Michelle,

No, you are not a "fruitcake." You are 100% correct. We probably share the same sources. Are you familiar with Patrick Wood (August Review)?

Note to Dan – before we can risk a "Con-Con" we have a big job to do: educating the baby-boomers and ex-hippies who were thoroughly indoctrinated in the public schools in internationalism, Marxism, statism, collectivism,and Progressivism while being kept in the dark about the central banks' plans to rule the world.

If we don't rehab these sheep, a Con-con would surely give us a Constitution we don't want.

The states are pathetic shells of their former selves: constantly bullied by
federal courts, federal bureaucrats and now, under the NAFTA Tribunals, foreign companies.

$¡:http://patrickdeneen.blogspot.com/2009/05/anti-anti-government.html
(...)
The same issue of the Washington Post also happened to carry a story about the Obama administration's reversal of the Bush policy of "preemption." Preemption, in this case, does not refer to the "Bush Doctrine" in international affairs, but rather a quiet and largely unremarked upon policy by which the Federal government presumptively and preemptively overturned State-based laws in areas of interest to private business interests. According to one person quoted in the article, "'It's environmental law, it's drug law, it's mortgage law, it's a whole host of areas where the Bush administration was really aggressive about using regulatory action to clear state and local laws that businesses and corporations didn't like,' said Doug Kendall, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center." Federal regulation was regularly, even promiscuously used to overturn legitimate State legislation in areas where private business demanded uniformity for the sake of efficiency, profit, and economies of scale. So much for the idea that the States are the "laboratories of democracy."
(...)
"!$:http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/ap-nafta-trade-tribunals-seen-trumping-state-laws
nternational trade tribunals seen trumping state laws

By Dave Gram, Associated Press Writer | December 2, 2007

MONTPELIER, Vt. --A Canadian company wants to open a new plant in Claremont, N.H., to bottle fresh water from a source in Stockbridge, Vt.

But if Vermont wants to limit how much water the company takes, it may run afoul of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

States around the country are growing increasingly worried about the threats posed to their laws and regulations by the secret tribunals that resolve disputes in international trade. Experts say everything from environmental rules to the licensing of nurses and other professionals could be affected.

"Free trade agreements are to state sovereignty and economic development what global climate change is to the environment and natural resources," said state Sen. Virginia Lyons, D-Chittenden. "I think it's a really significant issue for our state, and for every state in the country."

Vermont is one of seven states to establish committees to study the possible impacts of international trade on their laws.

Assistant Vermont Attorney General Elliot Burg said NAFTA and other trade agreements have opened up a path for international companies that want to circumvent state laws they don't like.
(...)
Corporate investors also have used NAFTA’s investor-state enforcement system to challenge domestic court rulings, local and state environmental policies, municipal contracts, tax policy, federal controlled substances regulations, federal and state anti-gambling policies, a federal government’s alleged failure to provide water rights, and even the provision of public postal services. In most instances, challengers have sought millions of dollars in damages, claiming that regulatory measures and government actions negatively affected their profitability. If an investor prevails in its NAFTA claim, the losing nation is obliged to compensate the firm from the national treasury.
(...)

Since Indiana is the last of nine states endorsing the Liberty Amendment, It is likely that here are a few legislators in the State Legislature who will remember it. That is only 25 years ago. As for the Tenth Amendment, I and all who work on the Liberty Amendment are behind it and for everything it can do to stop the Socialist SteamRoller. But we are concerned that it can only –STOP—the movement and not correct everything the Federal Government has grabbed in its operations over the years.

The Liberty Amendment started in the 40s and fifties was designed to restore the Constitution to its full force and effectiveness, and restore our federal government to the constitutionally limited representative republican form of government. The Federal Government would loose all the unconstitutional powers it had grabbed in 150years, and taxes for its operation would be reduced appropriately. For a full explanation of its operation see the Questions and Answers section where Represenative Mc Donald prepared 75 Questions with complete answer.

I will go no further with this explanation of the Liberty Amendment, and leave it to be explored by those who are unfamiliar. www.libertyamendment.org.
freeland@libertyamendment.com

P.S. About a Constitutional Convention, where there is an endorsement of thirty five states on a single same worded issue, the Convention will not be needed to force the Congress to submit it for ratification.

