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.
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.
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.
The demagogues of multiculturalism are at it again! On Monday afternoon, the Nashville Scene’s website reported on a law signed by Governor Bredesen. “Were talking about legislation that basically requires anyone who talks or looks like a foreigner to carry documentation proving they’re in this country legally.”
The ACLU’s director Hedy Weinberg referred to the law as “un-American and warned it would lead to racial profiling.”
THE TRUTH?
Monday (28 June 2010), Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen signed into law HB670/SB1141. It reads:
When a person is arrested for any offense and is confined, for any period, in the jail of the county or any municipality, a reasonable effort to review documents in the possession of the prisoner shall be made to assess the citizenship status of the person so confined. If the keeper of the jail or other officer cannot determine the lawful status of the prisoner from the documents in the possession of the prisoner or if it is determined that the person is not lawfully present in the United States, pursuant to the federal Immigration and Naturalization Act…the keeper of the jail or other officer shall notify the United States department of homeland security by facsimile transmission or other appropriate means.
What’s the problem? 1) The person has to have been jailed for breaking a law, and 2) It is the jailer, not any policeman, who has to review any documents.
This is the same procedure which has been in use in both Nashville and Memphis for a couple of years!
I believe I am being more than kind in saying Weinberg is a demagogue—someone who uses the passions or prejudices of the populace for their own interests; an unprincipled popular orator or agitator.
Gov. Bredesen has criticized Arizona’s anti-illegal-immigration legislation, and refused to sign the Tennessee legislature’s resolution “praising Arizona.” He called it “political chest-thumping.” He did the right thing in signing HB670/SB1141. It is limited in its scope and specific in its application.
HB670/SB1141 is a step in the direction of establishing a Free Tennessee.
This December marks one hundred fifty years since South Carolina led the way out of the Union by seceding. Most people (especially politicians) will laugh about the possibility of secession today. We have been taught in government schools and in private and Christian schools as well that we live in “one nation under God, indivisible.” A socialist creed, but not the attitude of the Founding Fathers and certainly never Christian!
In April 1861 Tennessee Governor Isham G. Harris called a special session of the Legislature to respond to Lincoln’s unconstitutional call for troops to invade the States which had legally seceded. On 25 April, he delivered a message which has these lines:
"we are… dissolving our connection with the Federal Union. As established by our fathers, that Union no longer exists. However much we may have cherished it heretofore, no intelligent and candid man can deny that it has ceased to be a blessing, and has become a curse; that it is no longer a high and sacred means of protection, but an engine of oppression; that is has ceased to be a bond of brotherhood, and has become a hateful connection between communities at war."
"The Federal Union of the States, thus practically dissolved, can never be restored; or if ever thus restored, it must, by the very act, cease to be a Union of free and independent States, such as our fathers established. It will become a consolidated, centralized Government, without liberty or equality, in which some will reign and others serve--the few tyrannize, and the many suffer."
Governor Harris correctly understood that should the Yankee North prevail in the coming war, we would no longer have the Union which the Founding Fathers had worked so hard to establish.
As school-children, we are taught to reflect on the Republic and Constitution delivered to us from 1787. As adults, we should recognize that a Union which must be imposed by force is no union at all.
Under Muslim law, a wife is not allowed to leave a marriage. The husband may humiliate her, beat her, and even kill her, but she has no rights. Under Christian law, there are limits to authority in the home, and avenues for escape. Which is that type of government which you will want ruling us in the twenty-first century?
As for me, give me Christianity and a Free Tennessee.
Who allowed the Left to rename Criminal Profiling as Racial Profiling? Replacing the word criminal with racial obviously blurs the intent of the profile and gives the impression that policing agencies are only intending to harass certain racial groups rather than arrest criminals.
A year or two ago, the Left attempted to rename suicide bombers, but the public just didn’t swallow it. The moniker remains. Yet any attempt to apprehend those engaged in illegal activity by developing an easy-to-understand description has become racial profiling because a racial designation is sometimes used.
Policemen are aware that certain actions while driving will indicate that the driver may be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. They are “profiled” and stopped. After a cursory conversation with the driver and possibly a field sobriety test the officer either lets them continue or arrests them for DUI. Profiling just possibly saved the life of someone else on the road. No one complains.
Arizona is being accused of racism because they are utilizing racial profiling. These accusations are supposed to make us cringe in horror at Arizona’s insensitivity. GO ARIZONA!!
It might surprise some to know that the great bulk of illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico are Mexicans! WOW! The key word here is illegal! Mexicans can be asked to prove that they are not illegally in the US. If they provide the proper information, they are released. Sounds just like the traffic stop of someone who was perhaps a little sleepy, but not under the influence. GO ARIZONA!!
