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big_dog

(4,144 posts)
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 08:34 PM Dec 2014

Far-Right Anti-Government Group Plans Political Takeover Of Navajo County, Arizona

Source: Right Wing Watch

Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff and popular “Patriot” movement speaker, gave a speech in Pueblo, Colorado, in which he announced that he was launching a new bid for public office.

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Mack said that he would be moving to Navajo County, Arizona, to run as the county sheriff in 2016 and told the members of the Tea Party group in his audience, “I need some backup and I wouldn’t mind if you went there, too.”

He wasn’t joking. In fact, Mack is the most prominent recruit of a group that is seeking to stage a political takeover of the sprawling rural county as an experiment in creating a local government that will ignore and “nullify” federal laws — such as federal lands restrictions and gun regulations — that its leaders believe to be unconstitutional.

Mack explained the plan in a speech to this weekend’s “I Won’t Comply” demonstration in Olympia, Washington, which gathered anti-government activists from around the country to protest a new state law requiring background checks on most gun purchases.
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NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
2. I sure hope our current ridiculous interpretation of the 2nd amendment
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 08:46 PM
Dec 2014

means this jackass and thousands of his buddies are armed to the teeth and may be killing innocent folks soon..






OregonBlue

(7,744 posts)
3. How come this state has so many absolute nutcases. It used to be purple and a nice
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 08:50 PM
Dec 2014

place to visit. Now I'd be afraid to spend any time there. Too many right-wing JBS types. What happened to that lovely state?

RKP5637

(67,032 posts)
8. Once I had thought that might be a nice place to live, but those thoughts went over the damn
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 09:33 PM
Dec 2014

a long time ago when more and more of these right-wing JBS types kept appearing more and more. It's getting so one has to be really careful when they move to a new state/location. Sometimes I wonder if some areas will become so right-wing JBS that the majority of people just avoid them all together.

sammy750

(165 posts)
10. Because all the extremist and radical can't get elected in their home states so they move to AZ
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 10:58 PM
Dec 2014

And of course with the state full of extremist and radicals they usually will get elected. Sometimes for only one term when the people realize what the individual is up too.

DocMac

(1,628 posts)
7. I own 2.5 acres in that county.
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 09:20 PM
Dec 2014

It's 4 miles NE of Joseph City. So, that's some land he won't get. Actually, I bought that land to sell for the wind power projects that are springing up there. I've had some offers, but not enough for me to sell.

sammy750

(165 posts)
9. Knowing that Arizona is a hot bed for radical and extremist, I hope the voter understand who
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 10:54 PM
Dec 2014

this guy is. The entire state and nation needs to get involved and push back against this guys election. He should be in prison, not running for sheriff. The state will be watching closely and make sure this guy get defeated.

fredamae

(4,458 posts)
11. It's way more widespread
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 10:50 AM
Dec 2014

than this one place.
What is happening there has been going on in "pockets" all over including "our" government, imvho.

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
12. Clive Bundy has proved they don't have to comply with Federal Laws..
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 01:32 PM
Dec 2014

They should make out just fine..

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