Alexander Hamilton said, “The people will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the federal and state governments.”

The People.

You.

Me.

Your neighbor, your best friend...anyone excluded from the halls of the ruling establishment.

'The People' are not the corporate entities who have been receiving bailouts, but rather people making life changing sacrifices every day right now. Not CEOs, presidents, Admirals or any of those who you might look to for leadership. Alexander Hamilton was talking to YOU when he made that comment.

Only an act of 'The People' has the force to reclaim the rights that are rightfully ours in each of the 50 states.

Below is The response I received this morning after sending the good senator a copy of my post. I don't think our founding fathers could have foreseen automated responses, otherwise they would have addressed them... But it's okay, This one tells me that I am not the only one who contacted him.
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Thank you for contacting me by e-mail. Due to the volume of e-mail’s my office receives, we have begun sending an automated response as confirmation that your e-mail was received.

I assure you your concerns are important to me. If you need further assistance, please contact my assistant, Gloria Schroeder, at (317) 233-0930 or (800)382-9467.

Dennis Kruse
State Senator

Here is the question:

How many real men are actually on Capitol Hill? True leaders are real men! When these "men" and women took the oath, they made a commitment. And here it is:

I, [member's name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

The Constitution (Article 2, Section 1) provides that before assuming office the President must take the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

George Washington added the words “so help me God” at the first inauguration, a practice followed by all his successors. He took the oath with his left hand on a Bible and his right hand raised toward heaven. Although the Constitution does not require that the oath be taken on a Bible, most other Presidents have done so. The Bible is always opened to a passage, and no two Presidents have chosen the same one.

Real men have morals, ethics, and values. WHERE ARE THE REAL MEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? It's time for them to stand up!!!!

Terry - the ultimate arbiters are “we the people.”

What did you just say?! You dare deny that the federal judiciary is the ultimate arbiter?! Blasphemy!!! ;-)

Calling for a constitutional convention is like seeking to burn trash on a dry day in a forest when the wind is blowing. You can’t control what happens. I hope you will re-think this.

What makes you think we can better control what happens by use of the other method? Who do you think the ultimate arbiters of the constitution are in any event?

The trick is, that everyone gets separated - either by religion, color of the skin, viewpoint, "class" as in blue collar, poor, rich - arrogance (I'm smarter than you are, and let me show you how much) - which you'll see in so many areas. I shudder to think of all the ways we as a human race are separated from each other.

Even in your own family, you'll have your "outcasts" or "black sheep" that nobody else in the family seems to want to deal with. Why is that? It's surely not from "human nature" although many would make you believe otherwise.

I'll tell you the REAL reason - and it's not just the mind control games from the Illuminati. People have no patience anymore. Everything has to be "quick" now days. Buy your stuff from the store - do you grow anything? Do you know which plant you can eat and which you can't if left out in the open to your own survival? Do you know how long it takes to grow certain vegetables and fruits?

Nevermind the toxins that are implanted into your food - even your "apple a day".

Nobody has the TIME to grow, not many people have the SPACE (especially in the city) to grow ANYTHING. Organic farmers, and the basic "down to earth farmer" not even organic farmers - all are being pushed down, drown out, and made to add toxins to their crops. Organic farmers are under heavy fire right now, because of the LACK of toxins - hey - big biz here wants you to spray this and that under FDA rules to keep the food "safe" for pete's sakes. Heck, now it's not even sprays, it's running all the food through radiated "light" to keep all of us safe from "food borne illnesses."

Safe my ass. It's all about the money the major drug corps need to sell their wares. do you know that the "light" they pass food through kills every nutrient in that food? We're over here in the "better lands" starving for nutrients that are being systematically being stripped out, while on the other side of the world - they just "don't get any."

And wow - wonder why we have such an "obesity" issue in this country. Unreal. All while our other brothers and sisters of the planet starve due to total lack of crop - ours is poisoned, or completely stripped of any nutrients that our bodies need to survive.

Population control anyone?

Yes, the Illuminati want to cull the population by about what - 90% or some obscure number - I honestly forget. But it's high. There is no global warming, it's called the natural cycle of the earth. If anyone had half a brain anymore, they would know that - but we're all "too far from nature" to figure that out. The Illumined have made sure of that.

