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Lat Pulldowns: States Flex Their Muscles
via TVR:
While supporters of the Constitution might be upset about another 4 years of Obama, strong Tenthers have been upset by every president in the last century. The Constitution isn’t going to be saved by federal politicians the ones who are attacking it daily.
Yesterday, Barack Obama won the presidential election. But, the people of six states voted to take their freedom without federal “permission.”
by Michael Boldin
In ten states – Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Massachusetts and Alabama – voters had a chance to resist DC and approve ballot initiatives which would nullify unconstitutional federal acts. Six of them passed. And here’s a brief rundown of each:
1. Montana, Referendum 122
LR-122 is an act “prohibiting the state or federal government from mandating the purchase of health insurance.” It also prohibits the imposition of “penalties for decisions related to the purchase of health insurance coverage.”
The measure passed overwhelmingly, 65%-34%
Full report HERE
2. Colorado, Amendment 64
Section 3 allows the “personal use and regulation of marijuana” for adults 21 and over. Section 4 addresses legal commercial cultivation, manufacture, and sale. The intent is that marijuana be regulated in a manner similar to alcohol.
Colorado, after Washington State (info below), is the 2nd state in the country to have passed full legalization, and one of only a handful in the entire world.
The measure passed by 54%-46%
Full report HERE
3. Alabama, Amendment 6
This legislatively-referred amendment frees Alabama citizens from any requirement to participate in Obamacare, or any other compulsory health care program. The ballot language reads as follows:
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to prohibit any person, employer, or health care provider from being compelled to participate in any health care system.
It passed, 59%-41%.
Full report HERE
4. Washington State, Initiative 502
Whatever you call the plant, Washington DC considers it dangerous and illegal. Laws on the books in Congress – illegal. The executive branch – aggressive about enforcing those laws. The supreme court – in 2005 ruled against the idea of states legalizing for any purpose.
But yet, 18 states have been standing up and defying DC on this issue by legalizing marijuana for limited medicinal purposes. Washington’s I-502 takes it a step further. It ends marijuana prohibition and treats pot in the same manner as alcohol. People are allowed to grow, produce, sell, buy and consume the plant – in direct defiance to all three branches of the federal government.
The Initiative passed, 55%-45%
Full report HERE
5. Wyoming, Amendment A
Wyoming voters passed a health care freedom amendment to the Declaration of Rights in the state constitution.
The Wyoming Constitution now guarantees citizens of the state the right to make their own healthcare decisions with minimal governmental interference.
Article 1, Section 38 – Right of Health Care Access
(a) Each competent adult shall have the right to make his or her own health care decisions. The parent, guardian or legal representative of any other natural person shall have the right to make health care decisions for that person.
(b) Any person may pay, and a health care provider may accept, direct payment for health care without imposition of penalties or fines for doing so.
It passed by a huge margin, 76%-24%
Full report HERE
6. Massachusetts, Question 3
A YES VOTE on Question 3 enacted “the law eliminating state criminal and civil penalties related to the medical use of marijuana, allowing patients meeting certain conditions to obtain marijuana produced and distributed by new state-regulated centers or, in specific hardship cases, to grow marijuana for their own use.”
The 18th state to nullify federal laws on weed did it in a landslide. The final tally was 64%-36%
Full report HERE.
The only chance for liberty is for activists to focus their time, energy, money and resources on a state and local level, rejecting and nullifying every unconstitutional federal “law.”
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You can drink all the RP water your bladder can hold and he wouldn't have been elected. I live in Miami and if you think the hispanics here would have voted for freedom over free stuff you need to wander over to Colorado and light up, What we really need is a lot of Ron Pauls (only ones that can actually lead) at the state and local level.
Living in the belly of the beast as I do I can tell you that if this country has become a "brown" country then, at the national level, it's lights out. Time to circle the wagons at the state and local levels.
Living about 50 miles north of you, it is my impression that both Miami-Dade and Broward have high populations of Hispanics who fled from the socialist regimes in places like Venezuela but didn't bother leaving their love of paternalistic/socialistic government behind. Only the older Cubans, the ones who escaped from Castro (I have several as friends) remain dedicated to liberty.
Awesome to see these long over due changes finally taking hold in America. Especially the laws Washington & Colorado passed.
...but I think they are in for a fight from the feds.
"in for a fight from the feds".
Nope. The Feds are in for a fight from the States, on whom they depend for tax collection. States are supreme and hold all the cards. For example, if the Feds bitch, the State can forcibly empty any Fed office, especially those of IRS. In the extreme, States can call home their National Guard units, sent overseas by the Feds. Secession is nothing compared to non-cooperation.
States don't want to resist and they didn't approve of these new laws. The people voted on it themselves. So, first the people would have to take over state gov, then resist the feds... ain't gonna happen.
I wish I shared your optimism. Problem is the fed's tentacles reach all the way down to the local 'magistrate' level, many of whom live very comfortable lives on the citizen's tax dollars, and in many cases hold further political aspirations. The odds a local county/state commissioner will have the stones to refuse the feds....are pretty slim. Even those who hold no particular love for the feds still fear the fed's enforcement capacity far more than they fear the anger of the local peasantry.
Since 1943, the feds withhold cash directly from workers' paychecks.
And it's a much bigger amount than states with income taxes take.
Only by removing that federal blood leeching needle from their veins can the states ever regain their stolen sovereignty.
But we're told that the recent unpleasantness of 1861-1865 settled all that ...
just saw the tweet from dhs "citizens relations" office
says any state attempting to opt out of compulsory healthcare can expect to be put into receivership.
and be "secured" by its staff
"if any person or persons, being the owner or owners of any such property, shall knowingly use or employ, or consent to the use or employment of the same as aforesaid, all such property is hereby declared to be lawful subject of prize and capture wherever found; and it shall be the duty of the President of the United States to cause the same to be seized, confiscated, and condemned." -- first confiscation act
"the act stripped their owners of any claim to them but did not clarify whether the slaves were free. As a result of this ambiguity, these slaves became the property of the U.S. government. To remedy this bizarre situation, General David Hunter, the Union Army military commander of Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida, issued General Order No. 11 on May 9, 1862 freeing all slaves in areas under his command. Upon hearing of Hunter's action one week later, Lincoln immediately countermanded the order, thus returning the slaves to their former status as property of the federal government.
Wyoming people like to be left alone. Federal agents show up, it could get ugly in a hurry.
Vic & :"Wyoming people like to be left alone. Federal agents show up, it could get ugly in a hurry."
well vic me boy we got FBI snipers who will shoot your women while she holds your child,phosphous grenades to burn your children, or a drone with a rocket aimed at your ass.. like your moxie, but you better ambush em before they get you where they want you..
read alittle about viet nam, to get the tactics you need to take em on..Oh by the way I love the FBI,CIA,NSA and more recently the HLS agents they are the best no they are ..
let them be the crows dinner let them bleed..this war is just the next battle for freemen vs the reptile elite MF's
and their minons of darkness. which side you on?
Vietnam??! How is that fancy Federal horse shit working out in Afghanistan?
Sounds like the basis of a messy divorce.
So maybe you will take some pity on us persecuted tobacco users? I think the liberals have more use for junkies than they do for smokers and chewers.
Smoking is a public health issue... junkies don't pollute my air.
But you aren't worried about the politiciand blowing smoke out of their ass?
You want to see a junkie, lock a Nic user in a cell for 2 days. Cold-Sweats and Jonesing will be all you remember about them.
Which state will be the first to go back to the Gold Standard?