February 22, 2009
June 16, 2009
AMERICA, LAND OF THE TREE ©
By James Madison- 2009
ONCE UPON A TIME time there was a beautiful tree. This tree stood out above all the other trees of the forest as the biggest of all. The People of the tree were very proud of the tree they lived in. Over time they became so comfortable in the tree they began to believe nothing could ever stop the tree from holding its stature in the forest. The People of the tree formed a group of fellow tree Dwellers and set them as Watchers of the tree to ensure that all the Dwellers could live as they liked without being bothered.
As time passed, the People of the tree became comfortable with their living and stopped paying attention to the group of Watchers. They went about their daily work so they could build their nests and have the things they wanted, and spent their remaining time seeking to be entertained. They sat around all the days and ate of the fruit of the tree and drank of the water from the leaves and had a grand time playing games and having fun.
The Watchers came to the Dwellers one day and told them that the tree had to be cared for and maintained, and since the Watchers could not do this work they would have to hire others to do it. But, since the Watchers had no fruit of their own to pay for the work, they told the Dwellers that each of them would have to give a very small portion of their fruit to the Watcher who would gather it together and then have enough to pay for the work needed to keep the tree beautiful and standing strong. Since by doing this the dwellers would not have to do the work, they agreed to do it and gave some of their fruit to the Watchers. So the tree was cared for and the Dwellers lived happy lives doing as they pleased.
Now when the Watchers saw how easy it was to convince the Dwellers to give a little of their fruit to them, they thought to tell the Dwellers that more was needed for more work, and they gathered the fruit for themselves and became owners of large portions of fruit. The Watchers became greedy and wanted more and more fruit, and easily convinced the dwellers to give more and more.
Over time the Watchers became so possessed with greed and desire to have power over the tree that they grew unsatisfied with just the fruit given them. They decided to take for themselves pieces of the tree from the base. They began to chop pieces out of the base of the tree. As they gathered the pieces, their greed made them chop away more and more each day.
Honest Joe was a hard working tree Dweller who spent most of his life like the rest of the tree Dwellers, working and building his nest in the tree, and giving his proper portion of fruit to the Watchers. One day Honest Joe was told of a noise coming from the base of the tree. A few of the tree Dwellers saw what the Watchers were doing. It was obvious that this had to be stopped and that the rest of the tree Dwellers had to be told.
It soon became apparent that the People of the tree would not listen. They did not want to think that their beautiful tree could be hurt. It was too strong. They had placed their faith in the Watchers and would not believe they could do such a thing. Instead of looking down to see, they just called the loyal tree Dwellers fools and trouble makers.
For a time, Honest Joe banded together with the Wise Ones, those who knew about what the Watchers were doing. Some of the Wise Ones had known for a long time, and had the same difficulty getting the People to wake up. The Wise Ones had many meeting to discuss what to do. Some would say, “We need to go to the top of the tree and shout down to the Dwellers”. Others would say, “No, we need to stand low in the tree and shout up – look here, see what the Watchers are doing.” And others would say they needed to go to the east, or west, or north, or south.
Honest Joe said, “Look, we see the Watchers down there with an axe chopping away at the tree. Let us go down immediately ourselves and stop them.” But the Wise Ones said “You do not know what you are saying. Can you tell us what size the axe is? Can you tell us what kind of wood the handle is made of? You do not even know how big the chips are that come off the tree with each blow. What makes you think you can give Wise Ones advice? You need to just sit there and listen and learn while we talk about this. Some day we will find the answer.
So Honest Joe kept going to meetings and listening to the Wise Ones. He heard them saying that the Dwellers had to stop this illegal action in a legal way. He listened to the Wise Ones debate for months about what to do and how to do it. He heard the talk about more meeting in the future, more important than the last, but saw fewer and fewer People at each meeting. It seemed obvious that the Wise Ones would never learn to do more than debate over who had the best idea. And every day he watched the chips fly more and more. He soon became aware that nothing would be done before the big tree fell, so he went to his home and started to do everything he could to prepare for the fall of the tree, and prayed he would survive it.