Here's a clip from a really good movie I suggest everyone watch called ZEITGEIST : The Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB_dD2BsZro

This is why claiming "sovereignty" is of no use as I see it. Because Mr. George Bullya Bush Jr. has already signed an agreement (unbeknownst to the public) that pretty much killed the "united states". We are a "company" now owned by the "royals" - we are already bankrupt - and even sovereignty of each state will not apply.

Ever wonder why they don't have many problems letting our "states" declare sovereignty? Because it just doesn't matter, that's why.

But we do.

Please, don't fight against your neighbor - join together, and just say "no" to everything they attempt to throw your way as much as you can. I'm hoping that will work. :-|

Thanks!
Michelle

Thanks Fred007 (bond - james bond) hhehehe 007 - nevermind! ;-) for not thinking I'm a fruitcake.

I seriously wish more "politicians" or those who are in "power" of their respective "offices" would take note of these things. Honestly, the only ones with the "power" happen to be US - not the U.S of A - but "us" as a collective whole - yet nobody understands or believes that. "Power to the PEOPLE" not the "Illuminati" - and all that.

We have vast numbers against such a small handful of ruling "royal blood" that it would be like the movie "ants". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlWZZSD4irM

It does not matter if you are under the gun, in Iraq fighting a total BS war, or if you are a traffic cop who gets some "special pass" or some bank receptionist that learns about a "new way of doing things" at the bank (like fingerprinting). Doesn't matter if you're black, white, red or purple for that matter. If you are a human being living on this planet - you have the power to stop all this.

All you need to do in your particular area of "power" is to stand down, and NOT do what the illumined tell you to do from the top down. Then their little house of cards will fall in, and they will be exposed as to what the REALLY are. Satanistic, destructive forces that manipulate the rest of humanity to do their bidding.

They keep the answers from you. They mind control at every level to make you "tired", "boring" and "dull minded". They use our education system to confuse our youth, and fill them with false versions of "real history". The use music and media as a total mind control "experiment". Check this out and see if it doesn't make some kind of sense:
http://www.illuminati-news.com/satanic_roots.htm - yep our "woodstock" was an experiment.

I was born in 1967, and was raised on rock and roll. So of course I didn't like reading all of that - but let me tell you - I took a long hard look at "led zeppelin" and couldn't believe what I realized - just from my own research. Now days, Britney Spears is - wow - has been completely driven crazy by the Illuminati, and I don't doubt that she has been "used." Check this video out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZSLIq6YiRY

Almost 76 million views, and she's laying on an "alter" NAKED - then as the video plays on....you'll notice all the "black and white" references, the checkerboard in red and white, the serving of the "computer chip" styled egg for breakfast - and what the heck is the title? "WOMANIZER".

Then close to the end of the vid, they have a black car, weaving in and out, showing it in a tunnel, with first a man, then Britney sitting in the exact same seat that they used to kill Princess Dianna. I am NOT making this up. They are showing it to you in vivid color, with all the symbolism, right in front of your face - because of course - we are too stupid to see it.

They poison your MIND with MUSIC, the MEDIA, (advertising) and the NEWS....

Go play TOXIC once - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkIytHD5v9c - and see if you see any relations at all to the 911 bombings with our own planes. You'll see it. Matter of fact, if you're REAL good, you'll see the devil in a circle. And what's the title? TOXIC. go figure. Nevermind the fact that she pours green toxic matter into a man's mouth.

Nah, they don't use music for mind control at all, now do they.

Then they add so many toxins to your environment, that your body can no longer fight them off to stay healthy. Hey, you need these drugs for your "illness" - as the drug companies get larger - and pump their poisons into you - until you no longer enjoy any health at all. You don't have an "illness" you have lack of health - and it's no wonder why.

I saw the DHS comment too. I think it's remarkable that I actually took that seriously at first- that I have become so accustomed to government intrusion that I took it to be legit for a second.

Wouldn't it be nice to get to a point where once again an authoritative message from 'Homeland Security' strikes one immediately as a parady?

