Secession, Convention or Totalitarianism?

There are a lot of rumblings across this country on the state of our nation and impotence of citizens to do anything about it.  It’s getting to the point when Americans have to reassess the policies of Washington D.C. and the impact its having on our lives.  Has Congress abdicated its responsibilities to an unelected and unaccountable federal bureaucracy?  Do we now have an imperial presidency?  Can we truly decry the mantra of our founders, “No taxation without representation”?

There are three ways to address this runaway central government: secession, convention or do nothing and spiral into totalitarianism.  The War of Northern Aggression settled the first secession movement.  Northerners invaded, defeated, occupied and disenfranchised anyone who participated in the rebellion.  On top of that, the victors bastardized our history and the reasons as to why the South seceded.  Many contend it was all about slavery.  Yes, slavery was a major factor, but what no one talks about is the election of 1860.

Abraham Lincoln won the Electoral College solely on Northern votes.  Lincoln wasn’t even on the ballot in 10 out of the 15 Southern states.  Southerners saw the handwriting on the wall.  It was time to dissolve the union.

We don’t want a repeat of history.  Can we secede without actually leaving the union?  Can like minded states form a confederation and challenge the Washington D.C. Death Star?  Or, maybe states should call for a convention to amend the Constitution?

Many are concerned that we will end up with a runaway convention.  Advocates argue otherwise.  If one is called, it will be all for naught if the 14^th, 16^th, and 17^th amendments are not repealed, and the 1946 Administrative Procedures Act is abolished.  Will delegates to this convention have the political will and fortitude to do what is necessary?  Or, will they resort to political correctness and expediency? 

There are those who believe Washington D.C. is capable of reforming itself, if only the right people were elected.  That’s a pipedream.  It’s not going to happen.  It’s time states took a proactive stance and quit acting like vassals to the Potomac Caliphate.

Source:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/how-and-where-lincoln-won/?_r=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860

Should Red States Form a NATO-esque Alliance?

A government of the people, by the people and for the people.  That is a lofty sentiment.  Abraham Lincoln was a rhetorical genius.  He wrote of a higher ideal of government, while at the same time, invading his neighbors, shutting down newspapers, jailing and exiling dissenters, not to mention engaging in crony capitalism.  The Great Emancipator indeed.

The War of Northern Aggression was the beginning of the end of federalism.  Before this calamity, states were considered ones country.  Politicians before that era would resign from their D.C. elected office to become senators and representatives in their state’s legislature.  Now, it’s the other way around.  Washington D.C. has become the epicenter of American life.  No one can escape that cesspools legion of laws, rules, regulations, onerous taxes and penalties.

The Anti-Federalists were prophetic.  They warned us that this central government with its three branches would conspire to consolidate power at the expense of states and the liberty of its citizens.  They could not have been more right.  These founding fathers tried to protect us by demanding a Bill of Rights.  Those rights were designed as a firewall.  But, like everything else, the totalitarians have bastardized it.

These masters of American citizens depend upon our faith and fidelity to their laws, rules, regulations, onerous taxes and penalties.  Without our compliance they are nothing, hence, the diminishment of self-government and determination.

 

How can we fight back?  We could call for an Article V constitutional convention specifically designed to enforce our founding principles.  That means abolishing the 1946 Administrative Procedures Act, 17^th Amendment, 16^th Amendment, and more importantly the cudgel of activist federal judges: the 14^th Amendment.

Another way to fight back is to call for a NATO-esque alliance between red states.  An attack on one is attack on all.  States’ must reject their vassalage mentality.  It was the states that created this federal government, not the other way around.  This is the United States of America, not the Federal Government of America.

Sooner or later, something has to be done.  A house divided against itself cannot stand.  Either we are free, or totalitarian.  It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Mark Levin: Two Bad Elections and Look What's Happened to Us.

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Mark Levin:  They're at war with us and our pathetic president is playing golf. He's playing golf again today. He's hooked on golf like drug addicts are hooked on drugs. He used to do pot, he used to do coke, now he does golf. Unbelievable. And these pictures are sent all over the world. Every hellhole where these cockroaches live and function and rape and destroy they see it! They see him laughing five minutes after he gives that pathetic commentary. On the golf course. And he's supposed to represent us. 


