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Michigan's Constitutional Sheriff Problem [1]

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Date: 2023-04-08  

How do you know if your sheriff belongs to this club? The CSPOA does not publish a public list of members, but there are ways to find out. Some proudly announce they are members, and some like to wear CSPOA swag. Some of them even list their membership on their LinkedIn profile. Another way to find out is to check and see if your county adopted an unenforceable, legally nonbinding 2A sanctuary county resolution with the endorsement of the local county sheriff. Finally, did your county sheriff refuse to enforce state COVID-19 guidelines during the pandemic? They are likely a member of the “posse.” There are even sheriff candidates who are already members of the CSPOA.

The fundamental belief of CSPOA posse members is that they are the highest law enforcement authority in the United States. Richard Mack borrowed this concept from Henry Lamont Beach. Beach was a white supremacist going back to the Silver Shirts days. He wrote a pamphlet known as the “Blue Book.” This book falsely claims the county sheriff has the authority to ignore any law he doesn’t want to enforce. The Blue Book also describes a posse of armed county citizens who can work in place of the sheriff and even make arrests. This is where the idea of “citizen militias” comes from. All “constitutional” sheriffs have a group of armed citizens working with them.

Richard Mack hasn’t been doing much with the CSPOA lately, focusing more on stealing money from the ivermectin pushers.

Michigan will have laws that effectively work to prevent mass shootings. However, those laws are only effective when enforced by state and local law enforcement. Constitutional sheriffs have had decades to entrench themselves into communities and convince local Democratic Parties to vote for them. The Democratic Party-controlled state government will need to address this problem if they want the new laws to be enforced everywhere in Michigan.

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