Any chance we get to bypass the fed...take it.

I hope we see a lot more of this.

States Rights

Forwarded from Secesh

“I rise, Mr. President, for the purpose of announcing to the Senate that I have satisfactory evidence that the state of Mississippi, by a solemn ordinance of her people in convention assembled, has declared her separation from the United States. Under these circumstances, of course, my functions terminate here. It has seemed to me proper, however, that I should appear in the Senate to announce that fact to my associates, and I will say but little more. It is known to senators who have served with me here, that I have for many years advocated, as an essential attribute of State sovereignty, the right of a State to secede from the Union…I should still, under my theory of government, because of my allegiance to the State of which I am a citizen, have been bound by her action. We but tread in the paths of our fathers when we proclaim our independence and take the hazard…not in hostility to others, not to injure any section of the country, not even for our own pecuniary benefit, but from the high and solemn motive of defending and protecting the rights we inherited, and which it is our duty to transmit unshorn to our children. We will invoke the God of our fathers, who delivered them from the power of the lion, to protect us from the ravages of the bear; and thus, putting our trust in God and in our own firm hearts and strong arms, we will vindicate the right as best we may. I see now around me some with whom I have served long. There have been points of collision; but whatever of offense to me, I leave here. I carry with me no hostile remembrance…I go hence unencumbered by the remembrance of any injury received, and having discharged the duty of making the only reparation in my power for any injury received. Mr. President and Senators, having made the announcement which the occasion seemed to me to require, it remains only for me to bid you a final adieu."

Jefferson Davis, farewell to the Senate and farewell to the United States

Remember the 10th Amendment?

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

I bet someone in Arizona is dusting it off.

Reality

"Read it and weep" sounds a bit trite, but somewhat appropriate this time:

DEEPWATER HORIZON

Smile, you're on Freedom TV!

Just about everyone carries a mini camera or video recorder in their pocket nowadays. Maybe we should think about using them anytime we observe law enforcement officers and public officials interacting with the public.

Couldn't hurt.

Maybe you'll even get your 15 minutes of fame when you capture the next citizen being gunned down in cold blood.

It won't be long before the tables turn if it keeps going in this direction.

No more Waco's

No more Waco's?

Where's the clue bat? How many of these daily atrocities have we had since 1993?

Erik Scott

By my math it adds up to one heck of a lot of Waco's!


How about a running tally on typical "only ones" behavior:

Injustice Everywhere

Pro Libertate

War on Guns

The Sons of Liberty

In Boston in early summer of 1765 a group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act. As that group grew, it came to be known as the Sons of Liberty. And grow it did! These were not the leading men of Boston, but rather workers and tradesmen. It was unseemly that they would be so agitated by a parliamentary act. Though their ranks did not include Samuel and John Adams, the fact may have been a result of a mutually beneficial agreement. The Adams' and other radical members of the legislature were daily in the public eye; they could not afford to be too closely associated with violence, neither could the secretive Sons of Liberty afford much public exposure. However, amongst the members were two men who could generate much public sentiment about the Act. Benjamin Edes, a printer, and John Gill of the Boston Gazette produced a steady stream of news and opinion. Within a very short time a group of some two thousand men had been organized under Ebenezer McIntosh, a South Boston shoemaker.

The first widely known acts of the Sons took place on August 14, 1765, when an effigy of Andrew Oliver (who was to be commissioned Distributor of Stamps for Massachusetts) was found hanging in a tree on Newbury street, along with a large boot with a devil climbing out of it. The boot was a play on the name of the Earl of Bute and the whole display was intended to establish an evil connection between Oliver and the Stamp Act. The sheriffs were told to remove the display but protested in fear of their lives, for a large crowd had formed at the scene. Before the evening a mob burned Oliver's property on Kilby street, then moved on to his house. There they beheaded the effigy and stoned the house as its occupants looked out in horror. They then moved to nearby Fort Hill were they built a large fire and burned what was left of the effigy. Most of the crowd dissipated at that point, however McIntosh and crew, then under cover of darkness, ransacked Oliver's abandoned home until midnight. On that evening it became very clear who ruled Boston. The British Militia, the Sheriffs and Justices, kept a low profile. No one dared respond to such violent force......

Continue the reading HERE

The usurpation and intrusion of government into our lives is no less now than the early days of the revolution. We are ruled today by our Constitutional Republic form of government just as the Sons of Liberty were ruled by a king. Their contemporaries put to paper the greatest document ever to define a government. Today that government is contemptuous of the restraint for which the document was intended. It is now ignored, and so are you.

The Sons of Liberty ignited the spark of revolution. They had men in key places from which to manipulate their cause. Today there are Patriots in every conceivable place. They had the mass media on their side in those days. We do not have that luxury. We do have the internet, and we have the ability to reach more people more quickly. Sadly, what we don't have is the motivation to do a single thing about it.

We are the frog in the pot and have nothing in common with the Sons of Liberty.