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Sheriff Richard Mack, FES Austin, 2012/12/15
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Former Sheriff Richard Mack discusses his efforts to organize sheriffs across the country to defend the Constitution, at the Free Enterprise Society meeting in Austin, Texas, Dec. 15, 2012
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I'm I'm only going to be here a few
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minutes and I just wanted to give you an
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update of what we're doing and the
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success that we're having at the uh
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cspoa okay um it's constitutional
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Sheriff's and Peace Officers Association
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and yes we are doing this uh just as
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much as we can afford to and I say that
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because we need funding really badly and
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and we're only limited by our funding
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and so um any of you that would like to
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help us with the funding uh we've had
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two miracles happened in this in this
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year uh January 30th we had our first
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constitutional sheriff and peace officer
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convention in Las Vegas it was
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absolutely miraculous uh we raised
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enough money to fly in a 100 sheriffs
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from all over the country we paid for
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their airfare their hotel their food
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everything and um then we did another
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one September 17th Constitution Day and
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we didn't have as many sheriffs but we
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had more uh County uh Commissioners and
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city councilmen and state reps and and
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people that were really across the
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country wanted to get more involved and
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and uh what we did is we put it we put
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together uh evidence for you uh we put
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together a DVD set of what happened
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there and we had about uh 14 sherff
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speak we had uh let me just listen uh
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read the names of of the people that
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you'll see on there Chris Anne Hall
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she's a constitutional lawyer from
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Florida Stuart rhods Larry Pratt Michael
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badner Joe Bannister I think you've
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heard of him Peggy Littleton she's a
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county commissioner from Colorado Bill
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Jasper uh he's uh investigator reporter
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with JBS uh Ken iory he's a State Rep
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from Utah uh Joel Wolverton and yours
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truly and then there's several other
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sheriffs on here uh including Sheriff
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Arpaio uh from Maricopa County and I was
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just in his office over the uh uh
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Thanksgiving holiday and he's uh
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expressed a desire to get more involved
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with us and we've expressed a desire in
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getting more involved in what he has
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done uh I don't know if you realize this
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but uh the media has ignored probably
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the biggest story in the world in the
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world not just us in the world where a
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sheriff has actually conducted a
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criminal investigation on the president
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of the United States oh yeah which is
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suspect because the whole investigation
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is that he's not really qualified to be
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president of the United States so that's
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kind of a conflict of terms right there
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um
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but we we want to get more involved to
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get our sheriffs that have expressed a
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desire to be a constitutional Sheriff to
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get more involved in that investigation
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and what you have in front of you is a
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pamphlet about the cspoa and I want I
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want you to know the value of this
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little thing here and and that this is
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the highlights of my Supreme Court
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Victory and I'll be the first one to
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tell you we need to stop going to court
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we need to stop asking permission from
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somebody who has nothing to do with what
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I'm supposed to be doing in the first
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place and that is sheriffs who simply
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act instead of act asking permission to
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keep their oath of office something
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they've already promised you and in
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God's name that they would be doing in
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the first place and so that's what we do
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at
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cspoa let me
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reiterate we are
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simply going as far as our funding takes
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us and so we're trying now to take the
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cspoa into every state we want to go to
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every state legis uh uh Sheriff's
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Association just two nights ago I was in
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right here in Austin at the Expo Center
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meeting all 60 new Texas
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sheriffs and and so they had this little
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banquet and Convention and so cspoa
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helped sponsor that Convent that uh
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banquet and we were there and we were
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handing out all these things to all
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these new
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sheriffs and uh many of them came up and
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said hey thank you for your endorsement
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and uh one guy who uh lost his race said
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hey I just uh he said I'm really sorry
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he says we didn't connect he says if I
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had your endorsement I probably would
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have made up the 25 votes I lost by and
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so now he's the unders sheriff in a
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neighboring County and and so he's still
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active and still going and we have a
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very sad story uh right in here of John
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Green who I uh endorsed and went up to
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Idaho a campaign here is a
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constitutional attorney running for
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sheriff in in uh what county Cy cutney
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cutney County which is C Idaho uh way up
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north in Idaho and I went up there to
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campaign for him because he's a good man
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and he's a constitutionalist and he
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knows and understands the position and
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power of the sheriff and that is what
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we're doing and let me tell you
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something right
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now there's a lot of people here that
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you'll listen to that are talking about
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things that we need to know
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about I I considered uh Larry bcft and
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Joe banister and John very very close
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and dear
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friends and I love what they've done and
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I love the courage that they've shown in
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standing for America and Steve also I've
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known Steve probably longer than any of
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them
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and you you need to know what's going on
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but let me tell you right now your
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Sheriff can make a lot of this stuff
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irrelevant and he can make Washington DC
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irrelevant and he can he can provide you
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every type of protection that you've
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ever dreamed of if he'll know and
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understand and do his
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duty and and in this uh Supreme Court
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decision it talks about a lot of this
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and uh do you know that this decision
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right here it says on the front it's the
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MC prince versus US
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case I was a smalltown sheriff in
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Southern Arizona along with Sheriff
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Prince a small toown sheriff in
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Northwest uh
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Montana rali
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County and the two of us go to the
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United States Supreme Court saying the
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federal government can't do this in our
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in our
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jurisdictions and luckily the Supreme
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Court agreed with us because even if
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they didn't they still wouldn't have the
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jurisdiction to do it and we shouldn't
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have asked for permission to tell the
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federal government
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no and your Sheriff has the duty and the
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obligation to enforce the Constitution
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and the Bill of Rights in your county
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what does that do for you if he knows
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and understands his duty to uphold
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protect and preserve the United States
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Constitution then he knows when the IRS
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comes in to take your property that he
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interposes on your
