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Rejoice: Rick Sanchez Will Tell Us What To Think

By on September 24, 2010 in Media, State Sovereignty, The Opposition 1

Isn’t that a relief?  In his latest instruction to the masses, CNN’s Rick Sanchez calls “states’ rights” a “racist” term.  Now leaving aside the objection that “states don’t have rights; people do” (the term is merely a kind of shorthand, after all), Sanchez is of course in his Enforcer role here, letting us all know what is permissible to think.  In so doing, I guess he forgot about this, among other things.  And of course there is no reason that any particular apportionment of political powers among various levels of government would be inherently “racist.”  I suppose Hitler was the very model of racial enlightenment when he condemned states’ rights in Mein Kampf?  (Thanks to J.G. for the Sanchez link.)

cross-posted from the LewRockwell.com blog

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Bill Evelyn and Al Gainey Talk Nullify Now – Chattanooga

By on September 22, 2010 in Media, State Sovereignty 1

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Bill Evelyn from the State of Georgia Tea Party – sponsor of Nullify Now! Chattanooga – interviewed on the Al Gainey Show on WDUN-AM in North Georgia.

Please visit the following links for more information:
Nullify Now! – Chattanooga (or call 888-71-TICKETS)
State of Georgia Tea Party
The Al Gainey Show – please visit www.algainey.com and go to “listen live” to hear the show.

“The first person to really put nullification into words was Thomas Jefferson, and to a certain point, James Madison.”

“State legislatures need to tell the EPA to get out…”

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Are the Editors of the Washington Times Reading TAC?

By on September 20, 2010 in Media, Sovereignty Movement 2

A quick glance at their recent op-ed – States tell Obama to Take a Hike – it seems pretty obvious that they’re at least getting the message. Here’s an excerpt:

Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Missouri and Virginia have opted out of an even larger slice of Obamacare by rejecting the health coverage mandate. The anti-Obamacare measure will also be on the November ballot in Arizona (as a constitutional amendment), Colorado and Oklahoma so voters can decide. Judging from the 71 percent approval Missouri’s electorate gave to the Health Care Freedom Act, the electoral rebuke to the administration’s policies will be difficult to ignore.

Even in areas like gun control, where the president’s agenda has shown some restraint, states are taking pre-emptive action. After Mr. Obama was sworn in, Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming enacted firearms freedom laws that declared all ammunition and firearms produced within their respective borders to be exempt from federal regulation. So long as the guns and ammo don’t cross state lines, they aren’t involved in interstate commerce. Wyoming’s legislation, signed by Mr. Freudenthal, makes it a crime punishable by a $2,000 fine and a year in jail for any state or federal official to attempt to enforce a federal gun regulation on a Wyoming-made gun.

This is the silver lining to Mr. Obama’s legislative excess. Even members of his own party can see that it’s time to restore respect for the Ninth and 10th amendments to the Constitution by limiting federal power.

Thanks to those of you who are passing this message around, reading our updates – and demanding that your state legislators and local media take action – the 10th Amendment Movement is getting closer to the mainstream.

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Celebrating the 10th on 10-10-10

By on September 18, 2010 in Interviews, Media, Nullification 1

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Bryce Shonka and Andrew Nappi interviewed by Phil Russo of Tea Party Patriots Live on WORL-660AM in Orlando, Florida on 09-11-10.

Bryce and Andrew will be at Nullify Now! on 10-10-10 in Orlando – representing the Tenth Amendment Center, and Phil Russo will be acting as emcee for the event. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/orlando/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS

“A lot of people understand that the way we have been doing things just isn’t working – and many are finding nullification to be the solution.”

“Elections are not going to save us – they never will. Politicians, or courts, or even legislation is not going to fix things. Only we the people can.”

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Taking America back

By on September 16, 2010 in Activism, Media 1

I rarely find anything worth my time in the mainstream press, but this letter to the editor in the Washington Times is not just good, but worthy of repetition. I hope that more people will follow James Vetter’s example, and write their own paper with a similar sentiment. Here’s an excerpt:

The first order of business is cleaning house in the November elections. However, we cannot put blind faith in those we send to Washington, regardless of political party. Individual citizens and grass-roots movements must keep the pressure on elected officials to stay within bounds and to roll back the decades of abuses – including Obamacare – that have been imposed on the American people.

Finally, the states must truly step up and protect their citizens by asserting legitimate rights under the 10th Amendment. The federal government is not the final word, and the states can say no to it. Twenty-five states have opposed Real ID, and lawmakers in 30 states have introduced legislation that would declare certain provisions of the national health care bill to be null and void within the state. This legislation passed in Arizona, Idaho, Utah and Virginia.

