The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.__________We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.__That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,__That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. 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. 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.__Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world._____He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good._____He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them._____He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only._____He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures._____He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people._____He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within._____He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands._____He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers._____He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries._____He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance._____He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures._____He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power._____He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:__For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:__For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:__For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:__For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:__For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:__For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:__For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:__For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:__For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever._____He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us._____He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people._____He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation._____He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands._____He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.__
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do._____And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall Geo Walton.
Wm Hooper Joseph Hewes, John Penn
Edward Rutledge.
Tho Heyward Junr. Thomas Lynch Junr. Arthur Middleton
John Hancock
Samuel Chase Wm. Paca Tho. Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton
George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Th Jefferson Benj Harrison Tho Nelson Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton
Robt Morris Benjamin Rush Benj. Franklin John Morton Geo Clymer Jas. Smith Geo. Taylor James Wilson Geo. Ross
Caesar Rodney Geo Read Tho McKean
Wm Floyd Phil. Livingston Frans. Lewis Lewis Morris
Rich. Stockton Jn. Witherspoon Fra. Hopkinson John Hart Abra. Clark
Josiah Bartlett Wm. Whipple
Sam Adams John Adams Robt Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry
Step. Hopkins William Ellery
Roger Sherman Sam. Huntington Wm. Williams Oliver Wolcott
hich is it, Your Establishmentness? You told us, "Don't wait for a perfect candidate." Now that we aren't waiting, you tell us, "Whoa! Slow down." Instead of all your extremely confusing messages, why don't you just come right out and tell us what you really want us to do?: Open up wide as you cram down our throats another "moderate" Liberal-Lite Loser™, then bend way over and let you and him and the rest of your syphilitic gang-raping Establishment Whores(birm) take turns screwing us like you've been doing these past eight or nine years. Oh, and smile and pretend we enjoy it, also.
Come on, be honest with us for a change. You know you're dying to tell this to our faces. After all, you'd rather "crush" us than take on and beat any of your Blue benighted buddies hell-bent on crushing America. That much is obvious.
Jebston Bushell The III® isn't going to lead us off Obamagan's Island. It's going to take something like this to swoop in and pick us up—
Set us aboard something like this—
That will sail America's political castaways safely back to civilization.
There's no more time to waste on your schizophrenia. Stay behind if you wish. We're moving full speed ahead towards a freer and braver land.
ou're the forgotten, the swept-aside, the ignored. You're the ones your own government leaves out when it paints its nice, neat rosy economic landscapes. You don't make the media's favorite political party look good, so they won't even bother looking at you as long as its politicians are in control of the White House. It's now all just about how many praises they can gush out for their most-favored national party. Oh, they might mention you in passing — call you each a "discouraged worker" and move on. But that's it. That's because, to it and them, you don't count.
But I'll count you! I won't forget you. I won't sweep you aside. I won't ignore you!
I'll count you in every time my administration looks at the economy. I won't ever leave you out. Unlike the failure Øbama and his failed administration, I and my administration won't ever put out or tout phony unemployment figures that do. Like you, I've never been fooled by his lying, half-truth figures. To him and his licking lapdog media, you aren't important enough to include in those figures. But I'll include you in them! Not only that, I'll include you in everything my administration does so, yes, we can work together to actually improve our economy and help you find full-time, good-paying jobs for a change.
You're much too important to leave out of anything your government does. Ninety-four million American workers will always count in my book and in every book, budget, or press release I and all your other servants in my administration publish.
That's the only figure that will ever count. You and I will measure my successes not by how low the phony unemployment figures are, but by how many of you have re-entered America's workforce and are participating again in her strong and ever-growing economy.
I'll always count you. So I'm counting on you and your votes to help us all take back the White House for those who should always count the most: you!
Thank you. Thank you, God, for blessing us and for blessing our nation under You.
epublicans will hold 31 of the country's 50 governorships next year [and also up to] 69 of the 98 partisan state legislative chambers — more than at any point in history." This further bodes well for the first-ever convening of a convention of states for proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
If all thirty Republican-controlled legislatures and Nebraska's, along with just three of the remaining states' — eight of which have a Republican-controlled house or senate — send an application for it to Congress, the Congress must call that convention. Then, as Alexander Hamilton says in Federalist Paper 85, "We may safely rely on the disposition of the State legislatures to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority."
