The Tennessee Nation is not a new concept. We were an independent nation for forty-three days in 1861 – the period between our secession from the United States and our admission into the Confederate States of America.
The abuses and excesses of the current Columbian Empire are cause enough for Tennesseans to exercise their rights as “free and independent people” and cast off the chains of slavery which have so subtly been forged on us. I call it the Columbian Empire because it is most certainly not American. The term American in all its connotations is antithetical to the actions and intentions of the tyrants in the District of Columbia. The district of Columbia is the viper pit from which the Columbian Empire springs.
This blog is to emphasize the legitimate reasons for a free Tennessee Nation.
Yesterday (2nd Sept) The Times (London) published an extract from Stephen Hawking's new book, The Grand Design. Hannah Devlin's article begins as follows:
Modern physics leaves no place for God in the creation of the Universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded.
Just as Darwinism removed the need for a creator in the sphere of biology, Britain’s most eminent scientist argues that a new series of theories have rendered redundant the role of a creator for the Universe.
In his forthcoming book, an extract from which is published exclusively in Eureka, published today with The Times, Professor Hawking sets out to answer the question: “Did the Universe need a creator?” The answer he gives is a resounding “no”.
Far from being a once-in-a-million event that could only be accounted for by extraordinary serendipity or a divine hand, the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, Hawking says.
“Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist,” he writes.
“It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going,” he finds.
With all due respect to Mr. Hawking, there is a serious and simple flaw in his argument. He says, “the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.” But when Hawking says, “nothing,” he doesn’t mean NOTHING. Rather, he begins his theory with the assumption that matter itself was preexistent.
Without matter there is no spontaneous anything. But even if matter were preexistent, the mathematical probability of a spontaneous big bang is so small that it defies both reason and logic.
A couple of years ago, I read a book by Dr. Richard A. Swenson, More Than Meets the Eye. Chapter after chapter reviews different aspects of nature which completely contradict the possibility of evolution being anything more than a fanciful fantasy for those who have willfully chosen to deny the reality of the God who is there.
Recognizing the reality of creation is the first step to being able to recognize Truth. And without the ability to recognize Truth, there is no ability to rule with justice. Therein lies the problem with the Empire. Those who deny Reality and Truth will never be anything more than tyrants. And tyranny is the only manner of rule which the Empire knows.
Most who read this blog are familiar with the fact that I support and promote home education. Besides the obvious positive advantage for familial relationships, it is a one-on-one style of education which gives the greatest opportunity for learning.
Another unrelated aspect of home education is that it is a legitimate and specific expression of personal secession from the Empire. The educational establishment is becoming more and more Machiavellian as the years go by.While education a hundred and fifty years ago was centered in the local community, education is now directed from the District of Columbia—state officials now have very little latitude in schooling. Local schools are manipulated from "experts" completely removed from the reality of teaching children.
Because of their absence from reality, the orchestrators of today's public (make that statist) education have no concept of the personal nature of learning. This filters down to the local levels. An article of an Orwellian nature was pointed out by an Arkansas friend committed to home education. It seems that the Contra Costa County (California) school district is outfitting their preschoolers with tracking devices.
When at the school, students will wear a jersey that has a small radio frequency tag. The tag will send signals to sensors that help track children's whereabouts, attendance and even whether they've eaten or not.
When the “teachers” at a school have such a high degree of attention deficit that they cannot keep track of their classroom (? 20? to 30? students?) the system is completely bankrupt…intellectually AND morally.
School officials say it will free up teachers and administrators who previously had to note on paper files when a child was absent or had eaten.
When “teachers and administrators” lack the ability or desire to make a check-mark on a list of thirty or less names, why should they be paid? Mommas don’t need tracking devices to know where their children are. As a teenager, I remember being consistently amazed that as I walked in the back door of the farmhouse, my mother already knew where I’d been and what I’d done.
Tennesseans might say that placing tracking devices on school children would never happen here, but remember …what begins on the Left Coast always sweeps the continent.
Let’s go ahead and individually secede from as much of the Empire’s system as we possibly can. We will not only be beginning the trek toward liberty, but our children will be safer as well.
Give me a free Tennessee, but most of all give me free Tennesseans!
Early Saturday morning (28 August), a fire was reported at the construction site of the new Islamic Center of Murfreesboro. A simple case of vandalism is now being investigated by the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office, the BATFE (the Empire’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), the FBI (the Empire’s Federal Bureau of Investigation), and the Empire’s Department of Homeland Security. Four policing agencies!!
