Comments on: The Federal Government is NOT the United States

By: 10th Amendment & Power to the People! | GAP-Texas

10th Amendment & Power to the People! | GAP-Texas — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:59:06 +0000

[...] In two articles from the 10th Amendment Center, Bryce Shonka did a great job of detailing this phenomena, you can find his articles here: http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/09/the-federal-government-is-not-the-united-states/ [...]

By: 10th Amendment & Power to the People! « The Good American Post

10th Amendment & Power to the People! « The Good American Post — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:44:19 +0000

By: Brian McCandliss

Brian McCandliss — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:24:08 +0000

In any event, they are DOOMING our cause by remaining silent on this ONE KEY ISSUE THAT MATTERS: i.e. the national sovereignty of each indivdual state.
That's ALL that matters– but it's the ONE THING that they REFUSE to address. So we've got to tell them to either get serious about state sovereignty– or get out of the way for those of us who ARE. These half-measures are worse than none at all, since they CONCEDE the point rather than remaining simply silent about it.

By: Brian McCandliss

Brian McCandliss — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:23:48 +0000

For example, SO WHAT if Lincoln did this, that or the other bad thing? If the Union is truly a nation, then he would ave done, all else aside, his paramount duty as president of that nation: i.e. to preserve and defend its sovereign integrity. And thus, he would have been RIGHT and CORRECT in assertion that "no state can lawfully get out of the Union by its own mere motion."
On the contrary, ONLY if the individual states are EACH sovereign nations, could they do so.
So why won't Thomas Dilorenzo, Ron Paul, Andrew Napolitano, Kevin Gutzman, Thomas Woods, Lew Rockwell, or ANY of these so-called "Libertarians" DARE talk about this "naked emperor" which is Union Sovereignty?
Are they scared, stupid– or simply scared stupid? Are they walking on eggshells to avoid being perceived as "too radical and extreme?" If so, then they clearly lack the couage of ther convictions, since truth is a defense of itself, and the issue of state vs. Union sovereignty is a matter of simple HISTORICAL FACT

By: Brian McCandliss

Brian McCandliss — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:23:28 +0000

This half-hearted iconoclasm by self-proclaimed "Libertarians," is precisely the PROBLEM with the so-called "Libertarian Movement–" i.e. every prevailing speaker for it, from Thomas Dilorenzo to Ron Paul, fails to address the "Elephant in the Room" of state sovereignty– and by failing to do so, they basically agree that it's NOT THERE– and that the United States IS a sovereign nation.
And thus, they tacitly admit that the states themselves are NOT sovereign nations.
Thus, they HARM our cause, by actling like champions for our cause– but then SURRENDERING it!
We cannot allow such half-men to go to bat for us, if they are not willing to step up to the plate for fear of being blackballed. We might as well have hired Benedict Arnold instead of George Washington, and saved ourselves 250 years.

By: Brian McCandliss

Brian McCandliss — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:23:01 +0000

The problem with Dilorenzo– like all other "Libertarians," is his professional brinksmanship of stopping just short of saying on record, that every state is a sovereign nation by international law.
Rather, he makes tangent, ancillary claims– e.g. saying that that "the Union was voluntary" etc.
But there is no such THING as a "voluntary nation;" and thus while he IMPLIES that the Union was not a nation, he won't go on RECORD as saying such, directly and outright; and therefore, he FORFEITS that claim, and instead surrenders to the opposing view through silence, by failing to CHALLENGE AND DENY the current claim of the reigning regime: by which the federal government derives its validating claim of supreme national power and authority: i.e. that the Union is a single sovereign nation.

By: Brian McCandliss

Brian McCandliss — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:03:52 +0000

Semper TYRANNIS

By: Brian McCandliss

Brian McCandliss — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:02:48 +0000

It's called "The Civil War" because history is written by the victors– but only a FOOL would believe that's how it happened, rather than checking out the facts for himself.
If Lincoln was right, the OJ is innocent.

By: Brian McCandliss

Brian McCandliss — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:07:06 +0000

NOT according to the Founding Fathers– see Federalist No. 39.
The USA is the federal government, only according to the Neconservative Whigs of the Lincoln Administation, who suppressed the sovereign states through totalitarian mayhem, and established a federal coup d'etat by which the Constitution became whatever the FED said.

By: Brian McCandliss

Brian McCandliss — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:02:46 +0000

Under current regime-policy, the United States IS the federal government– it is the ruling sovereign.
LEGALLY, the ruling sovereign is the PEOPLE of each individual state, which is likewise a sovereign nation equal to any other– NOT simply part of a larger nation called "the United States." No such nation exists, except by delegation of the sovereign member-states; rather, the United States is a FEDERAL REPUBLIC, not a sovereign nation in its own right.

However the public has been so brainwashed by post-Lincoln propaganda and the Pledge of al-LIE-gance, that they truly believe that the USA is "one indivisibile nation" with no defined ruling sovereigns– just a federal government.
Again, that's a LIE.
EVERY STATE is a soveregn nation, and its CITIZENS are the ruling sovereigns thereof.
They have been hoodwinked and brainwashed, and now their servants– i.e. the state and federal governments– are now their MASTERS.