Honest Joe is now silent, watching and waiting for the rest of the tree Dwellers and Wise Ones to decide to act. If it is not too late, he will join them again if they decide to DO something to stop the Watchers before the tree falls. He no longer speaks his ideas to be ridiculed and rejected. He studies to learn and hopes to one day be smart enough to be a Wise One, knowing what to say and how to say it, and to be able to be heard. Perhaps in time, after he has taken on the Watchers and served his time in the battlefield against them, he will be considered someone whose ideas have substance.
Honest Joe knows that there are enough Wise Ones and tree Dwellers out there to stop the Watchers if they just come together as a People and do it. But until they do, there will only be more talk that accomplishes nothing.
THE CHIPS ARE FLYING PEOPLE.
THE TREE IS COMING DOWN!!!
THE TIME FOR TALK IS OVER
THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW!!!
June 13, 2009
Another Reason We Need the Continental Congress
By © Bobby Florentz, June 12, 2009
Think about what could be considered the “ordinary, average” American adult of the last 70 years. Now let’s break that group in ½, the first ½ of them becoming adults from 1930 to 1965 & those others reaching adulthood between 1965 & today.
The older, first group suffered through the Great Depression or were raised by parents who did. That national cataclysm had much to do with the way they acted, worked, conserved. It taught them resourcefulness, tenacity, & an appreciation for what then earned & had. These people learned first hand what it meant to go without jobs, education, a car, indoor plumbing, & even food. This gave them that enormous appreciation to simply be able to have the wherewithal for life while they earned everything they got. Life taught them that the most important things any American can possess are a job, a home, a family, integrity, responsibility, self-reliance, religious faith, & a deep appreciation for America’s Founders, the documents they wrote, & what they stood for.
Another dire event that undoubtedly had great impact on their state of mind is that so many of them learned what it meant to join the military to fight for the very survival of America. They suffered no doubts that undeterred, the Kaiser, the Furher, the Emperor, Mussolini, Stalin or others would invade, take over &/or wipe out the United States forever if they did not act. They fought, bled, killed & died in direct response to actual threats to the survival of America.
All this made them tough, dedicated Americans who believed they spent their lives to make the world a better, safer place to leave to the second ½ of the above group, those who have come of age since 1965, to which I belong.
It can probably be said that we of the 2nd group have had our moments. Clearly, it can be said that our generosity to those in need is unprecedented in world history. More on that below. The wars in which we have found ourselves have not been as cut & dry as those previous. Aside perhaps from our incursion into Afghanistan after 9/11, the wars we’ve been asked to fight have been mostly to protect, save or defend others.
The Vietnam era spawned a rebellious counter-culture that has been our main defining factor. We were born into so much privilege & plenty that was just handed to us, that we seem to have no compunction about throwing or giving it away. No one can say we are not generous & compassionate, but we are reckless & foolish as well. We are attempting to stand on principles without the courage or conviction to enforce them. This is merely slowing our demise.
We have permitted the election of people who, while they are giving away our sovereignty, money, & property, they are taking our industries, liberties, rights & self-rule. We all know the specifics. And what are we doing about it other than quoting law, pounding our fists into our hands & screaming that they must operate by the rules? We are shooting ourselves in the foot, that’s what; & here is how. There are two supposed political parties; the Marxist/ socialist Democrat Party, & the liberal/spineless Republican Party. The Marxists are getting what they vote for, re; higher taxes, government control of citizens & business, rule of lawyers instead of law, no borders, etc. In other words, they vote for fascism. Conservatives who vote Republican get EXACTLY THE SAME THINGS!
So what do we do? Some, like me, vote for the conservative of another party. We vote the liberal bums out. Now what? A Marxist fills the seat. I’ve had discussions with those who advocated throwing out the liberal Republicans. We’ve done that. Now all that are left are a couple Marxist RINOs, a few real conservatives, & an enormous cesspool of socialists run by a mafia boss & his crime syndicate. Welcome to 21st century America.
