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Texas Governor Affirms State Sovereignty
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by TheCameraObscura | April 14, 2009 at 07:17 pm
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Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states’ rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”
Perry gave no specific examples of federal governent intrusion, oppression, or interference.
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at 21:30 on April 14th, 2009
Well, let's start with not allowing the governors to put the national guard on the border. Then let's go to having the police gather information about people who oppose abortion, have Ron Paul bumper stickers on their cars, are interested in bearing arms or who back third-party candidates.
Holder is on record under Janet Reno as having filed with her a brief with the Supreme Court that stipulates that the Second Amendment does not confer the right to bear arms.
The government worries about the next Timothy McVeigh, but the whole thing started with Ruby Ridge where the FBI killed that guy's wife and kid, shooting the kid in the back, all this over the man's having sold a sawed-off shotgun illegally and holing himself up to resist arrest. He won several million dollars and the FBI was shown to have engaged in a cover-up. Then along comes Janet Reno and kills the young children she was trying to save in the Branch Davidian compound.
Maybe the government needs to look at itself here as the cause of the problem.
Then there is the whole issue of our massive national debt, eating up resources that would be available to the states directly.
For example, why is the a department of education? Let the states do that without interference.
Let the states take care of their own brideges. The Golden Gate Bridge gets a big toll. All of the money is wasted on ferry boats and then we go and ask the feds for money to take care of the bridge?
More later.
at 21:37 on April 14th, 2009
I agree that Ruby Ridge was a travesty and the federal government was 100% at fault, but Timothy McVeigh went after innocent people and blew up a building; likewise, David Koresh was raping kids.
What I find questionable about Governor Perry's intentions is why didn't he object to President Bush's reckless disregard for the 4th amendment, warrantless wiretapping, facist-like Patriot Act and $750 billion dollar bailout in September of 2008?
Eric Holder biggest problem is that he strongly supports prison time for people who smoke marijuana. The war on drugs is a failure, apparently he didn't get the memo. But I do admire hi stand against Gitmo torture.
at 04:04 on April 15th, 2009
It is a sad state of affairs when States must pass resolutions reaffirming laws that are supposed to be already "guaranteed" by the individual State Constitutions and United States Constitution.
"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people." [10th Amendment] To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition." - Thomas Jefferson:
"[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights." -Thomas Jefferson
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