March 07, 2011 11:29 PM UTC

Montezuma Sheriff Implies Government is a "Domestic Enemy"

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• by: Colorado Pols

Here’s a weird, weird story about Montezuma County Sheriff Dennis Spruell, a Republican who was elected in November to his first term. According to the blog Political Correction, Spruell is…well…you really just need to read the whole thing. But it sure sounds like Spruell is itching for a real fight with the federal government:

Last month, Sheriff Dennis Spruell (R) of Colorado’s Montezuma County called in to the Political Cesspool, a nationally syndicated radio program that describes itself as “pro-White” and “against feminism, abortion, and primitivism.” Merely calling into a radio program that explicitly states its desire to “revive the White birthrate” and “grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races” reflects pretty poorly on the sheriff, but what Spruell actually said on the program doesn’t make him look any better.

The sheriff went on the show, along with conspiracy theorist and former Minuteman Project correspondent Michael Gaddy, to talk about the U.S. Forest Service’s closure of some public roads and lands in his county. Gaddy got the first crack at an explanation, and he suggested that the road closures were probably because “our present administration” had “used our public lands and our mineral resources … as collateral for the debt that we owe China.”

The federal government is giving our public lands to China? What?

None of this looks very good for Spruell, but it gets worse. Conspiracy theories are one thing, but Spruell seems to think it might be a good idea to face off against the federal government as a “domestic enemy”:

During the show, Spruell also suggested that the closures might make the federal government a “domestic enemy” from which he is obliged to protect the people of his country. “I have an obligation to protect my county against enemies both foreign and domestic,” he said. “So if the federal government comes in and violates the law, it’s my responsibility to see that it stops.

We were tempted to write this off as a half-joke in our another “At Least He’s Not Your Elected Official” running series, but we don’t know enough about Spruell to know how serious he might be about this “domestic enemy” stuff.