Utah Sheriffs Threaten To Arrest Rangers If They Try To Close Public Lands

[struggle4progress]

Posted 05-31-2016 by Kirk Siegler

... Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether Garfield County Sheriff James “Danny” Perkins is serious or pulling your leg ...

... in his office, he swivels back in his chair and starts digging through a file cabinet. He keeps copies of the papers and the Constitution on hand. Nowhere in them, he says, does it say anything about Bureau of Land Management or Forest Service law enforcement officers, let alone whether they have authority to pull people over for driving off-road or arrest people for illegal campfires. He says, as sheriff, he answers to the state of Utah ...

“I told the Forest Service ranger that if he went out and closed a road that Garfield County has jurisdiction on, I would arrest him,” he says.

And then there was the time that his deputies did arrest a BLM ranger they said was illegally issuing citations to campers ...

https://news.wbhm.org/npr_story_post/2016/utah-sheriffs-threaten-to-arrest-rangers-if-they-try-to-close-public-lands/

[roamer65]

1. All fun and games until the FBI shows up.

...and they definitely will.

[Jester Messiah]

2. Competing tribes of law enforcement.

Douglas Adams was indeed a prophet.

[braddy]

3. At one time the Mormons had an Army the size of 1/3rd of the entire United States Army.

The U.S. and the Mormon Nauvoo Legion were at odds at one time.

At one point, a wagon train of more than 120 California-bound settlers from Arkansas, Missouri and other states, including unarmed men, women and children, were killed in remote southwestern Utah by a group of local Mormon militiamen.