(Los Angeles, CA. May 11, 2011) – The Los Angeles based Tenth Amendment Center recently made the Southern Poverty Law Centerรขโฌโขs Hatewatch blog.
Why?
The organization created a national tour based around the รขโฌลNรขโฌย word
(And itรขโฌโขs coming to Los Angeles this month)
Not only does TAC use the รขโฌลNรขโฌย word regularly, speakers at the events promote the word, justify the practice and seek to expand its use across the country.
James Madison said the states have a right and are duty bound exercise the รขโฌลNรขโฌย word, and Thomas Jefferson called it, รขโฌลthe rightful remedy.รขโฌย
Clearly, itรขโฌโขs not the word you might think.
Itรขโฌโขs nullify.
รขโฌลGroups like the Southern Poverty Law Center would have you believe nullification is a tool for racists to deconstruct the United States and take it back to the days of slavery, or to somehow revive the Confederacy,รขโฌย TAC communications director Mike Maharrey said. รขโฌลBut these folks have it spun 180-degrees in the wrong direction. Abolitionists used nullification to fight the Fugitive Slave Acts. Itรขโฌโขs about freedom, not slavery. Itรขโฌโขs about placing a check on unconstitutional federal overreach.รขโฌย
On Saturday, May 28, Southern Californians will have the opportunity to learn the truth about nullification when the Nullify Now! tour makes a stop in Los Angeles. (https://www.nullifynow.com/losangeles/)
This national program sponsored by the Tenth Amendment Center and the Foundation for a Free Society will set up in the penthouse of the AT&T tower in Downtown L.A.รย Featuring Harvard and Columbia University educated historian Thomas Woods Jr. as the keynote speaker, along withรย KPFKรขโฌโขsรย Antiwar Radio host Scott Horton, recording artist Jordan Page, and other speakers and musical acts, the presentation will weave together a logical, moral, and constitutionally sound case for nullification through historical writings, case studies and the words of the founders.
รขโฌลThe รขโฌหpeace presidentรขโฌโข bombs. The TSA gropes and scans. The drug war rages on. The fed prints and printsรขโฌยฆ.and prints money. Mandates and bailouts never seem to end. What do we do about it?รขโฌย TAC executive Michael Boldin asks. รขโฌลThomas Jefferson gave us the answer in 1798. Nullify.รขโฌย
The Nullify Now! Event begins at 4 p.m.
For more information, log on toรย www.nullifynow.com/losangeles
Media passes are available upon request.
The Tenth Amendment Center exists to promote and advance a return to a proper balance of power between federal and State governments envisioned by our founders, prescribed by the Constitution and explicitly declared in the Tenth Amendment. A national think tank based in Los Angeles, the Tenth Amendment Center works to preserve and protect the principle of strictly limited government through information, education, and activism.