Dan

Yah, your right. It's just so depressing helping my daughter with her homework on the roman empire knowing that we aren't even going to last the 450 years the roman republic lasted before Ceasar took power. At the rate the Clintons, Bushes and now Obama have been consolidating power... The frightning rate at wich Obama is just taking over key private sectors wholesale with his printed money! Not to mention, being a stratagist myself if I planned to take over a country from within wars would be my friend. I could send key military people less loyal to me off to war while keeping the most loyal ones close to home. When I had enough, wham! All hail the Ceasar!

Michelle,

No, you are not a "fruitcake." You are 100% correct. We probably share the same sources. Are you familiar with Patrick Wood (August Review)?

Note to Dan – before we can risk a "Con-Con" we have a big job to do: educating the baby-boomers and ex-hippies who were thoroughly indoctrinated in the public schools in internationalism, Marxism, statism, collectivism,and Progressivism while being kept in the dark about the central banks' plans to rule the world.

If we don't rehab these sheep, a Con-con would surely give us a Constitution we don't want.

You can quote the "Constitution" all day. The crooked politician's in Washington are already bought and paid for. They don't represent us anymore. They won't act on our behalf, so there will be no positive results. There is only one way out of this mess, draw your own conclusion!

The states are pathetic shells of their former selves: constantly bullied by
federal courts, federal bureaucrats and now, under the NAFTA Tribunals, foreign companies.

$¡:http://patrickdeneen.blogspot.com/2009/05/anti-anti-government.html
(...)
The same issue of the Washington Post also happened to carry a story about the Obama administration's reversal of the Bush policy of "preemption." Preemption, in this case, does not refer to the "Bush Doctrine" in international affairs, but rather a quiet and largely unremarked upon policy by which the Federal government presumptively and preemptively overturned State-based laws in areas of interest to private business interests. According to one person quoted in the article, "'It's environmental law, it's drug law, it's mortgage law, it's a whole host of areas where the Bush administration was really aggressive about using regulatory action to clear state and local laws that businesses and corporations didn't like,' said Doug Kendall, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center." Federal regulation was regularly, even promiscuously used to overturn legitimate State legislation in areas where private business demanded uniformity for the sake of efficiency, profit, and economies of scale. So much for the idea that the States are the "laboratories of democracy."
(...)
"!$:http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/ap-nafta-trade-tribunals-seen-trumping-state-laws
nternational trade tribunals seen trumping state laws

By Dave Gram, Associated Press Writer | December 2, 2007

MONTPELIER, Vt. --A Canadian company wants to open a new plant in Claremont, N.H., to bottle fresh water from a source in Stockbridge, Vt.

But if Vermont wants to limit how much water the company takes, it may run afoul of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

States around the country are growing increasingly worried about the threats posed to their laws and regulations by the secret tribunals that resolve disputes in international trade. Experts say everything from environmental rules to the licensing of nurses and other professionals could be affected.

"Free trade agreements are to state sovereignty and economic development what global climate change is to the environment and natural resources," said state Sen. Virginia Lyons, D-Chittenden. "I think it's a really significant issue for our state, and for every state in the country."

Vermont is one of seven states to establish committees to study the possible impacts of international trade on their laws.

Assistant Vermont Attorney General Elliot Burg said NAFTA and other trade agreements have opened up a path for international companies that want to circumvent state laws they don't like.
(...)
Corporate investors also have used NAFTA’s investor-state enforcement system to challenge domestic court rulings, local and state environmental policies, municipal contracts, tax policy, federal controlled substances regulations, federal and state anti-gambling policies, a federal government’s alleged failure to provide water rights, and even the provision of public postal services. In most instances, challengers have sought millions of dollars in damages, claiming that regulatory measures and government actions negatively affected their profitability. If an investor prevails in its NAFTA claim, the losing nation is obliged to compensate the firm from the national treasury.
(...)

Please forgive me --- I have a few questions that perhaps do not relate directly with the EXCELLENT article above -- but thought this the best place to ask...
Since the day his signature counted for anything - (i.e. - becoming president) How many (and what) measures) has Pres. Obama actually signed, thus becoming law of the land?
Next question - How many companies does the central government actually own ... or at least a large stake in. Notice I said "the central government" owns - as we now know, since the TARP money that is now and will be repaid is not going to be returned to the lender - rather will be "used again" at the whim of Treasury for "other projects" -- the taxpayer has has joined countries like China - Japan, etc. (entities still stupid enough to loan it money)
Lastly, since becoming Pres. - how many "Czars" and the scope of their function have actually been appointed - Need only the one's who actually can have a real person's name attached to it (example - Czar Nicholas)
Would appreciate the help

Ok, what about this...

