Comments on: Tennessee Governor Signs Sovereignty Resolution

By: MichaelBoldin

MichaelBoldin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:20:00 +0000

Great update, thanks for passing this along! We'll be sure to report on this asap!

By: Jonathan Russell

Jonathan Russell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:27:59 +0000

Here is an update on the Tennessee State Sovereignty Resolution (HJR 108) from TN State Representative Susan Lynn from Nov 18. The title is "Special Committee on State Sovereignty Approves Letter to the States"

http://susan-lynn.blogspot.com/2009/11/press-rele…

By: johnny u

johnny u — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:37:30 +0000

right. this resolution would have fit well in1860, right when the south carolina militia was preparing to bombard fort sumter. the federal government , under article 1, section 8, of the us constitution, has the broad power to enact legislation that promotes the general welfare of the nation. john marshall, chief justice of the us supreme court, so held in the 1819 case of mc cullough v maryland. the tenthers logic would mean that we would have to rescind the louisiana purchase and give back one-quarter of our nation to france, since the us constitution does not give the feds the specific right to acquire territory. no air force or marines , since the constitution only mentions an army and a navy. no tva, so let the great floods return.

By: Sovereignty Committee Appointed in TN | Tenth Amendment Center Blog

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:45:29 +0000

[...] mandated by HJR108 – Tennessee’s Sovereignty Resolution which passed overwhemingly in both Houses and was signed by Gov. Bredesen this year, a 3-member [...]

By: AL

AL — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:54:44 +0000

so it means the USA….is finished??….it means china and russia are going to colonise america as USA has done in irak and afganistan.WHY NOT..

By: Ken Creamer

Ken Creamer — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:01:59 +0000

I hate to rain on the 10th Amendment parade because Iâ€™m absolutely totally convinced that the single most important solution to ALL of our current political and financial problems can be solved by the one simple solution of having all 50 Union States regain their sovereignty. The first thing that must happen, however, is that each Union State MUST ACT LIKE A SOVEREIGN! Asking the federal government (or any other sovereign) to restore a Union Stateâ€™s sovereignty is like pushing on a rope or asking Russia to restore it for us. (Sound Stupid â€“ Read the article Dual Sovereignty at poorclydesalmanac.info). The single and absolute cause of the Union Stateâ€™s lose of sovereignty is that they are acting as an instrumentality of (subservient to) the federal government (the United States), which they most certainly are not, by paying to and collecting for a federal tax (found under Chapter 21 of the IRC), better known as the FICA tax. The most interesting part of this whole issue is that when one reads and/or researches the code, one finds that Congress didnâ€™t attempt to levy the tax on the Union States or the Union State Citizens simply because it couldnâ€™t. At some point in time the Union States voluntarily started paying and collecting the FICA tax thereby becoming subservient to the United States (the federal government) and, perhaps more importantly provided federal agents with plausible deniability for attempting to enforce federal laws within the territory of the Union States.
This is THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING US TODAY, and I have been unable to generate even a murmur among the grass roots folks. All I get is a mass of â€œdeer in the headlights.â€ I have a work in progress research paper titled â€œThe Reformation of Union State Sovereignty,â€ which I will make available to anyone who has the necessary contacts to attract the ears of any of the pundits within the quest for Liberty movement, such as Trevor Lyman, Alex Jones, Jessie Ventura, and the like. Everyone in our Republicâ€™s current population has been indoctrinated into believing that the federal government is our central government and that the Union States are instrumentalities thereto, ala the rest of the worlds â€œfreeâ€ societies. Our Founders and other past legal scholars are crying from their grave for us to ditch our indoctrination and educate ourselves to the true principles of Liberty and our own inherited political system designed to protect them. The following is a quote from the Supreme Court exemplifying the point.
Dual sovereignty is a defining feature of our Nation’s constitutional blueprint. See Gregory v. Ashcroft, 501 U. S. 452, 457 (1991). States, upon ratification of the Constitution, did not consent to become mere appendages of the Federal Government. Rather, they entered the Union “with their sovereignty intact.” Blatchford v. Native Village of Noatak, 501 U. S. 775, 779 (1991). An integral component of that “residuary and inviolable sovereignty,” Federal Marine Commission (FMC) v. South Carolina State Ports Authority, 535 U.S. 743 (2002).
When the Union States regain and enforce their own sovereignty, the federal income tax AND the State income tax disappear from Union State territories, and all the Union Stateâ€™s and their instrumentalities can reduce their annual budgets by 20% or more and the Citizens thereof will have an increase disposable revenue to bring about an atmosphere of prosperity reversing the current economic landscape of a hopeless depression with its trillions of dollars of debt created out of thin air. At common law, if there is no pro quid pro of substance to establish a debt, there is no debt, only fraud.
FREEDOM is the absence of detention; LIBERTY is the absence of control!
Link to Poor Clyde’s Almanac at http://www.poorclydesalmanac.info

By: Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:37:01 +0000

so FTG, are you saying that people shouldn’t resist? They should take whatever the tyrant gives them? Or, maybe you’re with the ATF and just trying to scare off activists?

By: FunTimeGuy

FunTimeGuy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:57:31 +0000

The ATF Says the your 10th amendment is now null and void. Don’t mess with big brother or they’ll burn your house down, literally…

By: Lori D

Lori D — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:55:43 +0000

I applaud TN and the other states, especially TN for taking this much-needed step. I can only pray GA (and others) will get on board. I, for one, will be a constant voice in my legislators’ ears. The 10th amendment has been ignored for far too long.

By: D. R. "Doc" Smith, Sr.

D. R. "Doc" Smith, Sr. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:48:43 +0000

Jeff Matthews said…

“There are probably two hang-ups to faster progress on this front. First, it is not easy to get fair-sized groups to all be available to be at a certain place at a certain time. Second, they would, I think, largely have to come out-of-pocket to make it happen. If it was all set-up in a nice place and paid-for, it would probably be easier to get them together.”

Last December, over 100 registered delegates representing fourteen Southern States from Maryland to Texas, gathered in North Carolina for three days, all paying out of our own pockets for 100% of our travel expenses, lodging and meals. No stipend or paid anything. This September even more are expected at our 2nd Southern National Congress to be held in Alabama. Our founders knew that freedom required sacrifice, and if our elected and salaried “state leaders” aren’t willing to spend a few dollars and sacrifice a few days for the cause of freedom for the PEOPLE, then our Tennessee legislature has it right in stating that such state governments are nothing more than extentions of the central government and in my opinion, should see their individual “state lawmakers” who so refuse, dragged from their offices and sent packing by force (note: not advocating violence).

The PEOPLE must stand and stand now! If our State leaders are willing to do THE RIGHT THING and see to the interest of their PEOPLE first, then by all means do so. If they won’t, then like the American Patriots who came before us, we will have to take matters into our own hands and simply cut the criminals out.

Looking forward to see where we go from here.