The vandalism is sure to be prosecuted as a “hate crime.” Actual death threats against leaders of a group opposing the Islamic Center are on the other hand simply “nuisance calls” (as perhaps answering the phone and only hearing heavy breathing on the line).
The Tennessee League of the South is going on record as being an advocate of personal property rights. Whatever an owner wishes to do with their property is their privilege. This stand is in direct opposition to the stance taken by numerous government agencies as well as the U.S. Supreme Court which has approved the confiscation of private property is it suits the “greater good” of the community.
We take issue with the Empire situated in Washington, DC—it has become your enemy. The minions of the Columbian Empire believe your property belongs to you only as long they do not need it.
The Empire is waging an undeclared war against its own citizens. Emperor G.W. Bush told us that we needed to send our soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan so we could “take the war to them.” But at the very same time, through relaxed (or non-existent) immigration policies, the Empire has welcomed terrorists and their financiers to our own shores.
Is there any other explanation for the marked increase in Islamic activity in Tennessee and elsewhere than that the Empire has declared a cultural war on its own citizens?
Who is the real enemy to you and your family? The terrorist in Afghanistan or your friend in the Empire’s bureaucracy who smiles and says, “Hello, I’m from the government and I’m here to help you” while importing a terrorist to live next door?
The Columbian Empire is not your friend. It wants to destroy you.
In June 1850 a pamphlet appeared in France written by Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) entitled The Law. It was a logical presentation of the fallacies of socialism. France was struggling with the effects of the socialist Revolution of February 1848.
Tennesseans are now struggling with the socialist revolution which took place during the election of November 2008. Bastiat’s words have never been so applicable. Here are quoted two paragraphs under the heading “What Is Liberty?”
Actually, what is the political struggle that we witness? It is the instinctive struggle of all people toward liberty. And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties—liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, of labor, of trade? In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism—including, of course, legal despotism? Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire—learned from the teachings of antiquity—that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.
Today we face the most obnoxious of “legal despotisms.” We have officials—both elected and appointed—who truly believe that they have a superior intellect than the rest of the population in the Empire. Those officials who reside not only in the District of Columbia, but are also scattered across the continent have set themselves “to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.”
It is the responsibility of those who truly love liberty to understand the lies of the Empire. It is also our responsibility to shine the light of reason upon those lies and teach others to do the same.
I am just getting warm and fuzzy all over. On Friday the 13th (is there some irony in that?), Emperor Obama “weighed in forcefully” in support of religious freedom in America. He feels that the building of a “worship and community center” within the shadow of the collapsed World Trade Center towers is simply a matter of staying “true to our core values.”
At a White House observation of the beginning of Ramadan, he told a group of Muslims that he believes “That Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country.”
I am a firm supporter of property rights. The use of regulatory authority to limit what an owner does with their property it tantamount to theft. So, I can't object to the building of a mosque.
But here’s my problem. My problem is with the nature of the Emperor’s magnanimous support. Obama called the mosque a “worship and community center.” That is a benign terminology of the real purpose of the build-out. Somehow the picture of seniors exercising to water ballet just doesn’t fit my concept of “Muslim community.” The community that has been built in too many mosques has involved high explosives. Not a good thing.
Then there is the Emperor’s assertion of “as everyone else in this country.” Who is the “everyone else?” It can’t be Christians. Christians have been watching their symbols and prayers and even themselves be shut out of event after event and community after community across the empire! When I was invited to offer prayer to begin a session of the U.S. House of Representatives, I was politely told that I should not pray in “Jesus’ name” because it might offend someone and thus be in bad taste. (I did it anyway!)
The un-reverend Rick “purpose-driven-church” Warren did mention Jesus in his invocation at the Obama inauguration, but then Rick included Jesus as one in a whole list of false and demonic gods. Good going, Rick!
In the Old Testament, there is the story of such corruption in the priesthood that a priest’s wife gives birth and then dies. Her last words are the naming of her son, Ichabod – “the glory has departed.” We have to come to grips with this fact … the glory has departed America. We cannot ask, “God bless America,” because God has never made a habit of blessing what has already been cursed.
America is gone. It is being ruled by the most corrupt of overlords. Our only hope is to break away and become a free and independent Tennessee nation.
The economic crisis is being sustained by bureaucrats and economists that cannot reason from cause to effect. Banks continue to collapse under the weight of debt on home mortgages which they were required to make by the Feds in the first place.
