The United States’ resident crazy right-wing sheriff, Joe Arpaio, may soon be out of the spotlight. If that proves to be the case, then the U.S. is in need another crazy right-wing sheriff to fill the role and one sheriff in Utah has already put in his application.
Sheriff James “Danny” Perkins of Garfield County, Utah, a self-proclaimed “constitutional sheriff,” has publicly threatened to arrest federal agents who attempt to close forest roads and restrict land access to ranchers. Why? Because he apparently gets his information from Before It’s News and believes environmental extremists are taking over government agencies to deliberately destroy ranchers… or some such nonsense.
“There is an agenda — and don’t kid yourself — there’s an agenda to get rid of the grazing, there’s an agenda to shut down our roads.”
Constitutional Sheriff Perkins figured it out. It’s true, there is an agenda to get rid of grazing. Since the secret is blown, there’s also an agenda by the liberals to turn everyone into gay atheists and President Obama is actually General X’antha, the commander of a Reptilian army whose mission is to put satellite dishes in our asses for the enslavement of the human race.
Constitutional Sheriff Perkins’ dramatic view on grazing rights invokes images of the 2014 standoff between Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management and the January 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by Cliven Bundy’s erotic fan fiction-inspiring son, Ammon, and his friends.
Constitutional Sheriff Perkins has already started making good on his threats. He has claimed to have already arrested a Bureau of Land Management ranger who his deputies believed was illegally issuing citations to campers.
Constitutional Sheriff Perkins has also threatened to arrest a Forest Service ranger if the ranger closed down a road on public land within Garfield County.
Constitutional Sheriff Perkins’ view on federal agents and government agencies is disputed by most legal scholars. Speaking to NPR, he said that he cannot find a single reference to the Bureau of Land Management or Forest Service law enforcement in the Constitution. This is true: there isn’t one, but that has more to do with those agencies not having yet existed at the time the Constitution was written than their existence being unconstitutional. After all, under Article 1 of the Constitution, the federal government does have the right to delegate certain tasks to government agencies.
The Bureau of Land Management is a government agency within the Department of the Interior. Does anyone else find it hilarious that people who claim to be a “constitutional” something more often than not have no idea what the Constitution actually says?
Despite Constitutional Sheriff Perkins’ serious deficiency in constitutional knowledge, he is still a law enforcement officer and is still hellbent on arresting federal agents. To hear all of this lunacy straight from the horse’s mouth, watch the video below:
h/t Raw Story