Again, what do we do? First we must accept that the Republican Party as it is currently constituted wants no part of conservatives. They are looking for the liberal likes of John McCain, Colin Powell, & others who will quietly assist the dissolution of our Constitution. If we seriously want to return to our Constitutional form of government, we are going to have to mount campaigns through parties that have not been infiltrated by liberals & socialists. We can’t just vote them out without replacing them with a patriot (statesman). That’s like replacing a severed foot with a cinder block; it may prop you up for now but it will make your life miserable.
We must do more than vote. We must do more than whine. We must do more than demand our rights (petition) because no one is going to give them back without a fight. We had better start or join a nuclear conservative party & get conservatives elected soon or our descendants will never know the free, constitutional, capitalistic America that was handed to us.
April 11, 2009
Way to go North Dakota - you are now a Sovereign State
Posted by Dr. Orly Taitz at 4/10/200
NEW SITE: http://defendourfreedoms.net
Another Sovereign State - North Dakota is successful!
North Dakota House Passes HR59 for State Sovereignty
Posted on April 10th, 2009 by David-Crockett
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On April 7, 2009, the North Dakota House of Representatives passed House Concurrent Resolution 59 (HR59) “affirming North Dakota’s sovereignty under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and to demand the federal government halt its practice of assuming powers and imposing mandates on the states for purposes not enumerated in the Constitution of the United States.”
The final vote tally was 52-40. See the votes here. (http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/journals/hr59.pdf#Page1184)
Here’s some excerpt text of the resolution:
A concurrent resolution affirming North Dakota’s sovereignty under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and to demand the federal government halt its practice of assuming powers and imposing mandates on the states for purposes not enumerated in the Constitution of the United States.
WHEREAS, the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people”; and
WHEREAS, the 10th Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and
WHEREAS, the scope of power defined by the 10th Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and
WHEREAS, in 2009 the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government; and
WHEREAS, many powers assumed by the federal government and federal mandates are directly in violation of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and
WHEREAS, the 10th Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal government may not usurp; and
WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court ruled in New York v. United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992) that Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the states; and
WHEREAS, a number of proposals from previous administrations and some now pending from the present administration and from Congress may further violate the Constitution of the United States;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF NORTH DAKOTA, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN: That the Sixty-first Legislative Assembly affirms this state’s sovereignty under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States and demands the federal government halt its practice of assuming powers and imposing mandates upon the states for purposes not enumerated in the Constitution of the United States
March 10, 2009
The Rise of the American Patriot
©2009 DrKate/drkate4justice
Exclusive for TexasDarlin
(Author’s note: This article kept growing…and it marks, at last, the beginning of my emergence from the morass of obama that has consumed my efforts in the last several months. In part this is designed to elicit a long-term dialogue about building our toolbox for reclaiming our Constitutional Republic…NOW! Free America!)
W E D I D IT !!
We unmasked them all (ok, most of them): Soetoro-Obama, the DNC, the democratic party and its rotting infrastructure, the ‘false feminists’, the racists, CDS, the so-called ‘fourth estate’, the false republicans, “blog-trash”, the bots, trolls and idiots, the unbelievable connections, and the most obvious money-men. Most importantly, we uncovered the lies, psychology, deceptions, strategies, and Alinsky tactics used on the American people to place Soetoro-Obama in the White House.
Soetoro-Obama said he was an empty vessel to fill with dreams…now we know that when he fills that vessel with your dreams, he will exploit and then bury them. What he says, look for the opposite.
Each individual that read, blogged, investigated, pondered, and anguished over this sad exposure of corruption came to a certain point: do I belong to my party or my Country? You can imagine the same question before our Founding Fathers and citizenry: am I a Tory, a Whig, or am I part of a new country? The Patriots born then, and their words, actions, and sacrifices– that have been such inspiration to our research– have given rise to the new American Patriot.
And now, just because of a few American Patriots, that Trojan Candidate lies all disassembled on the floor, now a mere humpty dumpty. We see the pieces and have no intention of putting him back together again. What is he to do?? 