What about everyone taking a look at the "DESIGN" of the "system" first off. and just WHO has done the designing over so many years, thousands in fact. Although I do totally support this movement to claim sovereignty for the state of Ohio and every other state, I seriously wonder what good it's going to do.

After much research and reading, here is how I see it. There are a group of people who control everything (including the federal reserve) who are involved in some really sick stuff. These people have interbred with each other - "royalty" - for thousands of years, and they currently pull all the puppet strings of all the "major players" around the world.

Including Obama. He is a "bloodline" to these "royal" families - and I personally knew he would be elected before he ever was. He's simply another "non citizen" that got into office because of his blood. Do some real research, and everything will become completely obvious, and all will make a whole lot better sense. Many people won't do this, and I'll probably get slammed right here - because not many will open their mind, and do some real research.

It would take me entirely too long to explain it all here, give names, etc - but everything is happening by design. The people behind all of this are what others call "the Illuminati." Do some searches on people like "Eustace Mullins" "David Icke" "Michael Tsarion" "Alex Jones" I could go on, but there are a LOT of people out there trying to spread the word of what's REALLY going on.

And it's not just the "united states" - it's worldwide.

Sadly, most politicians, police, military etc (at the lower levels) have absolutely no idea about what this "illuminati" thing is all about. Of course it is discredited, called a scam, a conspiracy and everything else - but I'll tell you what. If a person does enough looking into it - you'll really be surprised if your brain can handle it.

The politicians at the highest levels, the "skull and bones" , 33 degree Masons, and others - oh they KNOW what's going on. They are either too scared to face the Illuminati, because of the wrath (think assassination) - or they are directly involved as a "puppet".

The Illumined have their goals in mind, and they are playing their hands quite well. Better than "we the sheeple" by far. They know all about mind control, and what it takes to crash and burn economies, start wars that the "people" don't want, they poison us with our own food and water, they are pretty much doing anything they please. We're all too stupid, so they actually flaunt it right in our faces using symbolism, numbers, dates - you name it. "Hide in plain view" and all that.

Vaccines, microchips, toxins on all levels, mind control with TV, the media, oh my gosh. PLEASE - people. Do some serious research into what I say here. You WILL begin to understand.

And the LAST thing we ever want to do, is come out with all our guns (yes we own them and know how to shoot them) - and start Riots. That's what they are planning, building, and waiting for. Like others have said here above - peaceful "resistance" and just saying NO to everything they throw at us is really the only way.

I have read that taxation is actually illegal, (horrors) and I will be looking more into that - but they have turned us into slaves working for THEM. WE pay. THEY spend, and HOARD the money. THINK ROYALTY here - because it's the bloodlines of the Illuminati that carry the power and the cash. They use and abuse the people of this entire earth, not just the United States.

I could go real deep into this, but the other folks I list here have already done that, been there, and are spreading the word for anyone who will wake up and listen. So, before you jump all over me as some kind of "fruitcake" - I suggest you do a lot more research and reading into it.

Thanks for all that everyone here is doing, at least people understand that YES - there IS a problem. A BIG one. And at least people are looking for solutions. Please consider "looking outside of the box" - keep and open mind, and do some REAL research about the state of this planet - and the "REAL RULERS."

Thanks!
Michelle

The feds have found a way to negate the 10th Amendment and a million 10th Amendment Resolutions will not change that fact.

The Tenth Amendment reserves every power not granted to the federal government to the States or the people. It only applies when the federal government attempts to exercise a power not granted by the Constitution. It cannot be invoked to prohibit the federal government from exercising a constitutional power. By using the federal judiciary to re-define and expand the scope of the federal power through the Commerce and General Welfare Clauses in the body of the Constitution, the Feds have established unlimited regulatory, taxing and spending power and the Tenth Amendment cannot be invoked to stop them because those two clauses are granted powers.

