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Health Care Freedom of Choice Constitutional Amendment – It is Time Georgia

By on February 26, 2013 in Constitution, Nullification, State Sovereignty

The Citizens of the State of Georgia need to make their voices heard in this moment of history.

Washington D.C. has felt it appropriate to make its influence known in every county across these States United. It behooves The People to stand up in defense of the rights and liberties which were secured to us in the Constitution of the United States. In the name of general welfare and safety, the federal legislation machine manufactures and spits out unconstitutional laws in order to control us in the realms of  healthcare, gun ownership, education and property rights to name just a few.

Judge Andrew Napolitano stated a truth for the people to stand on in a commentary concerning President’s Day:

All presidents but Jefferson have argued that their first job was to keep us safe. All presidents but Jefferson were wrong. If you read the Constitution, you will see that the President’s first job – as Jefferson understood well – is to keep us free.

And The People are standing… The calls for nullification of  many over-reaching unconstitutional federal laws can be heard throughout the country and are now daily news. The nullification naysayers, as well, continue their dribble at the risk of their own liberty and freedom. Continue Reading →

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Will Pennsylvania Nullify Health Mandates?

By on April 2, 2012 in News

After having been reviewed multiple times since January 31st 2011, the Pennsylvania Senate passed Senate Bill 10 (SB10) by a vote of  29-19.  The bill is a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania which would prohibit any government from requiring the Pennsylvanians to buy health insurance. It states, in part –

“no law shall be enacted requiring a person to obtain or maintain health insurance coverage”

Pennsylvania Senate District 25′s Joseph B. Scarnati is the prime sponsor of the bill which still requires a vote by the General Assembly’s House of Representatives. Once fully passed by both houses, it can be placed on the ballot for a statewide referendum.

Already, ten states have passed similar bills, commonly referred to as the Health Care Freedom Act. With the current SCOTUS review of Obamacare, this action along with many others currently in process in other states, sends a clear message that Americans are not content with the Federal Government encroaching on their liberties.

The amendment, if approved by the people of Pennsylvania, would also prevent the federal government from imposing fines or penalties against people who don’t buy insurance — up to 2.5 percent of household income. Continue Reading →

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Rand Paul Reads TenthAmendmentCenter.com

By on May 16, 2011 in Big Government, Commentary, Constitution, Health Care, Tenthers

Or, at least, we think alike.

The junior Senator from Kentucky recently said that to believe in a ”right” to health care one must support slavery:

I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery.

He’s right of course. As I pointed out nearly two years ago, it is impossible for government to grant a positive right, like health care, to anyone without first taking the good or service it is granting away from someone else, like a doctor.

As I said then

Whether by forcibly appropriating and redistributing the money to purchase care for those who lack it, or by arbitrarily devaluing the time and effort of those who provide it, once a government mandate supplants voluntary exchange, coercion must be used to exercise that “right” to health care.

But how can taking what belongs to another person (their money, time, or effort) through legislative force be a right?

Is that not the very essence of slavery?

It is, and it’s nice to see someone as prominent and influential as Rand Paul has the guts to say it.

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Oklahoma governor puts taxpayers’ money where her mouth is

By on April 15, 2011 in Announcements, Big Government, Constitution, Delegated Powers, Federal Funding, Federalism, Founding Principles, Health Care, Liberty, Nullification, Originalism, Sovereignty Movement, State Sovereignty, Tenthers

Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin just set an important precedent. By rejecting $54.6 million in federal money to begin implementation of ObamaCare, the governor has firmly set herself against the unconstitutional law and with the citizens of her state.

From Fox News:

To make it clear Oklahoma will develop its own plan, the state will not accept a $54.6 million federal grant for setting up a system where Oklahomans could shop for health insurance, Gov. Mary Fallin said Thursday.

Fallin said the state instead will use state and private money to form the system.

This is a step that advocates of nullification in many states have long sought. After all, it’s pretty obvious that threats of non-compliance with the feds are empty to the point of pathetic when state budgets still depend on grants of federal money (which is siphoned from their citizens to begin with).

However

Fallin’s announcement reverses her decision two months ago to accept the federal money.

Obviously the governor is bowing to some form of public pressure. In this age of  rampant and flagrant TSA molestation, it’s nice to see that pressure can still occasionally be successfully applied to public servants.

Perhaps other states whose legislatures have passed a version of the Health Care Freedom Act should consider following Oklahoma’s example.

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Nullification In the News: Get Used to It

By on March 25, 2010 in Media, Nullification, The Opposition

As predicted, Congressional passage of President Obama’s sweeping health insurance “reform” bill has not ended the constitutional debate between federal and state authority. On the contrary, America seems poised to confront those issues directly, and with a force not seen in over a century.

As with the the first time around, those who shill for centralized power do so at the expense of liberty and government by consent. Observe this from the Talking Points Memo blog:

There’s a lot of nonsense out there about constitutional challenges to the Health Care Reform law on various ‘state sovereignty’ grounds. That’s nonsense. The Nullification Crisis and Civil War settled those issues.

Nonsense? First of all, learn history. The Nullification Crisis was a victory for those who opposed the unconstitutional assumption of “powers not delegated” by the federal government. It was also a perfect example of how meaningful checks on central power make a voluntary union stronger, not weaker.

