Paul C. Roberts – From One Assault on the Constitution to Another !

• Paul Craig Roberts a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans lost the protection of law, has just been released by Random House.
   
• He writes :
   
  The US Constitution has few friends on the right or the left.
  During the first eight years of the 21st century, the Republicans mercilessly assaulted civil liberties. The brownshirt Bush regime ignored the protections provided by habeas corpus. They spied on American citizens without warrants. They violated the First Amendment. They elevated decisions of the president above US statutory law and international law. They claimed the power to withhold information from the people’s representatives in Congress, and they asserted, and behaved as if, they were unaccountable to the people, Congress, and the federal courts. The executive branch claimed the power to ignore congressional subpoenas. Republicans regarded Bush as a Stuart king unaccountable to law. 
   
  The Bush brownshirt regime revealed itself as lawless, the worst criminal organization in American history. Now we have the Democrats, and the assault on civil liberty continues. President Obama doesn’t want to hold Bush accountable for his crimes and violations of the Constitution, because Obama wants to retain the powers that Bush asserted. Even the practice of kidnapping people and transporting them to foreign countries to be tortured has been retained by President Obama. 
   
  The civil liberties that Bush stole from us are now in Obama’s pocket. Will it turn out that we enjoyed more liberty under Bush than we will under Obama? At least the Republicans left us the Second Amendment. The Obama Democrats are not going to return our other purloined civil liberties, and they are already attacking the Second Amendment. 
   
  Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D, IL) has introduced the Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009. As the British and Australians learned, once firearms are registered, the government knows where they are. The government’s next step is to confiscate the firearms. 
   
  Moreover, the Act would permit the government to negate Second Amendment rights by refusing to issue a license. Any parents who bequeathed family antique or historic firearms to heirs would be in violation of the act, as it bans any transfer of a firearm other than via a licensed dealer. 
    
  William Blackstone, the revered 18th century defender of liberty whose Commentaries on the Laws of England was a bestseller in colonial America, wrote that “the last auxiliary right” of free men is “having arms for their defense.” Blackstone, England’s greatest jurist, said that the right to bear arms enables the “natural right of resistance and self-preservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.” 
     
  The Bush regime’s reversion to medieval methods of incarceration and torture are an indication that we now live in a time “when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.” Why do the Democrats desire Americans to be helpless in the face of oppression by the armed state? How can it be that Democrats want Americans to be free from the threat of being thrown into dungeons and locked away without a court ever hearing evidence, but are prepared to deny Americans the ability to resist such horrendous treatment should it come their way? 
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  Americans have exercised Second Amendment rights for 234 years. Regardless of the meaning of the Second Amendment, the right of adverse possession makes gun rights final. To assault such a well-grounded right is an act of tyranny. 
      
• I am no fan of gun ownership. I have been to many countries where guns are totally ban and the police is very effective in maintaining law and order. In these countries people trust their government to do a great job in maintaining law and order and civility. Japan, Singapore and Korea comes to mind.
   
• But I cannot say I have confidence in the US government at all! The fact of the matter is: the Feds have been behaving like the head of an evil empire hell bent on eating its own children. Where in the Constitution does it say Torture is acceptable? How about Detention without trial? Operation Iraqi Liberation is all about OIL. The Feds send young American soldiers to die in a needless war for corporate OIL interest! If you do not see fascism/corporatism coming, you must be living on another planet.
   
• Americans are waking up. States are declaring sovereignty! The latest count is 28 States Claiming / Planning Sovereignty :
   
  All of these ‘movements’ (except for Hawaii) are explicit restatements of what has always been in place, but not necessarily enforced, as detailed by the 10th Amendment.  Hawaii is actually aiming for total sovereignty as it is claimed that Hawaii was never really a state of the U.S.A..
   
  However, I believe the intent of these bills is to let the federal government know that the states’ sovereignty will not be overwritten… say in case certain gun ban laws get passed, FOCA-type laws, or other “War Time / Martial Law” type plans come into play.  Check them out:  link .
   
• The LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, First Regular Session 2009 (emphasis mine) :
   
  WHEREAS, the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution does not simply provide for a collective right or a right for the states to establish militias; rather it provides for the right of the people to keep and bear arms; and
   
  WHEREAS, the primary purpose of the right to keep and bear arms is to protect one’s self, family and possessions from either the private lawlessness of other persons or the tyranny of government; and ….
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  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session of the Sixtieth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and the Senate concurring therein, that members of the United States Congress cease and desist attempting to enact federal legislation impinging on the individual right of every American to keep and bear arms in any manner. Specifically, that members of Congress oppose the passage of the Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009, and any similar legislation.
   
• See also :
   
  Obama To Ban Gun Ownership? Attack on 2nd Amendment !
  21 States Declare Sovereignty – Rise of Secessionist Movement !
  Indiana Legislators Urge Feds to Cease and Desist !
  Battle Brewing Between US States & Federal Government!

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Obama To Ban Gun Ownership? Attack on 2nd Amendment !

• Obama administration seems to be attacking the 2nd Amendment right of Americans to bear arms !
   
