Last night Amber and I went to a district 19 meeting (RNC monthly meeting) for the first time.  My dad had told me about it and invited me to go.  So we were there together with my dad and mom.  Richard Mack was the guest speaker for the night.  I can’t remember how I had come across him, but I had already heard of and watched some of his own interviews before hearing him at the meeting.  He has written a new book called "The county sheriff – America’s Last Hope".  He talked about his experience as a law enforcement officer and his time as sheriff of the Pima county or somewhere else in AZ.  I enjoyed what he had to say and agreed with his approach.  He says he is going to be having an interview with "the judge" on fox 15 in the next few weeks and he has been working on getting on with Glenn Beck.

Anyway, tonight I had to go into work to make a change for the new verizon client.  After completing that I was driving home and got pulled over by a cop.  I had no idea why, and he informed me he had pulled me over because my tail lights were not working.  Okay, I thought.  Thank you for letting me know and I’ll see you later.  Not so easy.  He proceeds to keep me waiting there in my vehicle for a full 15 to 20 minutes while he does his thing in his car.  Then he comes back with an ORDER for me to repair my non-functioning tail lights.  Wow.  I don’t have enough freedom to make the repair myself under my own concience.  I have to have an order from the state to make sure I do it.  I must (within the next 5 days) send in documentation showing that I have repaired it.  It’s a simple matter of changing a fuse.  I’m not going to be having a "firm" perform the labor as the "ticket" he gave me assumes you will do.  So I guess I’ll write my name in as the firm and then sign it together with a receipt for the fuse from wherever I get it.

I took the opportunity to talk with the officer a little bit about Sheriff Mack.  I just asked if he had heard of him.  He hadn’t, so I proceeded to tell him about my meeting the night before and what he had to say about the importance of law enforcement officials actually keeping their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, and to do so against enemies foreign and domestic.  There’s a group called "Oath Keepers" (www.oathkeepers.org) that Sheriff Mack is a part of and is where I had read about him.  I don’t think I probably had any influence on the officer, but who knows.  It was just amazing to me to see first hand the freedoms we have lost.  It may seem like a smaller matter, but it is what it represents.  The fact that our government has become so entrenched in our lives to the point that I can’t be left to myself to repair my own vehicle.  I have to be ordered to do it.  Good old force and coercion.

Tags: Freedom, police, sheriff mack