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Archae

(46,318 posts)
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 05:50 PM Feb 2015

Far-right former sheriff totally screws up history...

Then again, seeing as we fought WW2 against fascists like Mack...

And BTW, if Obama is a "tyrant," why is Mack and his cronies not dead or in maximum security prisons?

Richard Mack, the former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, who now heads the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, told Steve Deace yesterday that although he is a “pacifist,” states and counties need to enforce their “sovereignty” in areas like marriage equality and gun control, or else “we will lose liberty in America, and we will not get it back unless there’s bloodshed.” Mack, who argues that county sheriffs are not accountable to federal authority and so should not enforce laws that they believe violate the Constitution, told Deace that America has been losing liberty for a long time, but “it took a tyrant and communist in our own White House to wake a lot of people up.”

(snip)

Mack also agreed with Deace that Obama is a communist, saying, “You’d have be stupid not to know that he’s a Marxist.” “We fought two world wars to stop communism in this country,” he said.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/richard-mack-bloodshed-may-be-needed-if-state-sovereignty-not-preserved#sthash.BtFGXtQw.dpuf

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former9thward

(31,981 posts)
14. Lenin was transported from Switzerland to St.Peterburg
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 06:43 PM
Feb 2015

by the Germans to foment revolution and take Russia out of the war. Which is exactly what he did.

valerief

(53,235 posts)
6. When we "lose liberty in America" what do we lose?
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 06:03 PM
Feb 2015

What the hell does liberty mean to these asshats?

jmowreader

(50,553 posts)
15. I think you know but you don't want to believe it
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 06:50 PM
Feb 2015

To people like Richard Mack, "liberty" means the freedom to live exactly the way they want you to.

jmowreader

(50,553 posts)
17. It is exactly that
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 07:59 PM
Feb 2015

It's not "you have the freedom to live the way you want," it's "you have the freedom to live the way they want."

They don't want you to have a gay marriage, so (if they had their way) not only would you not have one, they'd have the right to punish you for wanting one. There are plenty of people on the far right who believe homosexuality should be illegal.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
9. We have one of these RW officials serving on our local Board of Supervisors.
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 06:07 PM
Feb 2015

He said that Native Americans in Lake County Calif. had never contributed anything to society, as they did not have a written down history.

Then he voted to allow a rich and influential couple to build their million dollar home and building complex right over a site of archaeological remains in which many experts had expressed great interest.

And it should also be noted that the Pomo and Miwok Indians can trace their history back some 10,000 years, while we are only at 239 years and counting.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
11. how did all that state sovereignty argument go over
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 06:10 PM
Feb 2015

before the American Civil War?
Was that not the point of the war?
Sounds like he went to Oklahoma for American History (Revised)101

So now sheriffs are the Supreme Law of the County?
Can a county re-establish slavery under this new principle? take away the vote from women or minorities?

Maybe his hatband is a little too tight and there is a loss of blood flow to the brain.

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