• I am not a fan of guns. But the federal government has increasingly attacked the constitutional rights of Americans, spying on citizens illegally, lying to get Americans to go to war…. Is the Feds planning for martial law? It will be easier to control citizens and oppress them if they don’t have guns! Do they plan to institute the military draft? When all your sons are serving in the military, who is going to defend their families? I do not trust the US government. They are becoming more and more fascist! Am I paranoid? Maybe?! But see also :
   
  21 States Declare Sovereignty – Rise of Secessionist Movement !
  Indiana Legislators Urge Feds to Cease and Desist !
  Battle Brewing Between US States & Federal Government!

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Battle Brewing Between US States & Federal Government!

• 25 states have introduced bills declaring sovereignty from the federal government and the number is increasing by the week! The Feds have been ‘screwing’ Americans big time. The Feds seem intent on declaring martial law, instituting military draft, confiscating all guns and preventing the sale of ammunition…. What are they up to? It cannot be good for America.
   
• Wakey! Wakey! Lawmaker Warns Of “Forced Servitude” Under Obama :
   
  New Hampshire state representative Dan Itse, who is one of many lawmakers leading the charge to assert state sovereignty against federal encroachment, has warned that the Obama administration seeks to institute “involuntary servitude”.
   
  Appearing on Fox News to discuss the states’ rights movement, Itse told hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, “This is about drawing a line in the sand and saying we’ve tolerated usurpations for so long but we’re not going to tolerate you violating the constitution, we’re going to hold you accountable.”
   
  Asked if his warning about involuntary servitude under Obama meant young people being forced to attend community service, Itse responded, “Exactly, I mean, if you are required to do a job against your will with a pay scale not set by you or not agreed to by you, that’s involuntary servitude.”
   
  Despite denials that Obama plans to institute a mandatory program of national service, his original change.gov website stated that Americans would be “required” to complete “50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year”. The text was only later changed to state that Americans would be “encouraged” to undertake such programs.
   
  In addition, Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, publicly stated his intention to help create “universal civil defense training” in 2006. Such fears were also stoked when Obama himself said that a “national civilian security force,” that is “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the U.S. military was required.
   
  Itse cited the No Child Left Behind program as an example of the federal government encroaching on states’ rights. “They dangle a dollar in front of us and we chase it like the donkey with a carrot on a stick but ultimately they are infringing upon our domestic policies in the states, manipulating our domestic policies and we need to stand up and say that’s not your job, that’s our job,” said Itse, adding that if enough states stood up to Washington then they would have to pay attention.
   
  In response to increasing federal encroachment, a growing number of states have passed and proposed resolutions to assert the Tenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights of the Constitution.
   
  Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, California, and Georgia have all introduced bills and resolutions declaring sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment. Colorado, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Alaska, Kansas, Alabama, Nevada, Maine, and Illinois are considering such measures.
   
  “This is about enforcing the constitution which states to the government, you’re not the boss of us, we’re the boss of you,” concluded the lawmaker.
   
• Why is the federal government redeploying troops back to America? As many as 20,000 soldiers are now redeployed in America from overseas. The military is actively training soldiers to handle civilian unrest, riots…. why ? Remember the Posse Comitatus Act ?
   
  The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction, with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain “law and order” on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) in the former Confederate states.
   
  The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act.
   
• What is about to happen to America is not going to be pretty. If you think the Feds is going to bail you out and save you, you are in for a rude shock! See also :
   
  21 States Declare Sovereignty – Rise of Secessionist Movement !
  Indiana Legislators Urge Feds to Cease and Desist !

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Indiana Legislators Urge Feds to Cease and Desist !

• There are more and more states declaring sovereignty. The federal government has become increasingly dictatorial and have passed many laws that are unconstitutional. The Feds seem to want to declare martial law and take over the country by force, totally removing the right of the states to govern.
   
• Well, more states are saying enough is enough, no more ! Legislators in Indiana have introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 0037 :
   
  “A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the honorable Barack Obama, President of the United States, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, and the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives of each State’s legislature of the United States of America to cease and desist, effective immediately, any and all mandates that are beyond the scope of their constitutionally delegated power.”
   
  Read the Full Text:
   
  Whereas , The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States specifically provides that, “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 ”;
   
  Whereas , The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being those powers specifically granted to it by the Constitution of the United States and no more;
   
  Whereas , Federalism is the constitutional division of powers between the national and state governments and is widely regarded as one of America ’s most valuable contributions to political science;
   
  Whereas , James Madison, “the father of the Constitution, ” said, “The powers delegated to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, [such] as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people ”;
   
  Whereas , Thomas Jefferson emphasized that the states are not “subordinate ” to the national government, but rather the two are “coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole. The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government ”;
   
  Whereas , Alexander Hamilton expressed his hope that “the people will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the general and the state governments. ” He believed that “this balance between the national and state governments forms a double security to the people. If one [government] encroaches on their rights, they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by [the] certain rivalship which will ever subsist between them ”;
   
  Whereas , The scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be limited in its powers relative to those of the various states;
   
  Whereas , Today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government;
   
  Whereas , Many federal mandates are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States;
   
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• States are asserting their 9th and 10th Amendment rights as provided for in the Constitution. See also :
   
  21 States Declare Sovereignty – Rise of Secessionist Movement !

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