After making her wait 8 hours, the Clark County Commission decided to hear Daphne Lee speak against the NDAA in Clark County, NV. What followed was one of the most powerful public comments in history.
PANDA NV’s Anti-NDAA Resolution, step one, will be on the Agenda Dec. 3rd at the Clark County Commission Meeting @ 9AM. If you’re in the area, please attend and give her support!
The PANDA (People Against the NDAA Mission Statement:
Our Mission is to nonviolently defeat, strike down, repeal, stop, void and fight the indefinite detention provisions, Sections 1021 and 1022, of the National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year of 2012, to fight for American civil liberties, to combat laws restricting liberty in the interest of National Security, to support current government officials that are doing so and to engage a younger generation in the politics of the United States so this cannot happen again.
Published on Friday, October 25, 2013 by Common Dreams
‘Stop Watching Us’: Snowden Reaches Out to Endorse DC Rally
‘Stop Watching Us’ coalition rally, planned for Saturday, receives endorsement from NSA whistleblower
– Jon Queally, staff writer
‘Stop Watching Us’ coalition rally, planned for Saturday, receives endorsement from NSA whistleblowerAmid yet another round of explosive revelations about the activities of the National Security Agency and ahead of a large rally organized by a large coalition of social justice and privacy advocates planned for Saturday, whistleblower Edward Snowden urged his fellow U.S. citizens to speak out against NSA surveillance by telling Congress and the Obama administration: ‘Stop Watching Us.’
In a rare public statement, released through the ACLU, Snowden said:
In the last four months, we’ve learned a lot about our government.
We’ve learned that the U.S. intelligence community secretly built a system of pervasive surveillance. Today, no telephone in America makes a call without leaving a record with the NSA. Today, no internet transaction enters or leaves America without passing through the NSA’s hands. Our representatives in Congress tell us this is not surveillance. They’re wrong.
Now it’s time for the government to learn from us. On Saturday, the ACLU, EFF, and the rest of the StopWatching.Us coalition are going to D.C. Join us in sending the message: Stop Watching Us.
The protests, which coincide with the 12th anniversary of the signing of the Patriot Act into law, are designed to bring together diverse groups from across the political spectrum to demand surveillance law reform.
“The NSA is spying on everyone’s personal communications,” says the coalition, and argues the massive agency is “operating without any meaningful oversight” from Congress, the courts, or the public at large.
The groups—which include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU, Public Citizen, Restore the Fourth, Free Press, Demand Progress and nearly a hundred others—released this video to promote the event:
And updates and information on the day of action against NSA spying were being listed under #StopWatchingUs on Twitter:
I, Cheryl Nelson, a citizen of the United States of America, repudiate the unconstitutional laws and illegal debts forced upon the American people by the Obama Administration, an administration which does not, and never did, represent the will of the People.
I hereby further give notice that I am not, nor is any other American, “collateral” in any way, shape or form for the debts of the United States under the Obama Administration, or any prior administrations. Each American is a sovereign being and is not in any way, shape or form owned by any other being(s) or government(s).
I further state that I, along with the American people, were unaware our national parks were being sold and, thus, have never agreed to their sale. Americans are also generally unaware that American lands and businesses are being sold by the U.S. Government to foreign interests, which is against our laws.
I, along with most other Americans, do not support profligate spending and erosion of our Constitution and rights.
To United States Creditors: DO NOT LEND THIS ADMINISTRATION ANY MORE MONEY. WE RENOUNCE THE DEBT INCURRED THEREBY.
There are many more grievances against the Obama Administration, such as the scandals involving Benghazi, the IRS, Fast & Furious, the birth certificate issue, the using of terrorist language against political enemies, the Patriot Act, the NDAA, the NSA spying scandal, drones, Obamacare, funding the Muslim Brotherhood and other terrorist organizations, controlling mass media to influence our thoughts and beliefs, tampering with the justice system and obstructing justice, among other things. Conduct unbecoming all, and should be listed in a bill of impeachment.