February 16, 2009
Attorney Issues a National Grand Jury Declaration
From “The Right Side of Life”
Submitted by Phil on Mon, Feb 16, 200946 Comments
As reported late last night via DecaLogosIntl.org, Stephen Pidgeon, attorney for Broe v. Reed, has officially announced that he has issued a declaration (audio at link) for a national grand jury:
Pursuant to First Amendment (The right of the people peaceably to assemble), the Ninth Amendment (The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people), and the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America (The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people), this National Grand Jury is convened by natural born citizens of the fifty several states and of the United States of America, seating 50 jurors pursuant to the duties, powers, responsibilities, qualifications as established hereunder for the following purposes:
- To examine all aspects of the federal government by initiating its own investigations.
- To serve as ombudsmen for the citizens of the country in respect to constitutional rights. and privileges established under the organic documents of the United States of America, as properly amended from time to time.
- To conduct criminal investigations of members of the federal government, and, if the evidence is sufficient, issue criminal indictments.
The National Grand Jury Process
The National Grand Jury, although a part of the judicial system, is an entirely independent body. Judges of the Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeal, and the District Courts of the United States, United States Attorneys, and Congress of the United States may act only as advisors. They cannot prevent National Grand Jury action unless that action violates the duly enacted laws as originally created in the United States.
The National Grand Jury shall review and evaluate procedures, methods and systems used by federal governmental agencies to determine whether they comply with the stated objectives of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for the United States of America as properly amended.
The National Grand Jury shall review the officers of the federal government to determine whether they are constitutionally qualified to hold office, and to determine if their actions and behavior are consistent with stated objectives of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution for the United States of America as properly amended, and the criminal law as recognized in any of the several states.
No individual grand juror, acting alone, has any power or authority. Meetings of the National Grand Jury are not open to the public. All matters discussed before the National Grand Jury and votes taken are to be kept private and confidential. The end result of inquiries into civil matters are released to the public in the form of a final report which is approved, prior to release, by the Foreperson of the National Grand Jury.
The National Grand Jury is empowered to:
- Inquire into the condition and management of branches of the federal government and its agencies.
- Investigate and report on the operations, accounts and records of federal officers, departments, and functions.
- Inquire into the willful or corrupt misconduct in office of public officers.
- Submit a final report of its findings and recommendations, no later than the end of its term, to the Presiding Juror of the National Grand Jury.
Requirements to Become a Grand Juror
National Grand Juror candidates must meet all of the following qualifications:
- Be a natural born citizen of the United States (born in one of the fifty states of the United States to parents both of whom were U.S Citizens and resident in the United States at that time).
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Be a resident of the state that the Juror represents for at least one year immediately prior to selection.
- Exhibit intelligence, sound judgment, and good character.
- Cannot have been convicted of malfeasance in office, any felony or other high crime.
- Cannot be serving as a public official.
Grand Jury Selection Process
There shall be 50 members of the Grand Jury with 50 alternates. Candidates are to be selected from a pool of nominees who shall submit their nomination to the nominating committee. Nominees will be appointed by the affirmative vote of the nominating committee, who shall base their nomination on the following criteria expressed in priority:
- First - an affidavit of qualification where the nominee asserts that the nominee:
- is a natural born citizen of the United States, setting forth the place of birth, the date of birth, the place of birth of the nominee’s father, the place of birth of the nominee’s mother, and the residency of the parents at the time of birth;
- is at least 18 years of age;
- is and has been a resident of the state the nominee seeks to represent for at least one year prior to the application;
- is intelligent (demonstrating the ability to read and to write), uses sound judgment (exhibits ability to reason) and is a person of good character (does not engage in misconduct, interpersonal attacks, foul language or disruptive behavior);
- is not serving as a public official.
- Second – the ability to serve as a Juror, where the nominee asserts that the nominee
- Can and will attend each meeting of the National Grand Jury without absence
- Can and will render decisions according to the rule of law without prejudice or bias
- Can and will prepare decisions and recommendations in writing
- Can and will use electronic technology such as email, blog posting, text messaging, teleconferencing and so on.
- Third – order in which the application is received
Potential grand jurors will be given information about National Grand Jury duties and the time commitment required.
The committee shall interview each candidate, usually twice, to reduce the number to 100, two from each of the several states. The final selection is made by the affirmative vote of the majority of the nominating committee.
