States Should Revive the Practice of "Nullification"
What we saw occur in Arizona this week, with a federal district judge gutting a law passed by the Arizona state legislature and signed into law by the governor of that state is nothing less than spitting in the face of "states rights!"
We Americans have already fought one civil war over this very thing -- and the federal government is dragging us ever closer to another American holocaust.
Think about it: The US federal government refuses to enforce the laws of the land and then has the audacity to slap down the people of the states when they attempt to enforce those same laws.
All this time I have been laboring under a misconception. See, I was taught, and I was reared to believe, that the US was a nation of laws and that no person or entity was above the law. Well, it turns out I was WRONG! But I had to wait until the socialist Obama and his henchman hi-jacked the US government to learn that I had been wrong all this time.
I have learned something from all of this. It is that the law does not matter - unless -- it can be used (by those in power) to get something they want. If applying the law will constrain them from something they dearly want, then -- to hell with the law.
At the moment, Obama wants the Hispanic vote in 2012. He will move heaven and earth, tread on anyone who gets in his way, use the mailed fist of the federal government to crush whoever and whatever gets in his way -- the same as any other tin pot dictator in the western hemisphere. America is looking more and more, everyday, like one of the "banana republics" we used to make jokes about. Now that we are one - it ain't funny!
In the years before the American civil war, when Washington was tyrannizing the southern states on a regular basis (much as they are doing to the entire country today) the southern states began nullifying those federal laws. Why did they think they could do that? Well one of the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, said in the Kentucky Resolution the following:
"Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force: That to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party....each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." Alien and Sedition Acts and States' rights (Texas Fred has an excellent article from which this was drawn at: http://texasfred.net/archives/7233)
I say again, the underlying cause of the American civil war was not slavery, as we have been taught, it was the abuse of the rights of the states by the heavy-handed federal government - just as the federal government is doing today!
They say history repeats itself - and today we have the evidence right before our eyes.
How much more of Obama's high-handed tyrannical tactics are the American people going to suffer before they bow their backs and say: ENOUGH!
One good thing may come from this demonstration of what happens when a country's all too powerful central government runs amuck. If nothing else, this move by the judge in Arizona should seal the election in November for the Republicans.
Now that Americans have seen that the Obama Regime is intent on securing its hold on the government, not only in Washington, but in their states, as well, it should cut through the smoke screen of flowery oratory, and expose the skull and crossbones hidden within.
Remember this: if your state has no rights, YOU, my fellow Americans, have no rights, either!
Remember Arizona in November. Let nothing deter you. RUN to the polls in November -- and reclaim America. Do not allow the history books to record that Americans lost their country to a great orator much as the Germans of the 20th century did. As they learned, too late, it was the road to utter destruction.
Remember in November!
J. D. Longstreet is a conservative Southern American (A native sandlapper and an adopted Tar Heel) with a deep passion for the history, heritage, and culture of the southern states of America. At the same time he is a deeply loyal American believing strongly in "America First". He is a thirty-year veteran of the broadcasting business, as an "in the field" and "on-air" news reporter (contributing to radio, TV, and newspapers) and a conservative broadcast commentator.
Longstreet is a veteran of the US Army and US Army Reserve. He is a member of the American Legion and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. A lifelong Christian, Longstreet subscribes to "old Lutheranism" to express and exercise his faith.
Articles by J.D. Longstreet is a regular contributor at Right Side News and he posts at: "INSIGHT on Freedom", "Hurricane Alley... by Longstreet", "The Carolina Post" and numerous other conservative websites around the web.
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written by Ret. Marine, July 30, 2010
When the good folks of this Nation awake frrom the slumber they have enjoyes up to this point in our history, is will become painfully clear we have allowed traitors to infiltrate all areas of this government , there will be hell to pay for anyone involved. My list of traitors within my own community will soon see a day of deposit to the worn farm. Pissed off about the direction, no but just consider I am part of that 12% of our forefathers who sought relief and has instead to rely upon God, Country and a means to support it.
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written by Adam shields, August 02, 2010
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written by KnowonSpecial, August 03, 2010
The duties of our Government is supposed to be very limited, and yet those limited responsibilities are enumerated in the federal U. S. Constitution:
Article. IV. Section. 4. “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.”
So, when the FEDS deliberately abandon their SWORN, CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY to protect EACH state against invasion, just what do YOU suggest Arizona do??
It seems that with the new "Hate Speech" laws, Arizona won't even be allowed to use harsh language!
It is my humble opinion, but if the Feds refuse to "man up" and DO their job, then watch this ol' Texan exercise MY Constitutional rights, we'll let the brain farts in DC figure out which ones.
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Thanks again, and keep up the good work.