I declare the United States Government to be in the state of a coup d’etat and high treason against the People of the United States. As a citizen, and along with all other citizens who agree with these statements, I petition the Provost Marshall to arrest the usurper, Barack Hussein Obama a/k/a Barry Soetero, now illegally occupying the office of the President of the United States and remove all members of Congress who have voted against the conscience and will of the American people and the U.S. Constitution. The damage to this country is great and only immediate removal gives us a fighting chance to recover.
I declare a counter-coup is now in progress and call upon every able-bodied being to resist any unconstitutional laws to the best of your abilities and position to do so. Let this be non-violent and bloodless, and conducted in accordance with the true Constitutional laws of the United States.
/signed/
Cheryl Nelson
Descendant of Thomas Nelson Jr,
Virginia Wartime Governor and
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Assembly Bill 351, commonly called the California Liberty Preservation Act, has been signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown making it statewide policy to refuse compliance with federal attempts to enforce “indefinite detention” made famous by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA). What began as a marginal issue with little legislative support has unified Californians of all persuasions and brought attention to the proper role the people and their states play in a constitutional republic.
AB351 now makes it state policy to reject “indefinite detention” powers from the federal government. It reads, in part:
It is the policy of this state to refuse to provide material support for or to participate in any way with the implementation within this state of any federal law that purports to authorize indefinite detention of a person within California. [emphasis added]
This language of AB351 goes far beyond what has been considered in most other states, which focus solely on indefinite detention powers under the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and nothing else. Donnelly’s legislation broadened the scope by recognizing that indefinite detention should not be complied with no matter what federal law is used to justify it. Donnelly confirmed this broad scope, “AB351 will prevent California from implementing indefinite detention for any reason.”
This can make a HUGE dent in any federal effort to detain without due process in California. As Judge Andrew Napolitano has said recently, such widespread noncompliance can make a federal law “nearly impossible to enforce” (video here). Quite simply, the federal government is going to have an extremely difficult time – at best – carrying out indefinite detention in California without the assistance of California.
COALITIONS WORK
Hankoff noted the broad coalition which brought the bill from zero support to law in California:
Assemblyman Tim Donnelly first introduced AB-351 in February after various grassroots coalitions won their efforts to condemn “indefinite detention” (government kidnapping) in the form of resolutions in San Francisco, Berkeley, Fairfax, and Santa Cruz, while still more organized in Los Angeles and elsewhere. These coalitions included 99%ers, the CA Libertarian Party, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, CA Republican Liberty Caucus, ACLU, Oath Keepers, and more. Despite this organic, spontaneous cooperation Donnelly couldn’t find a single ally in the California legislature for the bill. That was, until members of the mentioned organizations showed up to testify at AB-351′s first committee hearing.
At the Assembly Public Safety Committee, Chairman Tom Ammiano, widely considered the most progressive Democratic CA Assemblyman told Donnelly, the most conservative Republican that “you have found a zone we are all in.” AB-351 passed out of committee unanimously.
Acting as floor manager for the bill in the Senate, San Francisco liberal Democrat Mark Leno, and his colleagues had a brief laugh he was the one presenting a bill introduced by ultra-conservative Assemblymember Tim Donnelly. Leno noted that this was the result of the serious nature of the matter at hand. He said, “It doesn’t matter where one finds oneself on the political spectrum, these two sections of this national defense act are wrong, unconstitutional and never should have been included.”
SUPREMACY CLAUSE
Some opponents of the legislation claimed that the US Constitution’s “supremacy clause” prevents the state from taking this action. But this is a complete misunderstanding, not only of the supremacy clause, but of AB351 as well. There is absolutely ZERO serious dispute about the fact that the federal government cannot “commandeer” the states to carry out its laws. None. Even the Supreme Court has affirmed this multiple times.
