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To: Mr. Silverback
I would be fine with ditching pretty much any federal law enforcement agency (except the Marshals) but how would we handle legitimate federal enforcement in that case?

Get the local sheriff to do it, that's how it used to be done. Marshals would enforce the law in territories without elected sheriffs, and they would enforce the orders of federal courts, just like they often do now. Since in most places the sheriff is elected, he won't be enforcing any federal laws which most of his electorate think are unconstitutional.

Remember at Ruby Ridge it was the federal marshals who fired the first shots (at the dog!). Of course the Marshals were lied to by the BATFE, but if they've not learned to not trust those bad apples, they deserve whatever comes from believing them. Same thing happened, to a lessor extent, to the FBI at Waco.

230 posted on 07/01/2008 3:56:09 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

Interesting ideas. I’ll throw it in the hopper for Constitution version 2.0. We’ll call it the El Gato clause.


273 posted on 07/01/2008 8:25:30 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (*******It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.******)
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