Recently I haven’t seen much media coverage about bank failures, the latest of which was last Friday, 6 August. I know that I have written about this before, but I just can’t get it out of my mind. We are being reassured by the insiders in Washington that the economy is turning around (ever so slowly, mind you) and we are all in for better days ahead, but the reality of staggering unemployment figures begs to differ. Here is a month by month accounting of unemployment as it has spread across our land. (A more detailed version is here)
Obama’s stimulus package was another temporary and failed effort by the Empire to provide bread and circuses for the rabble. Here in tiny Perry County, Tennessee the unemployment figures dropped from over 25% to 17% overnight. On 30 September 2010, the money runs out and three hundred (300) people will again be without income. Some businesses thought they had found the fountain of prosperity with stimulus money – workers they didn’t have to pay for. Now reality is hitting – without more government money, doors are going to close. Small local banks across the continent are going to feel the pinch of debtors not being able to pay.
A January article by Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D., published on Money and Markets was titled, "200 Bank Failures in 2010." Only one hundred forty banks failed in 2009. Weiss made a great case for the validity of his article’s title. And as of last Friday, one hundred nine (109) banks have failed in 2010. We are well on our way to a new record!
It continues to amaze me that banks almost always fail on a Friday. I am sure that the FDIC’s explanation for this is that it gives them the weekend to sell the balance sheets to another, larger, and more capable banker AND be able to open the doors to customers on Monday without causing a panic. (I am sure that these bureaucrats work weekends!!) Of course, the FDIC is making good on deposits by using more tax dollars than those already used to bail out the Big Boys (I’m not talking burgers here).
The best solution remains … secession. Leave the mess in the laps of the Wall Street manipulators. Apart from Florida and the Atlanta area of Georgia, which have been greatly corrupted by the predatory methods of Wall Street, the thirteen states of the Old South have experienced only twelve bank failures.
Tennessee has not had one bank failure this year.
Let’s get rid of our over-lords and become a free Tennessee Nation. We may not do everything right, but we surely won’t do everything as wrong as Washington and Wall Street does.
Just finished reading Nullification, How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. He makes the following statement in the final chapter.
“Note that our wise public servants are not portrayed as having sinister motives. From time to time they may make “mistakes,” but their intentions are good and they seek only to serve us. Those who resist them, on the other hand, are wicked and perverse.”
Politicians make themselves out to be virtuous. Although the print and broadcast media salivate at the thought of a politician caught up in a salacious scandal, they will close ranks around that official who is accused of wrong-doing by any average citizen. The talking heads routinely express a haughty distain for the “obviously unenlightened” souls who would point out moral deficiencies or legal wanderings in government.
It brings to my mind verses from Isaiah, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!” (5:20,21)
When everything has become convoluted, the end in near. The advantage which only the Christian has in this as in any conflict is that we know Truth will prevail. With no king but King Jesus, we win. It does not matter what defamatory remarks are made about those who would speak out for responsible government. It matters only that we stand for truth.
The biblical foundations of the united States were beginning to be removed when the ink was still drying on the Constitution. The republic ceased to exist under Lincoln. It morphed into an Empire which may just cease to exist under Obama.
As sure as empires rise, they fall. As sure as empires fall, there will be freedom-loving souls who will labour to establish new and legitimate civil governments.
Today, the Tennessee Nation blog hosts a guest writer for the first time. Her name is Sara Hill and lives in Alabama.
Chemistry & Physics
My favorite professor in college was a chemistry teacher who wore a big, fat cigar in the corner of his mouth like women wear jewelry. When he lectured, he drove me crazy putting that slobbered-over cigar in his mouth and taking it out again.
But he was so popular and my class so large that I never did make it up to the front of the auditorium after class to have a friendly chat with him about isomers of hydrocarbons before a long line of others with similar intentions had formed. I gave up trying about mid-semester.
But a story he told has stayed with me. Before he became a professor, he was a chemist in research and development for some large corporation. He concocted a product he thought would be a major breakthrough because it totally eliminated household dust.
It had only one problem, he said.
He took the cigar out of his mouth, and with his signature smirk and his eyes dancing over the auditorium, he said, "It was radioactive." Then he clamped his jaw back down over the cigar.
Bet you didn't know there was a physics lesson in chemistry. It's this: for every action to solve a problem, there is an equal and opposite reaction creating a problem that is twice as difficult to solve as the original.
You would think the U.S. government would have caught on to this one by now and left well enough alone!
Thank you Sara! Apparently, no one in the Empire's machinery is as perceptive as you and your chemistry professor.
Was Obama born in these united States? Is he a “natural born” citizen as the Constitution requires him to be in order to hold the office of President?
