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State of Revolution

by Jack Hunter on March 23, 2009

The national movement for state sovereignty

If there’s one thing worse than urban elites at the New York Times, LA Times or the Washington Post who sneer at the mere hint of grassroots conservatism or populism, it’s Midwestern and Southern “fly over country” journalists who strive to emulate them. In a column entitled “New states’ rights fight emerges,” Brian Hicks of Charleston, South Carolina’s the Post & Courier wrote:

For a bunch of guys obsessed with 19th century history, our esteemed state lawmakers sure haven’t learned much from it.

Because the last time they got all uppity and started mouthing off about states’ rights, we got our butts kicked.

Right now, the General Assembly is considering a resolution to warn the federal government not to overstep its bounds by imposing too many laws on the state. They quote the U.S. Constitution and their new favorite amendment, the 10th, to remind President Barack Obama that ‘powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited to it by the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.’

Here we go again. Next thing you know, they’ll be shooting at the Park Service guys out at Fort Sumter.

Ah yes. How silly.

Pace Hicks, after our most recent Republican president took unprecedented liberties with the executive branch, and after the current Democratic president has promised something close to central planning, some state lawmakers have decided to take their stand. And their critics bray, “How dare any silly second or third-tier bureaucrats champion the Constitution!”

The South Carolina sovereignty resolution is but one of 15 similar state resolutions, mostly the product of Republican legislators fearful of, or looking for creative ways to circumvent, Obama’s agenda. While everything from immigration enforcement to gun laws, healthcare mandates to abortion laws are mentioned in the various resolutions, the Democrats’ recent stimulus is unquestionably the primary inspiration for this renewed interest in states’ rights. Reports the Associated Press, “For small-government die-hards, the $787 billion economic stimulus bill recently passed by Congress isn’t a life saver. It’s the last straw.”

While these recent challenges to federal power are mostly symbolic, (only New Hampshire’s resolution had teeth—a “secession” provision—which was ultimately defeated, 216-150) there are two interesting aspects common in each state’s efforts.
1) The sovereignty resolution resistance is coming almost entirely from the Right.
2) They have virtually nothing to do with—and seems entirely divorced from—the national GOP establishment and mainstream conservative movement.

Consider the most ambitious challenge in New Hampshire, where resolution sponsor, Republican state representative Daniel Itse, took his cues from the libertarian Right. Reports the AP, “New Hampshire’s Itse has ties to the Free State Project, which urges small government activists to move to New Hampshire. Many project members also belong to the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, a states’ rights group listing Itse as its political director.” “The New Hampshire Liberty Forum” sponsored by the Free State Project, was held at the beginning of March just a few weeks shy of the resolution vote, included multiple libertarian, decentralist speakers – everyone from Itse himself, to antiwar.com’s Angela Keaton and even Lewrockwell.com contributors William Norman Grigg and Glenn Jacobs (aka World Wrestling Entertainment Superstar “Kane”). The NHLF’s 2008 conference featured Sen. John E. Sununu as a keynote speaker—who was joined by Ron Paul. Not exactly the typical Heritage Foundation or American Enterprise Institute gathering.

Oklahoma State Rep. Charles Key, sponsor of the “Tenth Amendment Resolution” told colleagues of his legislation, “It’s a notice, like an eviction note from a landlord given to a tenant.” Keys made his case on popular, yet still under-the-radar, national radio programs like Coast to Coast AM with George Noory (broadcast from Oklahoma City) and The Alex Jones Show, as well as popular local program Radio Free Oklahoma (both The Alex Jones Show and Radio Free Oklahoma are broadcast on the same commercial FM station in Oklahoma). While such programs are often ridiculed for their focus on conspiracy theories, or in the case of Coast to Coast—the supernatural—their audiences are full of Right-leaning or libertarian-minded folks concerned about the loss of civil liberties, many of whom are especially fearful of George H.W. Bush’s now-famous phrase, the “New World Order.” “What amazes me is how so few people can bring a nation of over 300 million under submission” Keys told Jones. The Tenth Amendment Resolution passed in the Oklahoma state legislature in February, 83-13.

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Charles Key, State Representative from Oklahoma’s 90th District, discusses Oklahoma’s 10th Amendment Resolution, the Constitution, and limits on the federal government’s power, the long-standing abuses of the constitution no matter which administration or party is in power, bailouts and real id as unconstitutional, why it’s urgent to act now, the OK gubernatorial campaign, the Firearms Freedom Act, and the constitution – not the federal government – as the source of law in the United States.