He pretends he's Lincoln. Lincoln! What do you think Lincoln would do under these circumstances? You think he would tolerate it? He thinks he's FDR Do you think FDR would tolerate this? He's a nobody when the history books are written. This isn't about firsts. The presidency doesn't exist for him, the presidency exists for us. 


When a fellow American is so horribly abused and the other captors, it is said they used to beat the hell out of him because he was an American and his brother was in the Air Force. This poor guy. And this family. And have your son decapitated when you want to reach into that television screen and put your hand around that piece of crap's neck who is doing it to him and squeeze the freaking life out of him and we can't reach him? Bullcrap! And the Brits, to their credit, they think they know who he is. And when they know who he is our pathetic president should put a $25 million bond on his head. Cockroaches have been known to turn on cockroaches. Because that's what they do.


Good lord, I tell you what. Two bad elections and look it's happened to us as a people. Look what's happened to us. Look what's happened in the country. Look what's been done to the presidency. Look what's been done to our government. Look what's been done to our military. Look what's been done to our border. Look what's been done to our economy. Two freaking elections. (Mark Levin Show, August 21, 2014

Dissolution of the American Creed

The world is witnessing a wave of secession movements.  Eyes are currently on the Crimean Peninsula.  Its majority Russian speaking residents voted in referendum to come home to mother bear.  This movement first started after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.  Those in the know weren’t surprised when this began to happen.  That’s why the Obama administration looks like a bunch of incredulous fools.

Scotland is also in the process of seceding from the United Kingdom, along with Catalonia from Spain.  But the big surprise is Venice.  It seems they and their northern brethren are tired of Rome’s fiscal mismanagement: 

For decades there has been deep-seated dissatisfaction in the rich northern regions of Italy with what is widely regarded as inefficient and venal rule from Rome, as well as resentment that hard-won tax revenues are sent south and often squandered.

About 3.8 million people in Veneto are eligible to vote. Campaigners want a future state to be known as Repubblica Veneta — the Republic of Veneto.

They acknowledge that the vote is not binding on the national government in Rome and could cause a big constitutional upheaval, but insist that if it passes, they will start taking steps to withhold taxes, in what would effectively be a unilateral declaration of independence.

“If there is a majority yes vote, we have scholars drawing up a declaration of independence and there are businesses in the region who say they will begin paying taxes to local authorities instead of to Rome,” Lodovico Pizzati, the spokesman for the independence movement, told The Daily Telegraph.

Will the United States witness another secessionist movement?  We have just as much to complaint about as the aforementioned.  I would say even more.  Our founding principles and Constitution have been forsaken.  And it all started with the Civil War.

When the South seceded from the Union, Northern aggressors violated the tenets of the Declaration of Independents.  That was the first salvo of dismantling our founding principles.  Yes, slavery – an evil institution, was a factor in the South’s contention for parting ways, but so was the mercantile policies of Washington D.C.

The South first threatened to secede during President Andrew Jackson’s tenure due to unfair trade practices.  He squashed that movement in its cradle.  Vice President John C. Calhoun and South Carolina trembled from fear of Old Hickory.  Everyone knew Jackson meant business, unlike our current president.

War eventually came and the South lost.  And despite the crimes of Northern occupiers, who raped, murdered and pillaged the vanquished, the country coalesced around a common core of culture, language, God and the principles established in our Constitution.  Those tenets are the pillars of our prosperity.  Progressives have been on a mission for over the past 100 years to topple them.  Here are a few their initiatives:

The 14^th Amendment allowed the federal judiciary to impose its will upon the States in violation of the 9^th and 10^th Amendments.

The 16^th Amendment allowed the federal government to extort States with “free money” and punish them if they don’t comply.

The 17^th Amendment excluded States’ legislatures from the political process in shaping federal law.

Then Congress made themselves irrelevant with the advent of the 1946 Administrative Procedures Act, now we have unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats imposing rules and regulations without our consent.  This is a complete violation of separation of powers as outlined in our Constitution. 

