Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
January 30, 2014
UPDATE: Police Chief Shane Harger and Sheriff Richard Mack will both appear on Infowars Nightly News tonight to discuss this story. Harger is meeting with other Jemez Springs law enforcement officials tonight to discuss his position.
Image: Police Chief Shane Harger.
A police chief was detained and harassed by federal agents while
traveling to a constitutional convention before returning home to be told he was
being placed on administrative leave and ordered to disband his police
department after signing a pledge to uphold the bill of rights.
Police Chief Shane Harger of the Jemez Springs, NM Police
Department was flying out of Albuquerque Airport last week on his way to a
Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) convention taking
place in Las Vegas. CSPOA is an
organization headed up by Sheriff Richard Mack under which law enforcement
officers gather to re-affirm their commitment to uphold and defend the
Constitution.
Before passing security, Harger was approached by a TSA agent who
asked the police chief to show his credentials. Moments later, a man claiming to
be a “federal agent” also asked to see Harger’s credentials before telling him
he was a “person of interest.” The federal agent then demanded to know where
Harger was traveling to and why.
When Harger told the federal agent he was attending the
Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association Convention in Las Vegas,
he was detained for 35 minutes before finally being allowed to board the
airplane.
On Tuesday January 28, a day after his return, Harger was placed
on administrative leave and ordered by Sandoval County, NM, Sheriff Douglas C.
Wood to disband his entire police department due to his “political
affiliations”.
What were his political affiliations? While attending the
convention, Harger, along with 38 other police officers, signed a declaration
affirming their pledge to “obey and observe” the U.S. Constitution, in addition
to refusing to carry out unconstitutional orders such as gun confiscation
without constitutionally compliant warrants, violations of the 4th amendment
without probable cause, detainment or incarceration of citizens without probable
cause, or working with the military for domestic law enforcement.
In other words, Harger was targeted for federal harassment and
subsequently suspended for re-affirming his belief in the very Constitution he
took an oath to uphold and protect in order to become a police officer in the
first place.
“Despite having received a meritorious commendation from the Mayor
of Jemez Springs on January 22, 2014, it seems that no one in the village
government is willing to come to the assistance of Harger. It appears that
Harger’s stance to defend and uphold the Constitution has put him and his entire
department of ten part-time and volunteers out of business,” writes
Vincent Finelli.
“I was at the convention and I never saw nor heard anyone say nor
do anything that was a violation of any law. The CSPOA convention was an
assembly of peace-loving Americans who just wanted to uphold their oath of
office, that being to support and defend the US Constitution and Bill of Rights
for all of us, We The People,” adds Finelli.
Harger’s treatment is yet another disturbing indication that the
federal government, in addition to law enforcement authorities, view Americans
who support the bill of rights as domestic extremists. Harger’s position as
Chief of Police also shows that they are desperate to prevent citizens who
identify as constitutionalists, tea partiers or libertarians from holding any
position of influence within law enforcement or society in general.
Harger’s potential dismissal for his patriotic and constitutional
“political affiliations” is a chilling reminder that such positions are not only
not welcomed but actively discriminated against by the federal government.
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