Posted on 08/31/2015 11:41:57 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
If they wasted 5 minutes on this, it was too long.
As you know, Obama is the greatest President in the history of the United States. He secured our borders, fixed healthcare, healed race relations, decimated Al Qaeda, and reduced ISIS to its current “J.V. Team” level of effectiveness. Oh, and he also lowered the sea levels. We can’t forget that.
To be sure, those are impressive feats. However, his greatest achievement may be that he did it all so quickly. By solving all of America’s problems in rapid succession, he’s given himself a lot of free time. Now, he can focus on lesser issues, like renaming racist Republican mountains.
Putz.
Take that, Boehner
Well done.
I would like to think that someday there will be a trial for treason.
That is one jury I want to be on.
Dennis Prager just noted that only about 150 people in the world speak the Denali language, so this is a real coup for our "fearful leader".
Thanks Ohio! You rank up there with Nevada and Iowa for selling out America.
What’s missing in all these narratives is the fact that McKinley was one our few asassinated presidents.
Alaska can stop Obama is his tracks.
First of all, “national parks” are an unconstitutional federal land-grab from the states, regardless of how benign or benevolent such act may seem at the time. The only valid federal ownership of state land is described in Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the U.S. Constitution which says:
“[Congress shall have Power…] to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—”
National parks were not purchased upon consent by state legislatures for the use of “Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings”, so national parks are unconstitutional federal acts. The states can make state parks according to the consent of the people and legislature of that state.
Secondly, because national parks constitute unconstitutional federal commandeering of state land, the state may reject and nullify such an act. Unconstitutional federal acts are by definition acts of tyranny - it’s just that some acts of federal tyranny begin with a happy face. Sates have the right and the duty to stand against such acts.
Here, Alaska can stop Obama in his tracks. First, Alaska can declare, on sound constitutional principle, that Denali was not purchased upon consent by the Alaskan state legislature for the use of “Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings” and can therefore, take back this land. If Alaska actually paid money to the feds for this land originally (I doubt it) then Alaska can pay back the equivalent or reasonable amount now. Most likely, the feds didn’t pay for Denali in which case Alaska can simply assume control of the land upon notification to the feds (NOT permission from the feds).
Laying that groundwork would make the next step of throwing Obama’s act of renaming Mt. McKinley back in his face an easy one.
Woulda never happened if Mckinley was a democrat...
Except for the fact that Alaskans have been trying to get the name changed to Denali for a long time. Denali is the name given to the mountain by the first people to live here.
In fact, the state changed the name to Denali in 1980, but the federal government hasn’t followed up on that, mostly because politicians from Ohio have always blocked any legislation to change it.
I’ve lived in Alaska since 1997 and have never encountered anyone here on either side of the political spectrum who wanted McKinley to stay the name.
Nothing new. It used to be called “Denali” before it was Mt. McKinley. “Denali” means roughly, “The Great One.”
Having solved all other problems...
Did ISIS surrender today?
Did blacks stop killing whites today?
Did illegal aliens stop crossing our borders today?
...
Right.
But it is ALASKA, NOT Obama and the feds, who should both own and name this land whatever they want.
Is that why the Secret Service code word for Sarah Palin was “ Denali”?
And Alaska did that, in 1980.
There have been efforts for more than 40 years in Alaska to get the name changed Federally.
Who owns Denali National Park?
Obama’s act brings up a BIGGER picture that needs changing.
Don’t forget my state of TN where a bunch of RINO’s control everything.
I don’t have a problem with National Parks. Absolutely not something that concerns me at all.
Nope. No concern at all. That’s because national parks are federal tyranny with a smiley face on. Except for those whose property and cattle is on or adjoins that land. We’ve seen how the feds treat those they THINK go onto their unconstitutionally-held land in the past. They’re thugs. You don’t care because apparently you’re not one affected by the land-grab.
But it is YOUR STATE’S land they have commandeered and can do whatever they want to on it. Until Obama, you mainly saw benevolent federal leadership. But Obama is the face of the future because sooner or later, tyranny turns ugly.
If you don’t stand up for your freedom and the Constitution that protects it now, it may too late when you get around to it.
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