The systematic dismantling of our founding principles is enough to ensure the dissolution of the United States.  But the Progressives aren’t satisfied with that.  They have embarked on an even more destructive path, and that is dividing the population into squabbling subset groups vying for political advantage.  So much for E pluribus Unum.  Progressives laugh at the notion.

Source:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/15/more-sovereignty-votes-sunday-referendum-may-see-venice-elect-to-secede-from-italy/

100th Anniversary of the 16th Amendment

Today is the 100^th anniversary of the 16^th Amendment.  Tax lawyers, accountants and federal bureaucrats are celebrating with unabated cheer.  For if it weren’t for this monstrosity, the general government wouldn’t be able to tax your income directly.  The Constitution forbade that.  Originally, taxation was apportioned by the States.

What a blessing the Progressives gave us. Now, we’re subjected to an incomprehensible and confiscatory tax code.  President Woodrow Wilson please take a bow, for he couldn’t wait to usher in this new source of revenue.  He called for a special session of Congress on April 13.  They directed an income tax of 1% on incomes above $3000 and applied surcharges between 2% and 7% on income from $20,000 to $500,000.  That was the beginning of it all.  Here is a prophetic prediction by an opponent of the 16^th Amendment:

Richard E. Byrd, speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, predicted, "a hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business. . . . Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of Federal officials, spies and detectives will descend upon the state. . . ."[14]

Not only have they descended upon the state, they have descended upon the citizenry with a vengeance.  Under the Obama administration, an army of IRS agents are being hired to spy on our health care. 

The Progressives weren’t finished.  Later, they created the Federal Reserve, giving the general government an unlimited credit line.  We can attest to that.  This country is $17 trillion in debt, thanks to the printing presses.  This secretive entity has destroyed the dollar, along with our savings.  Later these revolutionaries would implement the 17^th Amendment completely destroying our federative system.

Progressives have a long history of fiscal irresponsibility.  After passing the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, Woodrow Wilson is quoted as saying “I have unwittingly ruined my country.”   Unwittingly?  No sir, you knew exactly what you were doing.

Source:  http://mises.org/daily/1597

http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Woodrow-Presidents-Constitutional-ebook/dp/B0078FACL2

Progressives Bemoan Their Own Constitution

Last month a law professor from Georgetown University stated the cause of our nation’s woes can be traced to our Constitution.  He believes it is an archaic, idiosyncratic, and evil document.  This professor of 40 years bemoans our dysfunctional system.

Here is an excerpt from his New York Times op-ed:

Our obsession with the Constitution has saddled us with a dysfunctional political system, kept us from debating the merits of divisive issues and inflamed our public discourse. Instead of arguing about what is to be done, we argue about what James Madison might have wanted done 225 years ago.

As someone who has taught constitutional law for almost 40 years, I am ashamed it took me so long to see how bizarre all this is. Imagine that after careful study a government official — say, the president or one of the party leaders in Congress — reaches a considered judgment that a particular course of action is best for the country. Suddenly, someone bursts into the room with new information: a group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves might have disagreed with this course of action. Is it even remotely rational that the official should change his or her mind because of this divination?

It never fails.  A liberal always has to denigrate our founding.  Yes, these were men of property.  And yes, they were white and some did own slaves, but not all of them.  Many were against the institution of slavery and did their best to stop it.  But that somehow gets lost in the ranting of the lunatic left.  And as far as making changes to that stagnant, archaic document, the Constitution has been amended 26 times, including the 13^th which prohibits slavery.  But what difference does that make?  That fact doesn’t fit the narrative of the tenured, Ivory Towered academic who wants a streamlined utopia.  Change must come here and now.  He wants a tyranny of the majority.  But he doesn’t see it that way.    

IN the face of this long history of disobedience, it is hard to take seriously the claim by the Constitution’s defenders that we would be reduced to a Hobbesian state of nature if we asserted our freedom from this ancient text. Our sometimes flagrant disregard of the Constitution has not produced chaos or totalitarianism; on the contrary, it has helped us to grow and prosper.

This is not to say that we should disobey all constitutional commands. Freedom of speech and religion, equal protection of the laws and protections against governmental deprivation of life, liberty or property are important, whether or not they are in the Constitution. We should continue to follow those requirements out of respect, not obligation.

