A member of the Oath Keepers, the far-right militia group that attempted earlier this year to stage a Bundy-style standoff with the Bureau of Land Management at a goldmine in Oregon, suggested in an interview with radio host Pete Santilli last week that the county sheriff should have “deputized” the Oath Keepers to stand against federal authorities in the mine dispute.
Scott Hicks, a member of the local Oath Keepers chapter and a leader of the Sugar Pine Mine effort, lamented to Santilli that the county sheriff had not joined their cause as a “constitutional sheriff,” a county sheriff who considers his or her authority to be superior to the authority of federal laws and federal agents.
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I do not think the BLM attack on the Sugar Pine Mine is over. However, you must admit that the so-called “Right Wing Watch” report above makes for good fodder.
David DeGerolamo
I totally agree with this thinking, our Sheriffs need the back up as well and by instituting a local militia will greatly harness there ability and there power to stop an invasion from an internal invading army.