Second of all, the War Between the States didn’t settle anything other than the fact that our union is no longer voluntary. Following such illogic, one wonders if the philosopher kings at TPM would have considered America’s colonial status to be permanently “settled” if Britain had won the Revolutionary War.

Probably. Statists are always grovelling toward the nearest locus of power. But they would be wrong.

Force of arms has never and can never decide questions of natural law. And there is no natural law more fundamental than the right of free people to be governed by their own consent.

Though our founders’ vision has been perverted over the years, the system of dual sovereignty they bequeathed us is clear: Sovereign states and sovereign people have the same power to judge the constitutionality of federal laws as the federal government now claims exclusively for itself.

Through nullification, interposition, and yes, even secession, if necessary.

So take note TPM and others of your ilk: If you want to surrender yourselves up to be ravished by the insatiable welfare/warfare State, go right ahead. Just don’t expect to take us with you.

We know what is at stake, we are more than ready for this battle, and we have not even begun to fight.

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Nullify! Rumblings from the Lone Star State

By on December 20, 2009 in Health Care, Nullification

TexasFlag-300x200It appears that the U.S. Senate now has the 60 votes needed to pass the Health Care bill and the vote is set for Monday morning at 1AM. The federal government knows that the bill is unconstitutional but they do not care. That is a problem. Texas and other states must work together to resolve this problem.

What can Texas do?

Last week, Texas State Representatives may have decided that the federal passage of the health care bill was imminent. I caught rumblings that some were starting to lay the foundation needed to make sure this abomination of a bill does not affect Texans. The two strategies that I have heard discussed:

Challenge the bill in court
Nullify the bill in Texas

The challenges to success in either case are significant but if socialized health care becomes the law over Texas then another large part of you and your children’s individual freedom and economic security will be stolen by politicians in Washington DC. So, you need to become involved and you need to get fellow Texas educated and involved, right now.

Click here to read the rest of this post at Texas.TenthAmendmentCenter.com

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Opponents of Fox News Demonstrate Rare Hypocrisy

By on December 4, 2009 in Health Care, Media

I’m no Fox News supporter, in fact I regard them as largely an organization that is bad for journalism. This being said, I find it interesting that establishment news hosts who have attacked Fox News and continue to do so on a regular basis have ironically taken up the same tactics of biased reporting and misinformation that they allege of Fox News. Many reports on national healthcare have been particularly egregious.

One news source that has not been seduced by national health care mania is the excellent podcast ‘Counterspin’, which recently ran a segment on the reality of the Congressional proposal. One key point made by journalist Trudy Leiberman confirmed what has already been brought to the attention of those not immersed in establishment propaganda- that most Americans don’t realize that they would be required under penalty of law to purchase health coverage that DC chose for them.

Contrast that coverage with the so-called journalism going on at MSNBC, which night after night has been reporting on the health care plan with a painfully obvious bias that completely bypasses the question of whether or not the health care proposal is beneficial for American families. The inference that the congressional healthcare bill is a positive development is obvious to anyone with an open mind who watches the Maddow and Olbermann broadcasts of late.

Instead of providing the American people with the tools they need to make up their minds regarding the nature of such a massive nationalization scheme, MSNBC hosts have instead resorted to bashing any and all who oppose it, characterizing them (falsely) as nothing more than operatives of the Republican party.

Alas, those who claim to channel Murrow and the golden age of objective journalism have seemingly embraced the same tactics of biased reporting that they have cited in demonizing Fox News the past 8 years.

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States Can Nullify Unconstitutional Federal Laws

By on November 18, 2009 in Nullification, Sovereignty Movement

Recently, Andrew Napolitano sat in as a guest host on the Glenn Beck show. He interviewed both Kevin Gutzman and Thomas E. Woods, who are two of the country’s leading minds on state sovereignty issues. Powerful stuff. Watch it:

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220-215: The Tyranny of the Majority

By on November 9, 2009 in Nullification

I had just returned to Washington, D.C. from Montpelier, James Madison’s family home, when it was announced that the House passed ObamaCare late Saturday night.

From our Constitution’s cradle to its grave in one day. What a journey. Continue Reading →

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Nullification: Another Line of Defense Against D.C.

By on November 8, 2009 in Nullification

Those of you who visit this site regularly already know that the health care vote yesterday is far from the end of things – and also know that even when it passes the Senate (which I assume some version will), it’s still not the end of the road for freedom.

changeThe real way to resist DC is not by begging politicians and judges in Washington to allow us to exercise our rights…it’s to exercise our rights whether they want to give us “permission” to or not.

Nullification – state-level resistance to unconstitutional federal laws – is the way forward.  It’s peaceful, effective, and has a long history in the American tradition.

Better yet, we expect to see 20-25 states considering legislation to effectively ban national health care in their state in the 2010 legislative session.  That same number of states has been able to effectively prevent the Real ID Act of 2005 from being implemented without ever being repealed or challenged in court.

The bottom line?  If you want to make real change; if you want to really do something for liberty and for the Constitution…focus on local activism and your state governments.

No more marches on Washington – they don’t work.

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