Freeland D said:
"Maybe you better read it first before making comment on it"

Just to clarify,
I was referring to the status of the amendment, not it's substance. I read the brief 4 posted sections of the amendment. it's definitely a multi prong approach to restoring States rights..

The Liberty Amendment although about fifty years old is further along in doing its thing than the Tenth Amendment. We gave up on getting it recognized in a liberal power-hungry Congress about forty years ago. It was the opinion of most that the persuasion would have to come from the States. The Website makes the effort in the Congress secondary. If it gets nowhere, the Tenth Amendment gets no where either. Maybe you better read it first before making comment on it . But get ready for about forty pages . Dont expect any movement in the Congressional Judicial Committee, not even Ron Paul gives it a chance in that egotistical Socialistic self-powered environment.Now I'll say no more about it. freeland@libertyamendment.com

The liberty Amendment is currently sitting in the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. It is chaired by some of the most Liberal socialistic politicians DC has, Including jackson-Lee, Conyers, and Nadler as Chairman Just to name a few... It does have 6 republicans, not sure of their voting record, But they look like token opposition to the ten socialists.... The Liberty Amendment is as good as dead and buried.. This things not going anywhere.

Since Indiana is the last of nine states endorsing the Liberty Amendment, It is likely that here are a few legislators in the State Legislature who will remember it. That is only 25 years ago. As for the Tenth Amendment, I and all who work on the Liberty Amendment are behind it and for everything it can do to stop the Socialist SteamRoller. But we are concerned that it can only –STOP—the movement and not correct everything the Federal Government has grabbed in its operations over the years.

The Liberty Amendment started in the 40s and fifties was designed to restore the Constitution to its full force and effectiveness, and restore our federal government to the constitutionally limited representative republican form of government. The Federal Government would loose all the unconstitutional powers it had grabbed in 150years, and taxes for its operation would be reduced appropriately. For a full explanation of its operation see the Questions and Answers section where Represenative Mc Donald prepared 75 Questions with complete answer.

I will go no further with this explanation of the Liberty Amendment, and leave it to be explored by those who are unfamiliar. www.libertyamendment.org.
freeland@libertyamendment.com

P.S. About a Constitutional Convention, where there is an endorsement of thirty five states on a single same worded issue, the Convention will not be needed to force the Congress to submit it for ratification.

I can think of a million ways that could be applied to people who are driving to limit government.

Boy you said a mouthful there Larry!

Patrick,
I wouldn't surprise me in the least if one day we who are like minded, end up being forced to meet in private homes in order to avoid violating a tolerance law, or a portion of a hate crimes law, or some American terrorist Law.. it's coming.. A hate crime is a crime that says you were thinking a particular thought at the time it was committed.. I can think of a million ways that could be applied to people who are driving to limit government.

Bryce,
I doubt Alexander Hamilton could have ever anticipated things like, Federal Tax returns, Federal student loans, affirmative action, FHA Home Loans. All of the things that the feds have enticed the average Joe to accept in return for federal control over their lives... The old guy would roll over in his grave if he knew what direction our country has taken.

One of the problems we are up against is that the government has made up its mind to ignore the law, and actually looks on those that call attention to it as "extremists." So, we who obey the law, pay taxes, go to church, support our families and mind our own business are extremists targetted by an outlaw government who flouts the law for terror and tyranny to be sure we don't step out of line or ask it to obey the law!

What a great system. I love America!

Alexander Hamilton said, “The people will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the federal and state governments.”

The People.

You.

Me.

Your neighbor, your best friend...anyone excluded from the halls of the ruling establishment.

'The People' are not the corporate entities who have been receiving bailouts, but rather people making life changing sacrifices every day right now. Not CEOs, presidents, Admirals or any of those who you might look to for leadership. Alexander Hamilton was talking to YOU when he made that comment.

Only an act of 'The People' has the force to reclaim the rights that are rightfully ours in each of the 50 states.

Below is The response I received this morning after sending the good senator a copy of my post. I don't think our founding fathers could have foreseen automated responses, otherwise they would have addressed them... But it's okay, This one tells me that I am not the only one who contacted him.
**************************************************************************

Thank you for contacting me by e-mail. Due to the volume of e-mail’s my office receives, we have begun sending an automated response as confirmation that your e-mail was received.