Their application would provide the time and place of convening the convention for proposing amendments as well as interim rules of its proceedings, such as—
The convention meet for that purpose at the place in which the most numerous branch of the state legislature first making such application is sitting, on the one hundred and twentieth day (Sundays excepted) after application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several States has been made, and be composed of delegates appointed by the several States, with each State appointing, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, at least one delegate (but in no event more than five), provided no Senator or Representative in Congress, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, be appointed a delegate;
All votes in the convention be taken by States, the delegation from each State having one vote, with a quorum to do business consisting of a delegate or delegates from a majority of the States, and a majority of all the States being necessary to an agreement, approval, or adoption of the convention on any question, order, or resolution;
The convention choose its president and other officers, determine the rules of its proceedings, punish delegates for disorderly behavior, with the concurrence of two-thirds of all the States expel a delegate, and keep a journal of its proceedings and publish the same after it adjourns sine die; and
The articles approved by the convention be proposed as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress.
It would resolve, also, that—
This application constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V of the United States Constitution until at least two-thirds of the legislatures of the several States have made application to the Congress of the United State to call a Convention for the specific and exclusive purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States reading substantially as those contained in this resolution;
If Congress proposes, within 90 days after the legislatures of two-thirds of the States have made that application, all the amendments to the Constitution of the United States identical with those contained in this resolution, then this application shall no longer be of any force or effect; and
This application be deemed null and void, rescinded, canceled, and of no effect in the event that a convention for proposing amendments includes purposes other than providing for amendments to the Constitution of the United States reading substantially as those contained in this resolution.
Finally, every state legislature making this application would request each of the others make it too, and would transmit certified copies of it to them and to both houses of Congress and the U.S. representatives and senators from that state.
After the first legislature sends this application to Congress, the others need send only their concurrence.
As it so happens, Georgia's legislature made an application last March for an Article V convention for proposing amendments that "impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress." Alaska's then Florida's followed suit a month later using the same language. The strategy is particular subjects rather than particular amendments; and the amendments suggested here for that convention each falls within one of those subjects.
When this application is made by the legislatures of 31 more states, we'll be closer than we've ever been in living memory to "erecting barriers against the encroachments of the national authority."
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.__________We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.__That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,__That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. 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. 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.__Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world._____He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good._____He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them._____He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only._____He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures._____He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people._____He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within._____He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands._____He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers._____He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries._____He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance._____He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures._____He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power._____He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:__For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:__For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:__For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:__For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:__For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:__For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:__For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:__For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:__For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever._____He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us._____He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people._____He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation._____He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands._____He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.__
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do._____And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall Geo Walton.
Wm Hooper Joseph Hewes, John Penn
Edward Rutledge.
Tho Heyward Junr. Thomas Lynch Junr. Arthur Middleton
John Hancock
Samuel Chase Wm. Paca Tho. Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton
George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Th Jefferson Benj Harrison Tho Nelson Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton
Robt Morris Benjamin Rush Benj. Franklin John Morton Geo Clymer Jas. Smith Geo. Taylor James Wilson Geo. Ross
Caesar Rodney Geo Read Tho McKean
Wm Floyd Phil. Livingston Frans. Lewis Lewis Morris
Rich. Stockton Jn. Witherspoon Fra. Hopkinson John Hart Abra. Clark
Josiah Bartlett Wm. Whipple
Sam Adams John Adams Robt Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry
Step. Hopkins William Ellery
Roger Sherman Sam. Huntington Wm. Williams Oliver Wolcott
he parasites on our land have no energy for anything other than sucking, both literally and figuratively. They wait and look for somebody else to sustain their so-called lives. Whether that body be yours or the not-so-honorable office holder's greedily making yours a source of their sustenance, it's all the same to them. The latter provides them HOSTizens to suck dry in exchange for the privilege of being able to provide them more and more such sources. You provide them the necessary veins until, once your own life's blood is completely drained and you're left no other choice, you have to start sucking too. Eventually, yes, only the office holders can be the winners. But since at that point there remains no body for the parasites to hang onto, everybody winds up a loser.