Today, the California State Senate voted to approve a bill that will help render toothless the federal “indefinite detention” powers under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill, by Assemblymember Tim Donnelly, was previously passed by the state assembly by a vote of 71-1 (roll call here)
California residents are strongly encouraged to contact Governor Jerry Brown, urging him to sign AB351.
If passed into law, AB351 would make it state policy to reject “indefinite detention” powers from the federal government. It reads, in part:
Here we have evidence of the ruthless and depraved deeds of a government driven by greed and power. The psychological process used to turn the citizens of a country against fellow countrymen/women. To demonize and criminalize innocents for their own ends. The rationalization behind the process is twofold.
First it is an efficient and effective way to eliminate a group of people that pose a threat to your ultimate plans of control . By ensuring that the citizenry at large are indoctrinated to believe that these Falun Gong practitioners posed a threat to the nation and it’s people. Labeling them as extremists, suicidal , dangerous and deranged. Thereby enlisting the uninformed citizenry to participate in the persecution and ultimately the execution of a people who meant harm to no one, save those who could not afford independent thought……The Government.
Top Officials Implicated in Organ Harvesting in China
Police chief’s research exemplifies regime’s guilt
(Clockwise)Bo Xilai, Jiang Zemin, Wang Lijun. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
Before he kicked off the biggest political storm in recent Chinese communist history last February after attempting to defect at a U.S. Consulate in southwestern China, police chief Wang Lijun supervised the cutting of thousands of organs from the bodies of prisoners of conscience—while they were still alive.
Wang was merely a mid-ranking officer in a dark conspiracy that reached to the top of the Chinese Communist Party.
In Jinzhou City in Liaoning Province in northeastern China, Wang Lijun ran a research laboratory in the same building as the security bureau he headed. His research focused on live, human organ extraction and transplantation.
He was working under the watch of Bo Xilai, the recently disgraced official who was head of Liaoning Province when Wang began his research.
The facts about Wang were revealed in 2006 when, three years after becoming director of the public security bureau, he was given an award—but not one for fighting crime. Wang’s team had done pioneering research on how best to transplant organs taken from prisoners—who were possibly still alive when their organs were removed—and surgeons acting at his direction had honed new techniques over “thousands” of on-site trials.
“As we all know, the so-called ‘on the scene research’ is the result of several thousand intensive on-site transplants,” he said in his acceptance speech for the award.
He talked up his research: “For a veteran policeman, to see someone being executed and to see this person’s organs being transplanted to several other persons’ bodies, it was profoundly stirring.”
Secondly, this process being used to indoctrinate the masses to view those who are different as evil and dangerous. Thereby providing not only a successful cover for the governments evil purposes but acceptance even encouragement to punish these people. For the greater good of course.
A Regime Makes War Against the Peaceful Falun Gong Practice
The Chinese Communist Party began its campaign to crush Falun Gong with an avalanche of propaganda depicting people who often meditate in parks as suicidal revolutionaries bent on destroying China.
Few Chinese believed the narrative, despite it being repeated hundreds of times. Up to 400 articles were published by each of the major newspapers within the first 30 days of the campaign.
Falun Gong was well-established, with over 28,000 practice sites across China. It was comfortably familiar to many, and public sympathy was with the group.
Then-Party chief Jiang Zemin began efforts to suppress Falun Gong in 1996, but the regime’s efforts met with sit-ins and peaceful acts of civil disobedience that Chinese people hadn’t seen since the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Jiang, who rose to power through supporting the crackdown on the student democracy movement, was both jealous and threatened by the fact that Falun Gong had attracted more adherents than the CCP had members. There were roughly 60 million Party members and up to 100 million Falun Gong practitioners.
He also wanted to wipe out the resurgence of Chinese traditional belief that Falun Gong represented, and in the persecution—which would demand that everyone in China take sides—he saw an opportunity to solidify his power.
As he said in a letter that made the case for persecution, he could not tolerate that Falun Gong adherents believed in something beyond the materialism and atheism of Chinese communism.
