With friends like these…

 To The Elbert County Sheriff’s Office (and all presumed officers of the law)

The following 6 kinds of people are very very bad. They are nearly universally denounced and considered a plague to society. 

Nazis Officers and Soldiers

• Men and women who are "just doing their jobs," enforcing laws without questioning their morality or the system they serve.

Mafia Members

• Men and women who use force and intimidation to protect the interests of the powerful, ensuring the status quo is maintained.

Cartel Members

• Men and women involved in corrupt, unlawful, or covert operations, executing violence or coercion to serve criminal enterprises or corrupt authorities.

Gang Members

• Aggressive, street-level men and women who use violence and intimidation to control neighborhoods, mirroring gang enforcers or hired guns.

Slavers and Slave Owners

• Men and women who maintain control through excessive punishment and brutality, similar to overseers or disciplinarians on plantations during slavery.

Redcoat Soldiers and Officers during Revolutionary War

• Men and women who serve as agents of an oppressive state, enforcing the will of government or imperial forces, much like British soldiers enforcing colonial rule during the American Revolution.

Across history, these men and women—whether in the guise of Nazi soldiers, mafia enforcers, cartel hitmen, street gang gunmen, plantation disciplinarians, or British Redcoats—share an essential commonality: they use power to deprive others of their individual rights to life, liberty, and property. They act not on law, but on orders, replacing justice with coercion. Their actions are not designed to protect or uphold the rights of all, but to serve the interests of those within their group while injuring, subjugating, and exploiting those outside it. Each in their own way perpetuates a system where force is wielded not to preserve equity or fairness, but to reinforce a hierarchy of privilege, a hierarchy where some are deemed worthy of rights and others are not. This corruption of power turns law into a weapon for the few, used to subjugate the many.

Now, take a moment to reflect on this: you wouldn't tolerate gang violence, cartel rule, or mafia-organized crime. You know that the Nazis are vilified in history for the atrocities they committed. We fought two world wars—one against the very Redcoats you now serve and another against the oppressive Southern plantation bosses who subjugated and brutalized the weak. The people who fought in those wars are remembered as heroes because they stood against tyranny and for the rights of the individual. So, now ask yourself: Who are you? Who will your legacy be associated with? Will you be remembered as one of the enforcers of a system that spreads tyranny and crime, or will you be remembered as one of the few who fought against it?

Here’s the final warning, clear and unyielding:

Your legacy has been sealed by my words. There will be no escaping it. No excuse will be sufficient. The record is set, and it’s been written here, in these letters, in these associations, and in these warnings. You are not unaware, not innocent. The truth has been exposed to you, and now it is impossible to deny. You can no longer claim ignorance of what you have been a part of. The people you serve, the children you raise, and history itself will hold you accountable for the choice you’ve made.

The only way to change your legacy now is to change yourself. You must either repent and return to the lawmen you swore to become—those who uphold the rights of the people with honor and integrity, not the court jesters with MRAPs, acting as enforcers of tyranny—or you must resign. Walk away from this corrupt system and make amends for what you've done, however you can.

If you stay in this system, if you continue to carry out these actions in the name of the law, your legacy will forever be that of a servant of injustice—a cog in the machine that robs the people of their rights. If you choose to remain complicit, you will be forever marked, and your children and grandchildren will look back on your life with the same shame that history reserves for those who supported tyranny in all its forms. You will not be remembered as a hero, but as a part of a machine that destroyed what was noble and just.

The choice is yours. Change, repent, and return to the principles you swore to uphold. Or step away from this corrupt institution and find a way to redeem your actions. The truth has been laid before you. What you do with it will decide the kind of legacy you leave behind. And that legacy, now, is set in stone.