Grand Jury Officers
Grand Jury officers and duties are:
- Foreperson recognizes that the most important responsibility lies in seeing that the Grand Jury as a whole and each of the committees function effectively and efficiently.
- Foreperson Pro Tem, in absence of the foreperson, assumes all functions of foreperson.
- Recording Secretary is general assistant to the foreperson in all matters, keeps an accurate record (minutes) of the proceedings of each meeting.
- Corresponding Secretary is responsible for incoming and outgoing mail.
- Treasurer provides jurors with reimbursement forms and collects these forms at the end of each quarter, handles all bills received by the Grand Jury.
Mr. Pidgeon states that an application will be posted at the DecaLogosIntl.org web site for those who would be interested in applying. At first, all applicants will have the opportunity to sign up confidentially, though actual names will have to be revealed should a report be issued by the jury (assuming a finding is produced).
The national grand jury to be held at the federal level will be held virtually on the Internet with a central location to be decided for when physical meetings are required. Mr. Pidgeon also hints that there will be those who would be willing to enforce any finding that is to come out of a federal grand jury.
It is expected that the national grand jury’s mission will be completed by the end of summer, 2009, sometime after a Continental Congress is held. This initiative is expected to be fully spearheaded by Mr. Pidgeon.
Please see here and here for postings based on Mr. Leo Donofrio’s research on the 5th Amendment for a backgrounder on the national grand jury.
-Phil
February 8, 2009
“The Emperor Has No Clothes!”
To: NARLO members, rural landowners and interested parties
From: Ron Ewart, President, National Association of Rural Landowners
For: All recipients
NOTE: In light of the unprecedented action to shove a massive stimulus package down our collective throats by an out-of-control congress, we decided to EXPOSE the perpetrators and especially the head perpetrator.
© Copyright February 7, 2009 - All Rights Reserved
The wise ones knew it. Those that were observing with open eyes and reading between the lines, were predicting what would happen. We were all cognizant of the treachery that lay behind the polished veneer and the orchestrated, contrived oratory. We were aware of the backgrounds of his radical and corrupt associations and the influence these associations would have on his thought processes and decisions. We questioned the validity of his natural birth and were deeply concerned about his total lack of executive experience. This “candidate”, rising up out of the shadows of Chicago corruption, was being groomed for plenary power.
All throughout the presidential campaign the warning signs were there. We knew what would happen when this false Messiah was elevated to the throne. Alas, our gravest concerns have come to pass. The Chosen One’s, “I shall Make Thee In My Own Image“, has been revealed for all to see. The Emperor has now been defrocked and his treachery is being exposed within just the first few days of his reign!
Right out of the starting gate he moved to emasculate America and increase the dangers to our national security by issuing an executive order to close the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention center. He slapped many survivors of terrorist acts (USS Cole) in the face, by suspending on-going military tribunals of those very same terrorists. In open defiance, one military judge thumbed his nose at the Emperor and went ahead with the trial anyway. The Emperor then diluted our intelligence capability by appointing an inexperienced, “milk toast” to be head of the CIA (Leon Peneta) and with the stroke of his traitorous pen, removed successful mechanisms for extracting valuable information from our captured enemies.
His first major interview was with a foreign Television station in Saudi Arabia, wherein he bad-mouthed the previous administration and pandered to the Arab community that would see us in Hell before compromising their barbarous, radical, brutality. He had the audacity to cavort with our enemies behind our backs. The great appeaser, in the spirit of Neville Chamberlain, had spoken his words of treachery before the ink was dry on his solemn oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help him God!
His inexperience allowed the liberal inmates in the U. S. House of Representatives, under the leadership of the crazed Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, to run amok in crafting a so-called stimulus plan that was 10% stimulus and the rest a dumping ground for every pork legislation the Democrats could conjure up. The Senate is now positioned to carry on the House’s fiscal insanity.
He appointed to his cabinet, left-over, tainted Clintonites and other cretins who thought themselves above the law and failed to pay their income taxes, along with other infractions, for which the rest of us would have gone to jail. We wonder what other laws these paragons of virtue failed to follow, or how many others of their ilk are embroiled in corruption and scandal, but have yet to be uncovered? In our declining trust for anything that is government, we fear way too many.
