Posted on 01/24/2011 11:08:57 AM PST by RepublicnotaDemocracy
What if Washington made a law and nobody paid attention? Or even more significantly, what if states specifically repudiated it and threatened to prosecute those enforcing it?
The questions no longer are rhetorical but a real option as eight states consider a blanket nullification of the Obamacare nationalization of health-care decision-making advances in their legislatures.
"Thomas Jefferson advised, 'Whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers ... a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy,'" states the Tenth Amendment Center, which advocates a return to the constitutionally delegated powers for the federal government.
"When states pass laws to reject and nullify unconstitutional federal 'laws,' regulations and mandates – it's not rebellion ... it's duty," the organization states.
States already have been moving forward aggressively on several issues, with eight approving firearms freedom acts that reject some federal gun laws, 15 actively defying Washington on cannabis laws and seven passing acts that reject health-care mandates.
Now, however, they are moving a step beyond, according to center founder Michael Boldin.
He told WND today that seven states have introduced acts to nullify the federal health-care reform – including New Hampshire, Maine, Montana, Oregon, Nebraska, Texas and Wyoming. A similar proposal is expected to be filed in Idaho within a matter of days.
It's another, and very important, field on which states can battle federal demands of their citizens, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
This is already Breaking News here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2662195/posts
Is the WND take on it also Breaking News?
let's include the acts by the EPA to enforce CO2 limits on power companies....
Refusing to have state offices and courts participate in the implementation of Obamacare is one thing. Punishing private companies that do the paperwork, pay the taxes, and buy the insurance is another. Corporations are not going to defy the federal government unless they expect the consequences to be less for defiance than for compliance. Until the states are willing to pit one set of bureaucrats, LEO’s, and courts against another these “nullifications” are meaningless.
If large cities and states can refuse to enforce Federal Immigration laws - totally refuse to turn over suspected illegal aliens, then a state can refuse to abide by or enforce any Federal law.
Refudiate Obamacare!
Correct...when the feds swoop in to arrest those abiding by state laws but refusing to obide by illegal federal laws, unless the state police are there on the spot to not only free the illegally arrested citizen, but to arrest the officers from the feds engaged in the illegal arrest and detention of said citizen, nothing will happen, nothing will change...vote for me for governor, and this will happen, I do solemnly swear
They are getting away with that only because the Federal government is also refusing to enforce the immigration laws. It'll be different with the communist holy grail of socialized medicine.
They're pushing their luck. People are fed up with this crap.
Jefferson's Republic ended with the 14th Amendment. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out.
The states would have a greater ability to insist on their Constitutional rights, if they managed their own affairs more responsibly. In both Canada and the US (both federal sytems with state/provincial and federal levels of government) the federal governments have been able to usurp power by bribing states/provinces into ceding control over matters of state/provincial jurisdiction. The feds know that many state governments will sell these Constitutional rights in exchange for federal grants. All we have to do is remember how the states clamoured for Obama’s bailout money.
Couldn’t agree more
This has happened several times before. All the way from the Whiskey Rebellion to the school board desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. In each and every case the feds have sent in the troops. When Washington and Eisenhower did it the states backed down without a shot being fired. When Lincoln did it the states fought and close the three quarters of a million people died and half the country was lain waste.
We are playing a dangerous game of poker with nullification. Everyone needs to know what the stakes are and know what they are going to do if Obama goes all in. And the best way to get a lot of people dead is to let the other guy think even for a second that we are bluffing on a pair of deuces.
England thought the Colonies were bluffing too. They sent in troops. Didn’t work out so good for the tyrants in that instance.
You’re correct of course. Everyone had better understand EXACTLY what’s at stake. But if we live in a REPUBLIC, then let’s be a Republic — and if we live in a DICTATORSHIP, let’s KNOW IT NOW.
Nullification is a practice whose time has come again. It must, if the Republic is to be saved. If there is no Republic, then let us accept our fate as serfs in a new world order, or begin a fight to the death for the Liberty we’ve lost. Better to know, than not to know....And I think we hold a bit more than a paid of deuces — don’t you?
This has happened several times before. All the way from the Whiskey Rebellion to the school board desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. In each and every case the feds have sent in the troops. When Washington and Eisenhower did it the states backed down without a shot being fired. When Lincoln did it the states fought and close the three quarters of a million people died and half the country was lain waste.
We are playing a dangerous game of poker with nullification. Everyone needs to know what the stakes are and know what they are going to do if Obama goes all in. And the best way to get a lot of people dead is to let the other guy think even for a second that we are bluffing on a pair of deuces.
England thought the Colonies were bluffing too. They sent in troops. Didn’t work out so good for the tyrants in that instance.
You’re correct of course. Everyone had better understand EXACTLY what’s at stake. But if we live in a REPUBLIC, then let’s be a Republic — and if we live in a DICTATORSHIP, let’s KNOW IT NOW.
Nullification is a practice whose time has come again. It must, if the Republic is to be saved. If there is no Republic, then let us accept our fate as serfs in a new world order, or begin a fight to the death for the Liberty we’ve lost. Better to know, than not to know....And I think we hold a bit more than a paid of deuces — don’t you?
If I remember correctly, there was a short-lived rebellion in the US at the end of the 18th century by libertarians who tried to establish a “Land of the Free” on a small piece of the country. However, all traces of this reference have been scrubbed by the search engines.
As Walter Williams said,
we won the first war of independence,
and lost the second one.
Now, if the left doesn’t allow a peaceful separation,
we’ll have to have a tie breaker.
Yep, when it’s a law that the feds don’t WANT to enforce, and some locality refuses to enforce it,
it doesn’t cause any problems.
Like restrictions on partial birth abortion, for example...
But, as you said, if it’s a policy they insist on enforcing, like socialism or gun control, they’ll go all in.
Where will they send the troops? To DOCTORS offices. Hospitals.
WHERE?
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