State Sovereignty: Follow-up on my Senator Brogdon Interview.

LA gun rights examiner ^ | 13 May, 2009 | John Longenecker

[marktwain]

I’ve been getting positive feedback from my audio interview with Oklahoma State Senator Randy Brodgon. You can hear that on mp3 by clicking through here.

With the increasing footprint or some would say Grip of federal governance, there has come an increase in the assumption of powers not granted. Attending these powers not granted is a attitude of self-protection against the will and authority of the electorate to object. Disparaging remarks of those as extremist is fooling fewer and fewer constituents who are now expressing interest in a very intriguing movement, state secession in order to get out from under bigger government.

There are two types of servants in 2009. There are the public servants who believe in our Constitution and who never forget that they are servants, and there are those who believe they are masters with tremendous latitude in the name of public service.

Webster said, "There are men of all ages who want to be masters. They promise to be good masters, but they want to be masters."

We are in that age now, or I should say, again. Perhaps the best word would be still. It is a matter of world view and of the attitude reflecting it which they bring to office from Day One. One view with which servants imbue their service is belligerent and vexes constitutional rights, while the other public servant reminds constituents of their authority over officials, encourages it, teaches it, and lives by it. It is these senators and governors who announce citizen liberty and who work for invoke it, and work to protect it.

The idea of secession to get out from under big government is provided for in the tenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Powers currently meeting and vexing this movement is nowhere within the law. This is why and because we are the masters and the officials are only servants. The concept of bigger government is purely the realm of the citizen to say, not officials to say. We will decide whether government is too big. As we object by the millions in such programs as tea parties, talkradio, discussion of secession or other exercise of our sovereign authority, we are met with vicious abuses such as characterizing patriotism as extremist, mobilizing law enforcement to do the dirty work of a private army and other abuses some Police and Military have said they refuse to do.

The combination of Oath Keepers – police and military who refuse to carry out unconstitutional orders against the public interest – state secession, and affirming gun rights all work together as a safeguard of the nation.

Oklahoma, Montana and Texas are setting the example that it can be done. There is also Rhode Island, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Colorado, Louisiana, Iowa and Wyoming. Internet Search term State Secession.

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.

There’s a lot of powers we never gave the Federal Government. And it is what more than 100 million adults are now feeling. 90 million gun owners and tens of millions of non-gun owners since around 2008.

I think it’s utterly fabulous that there are police and military who will not follow orders against the interests of the United States. I think it’s great that our founders foresaw all of this and provided for us so. And I think it’s great that our authority is recognized as superior to that of the federal government by public servants who remember their oath is not to the Government or to Party, but to us.

Does that mean we’re also out from under international treaties?

Wow. I think it’s fabulous that freedom can protect itself.

Liberty.

[marktwain]

This is on banglist because of the strong 2nd Amendment connection to the 10th Amendment in the state resolutions.

[dynachrome]

“There are two types of servants in 2009. There are the public servants who believe in our Constitution and who never forget that they are servants, and there are those who believe they are masters with tremendous latitude in the name of public service”

And fewer of the first type, anymore.

[BobbyT]

"It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."

From Ayn Rand's "The Soul of a Collectivist". An increasingly accurate description of the Anointed Ones grabbing every ounce of power they can in Washington...

[dynachrome]

And o-bozo is telling us we “must sacrifice” for the greater good.

[An Old Man]

Thanks for posting, it was a good read!