The most egregious cabinet appointment was “Geitner” as Secretary of the Treasury, who would oversee the Internal Revenue Service, the very government agency whose laws he had premeditatedly violated. To the amazement and horror of many of us, this tax cheater was affirmed by the U. S. Senate. The Geitner appointment was followed by the sleaziest, hypocrite of them all, Tom Daschle. He pulled out of the appointment after being caught in not paying $140,000 in income taxes, we hope, forever disgraced.
For two years prior to the presidential election, we listened to the Emperor’s hype and propaganda of his vague, undefined vision of hope and change. The hope and change we got was neither hope, nor change, but just more of the same, only worse.
On inauguration day, the White House website went up with the Emperor’s agenda. That agenda reflects exactly what the wise men among us, feared. The agenda was socialism with a capital “C”. An agenda that will remove any hope of diluting or reining in, rising government power ….. an agenda that will increase our crushing national debt that will take multiple generations to retire, if ever ….. an agenda that will tear down the fabric of our moral culture and the sacred value of family and infiltrate it with the secularist playbook, where anything goes and no behavior is too abhorrent ….. an agenda that will dissolve or outright steal our individual, unalienable rights, the irrevocable gift from our creator ….. an agenda that will blur our very sovereignty, to be replaced by the one-world-order, under the control of an out-of-control, hopelessly corrupt, United Nations, or the world money changers, or both ….. an agenda that will make more American dependents and wards of government, instead of instilling independence, self-reliance and responsibility in our citizens …… citizens that will end up being seduced by thefts from the public treasury and will keep the traitors in power with votes, purchased by our hard-earned tax dollars, taken from us at the point of a gun.
Within days of his ascendancy, the Emperor was badgering us with not hope, but with dire words of fear mongering, catastrophe and despair. According to the all-wise one, we are in the midst of the worst crisis that America has ever experienced and that we must move rapidly forward with this boondoggle of an untested, irresponsible stimulus package, that is anything but stimulus. His pontifications were and are a bold faced lie, that he arrogantly utters from his inexperienced, child-like face. The fact is, several of our recessions in the Twentieth Century were far worse than the current one.
But what the stimulus package really is, is the unabashed, blatant attempt by the Emperor and the Democrats to put the final vise grip on power that could last for the rest of the Twenty First Century, or up until the second American revolution, which ever occurs first. The Emperor, this false purveyor of Hope and Change, has become the most powerful man on Earth, riding into Washington DC, hidden in a brightly appointed, Trojan Horse. Should he be successful in unleashing his camouflaged socialist/Marxist treachery upon the citizens of this once-proud land, the flag of freedom will be forever banished to the crumpled pages of history. If this does not make you angry, we fear for your sanity.
This man, this fraudulent candidate, this false Emperor, is not my President and I bear no allegiance to him, nor those that follow him, nor his traitorous agenda, as he and they bear no allegiance to the U. S. Constitution, upon which he and they have sworn on oath to preserve, protect and defend.
Never in the relative short life span of this grand Republic, has the need been more pronounced for free men and women of all stripes, to rise up in unison and strip naked this Emperor and his minions that do his bidding, and expose his true identity and his and their treacherous plan to make over America in his own distorted image ….. before it is too late.
February 4, 2009
New Hampshire, Washington State, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arizona Propose Declaring Sovreignty…Texas and other states rumbling to do the same.
Oklahoma Resolution site link
AS INTRODUCED
A Joint Resolution claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over certain powers; serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates; providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed; and directing distribution.
WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”; and
WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and
WHEREAS, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and
WHEREAS, today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government; and
WHEREAS, many federal laws are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and
WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal government may not usurp; and
WHEREAS, Article IV, Section 4 says, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government”, and the Ninth Amendment states that ”The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people”; and
WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York v. United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the states; and
WHEREAS, a number of proposals from previous administrations and some now pending from the present administration and from Congress may further violate the Constitution of the United States.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE OF THE 1ST SESSION OF THE 52ND OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE:
THAT the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States.
THAT this serve as Notice and Demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.
THAT all compulsory federal legislation which directs states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties or sanctions or requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed.
