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SECEDE & SURVIVE: Hey, Lincoln/Obama, people and states getting uppity again...
Submitted by Carol Moore on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 11:46am.
On Lincoln's two hundredth birthday, it's a great day to remind Lincoln and his naive disciple Barack Hussein Obama that Americans still love freedom, distrust government, and may yet create a liberatory continental secession movement. Just a few details of why and who enclosed...
The problems? I'm sure you can come up with a longer list, but here's a little one.
*A massive military engaged in trillion dollar wars that benefit corporate contributors and foreign nations - especially and particularly Israel. 800 - 1000 military bases around the world!? More than Rome could imagine!
*Blaming the economic crisis on private corporations, when government polices forced banks to loan trillions to non-creditworthy individuals and companies, guaranteed those loans through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, encouraged private companies to restructure bad loans to make them attractive - leading to a big bubble that finally exploded and deflated. See a list of all those pernicious government laws and regulations that created the problem at wikipedia (guess who wrote much of the article).
*A 10 trillion dollar debt - 35,000 for each American - and that's not including social security and medicare which will be many times bigger and obviously UNsustainable...
*Civil liberties still down the tube: still busting people for medical marijuana, not to mention recreational use; still haven't repealed the Patriot Act or made the "no fly" list transparent; Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wants to forbid anyone on the totally arbitrary "no fly" list from owning guns (even though he's proud of his father who was a member of the Zionist terrorist group the Irgun in the 1940s); still spying on American dissidents; plans to monitor all our health treatments and eventually make sure we aren't getting too much treatment, especially if we are dissidents?; how long before saying SECESSION gets you in big trouble with the feds? No insulin for you, you freaking secessionist traitor!
But Americans remain uppity and won't shut up about freeing themselves from the empire:
Go to Middlebury Institute listing - or the wikipeida list and categories - which include some of the many American groups considering secession.
And then there are the state houses with members claiming more and more state rights to sovereignty, though not always on the most libertarian of grounds...
Washington HJM 4009 - 2009-10 Claiming state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment.
New Hampshire HCR 6 – as Introduced 2009 Session House Concurrent Resolution 6 - affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.
Arizona A
concurrent RESOLUTION claiming sovereignty under the tenth amendment to
the constitution of the united states over certain powers, serving
notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates
and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or
repealed.
Montana 2009 Montana Legislature House Bill No. 246 A
Bill for an Act Entitled: "An Act Exempting from Federal Regulation
under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution of the United States a
Firearm, a Firearm Accessory, or Ammunition Manufactured and Retained
in Montana; Providing for the Duties of the Attorney General; and
Providing an Applicability Date."
Michigan House Concurrent Resolution No. 4. A
concurrent resolution to affirm Michigan’s sovereignty under the Tenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and to urge the
federal government to halt its practice of imposing mandates upon the
states for purposes not enumerated by the Constitution of the United
States.
Missouri HR 212 Declares
Missouri's sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment and urges the United
States Congress to reject the passage of the federal Freedom of Choice
Act which prohibits regulations on abortion
Oklahoma January 7, 2009 State legislator Charles Key Tenth Amendment Resolution
Hawaii Hawaiian Constitutional Convention
We've only just begun to fight...
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I think folks are beginning to connect the dots, Carol...
Thanks for doing so here.
Rob
Most of these State resolutions are "just" re-affirming the US Constitution, a powerful "hint hint we're not going to let this continue" message. But a few, see snippets of Arizona below, are very interesting and specific in demands.
I think one of the biggest gaps in the Vermont secession-argument is that we have not yet, as a State, attempted to exert our most basic Constitutional Rights. If someone does you repeated wrongs, and you don't demand they stop, that means you consent. But now Vermont can join/follow the other states in UNITY while asserting our States rights and making it clear that we do not consent to the Federal government violating the US Constitution.
The unifying question in Vermont needs to shift from right/left, social/corporate and political parties to STATE vs FED. We need to focus on getting back our State's rights and detach ourselves from our other political or social lenses.
Hopefully we do not need to secede or completely reinvent our State government. We just need the US Constitution to be upheld, so that we can be free to create a sustainable economy and society.
State-Legislatures need to step up the the plate, and WE need to make sure our local State Legislators know that we're in the dug-out cheering them on, 4 beers into it and ready to charge the mound enthusiastically if need be.
Arizona:
"...Whereas, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and...
Whereas, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and
Whereas, today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government; and
Whereas, many federal laws are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and
WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal government may not usurp; and...
...That this Resolution serves as notice and demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.
That all compulsory federal legislation that directs states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties or sanctions or requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed...."
Interesting times
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