I have to admit that his employment of lawyers to prevent the release of any birth records (as well as other items such as his college owrk) is enough evidence to convince me that he is not eligible to hold office.
At one point, Congressman Marsha Blackburn said that she and others were sponsoring legislation that would in the future require candidates to submit birth records prior to filing to run for President. Not sure any legislation was actually filed. But apparently no one in Washington is brave enough to ask hard questions anymore.
Yesterday, Jerome R. Corsi posted an article on WorldNetDaily.com concerning the issue of Obama’s mother’s passport records having been “destroyed.” Interesting!
Maybe I have overlooked it, but the most interesting tidbits in Corsi’s article were these:
when Ann Dunham applied for a U.S. passport from Jakarta, Indonesia in 1981, she “indicated hat she was in Indonesia working on a two-year contract from the Ford Foundation, from January 1981 through December 1982.”
and, “Ann Dunham was working on a microfinance program for the Ford Foundation, which was overseen by Peter Geithner, the father of Timothy Geithner, the current U.S. secretary of the treasury.”
This is the stuff of Hollywood conspiracy flicks! A birth under mysterious circumstances… a mother working as a functionary for an organization whose tentacles encompass the globe… the organization actively promotes global government... the mother's supervisor is tightly connected to global financial institutions... government documents gone missing… the election of a “world leader” with questionable credentials… the leader refuses to acknowledge his anti-Christian Muslim faith.
Just when maybe you’re not sure that this nation deserves God’s judgment, something like this comes along that yells, no screams, “REPENT!”
The battle lines are certainly being drawn in Arizona. The good citizens and the Legislature and the Governor of Arizona appreciate the rule of law. The u.s. court’s Judge Susan Bolton prefers political posturing.
According to Associated Press propagandists, the u.s. district court has ordered Arizona’s law officers not to enforce the provisions of their law:
that require officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws.
that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times
that make it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places
that allow officers to make warrantless arrests of suspected illegal immigrants
The BUZZ word in all this is “RACIAL PROFILING.” Isn’t this just inflammatory rhetoric by those who don’t like laws enforced? When the police are looking for a suspect, they develop a “CRIMINAL” profile. The profile may contain references to psychological aspects of the law-breaker being sought, but it will usually contain information such as height, weight, sex, and hair, eye, and skin color.
If the crime is painting swastikas on a Jewish center, the criminal profile usually indicates that the suspect is WHITE! Is that “RACIAL PROFILING?” No! And very few people in their logical mind would say differently.
But it appears that when those suspected of illegal entry from Mexico into Arizona are listed as Hispanic, the police are conducting RACIAL PROFILING. Get a grip!! It’s not RACIALS that the police are looking for, it is criminals! Thus it is a CRIMINAL PROFILE!!
Arizona ought to do what children are taught. When the local bully starts to yell insults, ignore him. When the u.s. courts start yelling insults at Arizona…or any State for that matter…ignore them and do what is right. The sides in this battle are obvious: one side believes in the rule of law, the other believes in the absence of law (anarchy).
Arrest the illegals and ship them back! What is judge Bolton going to do about it? I doubt that you will see her out on the streets attempting a "judicial" arrest of the officers who ignor her bullying!
Here’s to Arizona becoming free and independent, just as I desire that we gain a free Tennessee Nation.
On Thursday, 22 July, the United Nation’s International Court of Justice at The Hague gave legal backing to Kosovo’s secession from Serbia.Landlocked Kosovo, with its two million inhabitants – 90 percent of them ethnic Albanians – had unilaterally declared independence in 2008 from Serbia after UN-brokered negotiations to resolve its future status failed.
The United States and sixty-eight other countries recognise Kosovo as independent, including all but five of the 27 European Union member states. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called "on all states to move beyond the issue of Kosovo's status and engage constructively in support of peace and stability in the Balkans, and we call on those states that have not yet done so to recognise Kosovo," while Vice President Joe Biden reached out to Serbia by telephoning Serbian President Boris Tadic urging him to "work constructively to resolve practical issues with Kosovo."
At first glance this seems to be a positive move for those who might favour secession from the Columbian Empire, but wait… and consider.
The Serbs are historically and in fact a Christian people, while the majority population of Kosovo are Muslin. The United States and the European nations are backing Muslims against the Church of Jesus Christ! (It should be noted that Russia is standing with Serbia.)
