Jackson county, Mississippi, sheriff Mike Byrd was apparently a typical corrupt cop. If the accusations are true, he used his power to get everything from free lawnmower repair to a murder indictment against an innocent man.<\/p>\n
Alas, there’s nothing unusual about that. What’s unusual is the way the Christian Science Monitor<\/i> used Byrd as a tsk-tsking hook for an article<\/a> about how terribly, terribly dangerous the patriot-supported power of the sheriff is.<\/p>\n You know the belief: the sheriff, the highest elected<\/i> law-enforcement officer, is therefore the highest law enforcer, period. And — in desperate times — that makes him the final bastion of protection between the people and the federal government. So a lot of patriots hopefully say.<\/p>\n Maybe in some cases, it’ll actually be true. Who knows? Sheriffs in Wyoming have done some interesting things<\/a>. Sheriff Dave Mattis of Big Horn County, Wyoming (now retired), was an inspiration<\/a>. And Richard Mack (also now retired) was no slouch<\/a>. <\/p>\n The sheriff of my county is a nice guy but a devoted drug warrior and believer in financing his operations through stolen goods<\/a>. I expect he’s closer to the norm and will be a hindrance, not a help, if TSHTF. YMMV of course. But I doubt any of us here are going to wait for a cop to protect us, though we’d appreciate it if it happened.<\/p>\n The thing is, until so many sheriffs recently warned that they wouldn’t enforce new state or federal “gun control,” nobody, but nobody, outside of the patriot movement (or whatever you want to call it) paid the slightest attention to that claim. I never even saw anybody in the MSM bother to sniffily dismiss it. They just ignored<\/i> it (as they ignore so much else<\/a> on the “right” that’s even harder to ignore).<\/p>\n Now here comes the usually dispassionate and unbiased-looking (note I didn’t say actually unbiased<\/i>, though they’re usually pretty decent in their reporting) Christian Science Monitor<\/i> with a slant that could have come right out of the tabloids: OMG! There’s a crooked sheriff in the land! Look! We found him right there in Mississippi! That proves that all this stuff about sheriffs standing against the fedgov is dangerous! Evil! How could anybody want such criminals “defending” them against the good and noble deeds of Our Protectors in DC?<\/i><\/p>\n It’s hands-down the worst-argued piece I’ve ever read in the veddy august CSM.<\/p>\n Good. <\/p>\n I think somebody out there is scared. Which means they believe there’s a real resistance building. With teeth. Liberty’s teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jackson county, Mississippi, sheriff Mike Byrd was apparently a typical corrupt cop. If the accusations are true, he used his power to get everything from free lawnmower repair to a murder indictment against an innocent man. Alas, there’s nothing unusual about that. What’s unusual is the way the Christian Science Monitor used Byrd as a tsk-tsking hook for an article about how terribly, terribly dangerous the patriot-supported power of the sheriff is. You know the belief: the sheriff, the highest elected law-enforcement officer, is therefore the highest law enforcer, period. And — in desperate times — that makes him the…<\/p>\n