The States Must Rise Again: The Only Way to Combat Obama’s Socialist Agenda

By Selwyn Duke

With the passage of ObamaCare coming on the heels of government takeover of industries and taxpayer-funded bailouts of the irresponsible, many are wondering how we can turn the socialist tide.  They see Uncle Sam expanding, their rights and economic prospects shrinking and their voices ignored.  For these people, November cannot come soon enough.

But November is not the ultimate solution. In the political universe, seven months is an eternity, and we cannot know precisely how public sentiment will evolve.  Besides, the chances of Republicans retaking both Houses are slim and, even if they do, there’s no guarantee they’ll rise to the occasion.  Some will be Scott Brown types — not the sort to give us tradition we can believe in.

A better solution lies on the local and state levels.  Fifteen states are currently suing the federal government over ObamaCare, and then there is the Tenth Amendment Movement, involving at least 35 states that are asserting their sovereignty over powers granted them by that amendment.  These are good starts, but . . . .

Question: What if the Supreme Court, in obvious violation of the Constitution, upholds ObamaCare?  Do we simply obey unflinchingly and wait for the next federal usurpation?

Certainly, there is every reason to believe the Black Robes will thus rule, as enabling the Leviathan’s tyranny has become their practice.  Of course, many legal “scholars” will provide oh-so intellectual justifications for the incessant expansion of federal power as they lawyer away our rights.  But let’s look at what James Madison, considered the father of the Constitution, wrote in The Federalist, No. 45:

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution 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, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce . . . .

When was the last time we had a government reflecting these limits?  The truth is that Uncle Sam violates the Constitution ever more brazenly with the passage of time, adding to its power and subtracting from our rights.  And it won’t stop unless someone stops it. 

And it is time we stopped it.  The states should send a message: Black Robes, if you won’t do your job, we will do it for you.  No state resident shall be compelled to buy health insurance, and we will not cooperate in the enforcement of such a mandate.  Furthermore, no federal agents may enter our territories for the purposes of such enforcement.  And if they do, they will be arrested.

On top of this immediate concern, states should resolve that the same will apply to all other unconstitutional mandates — regardless of how established and longstanding they may be.

Period.

Now, many people — good people — will object to this prescription.  “How can you defy the courts?” they will ask.  “We must respect the rule of law.”  But what is the law?  The Constitution is the supreme law of the land.  And when a government violates it, it loses its legitimacy, right to exist and legal authority. 

Will we just accept an oligarchic judiciary and abide by its dictates no matter how onerous?  Will we accept social engineers-cum-lawyers’ “interpretations” of plain language regardless of how contrary to the text they may be?  What will we believe, them or our own eyes?  If the former, we are not governed by the rule of law.  We are governed by the rule of lawyers.  

And let us understand fully the moral and legal validity of my counsel.  The Constitution is the contract the American people have with one another, and enumerated in it are the rights and responsibilities of all those party to it.  But it has one serious flaw.

It only works if you actually abide by it.

Now, what if one of the parties, being more powerful, continually violates the contract for the purposes of advantaging itself?  Do you seek redress through the courts?  Sure.  What if, however, this party has the power to appoint judges sympathetic to its tyrannical aims?  What if these judges, with a wink and a nod and legalistic mumbo-jumbo, aid and abet the party in its breach of contract?  Do you just say, “Oh, well, that’s what the contract means now because they said so”?  Or do you recognize a simple fact?

To wit: Through its habitual violation of the terms of the contract, the federal government has rendered it null and void.    

Null and void.  It is silly to think that states have an obligation to follow the law when the Leviathan violates it at will.  It is to fight abiding by Queensberry rules while your opponent makes up his own rules.  That is, if you can even characterize it as fighting and not genuflection.

I know my prescription is bold enough to scare many into believing all the more in November, but be under no illusions.  The idea that we’re going to put the Leviathan in its proper place at the national ballot box is a pipe dream.  The problem of extra-constitutional federal governance is not a new phenomenon; it is approximately 100 years old and so deeply ingrained that the central government views many violations of the Constitution as federal rights. Besides, the Founding Fathers gave us a balance of power between Washington and the states for a reason: Governments don’t willingly relinquish or limit their own power. Thus, it is naïve to think that “asking” the Leviathan to recede into its cage will bring anything but contemptuous laughter. For how long will we say “pretty please”?  For how long will we play by the rules while the Leviathan plays with the rules?  It’s time to stop asking and start telling.      

