Eric left this one on Facebook Chief of Police Harassed by Feds, Placed on Leave After Signing Pledge to Uphold Constitution.
Police Chief Shane Harger of the Jemez Springs, NM Police Department was flying out of Albuquerque Airport last week on his way to a Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) convention taking place in Las Vegas. CSPOA is an organization headed up by Sheriff Richard Mack under which law enforcement officers gather to re-affirm their commitment to uphold and defend the Constitution.
Before passing security, Harger was approached by a TSA agent who asked the police chief to show his credentials. Moments later, a man claiming to be a “federal agent” also asked to see Harger’s credentials before telling him he was a “person of interest.” The federal agent then demanded to know where Harger was traveling to and why.
When Harger told the federal agent he was attending the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association Convention in Las Vegas, he was detained for 35 minutes before finally being allowed to board the airplane.
On Tuesday January 28, a day after his return, Harger was placed on administrative leave and ordered by Sandoval County, NM, Sheriff Douglas C. Wood to disband his entire police department due to his “political affiliations”.
What were his political affiliations? While attending the convention, Harger, along with 38 other police officers, signed a declaration affirming their pledge to “obey and observe” the U.S. Constitution, in addition to refusing to carry out unconstitutional orders such as gun confiscation without constitutionally compliant warrants, violations of the 4th amendment without probable cause, detainment or incarceration of citizens without probable cause, or working with the military for domestic law enforcement.
In other words, Harger was targeted for federal harassment and subsequently suspended for re-affirming his belief in the very Constitution he took an oath to uphold and protect in order to become a police officer in the first place.
Links at the link.
Hmmmmmmmmmm. Sheriff Mack? Haven’t I done a post on him a ways back? Yes I did. Follow The Constitution back in August of 2009. Things are heating up. They only want people who will just follow orders on the police force.
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6 responses to “Chief of Police Harassed – Pledged to Uphold Constitution”
Good we have two many storm troopers in the police now! Next they will be forming death squads to go after “liberal traitors” in the government!
Projecting again cap?
Looks like a false alarm:
“***Editor’s Update 8:18 PM January 31st, 2014: Today some new information surfaced in regards to Harger being detained by the TSA. It’s possible that the CSPOA has little or nothing to do with Harger’s situation.”
Turns out the guy was running his police department under an assumed name due to some sketchy behavior in the past. The city council has voted to keep him on anyway.
I’d hate to think we’ve gotten to the point where the FBI cares about the political associations of small-town cops. Not that we couldn’t get there, but I’d say that was awfully fast…
Neil,
It says The police chief said he changed his name…
Which I assume means a legal name change. Which might explain why his papers were not in order.
You know – WW2 propaganda movies were always having the German functionary asking “where are your papers” – as if that was something foreign to the US. Frequent security checks were a feature of Nazi Germany.
And now?
Papers please! I thought you opposed illegal immigration?
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