NDAA Nullification Bill Passes Michigan House, 107-0

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LANSING, Mich. (Dec. 5, 2012) – The Michigan House of Representatives unanimously voted in favor of House bill 5768 (HB5768) today.  Representative Tom McMillin, who introduced the bill, showed his excitement for it’s passage, and his expectations for the State Senate.

“My bill opposing NDAA’s indefinite detention and taking away due process and prohibiting MI government from participating passed the House today. Onto the State Senate!”

Due to support from a wide coalition of grassroots activists across the political spectrum, including the Tenth Amendment Center and People Against The NDAA (P.A.N.D.A), the bill passed unanimously. The final vote was 107-0. HB5768 asserts that no State employee or agency will assist the Federal government – in any way – in the detainment of people under the 2012 NDAA. The Obama administration has aggressively argued in court that the executive branch has this power. The bill states, in part,

“no agency of this state, no political subdivision of this state, no employee of an agency of this state or a political subdivision of this state acting in his or her official capacity, and no member of the Michigan national guard on official state duty shall aid an agency of the armed forces of the United States in any investigation, prosecution, or detention of any person pursuant to section 1021 of the national defense authorization act…”

HB5768 was first introduced on June 14, 2012 by Representatives McMillin, MacMaster, Irwin, Ananich, Foster, and McBroom, and was referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

The bill will now move on to the Senate for further consideration and concurrence.

ACTION ITEMS

If you live in Michigan- act NOW. Not tomorrow or next week. Today, not tomorrow – right now. Contact you State Senator, and encourage them to pass this legislation as well

1. Visit this link for contact information
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(o3repo45geivtzablkpayt55))/mileg.aspx?page=legislators

2. click on a senator name that is your senator – get their email address and TWO phone numbers – capitol and district offices

3. CALL them. Best option – respectfully, yet firmly – urge them to pass this bill. Let them know that you want them to stand up for the Constitution of the United States AND the Constitution of Michigan – they took an oath to both.

4. EMAIL them – even if call, you can still email too. Or just email. A courteous, strong and firm email – urging them to vote yes on this bill.

5. Do the same for the Governor’s office – (517) 373-3400 or http://www.michigan.gov/snyder/0,4668,7-277-57827-267869–,00.html

6. Report Back – when you get responses, let us know! We want people to be informed of what their delegates are saying and doing.

OUTSIDE OF MICHIGAN

Act now to reject NDAA in your state, city, county or town.

1. Use this model legislation:
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/legislation/liberty-preservation-act/

2. Let us know you’d like to get involved:
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/volunteer

Matt Renquist is a blogger for the Tenth Amendment Center. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from Colorado State University and currently lives in Colorado.

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RobertWermuth
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"Onto the State Senate!” {should read "On to the State Senate!"

Michael Boldin
Michael Boldin moderator

 @RobertWermuth seriously.  is THAT the most important thing you could add to this discussion?  dude.  wow.  we could use some help advancing liberty, not correcting a state rep's grammar.

RobertWermuth
RobertWermuth

 @Michael Boldin  @RobertWermuth Well, if it's worth saying and printing for public consumption, it's worth proof-reading or having it proofed. Meanwhile, your assumption that I don't care about advancing liberty is simply wrong, since you know nothing about me personally. Have a great day.

Michael Boldin
Michael Boldin moderator

 @RobertWermuth I didn't say you didn't care.  Again, if you think this quote - which was not misquoted - is the most important thing you can bring to the table, we're definitely not on the same page.

GregBurton
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It is a foregone conclusion that those of us who have questioned the official version of 9/11, the so-called "war on terror", the pretext it provides for shredding the rights of US citizens, the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, the serial wars of pillage, will face arrest, detained without charge or trial via the NDAA. Ultimately, the US government (Israel) will either have to bring those who oppose the US police states to trial, or do what the has been done so many times before, in places like Latin America and the developing world: disappear those who were fighting fascist regimes.

 

Beyond nullification, we need to educate people within the intelligence, police communities, US citizens (the 99%) that we need to investigate and prosecute:

 

1. the real perpetrators involved in the terrorist attacks of 9/11, London 7/7 and other contrived "strategy of tension" terror attacks designed to instill fear and provide the pretext for the police state;

2. those who committed crimes that enabled the Bush administration to prevent gathering evidence, from the EPA clearing the air in Manhattan, to removing the steel from the WTC without forensic tests. 3. who are connected to the MSM "usual suspects" who continue to fan the flames of the so-called "war on terror", the Muslim boogie-man (destroy Palestine) agenda;

4. who are part of the same groups of allied individuals who continue to contrive intelligence on the "war on terror";

5. who are part of the same criminal groups pillaging the tax-payers, profiting from the "war on terror"; 6. who are part of the the same group of fraudsters using DHS grants to spy on and criminalize those opposed to them;

7. who are connected to the corrupt politicians who propose, advocate legislation criminalizing the freedoms necessary to determine the identities of this same oligarchic clique now pillaging the world one nation state at a time, and transforming the world into a global gulag.

 

So, instead of detaining those patriots protesting the US government (Israel) post-9/11 policies and crimes (cui bono); Why don't we just identify the individuals within these groups, and throw these people in jail?

ArrowDurfee
ArrowDurfee

 @GregBurtonTo find out what really happened to the  WTC read the works of Dr Judy Wood or view her videos on youtube.

 

LowGenius
LowGenius

This is as empty a gesture as there ever was.  Get some facts and stop buying - and selling - all this artificial hype.

