Exciting Things Are Happening In Virginia

By on October 30, 2009 in Activism, Sovereignty Movement
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Last night I spoke at a gathering of activists hosted by FreedomWorks in Richmond, VA. The crowd was impressive, more than 130 people on a Thursday night were packed into the basement of a bar in Shockoe Bottom.

They weren’t there to see me of course, former House majority leader, Dick Armey, was the headliner. But they were fired up, they were organized, and they were very responsive to my message about the need for principled leadership at the state level.

I explained that although the battle against government health care is still raging in Congress, Virginians have to be prepared for the worst. That means being ready to follow in the footsteps of Arizona, Alaska, and Kansas whose legislatures have already said that the voters, and not the federal government, will make health care decisions in their states.

When I said that Virginia voters need to elect state representatives who see their first duty as the protection of constitutional freedoms from federal encroachment, heads were enthusiastically nodding all around the room.

The only reps worth electing in any state are those willing to be the first line of defense between citizens and the federal government when it comes to the persistent debasement of our Constitution. If the feds want to destroy the freedom and livelihood of the voters, and enslave our children with crushing debt, they should at least have to go through our state legislators first.

All in all, it was very exciting to see the energy level in the room, and to meet the activists and members of organizations already flourishing in Virginia.

I’m optimistic about a bright future for this country as long as we keep waking each other up and pushing ourselves off the couch and into the streets, to fight for the most important thing we have: Our constitutional freedoms.

About Josh Eboch

Josh Eboch [send him email] has previously served as a research analyst for the Tenth Amendment Center. His articles have appeared in various publications, and he wrote regularly for the Center on issues related to state sovereignty and nullification.
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Monorprise
Monorprise

Indeed we must begin preparing for a fight either way prudent demands we prepare ourselves for the possibility of this bill passing and us having to take state level action to nully it as to protect our Constitutional rights. The Feds have gone too far! It is long past time they get a warring shot across their bowl that we the freedom loving people of theses currently united States will not put up with theses growing oppressive usurpation of our RIGHTS too much longer!

We have a right to the freedom, self-determination of being held to account only for our OWN actions not that of everyone else!
This right is soo essential to our lives that it is by the judgment of all fair men worth risking everything to maintain it. This is because we really have no lives without freedom to make it for ourselves!

Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774 wrote:"
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

This health-care bill abomination Must stop the cap in trade MUST stop we cannot afford this burden nor can we give up theses essential liberties anymore!

They say we are the last "developed" country without a government controlled health-care system. Well this is not the first time we have been the last and only free country in the world.

This has happened before many times in humans history as the nature of that evil which drives it(the greed for power of politicians) has not changed.
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791 wrote:"
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing."

Thou-out human history freedom has been ruthlessly hunted and chased to the edges of the Earth and the very edge extinction by power centralizing tyrants.

It is after all in the basic nature of politicians to desire, hord, and grow their power and control over the people by any means including most commonly deception.
The people being constantly of the defensive and requiring the of the necessary evil of government as to protect them from other evils have always been at the disadvantage of having an enemy able to carefully plan and plot their assault against them.

It is therefore in this defensive war which we must wage for our rights that we are constantly vulnerable to assault and thus must be perpetually vigilant. Our founders knew this, and did everything they could to prepare us and enable us to wage that defense. This is in no small part why we have such a complex interlocking system, who's separate and competing parts form the last tools of our defense.

Should the Senate , the House, the presidency, and even the court all fail and betray us, then it falls to the states and ultimately local and even the people themselves!

This war for our rights must be fought cause as is correctly pointed out, we are once more the last vestige of true freedom.

Liberty or Death!

Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774 wrote:"
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. "

Michael Boldin
Michael Boldin

Jim - they certainly are dangerous times - and the massive expansion of power in DC has been building for a long time now. The question, of course - will great patriots rise to the occasion? I believe great Virginians like Jefferson and Henry would be glad to be alive these days...

Jim Stokes
Jim Stokes

God bless the people of Virginia. Pray for our leaders. Pray for our states. Pray for our country. These are dangerous times.

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