As Thomas Jefferson said in his iconic work The Declaration of Independence:
“ Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
Did they fail or is this exactly what we should have expected?
With these words in mind, it is indeed easy to understand the cavalier way that the 2011 attempt to nullify ObamaCare was dismissed by conservatives. I heard phrases such as, “Congress will handle this,” or, “The Supreme Court will strike it down for sure.”
This is totally understandable; SCOTUS “enforcing” the Constitution is the paradigm we have become accustomed to living with. Changing it is frightening.
After all the Supreme Court was going to save us right? After winning seven out of the last 11 presidential elections, they may have thought the Republicans would have sufficiently stacked the Supreme Court to allow socialized healthcare (the keystone to socialism according to Lenin) to be overturned easily.
Now that Chief Justice Roberts has tipped the hand of the federal government, and shown the ridiculous logical acrobatics that even supposed “strict constructionist” statists are willing to undertake to uphold the oppressive levels of central planning put into place over the last 100 years, maybe NOW they will agree.
It is time to NULLIFY!
It’s time to forget grade school fairy tales about the purity and benevolence of the Supreme Court, and how they are just here to protect us from government usurpation. We must face the facts: whatever they once were, whatever role they used to played in restraining government, they are now reduced to a rubber stamp for whatever Congress wants to do. Why should anyone be surprised by this!? They are after all paid by the federal government. They are appointed by the president (federal Government). They are approved by the Senate (federal government). They are located in D.C. (the seat of the federal government). They attend cocktail parties with other statists who’s livelihoods depend upon an over-sized federal government. They are paid out of the federal treasury. And indeed, they are federal employees. Would it be acceptable to place one GE executive on the board that judges an antitrust case against GE (let alone compose the board entirely of people with such conflicts)? Of course not! It is time to retake control of the leviathan at the local level SCOTUS will not relieve us of that responsibility.
It’s time to NULLIFY!
If we want to fix what is broken in this country, it is time to nullify! We cannot put our faith in politicians from D.C. to fix what D.C. has broken. This brings me to the second part of Jefferson’s phrase from the Declaration:
“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.”
We in this country have been laboring under an incomplete understanding of the Constitution. The mantra of “The Supreme Court is not doing their job of enforcing the Constitution,” has been brought down to a ridiculous level that reduces those who say it to mere beggars, pleading pitifully for some temporary relief from the status quo. Think about this for a minute: the Supreme Court has no standing to judge, and no power to enforce their judgment! The Tenth amendment is the enforcement mechanism of the Constitution. It’s time we get our local officials off their butts and end the 100 year long variance that has led us to this point.
Time to NULLIFY!
For decades now it has been assumed that the terms of the Constitution applied only to the state governments, and the federal government was somehow excused from the requirement to show an affirmative grant of power. We just go along as long as they can convince five politically connected lawyers that their power is not limited in such a way as it obviously is by the plain meaning of words, and explicit understandings of our forefathers when they consented to be governed by the Constitution.
Time for us to pee in their Cheerios.
Time to NULLIFY!
It should be obvious by now that SCOTUS will not save us. But what about that other ineffective method of controlling the size of government – elections?
Well, when I am confronted with this question, I need only look at the past to see how likely it is that method will limit government. When Hillary tried to pass Hillary Care in the 90s, Conservatives rightly rebelled. They voted in the 1994 congress in the hope that they would stop once and for all the socialization of the nation. At one point, they even elected a unified Republican government. The newly enthroned GOP lawmakers promised to privatize social security and stop meddling in the affairs of foreign countries. However, once they came to power, they conveniently forgot all of their promises, and put forward their own version of socialized healthcare (Medicare part D). They didn’t put one ounce of political capital behind the effort to privatize Social Security. And they started three wars to boot! Once they were in office, they no longer cared what we thought.
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What the establishment in D.C. knows, and what we fail to consider, is the fact that we all listen to their rhetoric at election time, but few of us pay attention to their actions between elections. Especially when a member of “our” party take those actions.
ObamaCare perpetrates an evil by turning over responsibility for our medical bills to government though through a heavily regulated private entity. It essentially sets the stage for government to regulate every aspect of our private lives! If Uncle Sam is paying the piper, they will tell us, then Uncle Sam must call the tune. That will be the argument used to bring fiscal conservatives along for the ride and to further extend the police state.
If we are serious about opposing this, simply electing the candidate that says he will repeal the “unpopular” portions of the bill will not do. Both major parties have fielded candidates who enthusiastically turn to socialized healthcare to solve problems the government has created int he health care system. Regardless of who wins in November, we all lose if we do nothing other than vote.
It is time to NULLIFY OBAMACARE!
I think the history of this forum, and the many articles here bare witness to the fact that many of us did not expect Washington to give up the power they userped.
I don’t even think you can say that they had to convince 5 federal employees to up hold the power of their employer. Clearly as John Roberts demonstrated, they will go out on their own to find ways to justify their emplyoeers power grab if only in thier own convoluted mind. Indeed many of them as past ruling would indicate don’t even go so far as to try to justify in law their acts.