For three years, the security forces had harassed Falun Gong practitioners. Following the publication in the city of Tianjin, just down the road from Beijing, of an article attacking the practice, adherents gathered asking the article be withdrawn. Police arrested 45 of them, and in response to pleas for their release, told the practitioners to ask Beijing.
Ten thousand Falun Gong adherents gathered at the appeals office in Beijing on April 25, 1999. It was a crowd so large police arranged them on the sidewalks around Zhongnanhai, the communist leadership compound.
That night Jiang wrote to members of the Politburo Standing Committee that “behind the scenes” Falun Gong masterminds were making a move against the regime. He called it “the most serious incident since the political turbulence in 1989.”
Practitioners had merely gone to appeal against mistreatment, asking the central government to uphold its own laws.
Jiang wrote that Falun Gong was competing with the Party for the masses. “We must understand this issue as a political one, as one that involves the very existence of the Party and the nation. We must thoroughly investigate it and show zero tolerance!”
One would ponder the use of this process in another country, say one that is not communist or at least not yet. Comparing the process of the criminalization of Falun Gong practitioners to oh let’s say Americans who question the status quo. People who question government and their motives. People who have questioned the loss of liberties, the more and more prevalent terror attacks on American soil. Those who so distrust the motives of the government that they question everything including the incessant need to nullify the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Unlawful wars, lies to the American People, subterfuge at every turn. All to undermine and demoralize the people. Labeled as conspiracy nuts, non conformists, anti-government radicals, Christians, Conservatives, Struggling Middle Class, Constitutionalists, Libertarians, veterans and gun owners have all been lumped together to be labeled in this manner. Listed as possible terrorists we are placed on watch lists and no fly lists by the Department of Homeland Security.
Terrorist watch listDHS’s new terrorist database rankles privacy groups
Published 15 August 2011
A new DHS plan to create its own version of the FBI’s terrorist watch list that is exempt from the Privacy Act has privacy groups concerned; under the proposed plan, DHS would create the Watchlist Service which would bring the FBI’s suspected terrorist list in-house and expand on it
DHS plans a Privacy Act-exempt watch list // Source: dariknews.bg
A new DHS plan to create its own version of the FBI’s terrorist watch list that is exempt from the Privacy Act has privacy groups concerned.
Under the proposed plan, DHS would create the Watchlist Service which would bring the FBI’s suspected terrorist list in-house and expand on it. The list would contain names, dates of birth, biometric data, photos, passport information, driver’s licenses, and other critical information. The goal, according to DHS’s 6 July proposal, is to increase employee access to the FBI and Justice Department’s list “in order to automate and simplify the current method for transmitting” the data to DHS component agencies including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).”
TSA currently uses the watch list for its Secure Flight program, which is aimed at preventing suspected terrorists from boarding planes by allowing the agency to instantly check ticketed airline passengers’ names against the database.
Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in July, David Heyman, the assistant Homeland Security secretary for policy, explained that DHS had identified screening gaps in its review of the suspected terrorist database.
To address these security gaps, DHS “has transitioned the Secure Flight program to use all terrorist watch list records containing a full name and a full date of birth and designates matches to those records as selectees subject to enhanced physical screening prior to boarding a flight,” he said.
What concerns privacy advocates though, is a particular provision in DHS’s proposal that states the department will “exempt portions of the system of records from one or more provisions of the Privacy Act because of criminal, civil and administrative enforcement requirements.”
The proposed provision has led privacy advocates like the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the American Library Association’s Washington office, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights to issue a joint letter to DHS demanding that the department reconsider its proposal.
The groups’ main concern is that these exemptions would remove critical safe guards put in place to protect the rights of citizens. Their letter stated, “secretive government lists without any meaningful safeguards present a very real risk of ‘mission creep,’ in which a system is pressed into unintended or unauthorized uses. Under this proposal, the agency would have the right to maintain and rely upon information it does not know to be accurate, relevant, timely, or complete without recourse — the right to subject citizens to arbitrary decisions.”
