In Florida, (and citing actual Florida law here) elected sheriffs may appoint special deputy sheriffs to:
- Aid in preserving law and order, or to give necessary assistance in the event of any threatened or actual hurricane, fire, flood, or other natural disaster, or in the event of any major tragedy such as an act of local terrorism or a national terrorism alert, an airplane crash, a train or automobile wreck, or a similar accident.
- Raise the power of the county, by calling bystanders or others, to assist in quelling a riot or any breach of the peace, when ordered by the sheriff or an authorized general deputy.
The law also says that these special deputy sheriffs do not have to have a law enforcement background or have any required training.
It matters who you elect as sheriff. Some sheriffs in progressive Florida counties would never take such an action. It matters if the sheriffs you elect still believe in the constitution and that power is derived from the people.
US and state laws still have mechanisms for the people to resume power over the government.
Many US and state laws still reflect the ideals of our country’s founding.
For example, most Americans today have no idea about jury nullification to curb improper prosecution by the government.
Or that grand juries throughout the 1800s and early 1900s used to investigate government corruption and criminal acts by government officials on their own, outside of influence or pressure from the department of justice or local prosecutors and local courts, and issue bills of presentment to arrest and charge people who broke the law.
The Fifth Amendment specifically grants this power to Federal grand juries, most states grand juries also have this power. We began to lose this people power in 1945 when the Supreme Court issued The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The Rules deliberately make no provision for presentments; they ignore the Constitution.
Do you realize that in one potential example, any federal grand jury today, on its own, without needing permission from a federal judge or prosecutor, could investigate the FBI’s recent illegal actions taken to seize Joe Biden’s daughter’s diary from one particular news organization.
America can really be restored back to its founding as a constitutional, representative republic when we assume back the powers that were reserved to us and exercise them.
If you like this post, tell friends you know about these powers, if enough know, maybe they’ll starting demanding they be used.