The above has become the story of America. The reason it has is that for too long we the so-called citizens have been letting ourselves and others rewrite it that way. The Founding Fathers drafted and, as Framers, composed the original — a timeless classic that keeps proving to be the best possible story for us. Whenever our forebears lived that story, this became a land full of constructive energy and progress. Whenever they didn't, it quickly devolved into one mired in misery.
Free and independent states aren't built by parasites, only brought down by them. The hard work of paying attention and flicking the parasites off whenever their ravenous sucking jaws try to latch on is the only chance our land has of staying free and independent. True citizens are, yes, the only ones who can make that happen. Indeed, they innately have the upper hand, especially in this year's mid-term congressional elections.
The office holders parasite wranglers, on the other hand, know it's an uphill battle to prod their charges into stop being SIT-ON-YOUR-ASSitens long enough to agree to be dragged into a polling booth and cast a ballot for somebody they never heard of or cared hearing about before. After all, there's no more "Barack-the-vote" to readily zombify the parasites into becoming one mindless, lockstep-marching horde.
No one can deny there's a general, pent-up disgust with how the rewritten story is playing out and with its self-appointed editors who keep insanely red-penning us all into an increasingly unavoidable corner. What kind of ending has the parasites winding up on top, literally crawling out from the desiccated corpses that left them stuffed, but now are no long able to feed them? It would be the end, all right, where no one lives happily ever after or even, for that matter, lives. Needless to say, America — the last, best, most shining hope of mankind — will be gone too. Good thing, because who would want to try living in the bleak and inhospitable world that must remain?
The fundamental question is whether that pent-up disgust bursts before Tuesday, November 4, and leaves the parasites and their prodders scrambling for the safest shadows they can find in its wake. It will decide nothing less than who reclaims or retains full control of the story and all of its content.
So, yes, we can believe either that we're all doomed or that true citizens turning out in droves and voting this and every November is going to help completely remove the present massive infestation as well as forever repel the parasites and stop them from infesting our land so again.
Joe Bell, 95, had come out on the drizzly morning to cheer on the runners in the 8-kilometer race from downtown San Jose to Santana Row. The event's charity partner is the Pat Tillman Foundation, which funds scholarships for military veterans and their spouses.
The runners, in turn, showed their appreciation for Bell's long-ago service, detouring from the course to shake his hand.
hen the Georgia House passes the application, the Senate secretary will transmit copies of it to the presiding officers of each of the legislative houses in the several states, requesting their cooperation.
[T]he General Assembly of the State of Georgia hereby applies to Congress, under the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States, for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the United States Constitution that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress.
Since the states control everything that happens in their convention, and three-fourths of them must ratify whatever amendments it proposes before they become adopted, there's no danger of a so-called runaway convention that ends up fundamentally transforming our Constitution into Øbamarx's ejaculate-crustified copy of the The Communist Manifesto.
For now, this appears the best alternative to some short-lived Civil War II in which beta/blue states wind up conquered and occupied by alpha/red ones.
f that Teh Horror™! means We the People's true representatives in Congress get to smite and forever bury Demøtyrants' Øfascist"Care" just as We the People demand, We the People won't mind living in a rare state of unabridged Freedom for a few weeks or months before having to "live" again under this government's unending tyranny.
Teh Horror™!
Except, without Demøtyrants' Øfascist"Care", this government's unending tyranny won't be as utterly intolerable as it would be with it.
Teh Horror™!
...only for Demøtyrants and their Øfascist"Care", that is.
Fortunately for the American people, he's not the only public servant who takes his solemn oath very seriously. (LANGUAGE WARNING)
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lthough Chief Mark Kessler was fired by the borough council after he posted this video, he and his many thousands of liberty-loving supporters continue to stand up for all of our rights, "even for those who oppose our constitution."
n Maricopa County, Arizona, choosing to be a worthless criminal scumbag thug is most unwise.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County jails have made national headlines for years.