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Sovereignty, Oklahoma and Real ID

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Five days in September

By Holland Van den Nieuwenhof

Posted: October 15, 2009

OKLAHOMA CITY — The recent spate of foiled terror plots in this country have given this author an uncomfortable feeling of dread, for we have been down this road before. I am referring specifically to a trio of bomb plots that serve to remind the American people that we are eternally unsafe, and bound under the ever-tightening screws of National Security that we shall never be without. On September 19, 2009 Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan citizen and legal resident of the U.S., was arrested in Denver by the FBI for planning and preparing a series of bomb attacks on the New York City subway system. The FBI was intensely concerned about a trip that Zazi had made back to NYC, where he had recently resided, on September 10 when President Barack Obama was also visiting that city. Also arrested were Zazi’s father and the Imam of a mosque they attended. On September 23, 2009 a twenty-nine year old American, Michael C. Finton, was arrested for attempting to detonate what he thought was a one-ton truck bomb outside the Federal courthouse in Springfield, Illinois. Finton also used the name Talib Islam and idolized his pen pal John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban.” Finton had been provided fake explosive materiel by an undercover FBI agent who posed as an al-Qaeda operative. After retreating to a safe distance, Finton twice dialed his cell phone, which he believed would initiate the blast, before being arrested by his “accomplice,” an FBI agent. The following day nineteen-year old Hosam Maher Hussein Smadi, a Jordanian national, was arrested after parking what he thought was an explosive-laden truck in the parking garage of the sixty-story Fountain Place skyscraper in Dallas, Texas. Smadi had also been provided with a fake bomb by undercover FBI agents posing as an al-Qaeda sleeper cell. I stated that we have been down this road before. An Arab terrorist parking a truck bomb in the parking garage of a landmark skyscraper. An American loner with a twisted world view leaving a truck bomb outside of a Federal Building. Another Arab terrorist cell attempting a series of devastating attacks in New York City that also threatens the President.

Sound familiar? It should. The World Trade Center bombing in 1993. The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. 9/11.  As Mark Twain said, history tends to rhyme rather than repeat. These recent scares smack of outright plagiarism. These cases stirred the author to address these events in writing because of the similarity of them to the still unresolved questions concerning the Oklahoma City bombing. The prospect of the FBI allowing what they believe to be fake bombs to be planted by terrorism suspects scares anyone who has been involved in the ongoing independent investigation of what happened on April 19, 1995. Oklahoma State Representative Charles Key was in the forefront of many survivors, eyewitnesses and rescuers who questioned the government’s version of events. Mr. Key has stated in public that he was informed by a U.S. Senate staffer that the OKC bombing was the result of a “sting” gone bad, that the bomb was never supposed to go off and kill 169 people, including nineteen children. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) and FBI was supposed to sweep in at the last minute and save the day. The bomb was never supposed to go off. That statement cannot be substantiated because of the nature of its disclosure, but it can be confirmed to some extent by the statements of another person involved in the government investigation. Final Report was issued three weeks before 9/11. It is the summation of findings by the Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee up until that date. Those findings continue, and some will be discussed further on. On page 535 begins the phone transcript of a conversation between a federal official directly involved in the investigation and a survivor who participated in rescue efforts. Both people’s identities remain anonymous to the public at this time, but they are known to the author through his association with the independent investigation. The actual tape recording is secure and awaits scrutiny by a Congressional investigation, an invitation thus far unanswered. The gist of the conversation is the federal official trying to convince the inquiring survivor to halt efforts to find out what really happened. The following is quoted directly from the transcript. Federal Official: “I believe that number two, John Doe number two, was a Federal agent working undercover. And I believe that he helped McVeigh steal the goods and helped buy the equipment, and I believe that he helped McVeigh make the bomb…”

And a few sentences later, “Yes, they stood out in front of the building, yes, they followed him directly to the building. Yes, they watched him get out of the building, get out of the truck. Yes, they watched him drive off. That’s not, that was their plan. I don’t believe they ever planned to apprehend him anywhere near the building. I believe that John Doe number two was a Federal witness. His job was to render the device safe.”

Survivor: “Okay, so why didn’t they just come out and explain that to everybody?”

Federal Official: “Public doesn’t have to know that. When it comes to the national security and things like this, the public does not know. The public is not required to know.” And later, when the survivor asks why this information was not provided sooner,

Federal Official: “Well, I didn’t know that you’d be able to get this far with it. By going this far with it, let me explain something to you. Your actions have consequences…”

This conversation, revealed in more detail in Final Report, is a chilling look into the mind set of those tasked with protecting us from harm.

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