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Sean Swope, you’re at it again. Let me remind you that you are a county commissioner in a small, rural county, one of the 3,223 counties in the U.S. That's about as low on the national political totem pole as you can get. Yet, you’re using your platform, paid by the taxpayers of Lewis County, to pontificate about national issues, even fearmongering about impending civil war.
You signed the letter to the editor as Lewis County commissioner. Sean, stay in your lane and focus your energies on benefiting the citizens of Lewis County. You weren’t elected to stir the pot of national division. Your thoughts on national politics are not relevant to your duties as a commissioner.
And then there are the facts. In the history of the country, there have been countless times that state laws have disagreed with federal laws. As a current example, 24 states, the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories have legalized recreational marijuana for adult use, which is contrary to federal law. Despite this, nobody is taking up arms.
Additionally, federal law isn’t always constitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that a federal law was unconstitutional 180 times since 1803.
Finally, if a law, or the behavior of the federal government, is morally corrupt, then it should be ignored. The most obvious instance of this is how the U.S. federal government had numerous laws on the books that supported and protected the institution of slavery. These laws were a fundamental part of the legal and social framework of the United States from its founding until the passage of the 13th Amendment.
There is a higher power than the federal government that we are all accountable to, including you. Read your Bible, particularly the New Testament. It might help you make morally just decisions.
Kevin Gillan
Centralia