First there was the construction of Tent City in 1993, then there was the introduction of the infamous pink underwear he makes the inmates wear — and now he's at it again.
The Sheriff has announced he's turning his jails — vegetarian! No more meat will be served in Arpaio's jails.
When they finally arrest and convict The Øfascists Moochhell and Baracrook for gross misuse of taxpayer funds and aggravated acts of corruption and treason, both need to serve at least part of their respective multi-life sentences in one of Sheriff Arpaio's jails.
In Moochhell's case, forcing her to eat the kinds of "food" she wants government to literally ram down everyone else's throat would be the height of poetic justice. In Baracrook's, however, he'd probably enjoy wearing the pink underwear... a little too much.
...and this is how free people oust and defeat such tyrants:
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.__________We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.__That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,__That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. 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. 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.__Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world._____He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good._____He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them._____He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only._____He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures._____He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people._____He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within._____He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands._____He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers._____He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries._____He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance._____He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures._____He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power._____He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:__For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:__For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:__For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:__For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:__For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:__For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:__For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:__For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:__For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever._____He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us._____He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people._____He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation._____He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands._____He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.__
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do._____And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall Geo Walton.
Wm Hooper Joseph Hewes, John Penn
Edward Rutledge.
Tho Heyward Junr. Thomas Lynch Junr. Arthur Middleton
John Hancock
Samuel Chase Wm. Paca Tho. Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton
George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Th Jefferson Benj Harrison Tho Nelson Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton
Robt Morris Benjamin Rush Benj. Franklin John Morton Geo Clymer Jas. Smith Geo. Taylor James Wilson Geo. Ross
Caesar Rodney Geo Read Tho McKean
Wm Floyd Phil. Livingston Frans. Lewis Lewis Morris
Rich. Stockton Jn. Witherspoon Fra. Hopkinson John Hart Abra. Clark
Josiah Bartlett Wm. Whipple
Sam Adams John Adams Robt Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry
Step. Hopkins William Ellery
Roger Sherman Sam. Huntington Wm. Williams Oliver Wolcott
The annual recalibration of his Super Double-Secret Mind Control Device™ was an epic fail.
D
efeated RINØcrats et al., focus on something other than yourselves for a change. Like our country:
Take a deep breath and this advice from that wise momma grizzly of what is truly our common cause and struggle:
We have some great common sense conservatives who are putting it all on the line. These candidates and their supporters, fighting, fighting for what is right — and a lot of them just fought some tough primary battles.
That's good. Contested primaries are good. It's good for the system. It's great for voters: Democracy at work. Competition is good.
Healthy competition breeds success, and it makes us all work harder; and this all rebuilds character.
But the time for primary debate is over. It's time for unity now. That's the time upon us, because the time for choosing is near.
In just 46 days Republicans will put their ideas and their experience on the line, and they'll let the voters decide.
Federalism does not include sacrificing states' sovereignty.
F
irst, the Tenth Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
Which are delegated to it? Specifically, to apportion U.S. Representatives and direct taxes, impeach federal officers and try their impeachments, choose congressional officers, govern and judge federal elections, determine and enforce congressional rules, lay and collect taxes, borrow money, regulate non-intrastate commerce, establish uniform naturalization rules and bankruptcy laws, coin money and regulate its as well as foreign currency's values, standardize weights and measures, punish counterfeiting, establish post offices, protect patents and copyrights, constitute lower courts, define and punish piracies, declare war and engage in warfare, raise and support armies, provide and maintain a navy, govern and regulate the armed forces, call forth the militia to not only execute federal laws but suppress insurrections and repel invasions, assist the militia and govern any that have been federalized, exercise exclusive legislation over federal properties, and make all necessary and proper laws for carrying into execution its delegated powers; to grant federal reprieves and pardons other than in impeachment cases, make treaties, appoint federal officers, and commission U.S. military officers; to try federal cases, hear their appeals, and punish traitors; to prescribe how states prove each other's official acts, admit new states, and dispose of federal properties; to propose constitutional amendments; and to enforce the prohibition against slavery and the constitutional protections of U.S. citizens' and legal residents' rights.
