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Today’s profile by Julian is of a man who connects the dots between the gun-nut fifth column in American law enforcement, local school board and city council anti-woke mania, and grassroots Christian Nationalist/QAnon crossover.
Like our other swamp creatures, his involvement in the chicanery around the last two elections make him a clear and present danger to democracy. With him, our poker hand improves to three of a kind, because like Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, he was also indicted by the Mueller Probe—and in his case, pled guilty—only to be granted a full presidential pardon by Donald Trump.
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I'm Julian Walker and this episode is titled, Let We The People Say Amen.
So, constitutional sheriffs.
Remember those?
Remember how back in 2020, Dr. Christiane Northrup paused her sweet grandmotherly Great Awakening video discourse on channeled readings and essential oils to tell her viewers they should read Antonin Scalia's opinion on Prince vs. the USA?
That's the 1997 SCOTUS decision which ruled that the Brady Bill which required background checks at gun shows violated the constitution.
She urged her warriors of light to find out who their local constitutional sheriff was because they supposedly had an authority that transcended state or federal laws.
Yeah, those guys.
They were formed in 2011 by, at that time, Oathkeeper Board member Richard Mack.
But over the last 12 years, their numbers have ballooned, and they now represent a majority of sheriffs across the country.
Having sprung up in opposition to gun control legislation in the wake of various mass shootings and armed with the false claim that their authority supersedes state or federal law, constitutional sheriffs took a stand in many counties against COVID measures as well and were in some cases involved along with militia and white supremacist groups in those voter intimidation tactics during the 2022 midterms.
Under the guise of ballot box poll watching while carrying assault rifles.
Some are also sympathetic to sovereign citizen-style claims of constitutional exemption to tax laws, land management and environmental policies, marriage equality, and even maintaining more stringent vigilante-style immigration enforcement of their own.
Now, given Constitutional Sheriff's association with militias who planned the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and the September 2022 leaked documents which showed hundreds of Oathkeeper members or past members active in law enforcement, military, and government duty, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that we have an insurrectionist fifth column in this country that, in the name of a reactionary take on the Constitution, has embraced an anti-democratic militancy and lie in wait.
But why am I telling you all this?
Well, a couple weeks ago Culpeper County Sheriff Richard Jenkins, who I mentioned at the top, was indicted on federal bribery charges.
Jenkins is alleged to have taken over $70,000 from three different men in exchange for officially deputizing them and providing law enforcement badges and credentials, which to be fair is exactly what he said he would do if the state tried to limit gun rights.
He just left out the lucrative cottage industry part.
I mean, look, free market capitalism is enshrined somewhere in the Constitution as written by Jesus and handed down by Ronald Reagan to Moses at Mount Rockwell, right?
The indictment says that Jenkins told or caused others to communicate to those who paid the bribes that the credentials provided would authorize them to carry concealed weapons in all 50 states without a permit.
Though charges related to this are not included in that indictment, there is also a recent news story from NBC4 in Washington showing that Jenkins may have also supplied someone he deputized with a $3,000 high-powered assault weapon registered to and paid for by the taxpayers of Culpeper County, Virginia.
The weapon was retrieved after a car accident in Dallas, Texas.
1250 miles away, and it was in a Wilson tennis bag along with 13 magazines of ammo.
After his charges, Scott Jenkins set up a GoFundMe page to help cover his legal fees.
