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To: marsh2
Your reiteration of statist platitudes doesn't really address the issue - does it? You know it and I know it, so your remarks are nothing more than rusty boilerplate. As such, they deserve nothing more than a perfunctory reading. And certainly aren't worthy of spending any time preparing a considered response.

You either don't "get it" or you're in the tank with the federales who have contemptuously violated and repeatedly defaulted on their part of the compact. They have broken out of their Constitutional chains and you don't seem at all concerned about it. Slap 'em with a lawsuit? Har! The federales need to be taken to the woodshed or at the very least, read the riot act and you want to take 'em to court. That's rich.

BTW and FWIW, I choose option #2. You will not be a part of the solution because you are part of the problem.

56 posted on 07/06/2009 10:16:04 AM PDT by ForGod'sSake (You have two choices and two choices only: SUBMIT or RESIST. Have I missed anything?)
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To: ForGod'sSake
Unfortunately, it is likely that all of your state's rights legislation will be shot down in court because of the reasons I have mentioned. Ignore them at your peril as this insight is based upon a long history of SCOTUS opinions interpreting the Constitution.

Believe me, I wish it were otherwise. I have spent the better part of the past 20 years fighting federal agencies on natural resource issues. The Sagebrush Rebellion, the Property Rights movement, the timber wars - we have tried everything we could think of.

The State resolution is a policy statement and has no legal standing. Our County has passed dozens of them and all they do is provide a small amount of political pressure. They can be totally ignored by the feds.

The State's have accepted the bribe to allow the feds to expand their power beyond Constitutional authority. You see a few Governors, like Palin, “getting it” with the Stimulus scheme and refusing money with strings. But as long as the State legislatures grab for the goodies, the American public and Constitutional limits get sold down the river.

I comment on your posts because you would sell the organic sovereignty of the People, which is what the American experiment in government was all about, for State sovereignty. I will not exchange being the “subject” of one sovereign for being the “subject” of another.

The People need to get off their duffs and vote out corruption and vote for candidates that will respect the Constitution. They need to organize and voice their beliefs, values and issues in an orderly and clear fashion. They need to stand up for that platform with shear numbers and apply political pressure to be heard and given due consideration.

57 posted on 07/06/2009 12:47:23 PM PDT by marsh2
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