Posted on 02/08/2009 11:12:49 PM PST by ForGod'sSake
I heard a rumor today that Oklahoma’s state legislature had declared sovereignty from federal mandates it considered beyond the national government’s constitutional powers. On blogs and independent news outlets around the world, the news of Oklahoma’s resolution was making its rounds. The state invoked the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:
“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.”
Oklahoma has informed the United States government that it will not continue to follow the federal government’s requests, if those requests fall outside the specific powers given to the federal government by the Constitution. Oklahoma’s House of Representatives believes the Constitution was written to limit the powers of the federal government, and is ready to fight in court to restrict it back to its legal prerogatives.
This would greatly dampen the federal government’s control in Oklahoma in many policy areas: education, transportation, identification, immigration, licensing, taxation, banking, the list goes on and on.
Who would this hurt? No ordinary Americans, but some large corporations stand to literally topple if the federal government is limited to its Constitutional scope. These corporations and the over-sized government rely on each other for survival, steadily sucking money and power from their rightful owners, individual Americans, who are fed a steady stream of television and radio propaganda so that the scheme may be perpetuated. This leaves the thinking American wondering why nearly everyone hates the government, hates corporations, and hates the nation’s direction, but no one seems ever able to do anything about it.
Here is your answer: people are trying to do something about it, but corporate media will not allow American citizens to know what is actually good for them, because it would likely hurt profit margins.
Despite the fact that this is one of the more important news stories of the day (if not this era), I could not find a mention about Oklahoma’s declaration of sovereignty on any corporate media outlets. I decided to find out if the story was nothing more than a big Internet hoax. It was real. It is real. Not only did the Oklahoma House vote for the resolution, they passed it 92 - 3, and language of the bill is forceful and direct, aimed at undermining the federal government as aggressively as necessary.
Bloggers and independent media are no strangers to mainstream media blackouts, but this blackout seems particularly impressive in its orchestration. First of all, this is a complete corporate blackout of what is probably the most fundamental piece of legislation passed in Oklahoma in many years. Not only are national networks ignoring it, the local news won’t cover it either. It is as though the Oklahoma state legislature has been disappeared by the corporate political establishment, which is frightening.
If the federal government can get away with ignoring a legitimate state legislature and the Constitution as if neither even exists, imagine what they are capable of doing to freelance bloggers who defend the Constitution, or a peaceful assembly of libertarians, or political opponents, or the entire population of a minority religion. Imagine that, and suddenly the American flags covering this nation will begin to resemble something historic and horrible, the names of American rulers will begin to take on a German tone, and it will appear as though President Bush is growing a dark toothbrush mustache.
I have been looking, but have still been unable to find a mainstream media mention of the resolution. Please let me know if you have better luck.
It is almost indisputable: there is a civil war going on for control of the minds of Americans. It pits the United States propagandists against the Oklahomans, defenders of a free society. Will Americans be allowed to think for themselves, or will they continue to irrationally observe and repeat whatever comes out of the noisy, flashing boxes in their living rooms?
Pinging a few I noticed on the other threads.
NH did a similar resolution last week. Change is a coming.
TIA
Thinking of moving to OK. This might seal the deal.
This guy takes the dinomedia to task for their blackout of Oklahoma’s Sovereighty Resolution. Do ya think the dinomedia is afraid the unwashed might start getting strange ideas about their sovereign citizenship???
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Good on you! I've put a couple of different keywords on the threads I've run across that might be a good place to start.
Check 10thamendment and statesrights.
I've got kinfolks in Oklahoma that I visit occasionally and I'll be honest with you, it's almost as good as Texas. ;^)
They are actually one of about 20 states considering a Sovereighty Resolution. I would "Pledge my Life, my Fortune and my Sacred Honor(such as it is) to see this effort snowball into anything resembling the original intent of our Constitution.
And I'd be proud to help provide for you and yours....if it ever came to that.....
Best FRegards,
These events have not risen to a level or degree of crisis to “sell papers”. So the brain dead media snoozes on. The few that get it think the public won’t get it, so why bother covering it? And most of the brain dead media, at this point think it is nothing more than an “affirmation” so, to them, what’s the big deal?
this will be a sunday talk show issue soon enough.
Arizona is going down this same road. I can visualize a standoff between our states and Obama administration, their plans do not include us taking back our rights. I was thinking last night he could end up more similar to Lincoln than he expected if our more independent states start to assert ourselves.
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Best news I’ve heard all day. I want to see more of this type of thing. I hope these resolutions pass, and I hope the states don’t wilt in the face of Federal pressure.
Lastly, the explanation for why the government continues to put forward policy that most people do not like is a pretty weak one, it’s almost in tinfoil hat territory.
The real reason is actually the subject of a school of thought in economics called Public Choice Theory. You may have heard of it, as the architects of the theory won the Nobel Prize for economics. I suggest everybody here do some reading on it. In fact, there is a chapter in New Ideas From Dead Economists (one of the books on my reading list, see profile) that covers it very well, in layman’s terms.
To sum it up REALLY quickly, the gist of the idea is that politicians, government bureaucrats and workers, far from being seen as motivated by doing what’s good or as mere agents for the (ostensibly good) policy that economists come up with, are actually as driven by self-interest as the next person, just in a different setting than the business world or the job market or whatever.
See “regulatory capture” for a good example.
Let’s keep this an ongoing topic for examination and discussion.
Assuming this issue intensifies and spreads, the media and courts may finally get exposed to the average U.S. citizen. I would love to see advocacy groups like NRA, ACLJ, or even the Constitution Party begin a media and mailing blitz to simply distribute copies of the Constitution in schools and elsewhere.
Most Americans support fascism. They do so because of ignorance of the Constitution.
Heh. I'll say this much, Oklahoma got out ahead of Texas on the sovereignty matter. I am proud to be your neighbor. And likewise if ever it hits the fan. I think Oklahoma and Texas would probably stand shoulder to shoulder if it ever became necessary.
I think you give our dinomedia too much credit. There aren't many, around here anyway, that would ever accuse the MSM of "thinking". I believe they have chosen a path to work at cross purposes against the health of the Republic. They are a bunch of left wingnuts that for the most part haven't a clue, IMHO.
this will be a sunday talk show issue soon enough.
NOT soon enough. As for me, I believe we should still be hearing the echos from the screams out of state capitals from the first usurpation -- The Civil War, or earlier???
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