I assure you your concerns are important to me. If you need further assistance, please contact my assistant, Gloria Schroeder, at (317) 233-0930 or (800)382-9467.

Dennis Kruse
State Senator

Although I am in support of all the 10th Amendment resolutions, at the end of the day, they really have no teeth. The states can only hope that the feds will sympathize with their situations. What it really all comes down to folks is who controls the printing of money, and you're going to need a Constitutional Convention in order to deal with that because the feds will never relinquish control of it. See link below for more info:

If the American people ever allow private banks to
control the issue of their money, first by inflation
and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that
will grow up around them (around the banks) will de-
prive the people of thier property until their children
will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.

Thomas Jefferson

The Federal Reserve, by the way, is a PRIVATE entity and not an offical part of the government.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NationalConstitutionalConvention06

Here is the question:

How many real men are actually on Capitol Hill? True leaders are real men! When these "men" and women took the oath, they made a commitment. And here it is:

I, [member's name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

The Constitution (Article 2, Section 1) provides that before assuming office the President must take the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

George Washington added the words “so help me God” at the first inauguration, a practice followed by all his successors. He took the oath with his left hand on a Bible and his right hand raised toward heaven. Although the Constitution does not require that the oath be taken on a Bible, most other Presidents have done so. The Bible is always opened to a passage, and no two Presidents have chosen the same one.

Real men have morals, ethics, and values. WHERE ARE THE REAL MEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? It's time for them to stand up!!!!

With all due respect and gratitude to State Senator Kruse for his Resolution, that his justification for protesting federal intrusion into reserved States' Rights rests mostly upon issues of unfunded mandates and the coercive nature of matching funds should greatly alarm us.

I doubt most American's fear and resistance to REAL ID had anything to do with unfunded mandates! We reject it in priciple because it is an unconstitutional intrusion into our private affairs! And, frankly, the idea of an all-power central government requiring a federal ID card scares the stuffings out of us! ONly a totalitarian minded government would dare propose something so pervasive! I noticed this with Charles Key's resolution in Oklahoma. In his interview (which is available at this site) he did not denounce it as unconstitutional, or an invasion of the American people's privacy, or a danger to our liberties, or any over-arching principle of the kind. He basically said it needed work to protect against ID theft at DMV portals.

What this tells me is that government officials, even part-time legislators at the State level, think like government agents and not like American people!!!! That's right. They think in terms of running the business of government more than the legalities and princples behind what they do. Scary stuff, folks!

I would rather see a Resolution that denounces REAL ID for what it is: a police state requirement foreign to the spirit of the American people and their system of government!

Unfunded mandates? Who gives a flip? Start thinking like people, not like government officials!

Blessings,

I agree with Larry: resolutions are a safe vote; not entirely worthless, but nearly so. It's a good, late first step; and I thank you and other Leaders for taking it. Keep going!

Real resistance will require you, as a Senator, to set your sights on the 17th Amendment. I hope you do!

State governments better not merely wake up, but GET UP. All this whining about their broken budgets... You'd think even liberal states would see their deficits are caused by allowing D.C. to siphon wealth like a late-night gasoline thief with a fleet of SUVs. Western states can start by unlocking resources on "public lands" and ignoring the Department of the Interior!

Individuals: better to raise our voices now than to raise our arms later (in conflict or surrender, one or the other), but while we're raising our voices it is wise to prepare for conflict. Nothing else says "we're serious" to a runaway government as well as brisk trade in private firearms.

"There are 2 ways to conquer and enslave a nation. 1 is by the sword. The other by debt" - John Adams

Dear Senator Kruse,

Thank you for sponsoring your State's 10th Amendment Resolution. We the Poeple of the United States are indebted to you for helping to restore constitutional limitations upon the power of the federal government.

However, the main thrust of your appeal rests upon unfunded mandates and federal coersion through matching funds. While these are clear invasions of the powers reserved to the States in running the business of government, they are not issues of great urgency or moment in terms of our nation's liberties. Unfunded mandates and coersive matching funds will not make or break America in terms of liberty. More important by far are the invasions of a usurping federal judiciary that seek to "federalize" local issues of law and morals, depriving us of the right to teach our children, in our schools, funded by our taxes, what we deem best and right. More important by far is the consistent war waged by Washington DC and its agents and judiciary against the traditional values and beliefs that made the nation free and our communities safe.

