"American Family Association" - state authorities can shoot trespassing feds

[IDemo]

Submitted by Dan Popkey on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 8:44am.

Bryan Fischer, the former director of Idaho Values Alliance, is suggesting that state officials can, in a worst-case scenario, shoot federal agents for “trespassing on the sovereign territory of the states.”

Fischer, who moved to Mississippi last year, makes his case in a post on his “Focal Point” blog. Fischer’s statement in is sharp contrast with Idaho Gov. Butch Otter. Otter is supporting a legal challenge to health-care reform, but said on Tuesday that if the states lose their case, Idaho would abide by the rule of law.

Fischer wrote on Monday: “State governments can legitimately and constitutionally decide not to cooperate with the central government on the legal ground that Congress has transgressed the boundaries marked out in our founding document. The central government is trespassing on the sovereign territory of the states, and the states have every right to throw them off their property.

Trespassers can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Squatters can be evicted. If they won't leave, they can be tossed. And in the worst case scenario, if they won't surrender peacefully, they can be shot.”

http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2010/03/25/idahopolitics/bryan_fischer_says_state_authorities_can_shoot_trespassing_feds

[fasttense]

1. Now, that's family values for you.

We just don't know which family, perhaps the Manson family.

[HereSince1628]

2. Hokey Smokes, Bullwinkle!!!

George Wallace coulda had those damned armymen A-rrested for tresspasson onta sacred soil of his sovereign state!!

[B Calm]

3. How much you want to bet Mississippi receives more money from

the federal government than it pays in?

[get the red out]

4. Militia

I guess "Family" is just another word for militia. That's what this sounds like anyway.

[WhiteTara]

5. how incorrect is that!

Fed law trumps state law.

[HereSince1628]

6. Dick Cheney demonstrated that laws don't mean anything

unless someone is determined to enforce them.

The federal gov't seemed sort soft on a lot of enforcement during the Cheney Admin, and the tea-twangers are feeling their caffiene.

If a state is really determined to NOT enforce the law it comes down to a matter of wills, as when Kennedy looked to invoke martial law down there.

[struggle4progress]

7. I guess Bryan just learned about the recent unpleasantness at Fort Sumter

Let's give the man a chance to catch up on the news. We'll check back later, Bryan