What we are looking here is as Thomas Jefferson predicted 200 years ago 5 oligarchs, not judges.
It was never meant to save us and we were to always save ourselves. Nullification sounds good and I agree we should but when our states are as corrupt it seems it would be tough to nullify without first creating our Independence from such poor decision makers. WE the People have always been referred to as WE the Deciding because we certainly are. The other path to form this independence would be for the people to amend the Constitution since it has always been the peoples Constitution to limit the Governing with.
Here is a plan being worked presently, please review and consider. When choice makers unite does Independence show itself. http://www.reclamationprojectx.org/TheAmendment.htm
A petition soon to be revealed for each state, you the deciding are the implementers, stay informed and ready yourselves because many groups are working in this direction.
@WilliamSchooler
Not to throw water on the idea of an amendment. But what power would this amendment have over Congress who already ignore the Constitution. What reason is there to expect that they would obey a slightly longer Constitution? As long as there is no competing power trying to limit the Feds, they will continue to expand in spite of any checks and balances, or seperation of powers, or even a longer Constitution. The Tenth Amendment already is in effect, and is a stronger statement of limits upon the feds than any that could reasonably be expected to come from a Constitutional Convention.
The fact that we need to keep in mind, is that parchment can never limit people. Government size must be checked by a competing power. That power is the state governments.
@TimReeves @WilliamSchooler It is not Government we use, it is choice we use to reclaim such an entity that has been stolen from us. Standing requires knowledge of where we are going and this amendment is where those of us who decide are going. Nothing on earth takes place without choice and the Governing are not the choice makers, WE the People are the choice makers, we are simply reclaiming this act to ourselves. The 10nth amandment is only in affect when we stand and decide it and not until then. This empowers our own choice to deliver us the goods, the sovereignty to us as states and individuals within these states. Numbers are everything and the decision in numbers is the force of all activity. The people behind present Government have known this all along, it is us who have been missing this part. “Show me” anything on this plant that took place by man without choice.
@WilliamSchooler Keep in mind what happened when the Articles of Confederation were amended. I think all of the States seceding first would be a good first step to forming a new Federation.”But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.” ~ Lysander Spooner
@InalienableWrights You are absolutely correct, this activity will assist in cordinating all decision making, think about it.
@WilliamSchooler Petitions don’t work. They can just wad them up and toss them. You have to have protests and get in their face. Only when they really feel threatened of loosing their cushy little “jobs” do they do anything that benefits us.
@banter2345 What works is choice and effort of all choices, who are the deciding is the question you need to answer to you. A Patition is only as good as those deciding it, learn to live with this fact. Independence was decided my friend. I would really inspect that for genuine content.
Damn right it is. It’s time to start nullifying treaties, and executive orders.
A certain unconstitutional small arms treaty in particular. Not in small part because treaties by definition can only be made with sovereigns, and not private organizations like the UN. Nor can treaties, the Senate, the States, nor the Supreme court abridge or nullify God given rights like the right to self defense.
Voting is a joke. The one with the biggest war chest and blows the most smoke up your ass almost always gets the nomination. Very seldom do they keep one promise they make.
@banter2345 Voting in a corrupt system certaninly is, correct the system because it is yoursw to correct.
@banter2345 To some not so insignificant degree I believe you are sadly correct banter. But by the same logic more local, less moneyed elections would be more honest elections. Thus while we may be unable to resist by Washington our local tools may be our most viable if any.
One thing we need to push for at the State level along with nullification laws is a statute that proclaims, if the federal government does not relinquish the rights back to the States that it has usurped, the State will withhold ALL tax money from going to the federal government. After all, this was the last remedy that was proscribed by the Founders to counter this type of tyranny.
“If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any manner oppressed the People, they may retain it until their grievances are redressed, and thus peaceably procure relief, without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing the public tranquility.”
1774, Journals of the Continental Congress,1:105-113 [emphasis added]
Imagine the feds scrambling to secure more loans from debtors around the world who are already owed so much… It would be priceless.
@banter2345 Yes this would be good, but first what force will cause this to happen in you corrupt state? Most of these are financed by the same ecorrupt.
@banter2345
If we are able to get enough states together to make such a move politically & practically viable, we could further enhance Washington’s depends upon the consent of the governed by making political posturing against repaying the debt.
While the federalist has seen to it that the Constitution requires us to honor their debt, it does not require us to honor the debt with a meaningful currency or the existing currency devaluation would be deemed unconstitutional. (Uses their own twisted rules against them) Anther way is to take a strict interpretation of the Federal Constitution, and deem the various loans taken out for non-defense or otherwise enumerated propose to be invalid.
In any case all we must do is put some doubt in the minds of investors as to whether or not we will faithfully honor the debt to them. Doubt raises interest rates and as you know the interest on existing debt already takes up a sizeable chunk of the Federal revenue stream.
Here is the responsibility to you by you in your own stand for you.
http://www.change.org/petitions/each-of-the-50-sovereign-state-governments-of-the-united-states-amend-the-u-s-constitution-by-ratifying-the-reclamation-amendment