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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (15046)	2/3/2009 2:53:43 PM
From: micdundee2	1 Recommendation Respond to of 50024

AMEN

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (15046)	2/3/2009 3:05:42 PM
From: roguedolphin	1 Recommendation Respond to of 50024

"What a novel way to put a bottom under home prices in New Hampshire <vbg>!" BRAVO! BRAVO!

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (15046)	2/3/2009 7:07:08 PM
From: jim_p	5 Recommendations Respond to of 50024

Everyone should write to their State legislators and ask them to pass the same bill in your State. I did and already received a response in Colorado Jim

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (15046)	2/3/2009 8:26:04 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50024

OK State Rep to Reintroduce State Sovereignty Bill George Mason University economics professor and one of Rush Limbaugh’s fill-in radio hosts Dr. Walter E. Williams posted a July 16, 2008 article on a State sovereignty bill introduced by State Rep. Charles Key that passed the State House but got stopped in the State Senate during last year’s Legislative session and is slated to be reintroduced during this session: One of the unappreciated casualties of the War of 1861, erroneously called a Civil War, was its contribution to the erosion of constitutional guarantees of state sovereignty. It settled the issue of secession, making it possible for the federal government to increasingly run roughshod over Ninth and 10th Amendment guarantees. A civil war, by the way, is a struggle where two or more parties try to take over the central government. Confederate President Jefferson Davis no more wanted to take over Washington, D.C., than George Washington wanted to take over London. Both wars are more properly described as wars of independence. Oklahomans are trying to recover some of their lost state sovereignty by House Joint Resolution 1089, introduced by State Rep. Charles Key. The resolution’s language, in part, reads: “Whereas, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: ‘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.’; and Whereas, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and whereas, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and Whereas, today, in 2008, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government. … Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the 2nd session of the 51st Oklahoma Legislature: that the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States. That this serve as Notice and Demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.” Key’s resolution passed in the Oklahoma House of Representatives with a 92 to 3 vote, but it reached a bottleneck in the Senate where it languished until adjournment. However, Key plans to reintroduce the measure when the legislature reconvenes. Federal usurpation goes beyond anything the Constitution’s framers would have imagined. James Madison, explaining the constitution, in Federalist Paper 45, 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.” 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.” Both parties and all branches of the federal government have made a mockery of the checks and balances, separation of powers and the republican form of government envisioned by the founders. One of the more disgusting sights for me to is to watch a president, congressman or federal judge take an oath to uphold and defend the United States Constitution, when in reality they either hold constitutional principles in contempt or they are ignorant of those principles. State efforts, such as Oklahoma’s, create a glimmer of hope that one day Americans and their elected representatives will realize that the federal government is the creation of the states. A bit of rebellion by officials in other states will speed that process along. therightsideoflife.com

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (15046)	2/5/2009 7:26:30 AM
From: Northern Marlin	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50024

This morning I sent this e-mail to my state rep: During current sessions legislators from 5 states have introduced resolutions affirming the rights of their respective states: New Hampshire - HCR 6 Arizona - HCR 2024 Oklahoma - HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 1089 (introduced in 2008) Washington - HJM 4009 Missouri - HR 212 Are you familiar with any or all of these resolutions? If not, will you please take the time to learn about them? Will you consider sponsoring a similar resolution for our state? My opinion is that the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides the key to cutting the size and scope of the federal government.

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (15046)	2/9/2009 12:05:28 AM
From: Amark$p	29 Recommendations Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 50024

RE: Rahm Emanuel's Gun Grab Butte, Montana November 5, 2007 Two illegal aliens, Raphael Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11-year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home. It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana, and Patricia had been a local clay shooting champion and hunter since she was nine. Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house using a sledge hammer. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12-gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun. Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor, only to be the first to catch a near point-blank blast of 00 buckshot from the 11-year-old's knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals. When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast, which shredded his left shoulder, and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive. It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a 45-caliber handgun he had stolen earlier from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David Burien, was not so lucky. He died from multiple stab wounds to the chest. Ever wonder why stories like this never make NBC, CBS, PBS, & MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news? ... An 11-year-old girl, properly trained, defended her home and herself against two murderous, illegal aliens and she won, she is still alive. Now that is Gun Control!