Anyone who criticizes, anyone who complains of the abuse of power that is taking place is labeled. The indoctrinated and conditioned masses follow suit and play their roles to the T- baggers, Conspiracy nuts, wingnuts, racists,zombies, lymbic brained, tin foil brigade……so many more epitaphs used to describe those who question and do not follow quietly the disturbing path that is being set before this nation. You say Pffffft that can’t happen here this is not China, this is not Russia, this is not the Middle East. We have freedom , we have rights, we are American!!
Ann Coulter: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Are Getting in Touch With Demonic Side
MSNBC on NYPD Police Brutality during Occupy Wall Street Lawrence O’donnell with “The Last Word”
Severe police action as thousands of Occupy protesters fill Times Square
Look around folks and take a real hard look at what is happening around you. How many of you are questioning the rationalization behind the events that are taking place and how they are being utilized to fulfill an agenda? What agenda you may ask? Well let’s take a look shall we? The constant and common denominator between all these events and the agenda that they will ultimately fulfill can all be pinpointed to one event in the history of this Nation. On September 11th 2001 there became evident to anyone who wanted to see a deadly agenda that marked the decent of this once great nation. The mentality that has gone on to become the battle cry of not only the administration but of State and local governments as well. “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, a statement made infamous by Rahm Emmanuel and parroted many times over by different figures within the government apparatus.
Dianne Feinstein Not letting a good crisis go to waste.
Obama Gun Control Press Conference afte Sandy Hook Shooting
The WTC attack was used not only to usher in an illegal war ( which we now have proof of having been planned years before they were able to implement it) , it was the beginning of the end of the Constitution and the American way of life. How was it the end? Very simply it helped to usher in the implementation of the Patriot Act.
Sept. 20, 2001 – Bush Declares War on Terror
Bill Cooper predicts 9/11 attack on the twin towers
Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural Rights and The Patriot Act part 1 of 3
So many, so very many called for the government to do something and protect us from the big bad terrorists and they complied. The Patriot act was enacted and those cowards who could only think of being protected not caring how, convinced themselves that more government was better and that the government knew best. Did they once stop to think what they were asking for ? Did they stop to think what the end result would be? Did they once stop and remember all this government and others like it had done when afforded unchecked power? The answer to all these questions , unfortunately is NO…….All they could think about was their fear and their need to be protected at all costs. Their response to those who did think and remember was quite amusing and devastatingly sad…….”If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear”. This has become the cry of the conformists and apologists. They have opted for the head in the sand approach. If the government says it is for my own good then it must be true. Anyone denying me and mine the safety being offered by the government is wrong and therefore dangerous. The demoralization and alienation campaign had begun. George Bush gave a speech and in it I can remember the use of the word terrorist over and over again , culminating in this one statement that said it all and frankly labeled everyone in one way or another……”If you are not with us , the you are with the terrorists!” That is how we as Americans have lived our lives everyday since whether we are aware of it or not. We are blackmailed and threatened on a daily basis. Oh not in a confrontational in your face kind of way , no of course not . It is more subtle than that . A quite sophisticated mind game that is molding the majority of Americans into the hive mind citizens they strive for . The useful idiots that Yuri Bezmenov the Ex- KGB Officer that explains the steps necessary to undermine a nation.
Ideological Subversion of Western Society
Soviet Subversion of the Free World Press, 1984 – Complete
For those of you who are beginning to have doubts and are opening your eyes to the possibility of something not being quite right I say this……The devil is in the details and in order for you to see the truth you must look at the whole picture not just the frame that is before you at any one given moment in time. You must pull back and look at it as a whole. See History as it has unfolded before your eyes not in the way they have chosen to present it to you. Understand that the orchestration of this play has been a very long time in the making ,but who is behind it is not as important as where we will be as a nation if they accomplish what they have set out to do.
