Law enforcement officers, elected officials and numerous interested citizens gathered at the Adams Street Community Center in Brownwood Thursday for an event of the Constitutional Sheriff’s and Peace Officers Association called “The County Sheriff:  America’s Last Hope.”

The featured speaker was former Arizona Sheriff, Richard Mack.

While serving as sheriff of Graham County, Arizona in February 1994, Mack filed a lawsuit against the Clinton Administration to stop the gun control and destruction of state sovereignty associated with the Brady Bill.  Mack and other sheriffs won their case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

“There’s two quotes that I would give you from this.  Judge Scalia quotes the Federalist Papers.  This is Federalist Paper number 51 in the decision – Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people.  Why?  Because the different governments will control each other.  The local government, the county and cities, are different governments.  The State of Texas is a different government.  We all have the responsibility to protect liberty and that means even if it’s from each other, other governments,” Mack said.   He said the greatest abuser of human rights in world history has always been government.

Mack said nothing, including COVID and natural disasters, should be used by government to destroy American liberty.

“The other quote that I would give you from Justice Scalia in this tremendous decision – But the Constitution protects us from our own best intentions.  What does that do to all the COVID mandates and mask mandates and shutting down?  What has government learned?  Oh, shutting down wasn’t a good idea, we’re not going to do that again.  Huge mistakes they’ve made, all in the name of taking care of  us.  I want to be left alone so I can take care of myself and that’s what every American should be doing. This is our choice, not government’s,” Mack said.

“I’m here talking about the only time in history where a couple of sheriffs sued the federal government, the Clinton Administration no less, took it all the way to the Supreme Court and won.  This all boils down to our Oath of Office.  We’re all required by the supreme law of the land to swear an oath of allegiance to the Constitution.  Do we keep it?  Do we even know what that means?  Do we understand the Sheriff’s role, and the peace officer’s role in the preservation of our constitutional republic?  I’ll make that very clear today,” Mack concluded.