The Not-Quite States of America by Doug Mack

The group includes Mark Lamb of Pinal County, Arizona, whom Mack personally endorsed saying, “Yes, Sheriff Lamb is a Constitutional Sheriff and is one of the best sheriffs in America” Sheriff Wayne Ivey of Brevard, Florida, and Sheriff Jesse Watts of Eureka, Nevada, who have both self-identified as constitutional sheriffs and Sheriff Scott Jenkins of Culpeper, Virginia, who spoke at the 2020 CSPOA Conference at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. The group has an advisory board with a host of constitutional sheriffs. The product of Republican political consultant Nathan Sproul, Protect America Now, incorporated in Phoenix, Arizona, as a domestic non-profit corporation on June 26, 2020. Edward Griffin, a QAnon sovereign citizen rally in Hawaii, the Rod of Iron Ministries Freedom Festival and the Arise USA tour, hosted by the late antisemitic conspiracy theorist Robert David Steele where Mack was a speaker and CSPOA’s name was emblazoned on the side of the tour bus.Ī new national constitutional sheriff’s group also emerged in 2021. This included Red Pill Expo, a who’s who of antigovernment figures hosted by well-known conspiracy theorist G.

Mack went on a speaking junket in 2021, promoting the organization at a series of events alongside a long list of extremists. 23 interview on the right-wing online show “American Journal” that was rebroadcast to Infowars. “We promise they will not leave the same,” CSPOA’s leader former sheriff Richard Mack said of the event during a Feb. Over three dozen sheriffs attended an event hosted by CSPOA and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in The Woodlands, Texas, from Feb. law enforcement authority and are, as CSPOA presents it to them through online and in-person presentations, “America’s last hope.” Throughout 2021, CSPOA held seminars and trainings meant to radicalize the sheriffs into believing they have ultimate U.S.

Others who took this step were spurred on and recruited by antigovernment extremists who spent 2021 exploiting the pandemic for their own ideological purposes, most notably the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA). Some of the sheriffs who declined to enforce these laws are constitutional sheriffs. Fringe sheriffs from across the country have refused to enforce the rules inside their county lines. Many of them have equated government-enacted health guidelines regarding masks and vaccines with tyranny. The COVID-19 crisis has spurred a growth in constitutional sheriffs across the country.

The Not-Quite States of America by Doug Mack