nor prohibited by it to the States,
Which powers are prohibited to them? Specifically, to enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation, engage in war unless actually invaded or in imminent danger, coin money, emit bills of credit, make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, pass any bill of attainder or ex post facto or contract-impairing laws, grant any title of nobility, and, without Congress' consent, lay any non-inspection related imposts or duties on imports or exports or any duty of tonnage, keep troops or warships in peacetime, or enter into any agreement or compact with another state or a foreign power; and to make or enforce any law abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, deprive any person of his rights without due process of law, deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law, assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave, and deny or abridge U.S. citizens' voting rights.
are reserved to the States respectively,
All other powers are exercisable only by each sovereign state.
or to the people.
If their state is not exercising a reserved power, the people may exercise it.
Now the Constitution's Supremacy Clause and its subsequent Binding Clause:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution....
The states, having acted to create a constitution that impartially serves them all, naturally support the national government. Even so, they reserve the power to either alter or abolish and replace it. The states, not any of the three federal branches, have ultimately the final say on not just the extent of the latter's powers but their very existence. Thus the Constitution remains the supreme law of the land solely at the states' sovereign pleasure.
Governments, regardless their level, have neither infinite nor absolute powers. Limits must be placed on each if the people it serves are to retain their rights and freedoms. This is a principle obviously lost on those seeking to have the courts construe the Constitution in a way that allows them to supplant the reserved powers of the states or people with the federal government's unchecked will. The word we use to most clearly describe any of the ønes who seek it, of course, is tyrant, despot, totalitarian, dictator, or any of the other modern synonyms for liberal.
The Tenth Amendment's ratification came after the Supremacy Clause's. Also, the former's affect on federal powers is more specific than the latter's. Clearly, the principle the Tenth Amendment embodies, that the states retain substantial sovereign powers under our constitutional scheme, powers whose source is entirely independent of the Constitution, is meant to limit the extent of federal powers and, it follows, the cases in which the Constitution may be held "the supreme law of the land."
Indeed, Thomas Jeffereson considered "the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground.... To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition."
It stands to reason, then, that the Constitution, by so prohibiting itself from having any affect on the states' exercise of their reserved powers, may never be legitimately cited when claiming one or more exceptions to that absolute prohibition.
The power of a state to internally enforce existing federal laws has not been delegated to the United States by the Constitution. Labor, environmental, antitrust, and other civil and criminal statutes made in pursuance of the Constitution all inherently contain components of state enforcement. The United States, outside its seat of government and the territories and other property belonging to it, exists concurrently with the states. But it cannot exist without the states. Moreover, the states will continue to exist whether or not the United States does. Not only is its existence dependent on the states, so is that of all of its laws as well as all treaties made under its authority.
States form the basis of their people's representation in Congress and of every president's election: the people of each are entitled to choose two senators and at least one representative, the same number its legislature appoints as electors who are entitled to choose the president. Congress, in turn, by sufficient votes of both houses, has power to make laws with or even without the president's approval; while the president, with sufficient consent of the Senate, appoints all civil officers of the United States and makes treaties.
However, if the states did nothing to prescribe the times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, and their legislatures did nothing to direct the appointments of presidential electors, not even "the aid of the violent and perilous expedients of compulsion," as Alexander Hamilton puts it in Federalist paper No. 27, would be sufficient to ensure that any senator, representative, or president is ever chosen again, much less in a position to make or enforce laws or treaties. On the other hand,
It merits particular attention in this place, that the laws of the Confederacy, as to the ENUMERATED and LEGITIMATE objects of its jurisdiction, will become the SUPREME LAW of the land; to the observance of which all officers, legislative, executive, and judicial, in each State, will be bound by the sanctity of an oath. Thus the legislatures, courts, and magistrates, of the respective members, will be incorporated into the operations of the national government AS FAR AS ITS JUST AND CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY EXTENDS; and will be rendered auxiliary to the enforcement of its laws.