 

http://www.lowgenius.net/post/2012/11/13/behind-the-hype-NDAA.aspx#.UMC2BoPAd8E

Michael Boldin
Michael Boldin moderator

 for those that want a leading constitutional scholar's take on NDAA , try this instead:

http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/02/06/ndaa-sections-1021-and-1022-scary-potential/

LowGenius
LowGenius

 @Michael Boldin Yes, try that instead.  Because it has "scary" in the title and appeals to the core audiences essential distrust of government.  While we're at it, let's ignore the reality that our president is himself a "leading constitutional scholar" - a point which is critical to the argument I lay out in my article.

 

One of the most destructive current realities of political discourse in this country at present is the human tendency to gravitate toward conflict, controversy, and sensationalism.  That tendency has, over the last three or three and a half decades, morphed into a situation where media content creators intentionally sensationalize information to draw attention to themselves for profit.  Some sectors add a factor of deliberately pushing a "REEL TRVTH" narrative in which they, and only they, can be trusted to provide legitimate information, and anyone who disagrees with them is part of the "opposition."

 

Blindly refusing to accept any information from the government because doing so makes me feel "smarter than that" is no more meritorious as a mode of thinking than blindly accepting all information from the government (or any other source) because it makes me feel comfortable and reinforces my pre-existing ideological cant.  We must examine FACTS, and the FACTS of this situation are, in a nutshell, as follows:

 

"The NDAA" is a horrible shorthand for this issue; NDAA is an annually recurring bill without which our military is not funded.

 

Section 1021 of NDAA assert no new power of government; it merely reiterates a power that originally was asserted in 2001.

 

A state government "nullfying NDAA" is silly and egregious on a number of levels:  not only are they not "nullifying NDAA" but only a single provision of it, that provision *has already been struck down by a federal court as unconstitutional.*  Furthermore, the entire argument rests largely on the false premise that no American citizen is capable of or worth of punishing for acts to destroy the American government - a premise that can be proven false with a single name, Timothy McVeigh.  

 

Still *further*, the entire conversation has been framed by much of the media as a question of Obama administration policy while ignoring the simple fact that this is a Bush administration policy that many in Bush's party - indeed, some who helped craft the policy - are now disingenuously criticizing within the frame of being evidence that the Obama administration is abusing its power.  At *best* this is a manipulative double-standard.

 

*Someone* has to stand up and say "wait a minute, this whole conversation is taking place in a fantasy world."

 

Why does it matter?  Because when we focus on issues created from bad information and framed dishonestly, it detracts attention and energy from other important issues which are based in good information and can be framed honestly.  When the flag you rally around turns out to be a lie, you've lost credibility when that lie is exposed...and the exposure of lies is inevitable.

 

It's time we stopped looking for easily repeatable soundbytes and bumper stickers and started making the effort to grasp nuance and complexity.  There are few better examples than this molehill of an issue that has been crafted into a mountain by profit-seeking sensationalist media trying to engender opposition to the Obama administration through deceit.  There are plenty of good reasons to criticize this administration; there's no excuse for relying on lies, distortions, and sensationalism to do it.

giant33
giant33

 @LowGenius  @Michael Boldin

 It would be nice to get just a little truth out of this gang that's in office. The msm won't be asking the hard questions. LowGenius next time your in DC bring your knee pads in case you run into BO.

LaraOsborne
LaraOsborne like.author.displayName 1 Like

This article never actually says what NDAA is, and assumes the reader knows. National Defense Authorization Act.   I applaud the author/activist, but he needs to be cognizant of the newbies to the civil rights scene if we are going to get the message out!

ebarron99
ebarron99

Hey guys, don't forget who controls the US Military.

MikeYoung
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Yes, this is a great Start to taking a Stand against Federal Tyranny, but it does not go far enough. The Bill if passed by the Senate should have an Amendment Added to it that says the Michigan Law Enforcement Officers will prevent any arrests from being made, and will also arrest any Federal Agents, any Employees or Privately Contracted Employees of the Federal Government from coming to Michigan to attempt to arrest anybody under the NDAA will be arrested themselves for violating Michigan State Law and will be Incarcerated for up to 1 year, and fined $10,000.00 per/violation.

gypsynovus
gypsynovus

 @MikeYoung Amen-Ra Toth to THAT!  Michael B., take a lesson.  For some of us it's not a liberal gag order but an issue of legal precedence.  Give these monkeys an inch and they take the whole damn jungle.  WE DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN THE J-U-N-G-L-E! 

bertloftman
bertloftman

 @MikeYoung Agreed that interposition would be better but would prefer passing this bill then trying to add interposition and not passing anything.  Save interposition for the follow up.

LouinP
LouinP

 @bertloftman  @MikeYoung Follow up never happens.  This empty bill gives politicians cover.  They can say they voted against it.  They will never follow up.

gypsynovus
gypsynovus like.author.displayName 1 Like

It's all well and good they won't aide and abet. but they left out arresting any federal agent that attempts to invoke such an arrest in the first place.  Not good enough.

Michael Boldin
Michael Boldin moderator like.author.displayName 1 Like

 @gypsynovus actually in some situations, creating a conflict like that is actually worse.  Noncompliance can bring a federal act to its knees - because the feds depend on local and state assistance to do their dirty deeds.  Of course, we'll only know after the fact.

 

The representatives of the people of Michigan are certainly moving in a great direction.

gypsynovus
gypsynovus

 @Michael Boldin  I wonder if the founders figured neo militia would be brainy genius types armed with education and words instead of guns and bullets?

Yovnne
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So glad and excited to see more states standing up to the evil administration of the illegal usuper.   Congratulations Michigan on nullification of the unconstitutional NDAA.  Great, Great Great!  Hope all states do the same.  States need to nullify a lot more of things.

JamesP.Delaney
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Gives me hope there's still life in our shattered republic.

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