Archive | December, 2011

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From a segment on the 28th Episode of Tenther Radio – starts at approximately 8 minutes into the show. Here’s a collection of the most-read articles from the Tenth Amendment Center website over the course of the year. Remember reading any of these? Any others that you found important that weren’t on the list?

10. Only Congress can Declare War
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2008/07/12/only-congress-can-declare-war/

9. 9 states and counting to consider nullification of Obamacare
http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/01/9-states-and-counting-to-consider-nullification-of-obamacare/

8. You Don’t have “Constitutional Rights”
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/12/13/you-dont-have-constitutional-rights/

7. What is the Constitution
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/05/22/what-is-the-constitution/

6. New Mexico Law and Local Sheriff Trumps Feds
http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/11/new-mexico-law-and-local-sheriff-trump-the-feds/

5. Former Miss USA left in tears at TSA checkpoint
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/04/27/former-miss-usa-left-in-tears-at-tsa-checkpoint/

4. Feds threaten No-Fly zone for Texas
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/05/24/feds-issue-threat-no-fly-zone-for-texas/

3. Texas legislation proposes felony charges for TSA Agents
http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/03/texas-legislation-proposes-felony-charges-for-tsa-agents/

2. The 10th Amendment Nullification Movement – legislative tracking page
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/the-10th-amendment-movement/

1. In public statement, TSA lies about the Constitution
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/05/14/in-public-statement-tsa-lies-about-the-constitution/

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From a segment on the 28th Episode of Tenther Radio – starts at approximately 40 minutes into the show. Here’s a collection of what we think are the worst constitutional violations of 2011. There are a LOT more, and so many are so bad it was hard to keep them off the list. What do YOU think was missed – or spot on – from this list?

10. TSA - it didn’t start this year, but it never seems to end.
9. The Jobs Bill – even parts of it. Where does DC get the constitutional authority to provide jobs?
8. Federal Threats to Cannabis farming in CA. They don’t give a darn about states’ rights.
7. Raw Milk Raids by the FDA. Armed food police?
6. SOPA - not passed yet, but a big threat.
5. Assassination of American citizens. Executive branch as judge, jury and executioner.
4. EPA Granting itself more power. Agencies can do that?
3. Patriot Act Extension. Has everyone forgotten that Obama was supposed to be anti-Bush?
2. NDAA. Self-explanatory
1. War on Libya. Undeclared executive branch war. The founders were unanimous in opposition to such a thing.

James Madison: “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.”

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Welcome to our special Tenther Radio “Year in Review” episode!  First, Michael Boldin and John Bush reviewed the “Most-Read Articles of 2011″ from the Tenth Amendment Center Website.  And then, John Bush gave us an update on the Nullifcation: The Movie. The documentary will be premiering at the CPAC convention in Washington DC in February.  John listed some of the people in the documentary: Stewart Rhodes, Michael Boldin, Kevin Gutzman, Thomas Woods, and Deborah Medina.  John referred to the guests as, “big leaders and big thinkers in the whole Tenth Amendment push.”

Later, Lesley Swann joined Michael as they reviewed the “Top Ten Unconstitutional Offenses of the Federal Government in 2011!”  Lesley offered some insight on one of those 10 – the yet to be passed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Also among the list were: TSA 4th Amendment violations, Federal Threats to Cannabis Farming in California, expanded EPA power, the NDAA and more.

Michael closed the show with a special recap of 2011 for the TAC. He shared some of our successes and challenges over 2011, and what we can expect to see in 2012 from the Tenth Amendment Center and the Tenther Movement in general.

“The Constitution. Every issue, every time. No exceptions and no excuses.”

Everyone from the Tenth Amendment Center and Tenther Radio wishes you a Happy New Year!

MENTIONED IN THE SHOW
Year in Review – Month by Month
Nullification Movie
Tenther Blog
(check back to the blog for two top-10 posts this week!)
TAC Legislative Tracking Page
Nullify Now! Philadelphia

The “revolution in a corn field” that is happening today in Governor Sam Brownback’s Kansas is potentially as important as what happened here in 1776. Because in the last two years the states have learned that they don’t have to do what the federal government tells them to do. They can think for themselves and govern themselves, just as Dorothy promised.

As the Washington Post reports with an excellent article titled “In Kansas, Gov. Sam Brownback puts tea party tenets into action with sharp cuts”: “If you want to know what a Tea Party America might look like, there is no place like Kansas. In the past year, three state agencies have been abolished and 2,050 jobs have been cut. Funding for schools, social services and the arts have been slashed. The new Republican governor rejected a $31.5 million federal grant for a new health-insurance exchange because he opposes President Obama’s health-care law. And that’s just the small stuff.” Continue Reading →

The vision of our founders that was captured in the document we call the constitution is nothing short of a miracle. As we look at the political environment today, it is clear how truly brilliant our founders actually were. The Constitution was created to limit the government from controlling the lives of the governed. For the first time in history the people were put in charge of the government instead of government bureaucrats controlling the people.

You would never know we had a Constitution if you were dropped in this country from another planet. If you were a Founder who had risen from the grave this country’s operations would be an obvious indication the country had somehow been take over by a coup d etat. The obvious questions our Founders would have:

Who allowed the Federal Government to break the law of the constitution? This would have to be answered with We the People. We the people have ignored our duty to hold our politicians accountable to the law of the land. We are also responsible for electing politicians that have failed to abide by the Constitution. Continue Reading →

Martin van Buren. Jeff Hummel makes the case in a paper delivered at a conference I attended and spoke at myself 1998, while still a lad.

Here’s Murray Rothbard making the case for van Buren about a decade earlier, with the important caveat that he was unlibertarian on the Indian question.

Writes David Kramer: “A judge in Montana was unable to seat a jury in a marijuana possession case because no one was willing to even sit on the jury in order to hear the case. Eventually, the judge had to let the innocent man go.”