Comments on: What You Can Do for Liberty

By: Stan Gwizdak

Stan Gwizdak — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:04:41 +0000

I appreciate the suggestion from â€œFreedoms Voice.â€ I will look into the link and go from there. I have already written a letter to the editor (August) in the local paper regarding federal control wich elicited a spirited blog.

Some people almost yawn when you mention the 10th Amendment and yet is is as valid as the first or the second. Most countries have constitutions hanging on a wall and they pay great homage to them on special commemorative days. But nobody actually believes that â€œnonsense.â€ I believe the American Experiment is failing because most people simply donâ€™t know and donâ€™t care to know. So you have the dedicated few representing vairous points of view battling it out with socialist/collectivism currently winning the day aided by a press corps that Joseph Stalin might have been envious of.

Well, you canâ€™t lie down and die so you might as well contend for it. Thanks again.

By: Derek Sheriff

Derek Sheriff — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:04:21 +0000

Perhaps we should create a new salute which involves both hands and ten outstretched fingers? Of course, depending on the angle of ones arms and elbows, it could be mistaken for everything from praise worship to, â€œDonâ€™t shoot!â€

By: Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:02:58 +0000

@Ernestine â€“ got anything to say about the article, or are you just heard to complain about a group that was active in your past??

By: Ernestine

Ernestine — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:02:34 +0000

I donâ€™t like the clenched fist symbol. It reminds me of the Black Power clenched fist from the 60s.

By: Freedoms Voice

Freedoms Voice — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:07:33 +0000

The People have to let our elected officials know first of all that we would stand behind them if theyâ€™ll begin to stand up to the Federal government, even if it means that the government withdraws funds. Go to this website to see a proposal for just that: http://openletter.avoiceofthepeople.com And then ponder this by Samuel Adams:

â€œIf ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.â€ â€“ Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House on August 1, 1776.

If weâ€™re not of this spirit, how can we ever expect our Governors or State Legislatures to be so??? Letâ€™s let them know.

Email them about the Open Letter, if you agree.

By: Stan Gwizdak

Stan Gwizdak — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:07:03 +0000

I am new to this site and am gratified to find it. I live in Fairbanks, Alaska and we currently have another federal mandate by the EPA which says we exceed pollution tolerance a few times a year. It is usually when we have a temperature inversion (-40 below) which stagnates the air and which we cannot control. The other times is when there are forest fires which fill the air with particulates. The local government, seeking to appease the federal leviathan, wants to penalize wood burners since they cannot subpoena and/or fine trees, lightening or God.

The point is the money. Itâ€™s always about the money. The federal government well knows that a blind eye can always be turned to constitutional violations with a little cash. The whole country right down to the local dog catcher is directly or indirectly dependent on federal funding.

I have read a lot of material on this issue of late and find it compelling. I am not interested in becoming a subject of the National Government. The problem is ancient: How do you imbue a population with constitutional/moral/legal virture and stand up for it when being paid off is so much easier than having your local/state offical trembling in fiscal terror of having their funding dry up?

By: Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:28:38 +0000

@Helen - Nullification IS the next step! And, it's a legally binding one, too. Learn more about it here: http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/the-10th-amendment-movement/ http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/09/13/nullification-the-states-have-a-nuclear-option-too/

By: Helen Schuenemann

Helen Schuenemann — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:25:36 +0000

Please explain the nullification process. What comes after resolution??

Resolutions have no real teeth. We need a plan that takes us to the next step.

By: Freedoms Voice

Freedoms Voice — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:37:14 +0000

If State Legislatures are unwilling to “take the responsibility” Sovereignty would give them, We the People should let them know that we will vote them out and get someone that will. We must keep up the pressure. I don’t buy the argument they won’t move on Sovereignty issues because they don’t want the responsibility. They will only refuse to act if the People relent in their efforts to force them to act. http://openletter.avoiceofthepeople.com We the People really do RULE, if we could EVER, EVER, EVER get it into our heads that we don’t need these people for US to act on our own behalf. http://www.avoiceofthepeople.com

By: Freedoms Voice

Freedoms Voice — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:53:40 +0000

Please look at the following website, appealing to our Governors & State Legislatures to stand up for the People, telling them what We the People of Sovereign States are willing to sacrifice to roll back an intrusive Federal government. http://openletter.avoiceofthepeople.com Thank you!