Oklahoma Rebellion

Townhall.com ^ | 16 July, 2008 | Walter E. Williams

[marktwain]

Walter Williams is a national treasure. I wish he could be on the Supreme Court.

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie Ping - 10th ammendment

[AU72]

Every dollar the Federal Government give to States comes with strings attached.

[FReepaholic]

While we're at it, let's repeal the 17th Amendment also.

[marktwain]

“Every dollar the Federal Government give to States comes with strings attached.”

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Absolutely. If we wish to shrink government, we should abolish federal “revenue sharing” and the federal gas tax. Let the States collect the gas tax for the purpose of maintaining the interstates. The federal government can insure that the roads are being maintained, but no more!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I like it.

[Truth is a Weapon]

Ping for my home state. I like what he is doing here. But Charles Key is a maverick, to say the least. Some would call him kooky. But he knows no fear.

[Dick Bachert]

THIS JUST IN:

3 DIVISIONS OF MEXICAN TROOPS AND APPROXIMATELY 1,000 CHINESE AND RUSSIAN UN PEACEKEEPERS HAVE BEEN DISPATCHED TO THE OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITOL TO PUT DOWN A REBELLION BY SOME SILLY FOLKS WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVE WE STILL HAVE A CONSTITUTION.

FILM AT 11!

(Far-fetched? Give it a few more years.)

Here’s a follow-up news bulletin I’d LOVE to see on this topic:

After two days of heavy fighting, the heavily armed Oklahoma insurgents decimated the UN force sent in to quell the rebellion and the dozen or so surviving Mexican troops were last seen heading south wearing stolen civilian clothing in hijacked lawn care trucks.

Washington considering the use of tactical nukes on Oklahoma City and Tulsa, the centers of the uprising.

[SWEETSUNNYSOUTH]

That post gives me hope for the future of this country. Let’s hope for Oklahoma’s Senate to approve it so it can move into the court system.

[ought-six]

“Walter Williams is a national treasure. I wish he could be on the Supreme Court.”

Walter Williams is indeed a national treasure. He is indispensable to the march for the restoration of freedom in the United States.

[kenth]

Agree. That would go a long way to curing one of the biggest ills today. Our House of Lords would finally have someone to answer to, their respective states.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Thanks for the ping SB.

[Travis McGee]

When will President Abraham Obama roll the tanks to put down the rebellion?

[BnBlFlag]

Thanks for the Ping. Maybe this will encourage other Legislatures to grow a pair and re-assert their Soveriegnty as well.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Confederate President Jefferson Davis no more wanted to take over Washington, D.C., than George Washington wanted to take over London. Both wars are more properly described as wars of independence.

Whose independence and Independence from what? There was no Constitutional rights being denied to any southern citizen. The secession was merely a power grab by a power mad gang who wanted to be able to take their human property anyplace they wished over the objections of the rest of the nation and in opposition to the old precedent of the Northwest Ordinance.

I'm all for our federal system and structure of limited and divided sovereignty, but the greedy would-be builders of a slave empire are not who I would hold up as the champions of limited government nor would I lay the guilt for today's overgrown government on the neck of the great Republican hero Lincoln.

[kjenerette]

The original explicit intent of the US Constitution was to create a Government where the States and the People (respectively) maintained Sovereignty over those areas not enumerated by the US Constitution to the Federal Government. The 10th Amendment 'Carved' that into stone. But, the 16th Amendment eroded the original intent even further when the various states lost their direct influence over their own Senators.

"...distinct and separate...' per Federalist Papers #51. If you read the Constitution as a strict constructionist, as I do, the weight is tipped to the Congress, explicitly and further tipped to the States and the People by the Bill of Rights implicit to all other 'things' imaginable that the States or the People invented over time as something(s) to be legislated.

The Federal Government has grown far to large and has exceeding it's 'Carrying capacity' to govern. The the 16th Amendment needs to be repealed.

The 'Separate but equal' story is a very old 'Urban Legend' that just refuses to go away just like the 'wall of separation between church and state.'

Neither one is in the US Constitution.

"...In a single republic, all the power surrendered by the people is submitted to the administration of a single government; and the usurpations are guarded against by a division of the government into distinct and separate departments. In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself..."

PUBLIUS Federalist 51 - http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm

Katherine Jenerette

www.jenerette.com

[groanup]

Every dollar the Federal Government give to States comes with strings attached.

What's even worse: every one of those dollars came from the states to begin with.

It's like we send half of our money to Washington only to get (some of) it back with a laundry list of rules about what we can do with it.

[kjenerette]

The the 16th Amendment needs to be repealed.

And of course the 17th Amendment, in that order.

[Prokopton]

Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the 2nd session of the 51st Oklahoma Legislature: that the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States.

This is just as bad as the Feds takeover. Somehow they forgot about the part of the Tenth Amendment were it states "OR TO THE PEOPLE"

[Non-Sequitur]

Walter Williams is a national treasure. I wish he could be on the Supreme Court.

Kind of helps to be qualified. Having a law degree, for example.