Are we getting that respect today?  I would say we’re not.  The federal government has trampled all over our property rights; freedom of speech, association and religion; and as for life, well Planned Parenthood is a sanctioned government entity.  So, I would agree with the professor that our founder’s principles have been ignored.   I will go even further and state that today’s Constitution no way resembles that of our founding.  This is the Progressives’ Constitution and not the one our founders established.

The professor stated that ignoring our Constitution has allowed us to grow and prosper.  Yeah, we’ve prospered to the tune of $17 trillion in debt.  Of course, he, like so many of his ilk doesn’t see a problem with that.  And this “prosperity” wasn’t due to ignoring the Constitution.  No, this wouldn’t have been possible without the 16^th and the 17^th Amendments.  We can thank the Progressives for that.  Most notably, the two presidents Mr. Seidman acclaimed in his article.  With the dissolution of States representation in the Senate and a limitless credit line, the utopians have destroyed our founder’s federalist system.  Constitutional commands are damned.  These rascals have destroyed us from within.  And the brilliant Professor Louis Seidman isn’t able to see it.  Too bad that Ivory Tower doesn’t have windows.

Source:  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/opinion/lets-give-up-on-the-constitution.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57566014/professor-take-our-country-back-from-the-constitution/

Obama Administration Flourishes Under Woodrow Wilson's Alien Government

The arrogance of the Obama administration and his apparatchiks has many scratching their heads wondering how in the hell did America – the land of the free – become a nation governed by bureaucratic despots. In today’s America you can’t build a house, start a business, manufacture a product, or even pack a lunch for your kid without approval from a government thug. Is this what our founding fathers envisioned? I believe they would’ve rebelled against such tyranny. As a matter of fact, they did! So how did we get here?

The Progressives – both republican and democratic – have rendered our federalist system impotent by structurally altering the Constitution. The 14th, 16th, and 17th Amendments have become instrumental tools by which the central government uses to gather power unto themselves at the expense of the states and individual liberties of its citizens. They have rendered the Constitution a mere speed bump on the road to serfdom.

Where did this paternalistic attitude of an administrative state come from? Ronald J. Pestritto summed it up best in his book, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism:

If bureaucracy, as it administers progress, is to act on behalf of the general interest, what is the role for public opinion? Wilson, after all, seems a consistent advocate of connecting politics much more directly with popular opinion. Yet, his writings on the separation of politics and administration show that public opinion is not to be brought more directly into the realm of administrative decision making. “The problem,” Wilson explained, “is to make public opinion efficient without suffering it to be meddlesome.” Public opinion is a “clumsy nuisance” when it comes to the “oversight of the daily details and in the choice of the daily means of government.” So while public opinion ought to be introduced more directly into politics, politics must confine itself to general superintendence – to the role of setting only the broad goals of the nation. “Let administrative study find the best means for giving public criticism this control and for shutting it out from all other interference,” Wilson wrote.

And isn’t that the attitude of the Obama administration and his progressive tyrants? Is this an American ideal? Even Woodrow Wilson confessed this form of governance is alien and un-American:

But where has this science grown up? Surely not on this side of the sea….American writers have hitherto taken no very important part in the advancement of this science. It has found its doctors in Europe. It is not of our making; it is a foreign science, speaking very little of the language of English or American principles….It has been developed by French and German professors.

But the progressives have made this European animal ours. Congress, through a series of legislative acts, has brought about a Wilsonian administrative state. One of the first being the Administrative Procedures Act of 1946 (thanks Dewey from Detroit blog). This law grants federal agencies the ability to create and enforce regulations without going through the legislative process. This law let the veritable genie out of the bottle. But Congress wasn’t through. They believed the federal government – through the use of an administrative state – is responsible for guaranteeing full employment.

Excerpt from the Employment Act of 1946

The Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, ... for the purpose of creating and maintaining, in a manner calculated to foster and promote free competitive enterprise and the general welfare, conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment opportunities, including self-employment, for those able, willing, and seeking to work, and to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.

The Congress of 1946 was a bunch of busy, socialist beavers. But, it didn’t stop there. A later Congress reaffirmed the federal government’s right to meddle in the economy by passing the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978.