THAT a copy of this resolution be distributed to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate of each state’s legislature of the United States of America, and each member of the Oklahoma Congressional Delegation.
If you’re getting behind NH, MO and WA in their stand against the Federal gov’t, Arizona is now on board, too!
Posted February 4th, 2009 by alwayssimon
REFERENCE TITLE: Sovereignty; Tenth Amendment. | HCR 2024
Read The Whole Story Here
This is making the Congress and The One’s administration look rather foolish.
January 22, 2009
The Federal Grand Jury is the 4th Branch of Government
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2009 by naturalborncitizen
[I originally posted this essay at my Citizenspook blog back in 2005.] BY: Leo Donofrio
All of us may one day serve as grand jurors in federal court, and I hope this article will educate the reader to his/her true power as granted by the Constitution.
EXCERPT:
UNITED STATES CITIZENS SITTING AS FEDERAL GRAND JURORS ARE THE FOURTH BRANCH OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
My input into this vital fight is no more than the analysis of a few carefully used words. It only took a small sleight of pen back in 1946 to hide our power, and it won’t take more than a few words to take that power back. But a proper overview is necessary for most of you who are unfamiliar with the issue at hand. So let me provide you with some history and then we’ll see what went wrong and how to correct it.
HISTORY OF FEDERAL GRAND JURY POWER
I want to draw your attention to a law review article, CREIGHTON LAW REVIEW, Vol. 33, No. 4 1999-2000, 821, IF IT’S NOT A RUNAWAY, IT’S NOT A REAL GRAND JURY by Roger Roots, J.D.
“In addition to its traditional role of screening criminal cases for prosecution, common law grand juries had the power to exclude prosecutors from their presence at any time and to investigate public officials without governmental influence. These fundamental powers allowed grand juries to serve a vital function of oversight upon the government. The function of a grand jury to ferret out government corruption was the primary purpose of the grand jury system in ages past.”
The 5th Amendment:
“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury.”
An article appearing in American Juror, the newsletter of the American Jury Institute and the Fully Informed Jury Association, citing the famed American jurist, Joseph Story, explained :
“An indictment is a written accusation of an offence preferred to, and presented, upon oath, as true, by a grand jury, at the suit of the government. An indictment is framed by the officers of the government, and laid before the grand jury. Presentments, on the other hand, are the result of a jury’s independent action:
‘A presentment, properly speaking, is an accusation, made by a grand jury of its own mere motion, of an offence upon its own observation and knowledge, or upon evidence before it, and without any bill of indictment laid before it at the suit of the government. Upon a presentment, the proper officer of the court must frame an indictment, before the party accused can be put to answer it.’ “
Back to the Creighton Law Review:
“A ‘runaway’ grand jury, loosely defined as a grand jury which resists the accusatory choices of a government prosecutor, has been virtually eliminated by modern criminal procedure. Today’s “runaway” grand jury is in fact the common law grand jury of the past. Prior to the emergence of governmental prosecution as the standard model of American criminal justice, all grand juries were in fact “runaways,” according to the definition of modern times; they operated as completely independent, self-directing bodies of inquisitors, with power to pursue unlawful conduct to its very source, including the government itself.”
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SCOTUS on the unique power of Grand Jurors
January 18, 2009
OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL Eligibility battle rages on 3 fronts Court, Congress and college challenged on constitutionality
Posted: January 18, 2009
12:05 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh © 2009 WorldNetDaily
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86325
EXCERPT
Officials at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif., have been served with a demand to produce records concerning Barack Obama’s attendance there during the 1980s because they could document whether he was attending as a foreign national – in one of three fronts now established by those contesting the president-elect’s constitutional eligibility for the Oval Office.
The Supreme Court and Congress also both are being challenged to address the worries that Obama doesn’t meet the requirements of the U.S. Constitution that the president be a “natural born” citizen.
WND has reported on a long list of legal cases raising questions over the issue, and several of those have reached the U.S. Supreme Court already. Justices have so far declined to give any of the cases full hearings on their merits, but another conference remains on the Supreme Court docket for Jan. 23 on the issue.