Woodbury County IA deputies receive training from lawyer who likens Capitol police to Nazis

[SharonClark]

This is frightening. At least one citizen, Linda Santi, is asking questions. Linda is a long-time social justice advocate who I knew when she lived in Des Moines.

The Woodbury County Sheriff’s Office underwent training Friday with a lawyer who has compared the U.S. Capitol police to Nazi S.S. troops while promoting the “constitutional sheriff” movement.

Sheriff Chad Sheehan’s decision to invite KrisAnne Hall, a constitutional attorney from Florida, to train his deputies and speak to the public has provoked controversy in the western Iowa county.

On Friday, Hall led a training session for the sheriff’s staff, and she is scheduled to speak to the public on Saturday at Western Iowa Tech Community College. A group called We the People for Constitutional Sheriffs is sponsoring the free public event, which is hosted by the sheriff.
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Hall and Sheehan could not be reached for comment this week, but the sheriff sent the Iowa Capital Dispatch a copy of a press release announcing Saturday’s event.

In the press release, Sheehan says he feels “it is important to have an informed public who know their rights and felt this was an opportunity to do just that.”

Speaking to citizens at the county supervisors’ meeting who questioned Hall’s involvement in law enforcement training, Sheehan said, “If you disagree (with Hall), I will protect your right that is afforded to you in the First Amendment of the Constitution, which isn’t given to you by the government but is given to you by God. And the Constitution says that it can’t be infringed upon. And I will protect — to the death, if necessary — (your right) to counter anything that she would say that you disagree with.”
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[Midnight Writer]

1. If Free Speech is not from the government but from God, then why do most countries not have it?

[crickets]

2. Hate monger preaches to the choir. What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/22/krisanne-hall-addresses-league-south-chapter

KrisAnne Hall Addresses League of the South Chapter - August 22, 2019

KrisAnne Hall, a self-described “constitutional attorney” who thinks states have the right to secede, recently addressed a neo-Confederate hate group whose goal is to create what the Civil War did not: a separate Southern nation.

In an email response to Hatewatch this week after her address, Hall said:

While I am not a proponent of secession, a state certainly has that contractual right when it feels that the compact has been irrevocably broken. Our states are not fiefdoms under subjugation to an unquestionable despot. Yet while a state may secede or be expelled, that state would lose all benefits and privileges afforded to it under the federal compact.

Hall did not provide the contents of her remarks to the annual conference of the League of the South’s Florida chapter, but she did share a copy of the PowerPoint presentation she said she used during her Aug. 10 address to LOS in Lake City, Florida. The presentation, titled “Restoring the Constitution,” included information on the theory of nullification and why “federal use of undelegated power is theft.” [snip]

The lawyer’s appearance at the LOS event isn’t the first time she has courted controversy in her speaking engagements. A former Russian linguist in the U.S. Army, Hall spoke at a number of tea party events while she was an assistant prosecutor in Suwannee County, Florida – a move that put her at odds with her boss and ultimately led to her firing in 2010.

Russian linguist. Tea Party. Interesting. Likely just coincidences, but still very interesting.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. KrisAnne Hall in Sioux City event with Woodbury Sheriff: "We've lost more liberty in our own ... "

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KrisAnne Hall in Sioux City event with Woodbury Sheriff: "We've lost more liberty in our own hands in the past 2 years than in the past 150 to invaders"

Jared McNett 17 hrs ago

SIOUX CITY -- Multiple times during her speaking engagement hosted by Woodbury County Sheriff Chad Sheehan, KrisAnne Hall, who lists herself as a constitutional attorney, told the crowd of more than 100 people who came out to Western Iowa Tech that she was there to teach "facts" about foundational legal documents.

"Everything I'm going to show you today is based on principles," Hall, a former Florida prosecutor, told them at one turn. Yet, within 10 minutes of saying she was there to show facts and not teach opinions, Hall asked the crowd. "Anybody believe that we've lost more liberty in our own hands in the last two-and-a-half years than we have in the past 150 to foreign invaders?"

With a shade less than 30 minutes until the event started, there were about 30 people spread throughout the Rocklin Conference Center on the WITCC campus. Some folks were already seated at one of a number of circular tables while others were milling around, looking down at their cellphones or checking out the wares being offered at the merch table. There, there were at least three different books being sold, including "Bed Time Stories for Patriots" and CDs touching on subjects such as "religious liberty."

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Jared McNett is an online editor and reporter for the Sioux City Journal. You can reach him at 712-293-4234 and follow him on Twitter @TwoHeadedBoy98.