US-Canada Claim Iran-Al Qaeda Ties Despite US Funding Al Qaeda in Iran for Years
“To many, it came as a surprise that the RCMP is alleging that two terror suspects arrested in Canada on Monday were supported by al-Qaeda operatives in Iran.
The Sunni-based al-Qaeda and Shia Iran belong to different branches of Islam that have been at odds historically. But in recent years U.S. officials have formally alleged that Iran has allowed al-Qaeda members to operate out of its territory.”
Both at face value and upon deeper examination, this assertion is utterly absurd, divorced from reality, and indicative of the absolute contempt within which the Western establishment holds the global public. In reality, the West, the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel in particular, have propped up and perpetuated Al Qaeda for the very purpose of either undermining or overthrowing the governments of Iran, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria, Libya, Russia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and beyond. Regarding Iran in particular, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his 2007 New Yorker piece titled, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” would state:
To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
To conform and go with the flow at this point in time is tantamount to suicide as a nation. You must open your eyes and view the events as a puzzle that must be deciphered. It’s true intent exposed so that you may see how it has developed and what it’s ultimate intent entails. To do so requires discipline, time and courage. There are many who would sooner shoot you down and label you crazy than allow you to go down this road. Which you choose is entirely up to you , however, if you are reading this and you choose to do nothing, to say nothing then you are as responsible as the criminals perpetrating these crimes against our people. Your silence and lack of resolve making you complicit in the crimes that will be heaped upon the American people when the time to unveil the final agenda arrives. Truly look at what is presented and try to understand where it is going and what the ultimate result could be. That is all anyone can ask of you That is all any of us would require. We need you to wake up and understand what is being done…….
Former diplomat wistleblower talks about US government secrets and corruption
FBI Fake Terror Plot History: Judge Napolitano
Patriot Act NDAA, Indefinite Detention Of American Citizens, Presidential Kill List, Fusion Centers, CISPA, SOPA, PIPA, Gun Control, Executive Orders, Unamanned Drones, TSA, Lockdowns, Door to Door Illegal Searches, Warantless Surveillance, Personal Data Sharing, Militarization of local police, Legitimization of Police Brutality, Veterans – Christians-Constitutionalists-Libertarians-Gun Owners- Activists being labeled as potential terrorists and the list goes on and on
FBI knew of PLOT TO KILL Occupy Wall Street activists; stayed silent, potential SNIPER ASSASINATIONS
FBI & DHS Under Obama Declared Occupy Wall Street Protesters TERRORIST To Protect Big Business
Occupy Wall Street
FOX News Attacks Occupy Wall Street Protests
On Fox News, Tea Party Good, Occupy Wall Street Bad
PANDA Nevada (People Against the National Defense Authorization Act) has announced the passage of a Las Vegas City Council Resolution defeating the indefinite detention provisions of the 2012 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act).
Just before noon on Wednesday, the honorable Las Vegas City Council passed a resolution rebuking the indefinite detention provisions of the 2012 NDAA, 5-2. The resolution may be read here at: http://tinyurl.com/cyu5bue. The Resolution will now head to the Clark County Commission; if passed, it would be the first Joint City/County Resolution passed in response to the NDAA.
The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act was overwhelmingly passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 31, 2011. The 2012 NDAA declares the United States to be a battlefield in the war on terror and Section 1021 & 1022 authorize the indefinite military detention, without charge or trial, of persons on US soil.
The full interview with Phil Restino of Veterans for Peace. Phil calls out the phony, hypocritical “antiwar left”, including Veterans for Peace, Code Pink and Chris Hedges on the issues of impeachment and the NDAA.
Traces of Reality Radio hosted by Guillermo Jimenez.
This is a clip from TOR Radio – Feb. 23, 2013
Full show will be uploaded soon.
By a unanimous voice voice today, the Montana House Judiciary Committee voted to approved House Bill 522 (HB522) and move it to the full state house.
A modified version of the Liberty Preservation Act released by the Tenth Amendment Center, Montana joins a growing choir of states and localities who’ve decided that waiting for federal politicians to repeal their own power is something they’re not willing to risk.