After 150 years of terrorism and ethnic cleansing, Muslim Albanians have reduced the Christian population in Kosovo – the heartland of Christian Serbia – to about 10% though that number continues to shrink as terrorists attacks continue.
The US/UN have consistently backed Muslim terrorists against Christians in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq. In Israel, the Empire supports policies which deprive Christians of many ordinary rights.
I realize that many Christians support making America great again, but the tipping point has been passed. This nation, this Empire, is in its final days. No armed attack will destroy it. It will fall because of a deserved Divine judgment.
Many Christians mistakenly believe that Israel is the “apple of God’s eye,” but the reality is that it is the Church which He will protect and nurture. That government, those leaders who will oppose His Church will be destroyed at His hand.
Documentation of the ineptitude and duplicity of the Empire sometimes comes from the strangest sources. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart could hardly be called a friend of liberty as defined by Southerners, but he does make a telling point with this sketch from his show. Here is a link to the video.
While eight Presidents have tickled the ears of the voting public, they have continued policies which have resulted in exactly the reverse result. They all, both Democrat and Republican alike have forged alliances with BigOil and used the Empire’s military to ensure profits for boys on Wall Street.
Stewart’s last comment is meant to ridicule those who call Obama a communist, but what Stewart really does is point out that the presidency has been occupied by socialists for the last eight administrations.
We need to be free of such. We need a Tennessee Nation.
“Self-sufficiency or individual responsibility is a prerequisite to being free and enjoying the benefits of liberty.” So say Ronald and Donald Kennedy in their new book Nullifying Tyranny.
With the subtitle, Creating Moral Communities in an Immoral Society, the Kennedy brothers return to bookstores with an impassioned plea for Christians to recognize that the principles for a moral and sensible government come from God Himself in the Scripture.
Self-sufficiency they say, “…will produce the following characteristics in an individual: (1) the concept that the individual is solely responsible for his actions, (2) the concept that the individual must accept the consequences for his actions or inactions, and (3) the knowledge that the individual will not be allowed to shift his responsibility to society if he does not take care of his own needs.”
There are legitimate positive results from the application of biblical principles of self-government extending out into the civil realm. When people act in a certain fashion, then specifically defined results can be expected. The problem we face is that politicians (those operate for their own self-interest) already understand that ideas and actions have specific consequences. The Kennedy brothers expound:
Unfortunately, sly politicians know that composed of strong and self-reliant families pose a significant barrier to the envy and greed of politicians and those closely connected to the political ruling elite. Politicians know that people who rely upon themselves and their local community have very little need for a powerful political leader, government bureaucrats, and legions of regulators who promise to provide for the needs of the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden, or the oppressed masses.
The result is that politicians will enact laws which do not protect the people, their families, and their property, but rather laws which protect the politicians’ interests. The further the distance from the electorate, the more secure the politician is in fulfilling his desires rather than serving “we the people.”
Smaller and more localized government is our only hope.
Just saw this and could not pass on sharing it with y'all.
The notion that governments derive their only just authority from the consent of the governed is a foundational principle of the American experiment. However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 23% of voters nationwide believe the federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-two percent (62%) say it does not, and 15% are not sure.
I attended a seminar this last week sponsored by none other than the Federal Reserve Bank. The information presented by David A. Penn, Director and Associate Professor at Middle Tennessee State University, was titled, “Focus on Underemployment.”
Mr. Penn gave some interesting focus on the way the Empire reports labor and unemployment statistics. He first gave some definitions.
Labor force – number of persons 16 years and older working or actively seeking work. Unemployment rate – number of persons 16 years and older seeking work as percent of labor force. Underemployment rate – no official definition: informally, the percentage of the labor force working but underutilized. Discouraged workers – without work and willing to work, but not actively searching for a job because no work to be found. Not counted as unemployed, because no active job search. Not in the labor force.
Just a note to the definitions; since individuals younger than 18 cannot be interviewed without a parent’s permission, 16 and 17 year-olds are not reported anywhere.
The Empire’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on 2 July, that, “Total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 125,000 in June, and the unemployment rate edged down to 9.5 percent.”
Let’s do some real math on the unemployment situation.
Unemployment rate: 9.5%
(Those actively searching for work, able and willing to work right away.) Add the marginally attached workers: 11%
(Not looking for work but are available. Includes those who have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months and those discouraged and no longer looking.) Add those working part-time for economic reasons: 16.5%
(Those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule.)
The REAL unemployment figure: 37%
The Emperor and his minions must continue to distort the facts of a situation which all too many Tennesseans are experiencing first-hand. As long as the Empire continues to drain the economy by taxation and inflation, the problem will persist.