Moreover, those of us who care about resurrecting tradition are in the minority.  The 11 most populous states boast more than half our population and enough electoral votes to elect the president, and they are a decidedly liberal bunch.  Obama won nine of them — most by wide margins — losing only Texas and Georgia.  Four of them, California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey — which alone have a quarter of the U.S.’ population — are firmly entrenched in the statist camp; three of them, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, have one foot in that grave; and two of them, Florida and North Carolina, are teetering on the edge.  And all of them, along with the rest of the West, are trending left.

It is time for the few remaining pockets of traditionalism to take control of their culture and destiny.  If not now, when?  Will the resurrection of manly virtue ever wait for the next usurpation?  Will we wait until the Black Robes find a justification for hate-speech laws?  Do we sit idly by while cultural traitors manufacture socialist votes by granting amnesty to 13-20 million illegals, people with no allegiance to our nation?  Will we just watch them build a statist electoral phalanx that will support the redistribution of wealth and further constitutional trespass?  I say no.  States should send a message to the Leviathan: If you don’t do your job, we’ll do it for you.  They should make clear that they will not recognize the citizenship of any individual who broke into our nation and was then given a get-out-of-jail-free-if-you-vote-for-me card.

Period.

What’s that you say?  Immigration is a federal role?

Null and void.

And if asked about the constitutionality of the matter, I would just quote a very powerful woman second in line to the presidency: “Are you serious?!  Are you serious?!

Yes, I am serious.  It’s time to stop acting like an abused wife who’d rather take beating after beating after beating than leave the tyrant.       

The sun will not come out in November.  It rises with the vigilant, shines on the stout-hearted, and sets only when a nation’s courage sleeps.

        © 2010 Selwyn Duke — All Rights Reserved

Comments

[Angel]

I believe the solution would be to replace the Republican party and have everyone vote the Constitution Party in. Republicans have violated their own platform time and time again. They are just as bad as the Democrats in my book. They all have the same agenda, just different viewpoints on how to achieve their goals.
"What agenda"? One might ask. Nothing but the New World Order that has been planned by the Illuminati for eons.

The truth is, it is all good versus evil as was from the beginning of time. I am a Christian and there are many disbelievers out there. But I have to laugh at them then feel sorry for them. Because this is all mentioned in the Bible. There will be a one world government, there will eventually be a one world currency but the only way you will be able to use that currency is to be chipped and there will be a one world religion. If you continue to believe in Jesus Christ you will be put to death. Their desire is to rid the earth of all Christians and references to Jesus. How funny it is that this is what the desire of Satan has been even before he was kicked out of heaven. It all fits.

Prophecy may be put on hold with enough prayer but it will never change. It will happen, ready or not. It would be best to be ready. Have faith, God is in control.

[MalikTous]

The Commucrats ceased representing me in 1963, you know which incident exposed them as cæsar wannabe's. The Repulsivans failed us in 1992 when they failed to question the election fraud that allowed Komrad Klinton to invade the White House, establish the Oral Office, and sell military secrets to the mainland Chinese. I've been voting Libertarian and regularly ever since, the 'major' parties have failed our Republic. Just like Rome...

[jbailey]