How dare a usurping federal judiciary tell local school districts and parents that we cannot display the Ten Commandments on class room walls; how dare they presume to tell us we cannot display manger scenes at Christmas; how dare they presume to prohibit prayer at graduation commencement ceremonies; how dare they think they can close our class rooms to instruction in scientific creationism; how dare they endorse the utter folly of atheistic evolution as the only "scientific" theory to explain the universe, in all its beauty, order, and design! How dare they condemn millions of school children to state indoctrination that "life came from nothing, returns to nothing, and therefore means nothing." These are our children, not Caesar's and we have nowhere "delegated" to the federal government the right to intrude into their education. We say nothing about abortion or a multitude of other moral issues.

Dear Senator Kruse, these are issues of enormous moment in terms of a nation's culture, a people's morals and temperment, and, therefore, ultimately its liberty. Please let this, and not unfunded mandates and matching funds be what moves you to resist federal encroachment.

Blessings,

Terry - the ultimate arbiters are “we the people.”

What did you just say?! You dare deny that the federal judiciary is the ultimate arbiter?! Blasphemy!!! ;-)

Calling for a constitutional convention is like seeking to burn trash on a dry day in a forest when the wind is blowing. You can’t control what happens. I hope you will re-think this.

What makes you think we can better control what happens by use of the other method? Who do you think the ultimate arbiters of the constitution are in any event?

The federal government will not voluntarily give up its power, no matter how politely the states ask. It is up to the states to take it. Perhaps this is the reason the constitution guaranteed states the right to maintain a militia. Thomas Jefferson believed that states had to power to declare federal laws unconstitutional. Today, it is federal government that decides if the federal government is doing something unconstitutional. Sounds like foxes guarding hen houses.

Dan,
Calling for a constitutional convention is like seeking to burn trash on a dry day in a forest when the wind is blowing. You can't control what happens. I hope you will re-think this.

Art. V, U.S. Constitution provides two methods of amendment. Let's repeal the 16th & 17th Amendments using the same method we used to get the other amendments passed.

Do not be seduced by Randy Barnett's pretended "Bill of Federalism". He pretends that his scheme would restore federalism; but actually, his scheme would legitimatize the usurpations by the legislative & judicial branches, and would grant sweeping new powers to those branches.PH

Resolutions are a safe vote because they carry no weight. Everyone is going to jump on board. I wonder just how many of the 44 who voted yes are willing to give up special interest money in exchange for a yes vote if it were a bill. How many are willing to risk their re election in return for actually voting to restore States rights?.

It seems that our elected leaders see the problem, but until we make holding public office less glamorous and less lucrative. This will be filed in the 'appease the malcontents', file.

From the article:

While he might be dismayed at how out-of-balance our government currently is, I think Thomas Jefferson would also be pleased to see resolutions passed in so many states protesting federal intrusion.

I don't know. I've read Jefferson's autobiography, his published letters and so forth, and "dismayed" is not the term, based on what I've read of him, that I would use to describe his reaction to the utterly imbalanced federal leviathon we've allowed to grow under our very noses. He would be pleased to see the resistance finally taking shape, but he'd probably be wondering what the hell took us so long to begin to mount it.

As a nation we have been enticed to partake of the infamous "free lunch". We have fallen for the line "buy now pay later". If we were forced to pay the amount of taxes necessary to maintain a balanced budget there would be another revolution. DC would be purged of all the "entitlements" and their promoters. The no limit credit card that congress and the White House continue to use must be canceled. Accountability must return. The temporary fix to the economy will not last long once the impact of all this electronic money hits and super inflation kicks in. We must force the return to the basic form of Federal government that is spelled out in the constitution and allow our state and local governments to operate without general mandates from DC, funded or unfunded.

I don't see the supreme court as anything more than a stamp of approval on their partners, the congress and the executive branch. The anti-federalists gave stark warnings of what would happen when just two branches work together against our liberty - now we have 3.