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behalf and that's what we've been
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teaching and now we've had had over 150
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sheriffs come to our convention where
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we've taught this
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stuff and we have more that are
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interested some can't travel some won't
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go to Vegas and now we're we've promised
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some other sheriffs that we would have
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conventions in other
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places and right now we don't have the
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money to do
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it if you want your Sheriff's to get
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involved in this holy cause of Liberty
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I'm asking for your help and
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support and uh we are selling U I've
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written I've written a book recently
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just that's very timely as to what
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happened in uh Colorado and now
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Connecticut that uh it's called The
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Magic of gun
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control my dear friends you
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saw what
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happens when people rely on something
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called gunfree school
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zone you know what were the kids to do
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point to the
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sign to this Maniac idiot coward
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you know it's really gotten to where the
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gun grabbers in this country expect that
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to be so that the sign will stop the
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bullets the laws and the paper they're
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written on will stop the guns and if we
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all just do as Bloomberg said give up
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our guns and we're all going to be in a
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safer place right and yet you know for
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that to work my dear friends for that to
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be
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true it would have to be
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magic thus the title and you can read in
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this this a chapter dedicated to uh law
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enforcement officers and public
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officials who have actually already
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enforced the constitution in the past
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and uh you you can see that in here and
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I'm sorry the the book that I wrote that
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went viral uh the county sheriff
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America's Last Hope uh we're out of
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those right now that's the good news the
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bad news you can't get any you'll have
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to order some if you want to get some
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later but this book uh can make up for a
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lot of it and this is probably the most
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powerful tool except for your little
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pocket Constitution
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and let's look at one of the things that
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U that Scalia said on page
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nine second
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paragraph
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if if a
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sheriff does some of these things for
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you so so imagine that you won't have to
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find some great lawyer like banister had
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that you won't have to go spend uh your
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life
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savings that that uh many of us have
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done and I know how that feels in the
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lawsuit that I took on and and these
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things take so much money but the NRA
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helped finance a lot of mine too but I
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hired my own personal lawyer as well and
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that came out of my own personal pocket
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but it cost about $450,000 to get to the
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Supreme Court any of you have that line
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around don't go to court give it to the
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cspa so we can keep educating sheriffs
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where you won't have to go to court but
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I really love this quote and he's
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actually quoting
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Madison hence a double security arises
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to the rights of the people
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how does that double security arise to
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you my dear
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friends when local officials especially
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your Sheriff interpose on your behalf
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that is how it applies to you hence a
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double security arises to the rights of
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the
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people read the next line the different
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governments will control each other my
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dear friends I didn't make that up I'm
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I'm the messenger here and I can
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plagiarize this all I want to can't I
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because it was my case I went to the
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United States Supreme Court as a sheriff
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of Graham County Arizona and
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won three weeks later I left office I
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was voted out because I stood for what I
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believed in but you know who cares you
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know this these things are going to
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happen and and I we're telling the
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sheriffs quit worrying about your
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retirement quit worrying about your jobs
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and do your duty that you swore to do
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when you took your job you swore to do
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that so uh let me just let me just leave
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you with this
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um this cost
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$49.95 we've got a Christmas special of
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15% off which I get take it down to 45
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and five we usually have to send for pay
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for shipping no Tanya's been sending
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these out all over the country all week
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long with my wife so we'll we'll do
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these for 4 bucks so uh one silver coin
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will get you this two silver coins will
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get you everything plus a t-shirt okay
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uh or if you do frns we'll just have to
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work that out between us I guess won't
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we if you give me worthless paper like
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that yeah we'll take it but uh we prefer
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uh silver or gold or whatever you
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whatever you can are you going to be
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here a little bit longer because I have
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to leave folks uh my wife's waiting for
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me right now we're headed to go see our
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kids for Christmas holidays and we're
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going to going to kind of do a tour
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we're starting up in Utah and then go
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down to Arizona and we're leaving right
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now uh and but I'll stay here and help
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you with this and if any of you want to
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get these fantastic products this right
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here is the miracle in Las Vegas you
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don't want to miss seeing this and
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there's six DVDs in here uh of what we
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did and you can see the evidence
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yourself that there are sheriffs
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standing and we have now over 150 across
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the country and you know miraculously
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where we have about 9 10 wonderful
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sheriffs standing and fighting and
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interposing
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California but it's Northern okay it
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ain't La in San Diego and and we we've
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actually had a constitutional sheriff in
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San Bernardino in the past who was
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fought who fought Sheriff Penrod who who
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fought against the for service at BLM
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and we're we're doing this folks because
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of one reason and one reason
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only the holy cause of Liberty as
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Patrick Henry called it because do hence
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a double security arises to the rights
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of the people wouldn't you love to have
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a sheriff like Sheriff Brad Rogers who
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threatened to arrest the FDA just a year
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ago for coming in and bothering an Amish
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farmer who wouldn't pasturize his mil
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there's other Amish farmers and a men
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and I also in Wisconsin who are being
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charged criminally because they won't
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get licenses or they won't pasteurize
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their milk and we're helping these
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people as best we can and uh I guarantee
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you folks you look down at your hands
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that's where the solution lies in all of
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this so get involved with us join us go
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to our website cpa.org and Steve thank
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you so much you're a brother and a good
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friend and and I thank all of you and uh
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if there was ever a time for the Prince
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of Peace it's now Merry Christmas
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[Applause]
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