Re: Klan or Coincidence?

[Frank Olson <Use-the-email-links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

tourman wrote:
> On Oct 7, 1:28 pm, "Bob La Londe" <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Jim Rojas" <jro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>
>> news:4706e293$0$32487$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>> He is also the Postmaster General, Sheriff, justice of the Peace, and the
>>> local Circuit Judge...many small towns do this to save time.
> RHC: You know that is one of the things I have never been able to
> understand about the US justice system. They elect law enforcement
> agents such as small town sheriffs etc. Law enforcement is a
> profession that requires significant training of all sorts, from how
> the law works, to how to handle deadly force responsibly.
>
> I ask this in all sincerity....how can any elected official act as a
> valid law enforcement officer, and uphold the law.  He could have been
> doing something else completely different yesterday, and today he is
> the sheriff responsible for law enforcement ??? I remember many times
> over the years coming up over a hill on my motorcycle and here is a
> local sheriff with his pickup truck, farmers overalls and radar
> gun.....
>
> Could someone explain this to me please
>
> RHC
>
>


It's a hold-over from the days of the "old West".  Where do you think
the term "yahoo" came from??  :-)