President Bush’s tyrannies sparked State Soverignty movements that only are increasing under the further oppressions of President Obama.
28 states now have introduced legislation asserting state sovereignty “partly in response to the conditions” under the Bush-Obama “stimulus” bills that vastly increased the tyranny of the central regime in Washington, according to The Christian Science Monitor. Four of the resolutions have passed, in Idaho, South Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. Two have been rejected, in New Hampshire and Arkansas. 22 are still pending.
This isn’t just a bunch of Southerners still sore about losing the Civil War. Most of the states are in the North and West. Here’s a map:
Americans are starting to remember that our country was born in revolt against the British tyranny of 1776. Today, the Washington, D.C. tyranny is much greater than King George III ever could have imagined.
Taxes now are half of our incomes, and going higher. Mutitudinous federal security agencies — NSA, FBI, CIA, DHS, etc. — spy, coerce, and jail us. Massive bureaucracies control every minute portion of our lives. And now, the feds have taken over the banking, insurance, and auto industries. America rsembles less the free country of 1789 than the Soviet Union of 1939.
So far, there isn’t such a movement in California’s Legislature. But someone ought to start one.
As Karen De Coster writes:
There is a secession movement afoot and its proponents are determined to put a halt to the federal government’s ambitions to destroy and reconstruct an entire economy and dissolve the last remnants of individual liberty….
The speed with which the federal government intends to take over private institutions and usurp states’ rights and individual autonomy is unprecedented. When the Bush-Obama regime maneuvers are compared to the Hoover-FDR New Deal era, it looks like today’s hare vs. yesterday’s turtle. The state’s various propaganda arms, from big media to institutionalized special interest forces, are being empowered to publicize and sell the agenda of the totalitarian state by painting it in glossy colors that warm the hearts of unresisting Americans.
There are, however, growing pockets of dissenters who conclude that life, liberty, property, and the futures of their children are more important than the trivial things that occupy the minds of the submissive class. For that reason, the state’s militarized police force, which has been given unparalleled powers by the contrived crises following 9-11, has snowballed in size and is being fortified in expectation of confronting rebellion from those citizens who intend to resist the tyranny of an over-reaching Leviathan.
Since the Bush II regime took control and 9/11 became its launch pad for sweeping hegemony, the police state has moved more swiftly than ever to demonize resistance and criminalize dissent. The most recent example is the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) report that profiled individuals according to their political convictions, especially those ideas that agitate against the institutionalization of unconstitutional acts that are intended to grow state power at the expense of individual liberties. Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr (!), guns & ammo, taxes, the Federal Reserve, secession, and resistance to universal government service or anti-privacy actions – all of those topics have become keywords in the crusade to criminalize individuals who refuse to be rounded up like cattle and marched toward serfdom.
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As to me, my political views haven’t change much over my 53 years, always favoring limited government and opposing tyranny. Yet I’ve gone from being a patriot to, under Bush-Obama, someone considered a threat to the government Establishment!
Well, I’m still a patriot — a real patriot. It’s Bush and Obama who are the real traitors to America’s sacred legacy of liberty and limited government.
May the State Sovereignty movement continue to grow until it tames, or if necessary abolishes, the central tyranny. As a famous document once put it:
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
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I think you ought to separate the Bush years from the Obama years. Especially because they were Bush *years* and they are Obama *weeks*.
Obama inherited the problems, and while his approach of spending does not look any more promising–in fact, he may be on track to spending a LOT MORE than Bush–he needs to be cut slack in lieu of any other proposal.
Till he has had at least two years in office.
As to taxation, when you have a trillion dollars being spent for the military upkeep in some 130 countries around the world, what do you expect?
Do you support an immediate withdrawal of all out troops from all countries abroad, starting with, say, Germany and S. Korea?
I agree with you that minimizing government control is absolutely the way to go, and the Patriot Act style measures are slowly bit surely eroding civil liberties.
I do not agree that the 1789 USA was free”r”, since constitutionally we did have the provision for slaves back then.
Mr. Kamath:
Thanks for your post.
1. Unless Obama changes, he’s just following Bush. Obama already has set the course of disaster for his administration.
2. Yes, I support withdrawing all U.S. troops from those countries — and from every other country.
3. Certainly, slaves in 1789 were not free. But we don’t have race-based slavery today, so that’s not a problem. Rather, everyone is a slave to the government. And we must break our chains.
“the obama deception” google it and watch, theres alot of useful information in that movie in regards to the purpose of obama and what may be in store for us.
It is interesting that New Hampshire, the state selected by The Free State Project, voted down a state sovereignty proposal.
Give Obama two years?! That’s like saying you’ll give the driver of your car that’s speeding into a brick wall another 15 minutes to see how that turns out.