liberties to the people.
These documents, as you know, cannot be whisked to the side by regulation
or executive order. According to these documents, the Executive and
Judicial branches were to have NO lawmaking powers. The question then
becomes how is it “executive” orders can be enforced as
if they were laws?
As
such, any rule, regulation, or executive order repugnant to the constitutional
rights of the citizens of this County will be ignored by this Office,
nor will this office, or the citizens, allow enforcement of unconstitutional
activities by federal officers.
We
refuse to participate, or allow our law-abiding citizens to be criminalized
through constitutionally repugnant actions by misguided intentions or
politicians.
Sheriff
Gilbertson further states:
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I sent a friend in Phoenix a post of yours and bragged on Arizona sheriffs. She told me that Joe Arpaio has organized a 3000 member volunteer posse to patrol the county schools. I responded that he and Richard Mack are national treasures and that citizen posse militias are the wave of the future. As Hyman Roth said in Godfather II, ah Michael if I only had 20 more years.
ReplyDelete:) Maybe you do!
DeleteI'll be kiss my ass!
ReplyDeleteI know Gil Gilbertson from his time here in Waterloo, Iowa, both as a police officer and as an Army Reservist.
He is a good man.
I'll be damned. :)
Wow. Small world!
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