Bob Unruh began an April 11 WorldNetDaily “news” article with his usual right-wing, anti-Biden editorializing:
Democrats have claimed for years it is President Donald Trump, with his plans to “Make America Great Again,” who is the threat they must defeat. He’s a danger to “democracy,” they claim. Their rhetoric theorizes that the United States is a gone if he’s re-elected.
But actually it is Joe Biden who repeatedly has made light of the U.S. Constitution.
A few examples: His party’s demands to change election laws in ways that are likely to allow fraud, such as illegal aliens casting ballots. And their allowance of undue election influences, like the FBI’s censorship interference in 2020, and Mark Zuckerberg’s $400 million to recruit liberal voters. And Biden’s work with giant corporations to suppress and censor Americans’ thoughts and ideas with which he disagrees. And his decision to force taxpayers to repay the loans taken out by students attending elite universities. And the still-under-investigation Biden family operations to peddle influence to foreigners who are not always friendly.
Then there’s his insistence that aborting unborn children absolutely must be the “law of the land.”
And the list goes on.
While many of these disputes are raging in the halls of Congress and in the courtrooms across the nation, they also impact ordinary Americans.
It wasn’t until the seventh paragraph that Unruh got around to his news hook:
And it is with that knowledge that the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association is planning its summit in Las Vegas.
It is organizing an “unprecedented gathering of American leaders, patriots, and constitutional advocates” at the Ahern Luxury Hotel on April 17.
Specifics about registering and attending is online.
The event, called “Resist the Temptation,” will explains “peaceful and effective solutions to the crises threatening the very foundation of America’s constitutional Republic,” they explained.
Speakers will include General Flynn, Sheriff Richard Mack, Mike Lindell, Mark Finchem, Sheriff Dar Leaf, Sheriff Bob Songer, Patrick Byrne, Steve Bannon, farmer Jared Bossly, Sheriff Glenn Hamilton, Wayne Allyn Root and others.
As one might surmise from that list of criminals and extremists (and Wayne Allyn Root) speaking at the event, this isn’t a group of “patriots” or “constitutional advocates.” As the Anti-Defamation League has documented, the CSPOA is a far-right anti-government group that supports the fringe “patriot” movement — which undermines any claim to be “constitutional advocates” — and the group and its leader, Richard Mack (who was also a founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia), pushes false claims about law enforcement:
Mack and CSPOA’s primary argument is the false claim that the powers of the county sheriff supersede those of any other federal, state or local authorities, as long as the intent is to protect American citizens from enemies foreign or domestic. County sheriffs may therefore refuse to enforce—and can even actively oppose—any federal, state or other governmental measure (law, regulation, tax, court order, etc.) that they deem unconstitutional. This notion—which has no basis in American law—was borrowed from the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement (CSPOA’s staff has included people with ties to that movement).
[…]Although anti-government extremists tend to be hostile to law enforcement—and have assaulted or even killed a number of law enforcement officers over the years—they have also exhibited a longstanding interest in sharing their ideas with that community, especially local law enforcement, based on the premise that sympathetic law enforcement officers would not enforce unpopular laws, such as income tax laws or gun regulations.
Still Unruh insisted on perpetuating the fantasy that this is some sort of mainstream group:
Sam Bushman, the CEO, said the event already has attracted attention worldwide with media outlets from Russia, London and Australia, as well as major American outlets, making plans to cover it.
Members of the public can attend with a $49 registration, and candidates and elected officials are invited to attend without charge.
The association was set up originally to educate and empower law enforcement officials, elected officials and the public how to protect and preserve Americans’ civil rights.
That’s a complete lie, and Unruh surely knows it. Or perhaps he doesn’t, since he mainly rewrites press releases and opinion pieces as “news” and was too lazy to do any actual journalistic research into the group.