Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
January 25, 2013
Arizona’s Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has sent a letter to Obama stating
that he will not obey unconstitutional executive orders banning firearms.
Babeu criticizes Obama and the political class in Washington for exploiting
the Sandy Hook massacre and other tragic events to push an unprecedented gun
control agenda.
“Do you honestly feel that any criminal or someone who is mentally ill will
obey an executive order made by you related to ‘gun control?’” he writes in the
letter dated January 16.
“I have sworn a solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution
of the United States of America when I was first sworn in as an Army Private,
later as an Army Officer, then as a Police Officer and now twice as the
constitutionally elected Sheriff,” he writes. “You too Mr. President have taken
the same oath, therefore I am gravelly alarmed – just as most Americans are that
you would attempt to circumvent the Constitution of the United States.”
He then informs Obama that he will not obey “any ‘law’ or regulation created
by an executive order of your office which is contrary to what the Constitution
of the United States of America says” and pledges that he will not infringe on
the Second Amendment rights of American citizens in Pinal County, Arizona.
Obama and the White House have not responded to Babeu’s letter.
Here is the letter in its entirety:
Dear Mr. President,
Last year, I was re-elected overwhelmingly to my second term as Sheriff
of Pinal County, Arizona. The citizens of Pinal County have placed their sacred
trust into my hands and the hands of my office to keep them and their families
safe.
Our nation has seen several tragic attacks against innocent adults and
children by criminals armed with guns. Because of these attacks, many
politicians including yourself have used these tragic events as a means to push
their agenda related to “gun control.”
America has seen an even higher number of our citizens killed by impaired
drivers involved in automobile collisions. Why are you not seeking to remove
vehicles from our roadways?….it’s because you realize it’s the drivers who are
at fault and not the vehicle they were driving. This same analogy holds true
with these shootings….it’s not the gun that’s at fault but rather the criminals
who use them. Do you honestly feel that any criminal or someone who is mentally
ill will obey an executive order made by you related to “gun control?” Criminals
get their name, because they don’t follow our laws already Mr. President. I have
sworn a solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the
United States of America when I was first sworn in as an Army Private, later as
an Army Officer, then as a Police Officer and now twice as the constitutionally
elected Sheriff. You too Mr. President have taken the same oath, therefore I am
gravelly alarmed – just as most Americans are that you would attempt to
circumvent the Constitution of the United States.
The most important office in our republic is that of a private citizen. You
are not a dictator or a king, who can act unilaterally and ignore our
legislative process of law making. All elected leaders are empowered as a
trustee of the people we are elected to serve. We are given designated and
limited powers. Your actions and quest for unconstitutional power threatens the
future of our sacred Republic and the Liberty we all hold so dear. Your own
administration during, “Operation Fast and Furious” facilitated and approved the
transfer of over 2,000 weapons to the Mexican Drug Cartels who the Mexican
Government is at war against and over 60,000 people have been killed. Those same
weapons have made their way back into the United States and have been used to
kill and injure our citizens and members of law enforcement, yet now you
threaten to use an executive order to take away the 2nd Amendment Rights of our
citizens?
Mr. President, if you attempt to carry through with your proposal, it will
hinder the ability of good citizens to defend and protect themselves and others
against those who wish to cause them harm through the use of deadly force. Your
actions would turn many good citizens, who wish to maintain their God given
Constitutional Rights to bear arms, into criminals.
I am writing you this letter today to inform you that any “law” or regulation
created by an executive order of your office which is contrary to what the
Constitution of the United States of America says, shall be deemed as unlawful
and shall not be carried out by myself or my office.
I will also push for legislation which would make it a crime for any federal
law enforcement officer to infringe upon any of Constitutional rights of the
citizens I am sworn to protect. Neither myself nor you have any right to
infringe upon the 2nd Amendment Constitutional Rights of our citizens. Former
President Ronald Regan said it best, “The right of the citizen to keep and bear
arms must not be infringed if liberty in America is to survive.”
With grave concern,
Paul Babeu, Sheriff
Pinal County, Arizona
Friday, January 25, 2013
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