We have elected the enemy and he is among us, big time. It is as if we have been captured and placed in a jail cell. You can shout all you want to, but your shouts only extend a little way past the bars that confine you. You have no control over the guy with the key to the cell door. You may think you do. The fellow who represents you, has been bought off. He has taken all your money, but your interest and freedom he has ignored. He took your Bible and your gun...you lost faith and had no way to protect your home and family. He didn't even knock at your door. He walked in and declared everything you own...including your wife and kids...beonged to him. You yelled, cried, begged, and borrowed...to no avail. Then you looked around you. That TV still has programs, and is filled with beautiful, wonderful speeches..all delivered with a smile,and a certain cocked head as if an Italian dictator of years past has been re-incarnated. What is more, all your neighbors have been fleeced, also. They are still on the outside, because they fell for every deceitful, delusional, utopian promise that came out of his mouth...without question. They are still on the pavement, applauding. Their numbed up minds...distracted by a mirage of perfectly orchestrated, propagandized, unreal promises, sweetened by a little gift of booze and cig money...believe that one does not have to work to make a living. My kid is sick, and because those no good, fat cat physicians quit and refused to follow your programs...you had the courtesy to send a senior high school student with "medical training" by my house to see him. Thank you Master, for such a wonderful response. You have taught us that prayer does not matter anymore...after all, your mom did not believe in God either. She was a wonderful socialist, who believed in the Marxist way of looking at life and living...tinted by a little critical philosophy. Since the only thriving businesses are the undertaker and prostitution, a whore will not help my son...so I guess we'll know in a day or so, what the other alternative will be. IN this jail cell, I can only dream of what I should have done to prevent this from happening to me. I should have thanked you for the collapse of the dollar...for disarming the nation, and demeaning the military...for all the porn on late night cable, hard to find a channel absent of screwing...for promoting alternate life styles, with homosexuality as the norm, rather than the exception...for fracturing the family nucleus...for marinalizing God and teaching of the Good Word, after all you set the example, by not going to church and still having a secret religious mentorship by your favorite guy, not wrong, but Wright. There is so much else I should have agreed with you on, to stay out of jail. Sorry I could not do it. But, somehow, something inside of me said NO, and it still does...and that's why I am still in jail. YOu speak of collectivism, the masses, the unions, and I speak of the individual human heart, and its yearnings to be set free, to express itself in a free society...free enterpise expressed in a society of capitalism. Opportunity for all, and outcomes depending on individual effort and work, without mandates, coercion, or edicts. I think we shall prevail...but only if the ballot box is kept sacred, honest, and without corruption.

[Dan]

The "Ballot" box is a sensible suggestion to just
vote the "usurper" Obama out. However, if he is
not exposed as being ""ineligible" under Article II,
section 1, clause 5 of Our Constitution and impeached or
prosecuted for fraud and conspiracy ALL of his BILLS that
he has passed & signed will remain in effect.
If he is found guilty of "crimes" they would, or should
become "null & void". Plus it will become prescedent if
another person runs for Office without being born to
two "Parents" (plural) who are u.s. citizens. (which is what a
"natural born Citizen (capital C) is under Article II.
Obama's father was never a u.s. citizen. Obama inherited his
British subject citizenship through his father. Period.
Nothing can change that.

[Walt]

Other than Dan's, the comments on this thread seem a bit unusual. I am suspicious.

http://waltswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/04/rebuke-for-your-silence-implies-consent.html

[David]

AGREE!

[Philip France]

Selwyn has written another hard-hitting piece and with his customary literary aplomb. I would like to add two points:

1. For those of you counting the days until the November elections, fuggeadboudit. The Obamunists, led by Senators UpChuck Schumer and John Con-yours are plotting UVR (Universal Voter Registration) so that every miscreant, illegal immigrant, felon and paroled felon will vote them back in.

Putrid and evil George Soros is working around the clock to ascertain that radical leftists are placed as State Attorneys General so that even if a Republican or Conservative candidate legitimately wins an election, they will recount them until the left's choice is "proven" to be the winner. This has already occured in the state of Washington's gubernatorial race a few years agao and again when Minnesota's Senate race was handed to a failed comedian named Stuart Smalley (the "Smalley " can refer simultaneously to both his wisdom and his manhood).

2. Radio host Mike Church (Sirius Patriot 144) has called for a Constitutional Convention that would abolish our current Leviathan Federal Government and perhaps restore our Republic to the original intent of our Founding Fathers. Although I am not a big fan of Mr. Church, owing to his smugness and pomposity, he is a pretty smart guy. This seems like a good idea that is worth looking into by me and Selwyn's sober-minded readership.

Stay tuned.

[Philip France]

Correction:

Soros and his Marxist surrogates are plotting to hand-pick their fellow travelers as Secretaries of State (not Attorney General as I previously stated).

Mea culpa.

[Joe Chernicoff]

Dan - get your facts straight. According to his Kenyan birth certificate, Obama was born in Kenya to an American mother who met all the requirements of the following:

Evidence of Physical Presence of U.S. National Parent Prior to the Birth of the Applicant: Evidence that, prior to the applicant's birth, the U.S. national parent was physically present in the United States or an outlying possession (American Samoa, Swains Island) for a total of seven years drawn from any continuous ten-year period (allowing for absences of not more than one year), and five of those seven years must have been after the
applicant's parent was age 14.

Now that being said, it does not excuse Obama's conduct as president - his early school background in madrassas, and his experiences in Chicago, for instance, lay claim to his unfitness to be president (among other things. Read his first book "Dreams for my Father", and you will have a better idea of where the guy came from,

Also, you may want to read my blogs at http://thoughts.com/jchernic.

Enjoy.