Tennesseans must recognize the need to take hold of their personal future. We cannot allow the bureaucrats across the Potomac to continue their programs which in the end will only stimulate their power.
We need to be able to completely govern ourselves. We need a Tennessee Nation.
In their latest book, Nullifying Tyranny (Pelican Publishing, 2010), the brothers Ronald and Donald Kennedy present a list of principles of government. Their Principle number 8 is, "Elected leaders in a political system of minimum government will be universally acknowledged as statesmen."
The word “statesman” is little used in modern America. More often when it is used it is in fact misused. When the liberal media use the term they mean a successful politician, one who has learned the technique of using OPM (other people’s money) to buy incumbency and assure that he and those close to him reap the benefits available to those who control government—the ruling elite.
This definition is better applied to politicians. Statesmen are the exact opposite of politicians. Politicians tend toward immorality in government and life, whereas statesmen tend toward morality in government and their personal life.
Later the Kennedy brothers ask the question, How can “we the people” establish a system to check the natural tendency of those who control the reins of governmental power from abusing those powers?
The answer is amazingly simple – make sure that the units of governments and the powers of government and the resources of government are so limited that the evil and self-indulgent politician sees no profit in getting involved.
Sluggards (as they are called in Proverbs) do not want to expend to much energy in order to generate their own wealth and/or power. Kissing babies and making stump speeches and eating a number of chicken banquets every two or four (or six) years is enough labour for the sluggard.
The Columbian Empire has become too massive: it collects its revenue by force or threat of force, and when it cannot collect enough, it simply prints more. The Empire reaches into every business and every church and every family with its demands. It is like the flower in the “Little Shop of Horrors.” It’s constant cry is, “FEED ME!”
By every means of nullification, sovereign States must begin to rip the power away from Washington and the politicians who have made a habit of feeding at the public trough. When that fails, we will be forced to secede.
Yesterday was a fine day in the topsy-turvy Wonderland world of the Empire. The Empire’s Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in Phoenix to block Arizona’s new law which adds state enforcement for the Empire’s Immigration laws.
On the first business day after celebrating our political independence from the British Empire, our own Columbian Empire puts the full-court press to squash the independence of one of the Sovereign States of the union…that’s what I call ironic.
The lawsuit was filed by Empire bureaucrats in an Empire “District Court.” Now we should certainly be waiting for justice from this deal, shouldn’t we? Can anyone say “kangaroo?”
The Empire is at odds with Arizona because the law in question makes it a state crime for people to violate a federal immigration law. The absurdity of it all is amazing. The Empire is telling everyone, “We get to enforce our laws when and if we want to, so BACK OFF you plebians!”
May I pray that Arizona’s officials take the attitude of an earlier generation of Georgians toward the Empire’s courts. When the Supreme Court found against Georgia, Georgia countered with a proclamation which ordered the immediate capture and hanging (without benefit of clergy) any official who attempted to enforce the Court’s decision.
The Empire does not have the resolve to challenge a bunch of law-breaking wetbacks, so I doubt they would have the intestinal fortitude to face a well-armed and gallows-ready Arizona public.
It is interesting to review the various arguments for “immigration reform.” Usually the proponents of reform actually mean the elimination of all restriction on immigration. Emperor Obama is now finger-pointing to excuse his inability to erase immigration law.
I am currently finishing reading a book, Hollowing Out the Middle, which discusses the brain and talent drain from small towns across America. While pointing out problems, one of the solutions proposed by the authors is to welcome immigrants, both legal and illegal, as an infusion of employees and culture for dying small towns. They write:
Immigration can be a transformative force for small towns and depopulating rural area, but it is one that is unpredictable, controversial, and subject to the eddies of political whim. As it currently exists in the Heartland, immigration is too unstable to be a reliable solution to hollowing out; however, with the right reforms at the federal level and planning at the state and local levels, it can be an important part of future planning and policy.
Authors Carr and Kefalas are sociologists; they should take a few history courses to see the disastrous effects of their soft-sell peddling of immigration reform.
In 2004, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm addressed a conference sponsored by the Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington. His speech has been printed on the internet and nearly gone viral in emails. His perspective was one from the history of civilizations and their collapse.
Lamm, a Democrat, proposed eight steps to destroy America. His first:
We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual…
Lamm’s points make sense. There is much to do in order to salvage what culture we have left. Let us hope that our local community leaders and our politicians in Nashville will make the right choices so that we might be able to live in a Free Tennessee.