Id. States are rendered more than merely auxiliary to the enforcement of federal laws. They are vital to it.
If it is officially held that states have no power to internally enforce an existing federal law, or are else free to ignore it, that law is essentially no longer in effect within their borders. To all intents and purposes, its existence ends there. Their legislatures, courts, and magistrates, unwittingly or intentionally, cease to be meaningfully bound by their oath to positively support the Constitution. The president, having sworn that he will faithfully execute his office, which includes taking care that this and every federal law be faithfully executed, must either go it alone or willfully violate his own oath. Except, in the former case, he would require the aid of far more expedients of compulsion than the Constitution permits him in order to enforce the law. Either way, the long established republican form of government to which the people are accustomed would disappear, only to be replaced by lawless tyranny.
Fortunately, Congress has always recognized this vital role states play in the enforcement of the laws it makes. According to the Congressional Research Service,
Beginning in the Nation's early years, Congress has enacted hundreds of statutes that contained provisions authorizing state officers to enforce and execute federal laws. Challenges to the practice have been uniformly rejected. While the [Supreme] Court early expressed its doubt that Congress could compel state officers to act, it entertained no such thoughts about the propriety of authorizing them to act if they chose.
In addition, James Madison, popularly known as the Father of the Constitution, explained that "the Establishment of this Constitution between the States" — that is, between the minimum nine whose "Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the People thereof, under the Recommendation of its Legislature, for their Assent and Ratification," regardless whether any of the four remaining states might choose to be included also — envisions a compact between the people of each, rather than all of those states.
Who are the parties to it? The people — but not the people as composing one great body — but the people as composing thirteen sovereignties.
Even the existence of the Constitution itself is dependent on the states. Not simply the laws and treaties the Congress and president make.
Regarding the limited sphere of powers delegated to the United States by such compact between the people of each state, they naturally would desire that every person bound by oath to support that compact do everything he publicly can to prevent, oppose, and correct any effort he officially believes undermines whatever power the Congress, president, or a court has exercised within that sphere.
If somehow the Constitution prohibits him from performing so faithfully this most basic of his sworn duties, then why did the people of each state require he take such an oath? Are they demanding he stand idly by while a constitutionally exercised power is undermined? or at least do so if it is a Congress, administration, or court that has led the effort to undermine it? If the last is true, had they really meant the Supremacy Clause necessarily and properly refers not to the Constitution but to any action or inaction of a branch of the federal government, regardless whether the same be in support or hindrance of it?
How stands "a government of laws, and not of men" under that alleged constitutional scheme?
The answer is it cannot. Not while we have a Constitution that plainly opposes the least denigration of any state's reserved powers but receives in this matter other than full and due support.
Volume 4, Article 6, Clause 3, Document 10 and Article 7, Document 2, The Founders' Constitution, University of Chicago Press, 2000, republication of Max Farrand, editor, The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, revised edition (4 volumes), New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1937.
John Adams, Novanglus "To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay," Essay No. 7, March 6, 1775, @ Democratic Thinker.
Johnny H. Killian, George A. Costello and Kenneth R. Thomas, editors, The Constitution of the United States of America including analysis and interpretation of the Constitution with annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States through June 29, 2004, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 2004, @ Justia.com US Supreme Court Center.
Kris W. Kobach, "State and Local Authority to Enforce Immigration Law: A Unified Approach for Stopping Terrorists," Center for Immigration Studies, June 2004.
Chuck Norris, "Obama vs. the 10th Amendment," WorldNetDaily.com, March 1, 2010.
Charles C. Tansill, editor, "Resolution of the Federal Convention Submitting the Constitution to Congress, September 17, 1787," Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States, House Document No. 398, Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1927, @ Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School.
Abel P. Upshur, A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature and Character of Our Federal Government: Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1868, @ constitution.org (Constitution Society).
Thomas E. Woods, "The States' Rights Tradition Nobody Knows," LewRockwell.com, 2005, @ Tenth Amendment Center.
Doctor Zero, "A nation of laws, not of men," Hot Air, July 30, 2009.
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