Back in March, the town of Sedgwick, Maine courageously voted to nullify certain unconstituional federal regulations dealing with local food production.
The ordinance was passed in response to S.510, the odious Food Safety and Modernization Act, written by agricorps like Monsanto to put their smaller competitors out of business, and passed by Congress under the cover of darkness on Christmas Eve last year.
The Sedgwick ordinance stated in part that
“Sedgwick citizens…[may] produce, process, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing,”
and declares that
“It shall be unlawful for any law or regulation adopted by the state or federal government to interfere with the rights recognized by this Ordinance.”
As I pointed out in March:
This is so basic and yet so revolutionary.
In these days when petty tyrants seem to be at the helm of every government agency, imposing their arbitrary and destructive will upon a cowering citizenry, it is refreshing to know that there are still people with the courage and capacity to stand up and say “Not in our town.”
Now another town has joined the fight.
Voters in Blue Hill, Maine have adopted a similar ordinance to protect their own local food producers.
Nullification, the legal and moral equivalent of peaceful non-cooperation, marches on as more and more Americans discover that tyranny cannot exist without the people’s consent.
h/t LRC