Jack of Harts

When the Federal government began arresting those related to the previous Presidential administration and charging them with a multitude of crimes, Virginia’s central law enforcement agencies cooperated in every way they could. The mountainous counties of western Virginia were not so amenable to what they called a federal witch-hunt, and obstructed where they could. They declared themselves sanctuary counties and refused to share information with the Feds. They hid politicians or smuggled them out to safer States that did not cooperate with the Feds. The Feds responded by arresting those county Sheriffs and administrators who stood against them in public. That sent resistance against their arrests into less public methods. “Sic semper tyrannis” became the most common tag on the streets. It was the Virginia motto that meant, “Thus always to Tyrants.”