But I urge the committee to consider a couple of deeper, less obvious consequences, not just of passing a bill like this, but of even bringing it up for consideration. The first is that a bill like this undermines respect for the very rule of law itself. After all, if the legislature isn’t going to respect the limits placed on it by the NH Constitution, then why should individuals respect the limits placed on them by that legislature — whether regarding guns, or schools, or traffic laws, or anything else? If we’re going to disregard the big rules, why pay any attention to the smaller ones?
…then why should we, regular citizens, learn from our “betters” and ignore it as well? We are all supposed to be equal before the law – and that should apply to those “behind it” as well. So when a judge [equivalent] publicly flaunts the law, what does that tell the rest of us? That the beginning of Tyranny is at hand? For if laws are not equally applied, then we have Animal Farm – some more equal than others. And when law breakers are deemed more “valuable” than the Law, then what should our response be?
A court officer with the powers of a judge in Oregon who federal officials claim helped an illegal alien drunk driver escape being detained by immigration officials has been identified.
On Monday, Breitbart News reported that a “judicial referee” at Portland’s Multnomah County Courthouse was accused of interfering with the apprehension of an illegal alien who had appeared in her court on a drunk driving charge. That court officer has now been identified as Judge Monica Heeranz. It is now being reported that Heeranz allowed 22-year-old Diddier Pacheco Salazar escape the custody of immigration officials after his case in her court was concluded.
