[girlangler]

A huge percentage of the serious deer hunters in Tennessee go to Illinois to hunt the legendary trophy deer there.

[AngryJawa]

Sanity in Illinois.

Who knew!?!

[raftguide]

Wow! There are other Americans that share my beliefs. Thanks for the post!!

[patton]

Reminds me of America, somehow. ;)

[Wallace T.]

Like much of central and southern Illinois, Pike County was heavily settled by people who were originally from Kentucky and Virginia. While Abraham Lincoln's two secretaries John Hay and John G. Nicolay were from Pike County, there was considerable Copperhead sentiment during the Civil War. The county had something of its own civil war between Unionists and Southern sympathizers, not unlike what occurred in nearly Missouri. (Pike County, IL, borders the Mississippi River, adjacent to Pike County, MO, in "Mark Twain" country.)

It appears to be a bastion of real Americanism today, in contrast to the liberal hellhole on Lake Michigan.

[E Rocc]

Pike County's resolution may, indeed, be unprecedented in modern history. Our research (albeit brief at this point) has yet to produce another instance of a county government having voted to refuse to enforce proposed state statutes it viewed to be in conflict with federal law.

Weren't there some northern governments that banned enforcement of the various fugitive slave laws within their juristictions?

-Eric

[Wonder Warthog]

Good on these folks. Hopefully more counties (and parishes in Lousiana) will follow suit.

[P8riot]

Oh, that many more would follow this example.

[Noumenon]

"The issue here is not politics, the issue is freedom."

And there you have it. This is a line-in-the-sand, fight-to-the-death issue. Those who don't understand this are bereft of any sense of history and have their heads in a sack.

There's your bottom line.

[Hazcat]

"This proposed legislation would greatly harm the citizens of this county, and we believe the members of our County Board are bound by the oaths of office to speak for us on this issue. "The issue here is not politics, the issue is freedom. Freedom began in this nation more than 200 years ago, when small groups of people like us, in towns even smaller than ours, gathered together to tell the King who tried to rule them from a huge city an ocean away, 'Enough is enough!' Freedom will only survive today if we have the courage to do the same." In closing, he offered: "In this room tonight we are not conservatives; we are not liberals. In this room tonight we are not Democrats; we are not Republicans. In this room tonight we are Americans."

Very powerful words. Makes your chest swell!

[LTCJ]

Throw off the yoke BUMP.

This news and allied efforts need to spread across the country like wildfire. When a state legislature takes similar steps, we'll know the tree of liberty still blooms.

[Ancesthntr]

Congratulations to the residents of that county for having some gumption, and for forcing their elected public **servants** to uphold their oaths of office and obey the law of the land.

Having originally come from the dark and fascist Peoples Republic of New Jersey (before escaping to Texas, F.A.), I simply can’t imagine this happening there. The Gestapo, errrr, State Police would be there arresting everyone for conspiracy to have a free thought, corrupting the placid nature of the sheeple, and multiple counts of contempt for authority.

[TigersEye]

Should Pike County's resolution catch on across Illinois and correspondingly across America, this single action taken by a small county government may, indeed, ignite a chain of similar actions across the country ...

May it be so.

[cowtowney]

I heard this on XM 166 today. The show is www.guntalk.com

Very interesting folks. Good on them.