[emphasis added]

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Push Back!

By on September 13, 2010 in Media, Nullification 0

Some nice coverage in The New American:

“Push back! Push back! Push back!” the crowd of more than 350 shouted at the first Nullify Now! rally held in Ft. Worth, Texas on Saturday, Sept. 4th. They were responding to GOP congressional candidate Stephen Broden of Texas as he urged the nullification of Obamacare in his talk at the rally. Broden is running to defeat the socialist Eddie Bernice Johnson for a congressional seat in the Dallas area.

Various groups were represented by booths and attendees at the Texas Rally, the largest being The John Birch Society (the parent company of The New American magazine) and various Tea Party groups. All agreed that author Tom Woods, the keynote speaker of the event, made everyone aware that it was the constitutional duty of each state to use the tool of nullification to stop the unconstitutional actions, mandates and legislation coming from Washington.

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A Fresh Perspective on the Tenther Movement

By on September 1, 2010 in Media, Tenthers 0
This fresh perspective on our Tenther movement comes from Mother Jones Magazine writer Stephanie Mencimer in this month’s issue.  Also- save the date!  CATAC’s first Nullify Now! event is now slated for April 20th, 2011 in Los Angeles. -B

If at First You Don’t Secede

Meet the legalization-loving, Iraq-War-hating Californian who’s become a guru to the state sovereignty movement.

Illustration: John Cuneo

By Stephanie Mencimer

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This February, around 300 conservative activists and candidates gathered at the Atlanta airport Hilton to celebrate the Tenth Amendment, the oft-overlooked constitutional provision that’s become the philosophical underpinning of opposition to everything—from bank bailouts to federal gun laws to the new health care bill. Among the speakers were the author of The South Was Right; a man who’d done time for evading taxes while running a gold and silver “bank”; and Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court justice who lost his robes after refusing to remove a giant Ten Commandments from his courthouse.

The odd man out was Michael Boldin, the founder of the Tenth Amendment Center Continue Reading →

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Unauthorized Thoughts

By on August 7, 2010 in Media, Nullification, The Opposition 2

This weekend I had another chance to appear on Freedom Watch on the FOX Business Network (which you may get without realizing it, so check) for a brief segment on nullification.  I appeared immediately after Karl Rove [!], who said state resistance to the federal government was fine by him as long as it was done in a way that “honors our system” — i.e., involves nothing more than “lawsuits” against the federal government, and ignores everything Jefferson ever said about the states and the federal courts.  (The program is repeated tonight at 8pm ET and tomorrow at 7pm and 11pm.)  Last time I was on, it was Geraldo Rivera who was asked for his opinion on nullification.  Judge Napolitano refuses to play by the rules, which is why his star remains very much on the rise.

Next weekend I’ll talk about these issues at a conference banquet outside Philadelphia (August 13; you can register for just one day of the event if you prefer), and at another conference banquet in Orlando (August 14); the latter talk will be taped for future airing by C-SPAN.  On August 28 I’ll be having a full-day event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Don’t write off all the Tea Party folks, by the way: local Tea Parties and even 912 Project chapters are sponsoring various stops on the Nullify Now! tour, even though such a thing is not exactly front and center on the agenda of the establishment handlers who are trying to keep these groups tame and pointless.

cross-posted from the LewRockwell.com blog

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Diverse Groups Call for DEA to End Medical Marijuana Raids

By on August 5, 2010 in Drug War, Media 1

Tenth Amendment Center, Firedoglake Publisher Join Drug Policy Organizations’ Condemnation of Recent Raids

WASHINGTON — Two ideologically diverse advocates last week echoed an earlier call by a coalition of drug-policy reform groups by condemning a series of recent raids by the Drug Enforcement Administration on medical marijuana collectives that were operating legally under state law. The Tenth Amendment Center, a group that advocates on behalf of states’ rights, and Jane Hamsher, the publisher of Firedoglake.com, called on the DEA to respect duly adopted state medical marijuana laws and immediately end these raids.

“The federal government is only authorized to exercise those powers that ‘We the People’ delegated to it in the Constitution. Included among the myriad of constitutional violations from D.C. are federal laws that ban the use of cannabis,” said Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. “It is especially egregious when these laws are used to justify raids in states where the use and distribution of cannabis is expressly allowed by law. How many hundreds of thousands of people are going to be arrested before We the People say ‘enough is enough’? The time to end this unconstitutional, immoral, and costly federal war on people is now.” Continue Reading →

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