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By: Are You Gonna Bark All Day, Little Doggie? Or Are You Gonna Bite? – Tenth Amendment Center Blog

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:32:06 +0000

[...] Sheriff Less than a year ago, I invited an outspoken critic of state nullification, State Senator Jim Whelan of New Jersey, Â to debate New York Times best selling author, Thomas E.Woods Jr. on my Blog Talk [...]

By: DerekSheriff

DerekSheriff — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:41:25 +0000

I find it amusing when people say things like what you mention above. You can almost hear their frustration, bordering on panic, even when they are writing rather than speaking. It just gets under their skin that we are refusing to follow their script or be part of their glorious plan of consolidation. But do they ever stop to really think about what they are saying? What a completely inhumane idea. And besides the fact that nullification had nothing to do with the War Between the States, many of the most outspoken advocates of states' rights just before that war were northerners in Wisconsin who standing up to the judicial supremacists like Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney! Can you imagine if someone said back then, "We've already had that fight about Dread Scott! The Supreme Court has ruled! Get over it!". 14th Amendment really helped the Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII a lot didn't it? Would that states had invoked the Principles of '98 and stood up for them then like they would today if the federal government tried to pull that stunt.

By: Monorprise

Monorprise — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:25:34 +0000

This is true, but what do you expect, this is a fight which they have been waging sense day one to suppress any possible challenge to the practical enslavement of the entire population supposedly to the will of the majority there of, although realistically and practically just their will.

To people like Senator Whelan I say if the matter has been settled it will rise again and again if nessary until liberty once more reins in our land.
You can't build a prison even one as large as the united States that can permanently hold in the basic human desire for liberty and self-determination. This fire which burns within us is a basic and inseparable part of our nature, perhaps best described as the very thing which defines us as individuals. Our need to think and act for ourselves independently of others. This is what our Founders called life, your ability to choose.

A concept we today in distinguishing between machines and man should perhaps best understand in that we humans have the innate ability to make choices where as computers can only do what their told how their told. Now perhaps one day we will come to think/agree that we humans are just anther kind of machine. But on that day we can either elevate machines to our level of rights or we can recolonize ourselves as the creations of God or nature and that fact in itself gives us the right to rule and dominate that which we create.
Either way Government is the creation of man, not God or nature.

Yes, algernon we do have a lot of work to do, our cause while having been given a new breath of life has a lot of catching up to do, for it has been neglected for far too long in this country. But fear not for one way or anther we will find away to bring this monster that has enslaved us far too much for far too long down with or without the help of people like State Senator Whelan.

Time is on our side not theirs.

By: algernon

algernon — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:09:47 +0000

I am not a Democrat, Progressive or a Left-winger by any means but I have found that many Republicans and other conservatives are dead set against things like nullification and find the compact theory of the Constitution absurd and frightening. They are wholly nationalist in their views to the point where the states hardly enter into the constitutional picture.

I particularly find this line from Senator Whelan common among them: "The secessionists, state’s rights nullifiers lost [the Civil War]. The United States of America won. We are one nation, indivisible, governed by the laws our Congress and President enact."

I recentrly told in a forum where I questioned the misuse of the 14th Amendment that:
"The 14th Amendment was MEANT to curb state sovereignty so that the states could never again violate certain rights. We had a civil war. The states' rights side lost, and that loss was enshrined into law by the 14th Amendment. Get over it."

Those promoting the restoration of true federalism have a lot of work to do–

"Semper Fidelis Meae Civitati"

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