Subject: WYOMING SHERIFFS PUT FEDERAL OFFICERS ON CHOKE-CHAINS
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:38:53 -0400

 WYOMING SHERIFFS PUT FEDERAL OFFICERS ON CHOKE-CHAINS

County sheriffs in Wyoming are insisting that all federal law
enforcement officers and personnel from federal regulatory agencies
must clear all their activities in a Wyoming county with the Sheriff's
Office. Speaking at a press conference following the recent US
District Court decision (US District Court case No 2:96-cv-099-J was
settled out of court.) Speaking at a press conference following the
settlement, Bighorn County Sheriff Dave Mattis stated that all federal
officials are forbidden to enter his county without his prior approval.
"If a sheriff doesn't want the Feds in his county he has the constitutional
power and right to keep them out or ask them to leave or retain them in
custody. I am reacting to the actions of federal employees who have
attempted to deprive citizens of my county of their privacy, their
liberty, and their property without regard to constitutional safeguards."


"If a sheriff doesn't want the Feds in his county he has the
constitutional power and right to keep them out or ask them to leave
or retain them in custody." The court decision came about after Mattis
& other members of the Wyoming Sheriffs' Association brought a suit
against both the BATF and the IRS in the Wyoming federal court
district seeking restoration of the protections enshrined in the
United States Constitution and the Wyoming Constitution. The District
Court ruled in favor of the sheriffs, stating that, "Wyoming is a
sovereign state and the duly elected sheriff of a count y is the
highest law enforcement official within a county and has law
enforcement powers exceeding that of any other state or federal official."
Note:  This may apply to Wyoming and almost all other states
          BUT NOT TEXAS.  The Texas sheriffs have been neutered
          by the sheeple's state legislature.  See footnote...... Bob

The Wyoming sheriffs are demanding access to all BATF files to verify
that the agency is not violating provisions of Wyoming law that
prohibit the registration of firearms or the keeping of a registry of
firearm owners. The sheriffs are also demanding that federal agencies
immediately cease the seizure of private property and the impoundment
of private bank accounts without regard to due process in state courts.

Sheriff Mattis stated: "I am reacting to the actions of federal
employees who have attempted to deprive citizens of my county of their
privacy, their liberty, and their property without regard to
constitutional safeguards. I hope that more sheriffs all across
America will join us in protecting their citizens from the illegal
activities of the IRS, EPA, BATF, FBI, or any other federa l agency
that is operating outside the confines of constitutional law.
Employees of the IRS and the EPA are no longer welcome in Bighorn
County unless they intend to operate in conformance to constitutional law."

This case is evidence that the Tenth Amendment is not yet dead in the
United States. It may also be interpreted to mean that political
subdivisions of a State are included within the meaning of the
amendment, or that the powers exercised by a sheriff are an extension
of those common law powers which the Tenth Amendment explicitly
reserves to the People, if they are not granted to the federal
government and specifically prohibited to the States.

> http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a387ec3ea6413.htm

(Comment: Constitutionally the sheriff is the highest and only elected
law-enforcement officer in the state. Also, agencies that are part of
the executive branch do not have jurisdiction outside DC. To it's ever
lasting disgrace the Legislature of Mass. has abolish the Sheriffs in
the state that gave us Lexington, Boston and Concord! This was totally
un-constitutional and never should have happened! Without the Sheriff
you have no elected law enforcement office! The State Troopers are an
arm of the governor's office and have no constitutional standing.)

"Wyoming is a sovereign state and the duly elected sheriff is the
highest law enforcement official and has law enforcement powers
exceeding that of any other state or federal official."