The bill was sponsored by State Representative Nicholas Schwaderer who worked hard behind the scenes to get a bipartisan group of legislators to cosponsor – 18 republicans and 6 democrats.
After yesterday’s committee hearing on HB522, Montana Tenth Amendment Center coordinator Tim Ravndal expressed his belief that the bill would pass, and the fact that a wide coalition across the political aisle was in support:
“HB 522 FLEW through the House Judiciary Committee Hearing. I was asked at the conclusion of the hearing how it felt to be on the same side with ACLU. “Politics make strange bedfellows” We had no opposition to the bill, and only one question from the committee seeking clarification. This bill is on the freight train heading for the Governor!”
If signed into law, HB522 would make it illegal for Montana to participate in NDAA indefinite detention: “The state of Montana may not provide material support or participate with the implementation of sections 1021 and 1022 of the federal National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, Public Law 112-81, within the boundaries of this state”
Noncompliance with federal law is 100% noncontroversial both legally and constitutionally. There’s absolutely ZERO serious thought that supports the idea that the federal government has the constitutional authority to require state agents to enforce federal laws. Even the Supreme Court has affirmed this more than once in recent history. Statements to the contrary are absurd.
Such noncompliance on a wide scale is very effective in rendering an unconstitutional federal act null, void or just unenforceable. Learn how this method plays out and works HERE.
By a vote of 6-2 the Arizona State House Judiciary Committee approved House Bill 2573 (HB2573), bringing it one step away from a full House vote.
A modified version of the Liberty Preservation Act released by the Tenth Amendment Center, Arizona joins a growing choir of states and localities who’ve decided that waiting for federal politicians to repeal their own power is something they’re not willing to risk.
Tenth Amendment Center member Bryan Berkland said as much in his public testimony in support of the bill:
“It would be nice if the federal government would check their own power, but that’s not happening.” Berkland began his testimony by pointing out the most important issue at hand, the federal government has no legitimate authority to indefinitely detain, that is, arrest without end and without access to courts or lawyers. He said, “When I read the Constitution, I don’t find any authorization for this.”
The bill was sponsored by State Representatives Carl Seel and Brenda Barton along with State Senator Judy Burgess. If signed into law, HB2573 would ban the state from providing “material support” or participating “in any way” with sections 1021 and 1022 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the sections which purport to authorize indefinite detention and are in effect today. (read more HERE and HERE).
At the beginning of testimony, the Committee chair noted that since so many people from the public were in attendance and had sign up to speak in favor of the bill – and no one has signed up to speak against it – they would allow a limited number of people to make the case. After Representative Seel and Berkland spoke, Mr Clark, a known local progressive activist, also urged the committee to vote in favor. In his testimony he spoke of something that’s happening across the country in opposition to indefinite detention – setting aside differences for common cause. “I stand strangely-enough with the republicans in support of this bill.”
Only one person spoke against the bill during the entire hearing – one of the two committee members who voted against it. (awaiting confirmation of the name of the member)
“A bill in contravention to the federal government is troubling to me. If someone is opposed to federal policy, the place to take it up is in the courts, not here in the state house.”
The problem with this statement is that the member is possibly not understanding the bill he just voted against. HB2573 doesn’t do anything to federal law. It says that the State of Arizona will not assist the federal government in carrying out their unconstitutional law. There’s absolutely ZERO serious thought that supports the idea that the federal government has the constitutional authority to require state agents to enforce federal laws. Even the Supreme Court has affirmed this more than once in recent history. Statements to the contrary are absurd.
Noncompliance with federal law – 100% noncontroversial both legally and constitutionally – is quite effective. Learn how this method plays out and works HERE.
Also, supporters of the bill might want to consider asking the representative if he would have been opposed to those states who passed laws in the 1850s in contravention to federal slave-catching laws, or if his rejection of such actions is simply limited to indefinite detention.
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