Posted on 02/27/2013 7:01:28 AM PST by blam
The only authority any government official acts under is derived from the Constitution.
When they act contrary to the Constitution, they have no legitimate authority, so resisting their illegitimate use of force is legitimate on the part of the citizenry.
Folks in Guntersville need to vote out a bunch of politicians....and hire new law enforcement
And giving you the legal right to...refuse in much "stronger" terms.
“The very fact that they are asking for this power deserves this question:
Why are you proposing to deploy scarce law enforcement resources in the event of an emergency to focus on firearm confiscation from the general citizenry instead of protecting them from the criminal element which takes advantage of these emergencies? And how does that make you different from the criminal element?”
GOOD QUESTION. Something these folks need to be asking their representatives.
2/26/13
“Oakland Neighbors Policing Their Own Streets As They Lose Faith In Cops”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2991602/posts
this is to create “mandatory evacuation compliance”.
Notice how the effete elite politicos and constabulary NEVER talk about having the civilians help.
They only seek to contain civilians like animals. see astrodome.
see new orleans
this person should tender her resignation or else face recal.
“how about showing up for the hearing (in mass, with pitchforks, torches, buckets of tar and feathers...lots and lots of feathers) with a simple letter of resignation for the proponent to sign.”
JMHO
The meeting was probably held when "Dancing With The Stars" was on.
No way that this is Constitutional. If you legally own and possess your guns and are not engaged in the commission of a crime, the police have no authority to confiscate your guns no matter what some municipal by-law may say.
Mayor Leigh Dollar is damned if she does and damned if she don't.
I suspect the mayor knows her citizens pretty well, ...what they are capable of and in fact what they do in certain circumstances.
So, she has to decide whether the heat of the 2nd amendment people will be less than the heat that she will take if there is a disaster and what always happens during a disaster, in fact happens.
Is her first duty to protect the citizens, or protect the Constitution?..
If it was me, I'd protect the Constitution, for if it is destroyed, there is no protection for anyone.
That is the money quote. The police are under no legal obligation to protect citizens, they are armed for self protection not yours or mine. And why would officers want to protect themselves against armed ‘peaceable’ citizens anyway? Are they afraid they might do something that would create an ‘unruly’ citizen from one that was formally peaceable? What truly infuriates me is that the authorities want desperately to disarm you leaving you defenseless all the while knowing that they are immune from any legal ramifications as US citizens have NO Constitutional/legal right to police protection. MOLON LABE indeed!!
Unruly = bad attitude
You are correct sir. I have no problems with peace officers. I have a brother-in-law who is a leo for over 30 yrs. My uncle is a retired chief of police from two departments. Whenever an incident occurs with leo’s I always take a wait and see approach instead of jumping on the media’s bash the cops bandwagon. If they screwed up I say so, if they didn’t I defend the cops.
That being said if an officer decides to enforce this illegal law and gets wounded or killed and I am on the jury of the citizen they tried to disarm the citizen will walk.
The old line of “I was just following orders” was tried at Nuremberg, it didn’t work then and it won’t work with me now. The ballot box is a long gone joke. We are currently at the jury box and headed hell for leather for the ammo box. Sadly leo’s are going to have to decide in the future does their oath and principles mean anything or are they just doing their job and following orders.
Awesome. I’m a Town Meeting member in my town and see this happening a lot at the local level.
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