Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 18, 2013

A few days after being sworn in as the new Sheriff of Canyon County, Idaho, Kieran Donahue  joined the growing number of county sheriffs who have resolved not to enforce unconstitutional federal gun laws within their jurisdictions.

According to Sheriff Donahue, Mr. Obama?s campaign for new gun restrictions is ?political posturing? that capitalizes on ?hysteria.? The sheriff made it clear that he would refuse to implement any federal gun policy at odds with his responsibility to ?uphold the Constitution.?

Unfortunately, that resolute statement of principled defiance was fatally undermined when Donahue expressed his willingness to continue his office?s collaboration in the patently unconstitutional federal ?war on drugs? ? and his indecent eagerness to accept new federal subsidies to deploy deputies to guard public schools as soon as they are available.

U.S. Attorney for Idaho Wendy Olson, who said that her office would fully comply with new federal firearms mandates, observed that the Canyon County Sheriff?s Office ? like most others in the country ? has officers who are cross-deputized to serve on federal task forces.

You take the nickel, you take the noose. With federal money come federal mandates, and no sheriff who collaborates with the federal government can protect his county against unconstitutional federal gun laws.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.