Ever hear the line, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you”?
If you have, you know it’s a lie. The government never helps anyone.
But under the man who is president now, the words are more ominous because they mean the government is out to get you.
Under Obama, if you don’t toe the line and do what he wants, his government will go after you, using every means – legal or not – to destroy you.
While the country and the media are obsessed with the GOP presidential candidates, there’s virtually nothing in mainstream media coverage of what our government is doing to a legitimately elected sheriff in the state of Arizona.
The Obama administration is out to destroy the man, using every accusation it can devise – all because he has the audacity to try to enforce immigration laws that are on the books to protect the people in his jurisdiction.
That man is Sheriff Joe Arpaio, elected to that post by the people in Arizona’s Maricopa County six times, after a long and successful career as a police officer and with the DEA.
The people like him. The Obama administration doesn’t. As varied cases involving Arpaio move through the courts, it appears that ultimately, the controversy will end up before the Supreme Court.
The final blow came last Friday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, upheld a finding that Arpaio does not have grounds to sue the Obama administration for its executive actions on immigration, claiming they were unconstitutional.
The specific rulings by Obama would give temporary legal status and work permits to certain immigrants. This stems from 2014, when Obama ordered that some 4.7 million illegal aliens would not be deported.
Arpaio argued that such massive increases in the numbers of illegals would increase crime and present other legal problems for law enforcement officials.
The key issue of Friday’s decision is that the court found Arpaio does not have standing to sue – meaning he will not be directly harmed by Obama’s actions, so the case has no merit.
Keep in mind that Arpaio is not the only person fighting the administration’s actions concerning illegal aliens.
Twenty-six states have sued Obama for changing immigration law by executive action rather than using the normal and proper methods of moving such issues through Congress.
These cases are now pending before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. While a decision was expected this summer, it may well go to the Supreme Court.
Arpaio’s attorney, Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch, said the next move for is case would be the Supreme Court, and Arpaio agrees.
Interestingly, the judge in the current decision, Janice Rodgers Brown, seems also to agree, saying that the situation raises the issue of what happens when the “chief executive decides not to faithfully execute the laws.”
How about that! What does happen when the president breaks the law on his own whim, leaving citizens at the mercy of the chaos?
Judge Brown stated: “Today we hold that the elected sheriff of the nation’s fourth largest county, located mere miles from our border with Mexico, cannot challenge the federal government’s deliberate non-enforcement of the immigration laws.”
As if this issue weren’t bad enough, the Obama Justice Department also has its fangs in Arpaio.
The DOJ has joined a private case against him, which claimed civil rights violations in traffic enforcement.
This is in addition to another DOJ lawsuit against Arpaio and Maricopa County for varied issues that essentially boil down to discrimination against Hispanics in areas of police patrols, Spanish language in jails, traffic, workplace issues, detentions and retaliation against critics.
In other words, pile everything in and see what sticks.
In addition, the courts have ordered the DOJ to monitor the sheriff and his department to determine if they’re following court-ordered police reforms.
As if all that weren’t enough, the feds are pursuing a racial profiling case against Arpaio. In the midst of that case, it was revealed the wife of U.S. District Judge Murray Snow allegedly told a friend that her husband “hates” Arpaio and “will do anything to get him out of office.
Arpaio’s attorneys asked that Judge Snow recuse himself. He refused, and then the judge ordered a raid on Arpaio’s offices by U.S. Marshals to seize documents and computer hard drives.
It’s political hardball.
It’s all because the federal government will not enforce our immigration law, but when the citizens of Arizona and the Sheriff of Maricopa Country try to follow the law, all hell crashes down on them.
The issue is illegal aliens – people who are breaking the law. But the feds under Barack Obama support illegals to the detriment of citizens and those in the country legally who want to go about their business and not have to deal with lawbreakers.
Look at what our government is doing to a man who is duly elected and qualified to support and enforce the law.
They’re not only trying to destroy his legal case, but aiming to destroy him personally.
If the government is against you, what chance is there?
Barack Obama acts the king – the enforcer – and woe unto you if he wants to take you down.
Let’s stop worrying about the rights of illegals and start worrying about citizens’ rights.
If the feds will do this to a man of Arpaio’s stature, what will they do to an average guy?
Don’t doubt me. Think about what they’ve done to florists, photographers and bakers who resist the gay agenda.
Think about the Little Sisters of the Poor – nuns – who are being forced to comply with Obamacare’s abortifacient mandate against their faith.
Think about your rights. Cross Obama and you lose.
God bless America – please.
Oh, and Sheriff Arpaio is running next year for his seventh term as sheriff.
God bless him, too.
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