The Congress declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means, consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential national policies, and with the assistance and cooperation of both small and larger businesses, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining, in a manner calculated to foster and promote free competitive enterprise and the general welfare, conditions which promote useful employment opportunities, including self-employment, for those able, willing, and seeking to work, and promote full employment and production, increased real income, balanced growth, a balanced Federal budget, adequate productivity growth, proper attention to national priorities, achievement of an improved trade balance through increased exports and improvement in the international competitiveness of agriculture, business, and industry, and reasonable price stability as provided in section 1022b(b) of this title.

Are these policies consistent with our founding principles of natural law and limited government, or are they a foreign monstrosity imposed upon us by ambitious statists who have no regards for federalism and individual liberties? I believe Woodrow Wilson answered that for us.

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Woodrow-Liberalism-American-Intellectual-Culture/dp/0742515176

http://www.deweyfromdetroit.com/2012/02/through-portal-darkly.html

http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/bills/blapa.htm

http://home.uchicago.edu/~whowell/papers/Agencies.pdf

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Employment_Act_of_1946.aspx

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1021

Super Committee is a Super Failure

The super committee is a super failure. Did anyone expect a different outcome? Here is their joint press release:

In a joint news release, Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction Co-Chairmen Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) said they concluded today that they will not be able to make “any bipartisan agreement” public before the deadline.

The brief statement was mostly positive and forward-looking, saying the co-chairmen were “disappointed” at the failure but “hopeful” that Congress would act in its place.

“Despite our inability to bridge the committee’s significant differences, we end this process united in our belief that the nation’s fiscal crisis must be addressed and that we cannot leave it for the next generation to solve,” the statement said.

The two also said they hoped Congress could “build on this committee’s work.”

Build on what, centralizing more power in that cesspool town? What we need is a structural change, and that can only happen if we repeal the 14th, 16th, and 17th Amendments. Until that happens, we are on the road to Greece.

Source: http://www.rollcall.com/news/super_deficit_committee_failed_co_chairman-210501-1.html

States Are "FED" Up

When I say that the states are fed up, I mean just that. For years, they have been kicked around and abused by our feudal lords and masters in Washington D.C... Federal mandates and judicial tyranny have eviscerated the 10th amendment. Now, the states are fighting back:


COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - South Carolina lawmakers have approved a measure meant to eventually allow states to repeal federal law.


But the process to get there would be complicated and long.


House Republicans pushed through the so-called "repeal amendment" by a 72-44 vote on Wednesday. Democrats argued the measure was a waste of time.


The legislation calls for a Constitutional Convention to propose an amendment allowing states to repeal a federal law. That would depend on two-thirds of state legislatures approving a resolution to do so.


House Speaker Bobby Harrell says it's a way for states to regain sovereignty.


Democratic Rep. Walt McLeod notes there hasn't been a Constitutional Convention since 1787, and an agenda for one couldn't be set in advance. Two-thirds of states must request to have one.



I do not trust a Constitutional Convention. When the delegates gathered in Philadelphia in 1787, it was to tweak the Articles of Confederation. They came out with a whole new paradigm. Very few expected that to happen.

Today’s leaders do not have the same integrity, foresight, or knowledge of history as our founding fathers. I don’t trust a damn one of them. If a Constitutional Convention were to happen, you can expect an abortion just like that of the European Union.

If we really want to limit the powers of the federal government, we must repeal the 17th, 14th, and 16th Amendments. Fooling around with a Constitutional Convention is courting disaster.

Source: http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14042792


H/T: Carolina Politics Online

The Fight is Engaged! We Shall Overcome!

The Democrats trampled upon the Constitution last night. The fight is engaged! And we the American people shall overcome!

We should not look upon this with apprehension; but rather with an opportunity that would not have come with John McCain as president of the United States. The Democrats have shown their true character, and it is blazoned with the hammer and sickle.

All the Progressive victories are on the table now. The 16th and 17th amendment should be debated and repealed. This has to be accomplished in order to take away the power from the central government and give it back to the states as our founding fathers meant it to be.

The tenth amendment is making a resurgence. When the mid-term election comes in November, we must make sure that those we put in office are dedicated to the principles that have ensured our God given rights; and not manufactured, government handouts . No more RINO's!