What I don't understand, is why the constitutionalists are on the defensive?  It is as if we are like African slaves who have to beg for our freedom?  Why aren't we investigating them?  Why doesn't Sheriff Palmer launch a committee of deputies from his country to go to Portland and investigate them?  Or, at least not permit the investigators set foot in his county unless they meet certain conditions.  The point is, he has as much authority to investigate them as they him.