The only way for a people to have liberty is to live with consistent constitutional government. When the government and its leaders become arbitrary in their enforcement of law, no one is safe...no one is free.
Tennessee needs to join Arizona, so we too can experience the fruit of liberty.
In a recent blog (Wednesday, 28 April 2010 - The Priority of Being Southern), I related the story of a Marine recruiter in Nashville rejecting a young man "because he had a Confederate Battle Flag tattooed on his shoulder in an area that would be completely covered by a t-shirt, and certainly by his uniform."
The Marine Corps seems has responded to its own political correctness by “clarifying” it position. According to Staff Sgt. Andrew Hurt, the public affairs representative for Marine Corps Recruiting Station Nashville, "We're not saying that a Confederate flag tattoo is racist, but it could potentially be. So we call that an 'exception-to-policy' tattoo. 'Exception-to-policy' tattoos have to be reviewed by a general."
He continued, "It's the same as if someone came in and said they were on heroin. Hard-drug waivers would have to be approved high up the chain as well. There's a myriad of [commanding general] waivers."
Now THAT certainly clarifies the policy – a Battle Flag tattoo ranks right up there with heroin addiction in getting a waiver. I didn’t realize that the USMC was allowing their recruiters to actively enlist addicts, but there you have it…straight from the horse's jackasse's mouth.
I don’t think they are going to change my attitude toward the depths of depravity to which the Empire has and will sink to accomplish its goals for world-wide conquest.
I just want a free Tennessee. Free from all this mental atrophy.
We must realign out thinking, we must think locally. As long as we view national elections as the priority, we have lost our freedom. This is the fatal flaw in the Tea Party movement – they think by electing the right Congressman, Senator, or President that everything will be all right. WRONG!
When the U.S. Constitution was written and ratified back in 1787, representation in the US House of Representatives was approximately 1 for every 48,000 people. Today the ratio is one US Rep. to 703,000 people and growing! Tennessee has a ratio of 1 to 64,000, in its own State House of Representatives. Better ratio, better representation!
But even closer to home, the local Sheriff is the one who can prevent federal and state authorities from harassing the county’s citizens. Those authorities are to report to the local Sheriff before they serve warrants on county residents. They are to submit to his authority. The local Sheriff has the recognized authority to “interpose” and protect the local citizens.
The local County Board or City Council is the most important legislative authority for the private citizen. Just a few weeks ago, a local board in California outlawed fast food restaurants from using toys as a promotional item. I consider that particular action a bit “juvenile,” but the point is that the local Boards and Councils DO have the authority to protect the local citizens from any threat – perceived or real.
We need to elect our best men to these local positions. Ignore national elections; don’t waste a dime or an hour of time on those elections. THINK LOCALLY !
Illegal immigration into these united States has become pandemic. The recent administrations (both Republican and Democratic) in Washington have chosen to turn a blind eye toward the situation, so localities are beginning to take their own action.
This past week, Arizona’s governor Jan Brewer signed into law a bill that supporters said would take handcuffs off police in dealing with illegal immigration in Arizona. Arizona, by the way, has become a virtual boulevard for human and drug smuggling from Mexico. There are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona alone.
In reaction, Arizona congressman Raul Grijalva called on businesses and convention groups to boycott Arizona as a meeting spot. Raul is running for re-election in Arizona and called for a boycott of his own State?
The Associated Press reported that the American Immigration Lawyers Association announced that it would move its September conference for Scottsdale to another state. How about moving it to Mexico, boys? But then again, some of them might not be able to get back across the border legally.
The significant word in dealing with the situation is … illegal. That means NOT LEGAL. The Arizona law is directed at people who are BREAKING THE LAW!! How in the world can that fact not be a factor in people’s thinking.
Kuddos to the Arizona legislature and to their governor Jan Brewer. May the people of Arizona rise up and call her blessed! May the illegals quit their whining, rise up, and go home.
When the Empire refuses to act, the sovereign States need to. The Empire is corrupt, it is bankrupt, it is over-extended militarily, and it is slowly grinding to a halt. Our elected officials at the state and local levels must begin to exercise their responsibility of interposition.
Interposition is simply the concept of—that “magistrate” which is closer to the people “positions” himself between the people and the unruly magistrate which is further away from the people. The doctrine of interposition was advocated by Thomas Jefferson and other patriots as a necessary aspect of federalism, whereby a state could prevent the invasion of the reserved powers of state and people by some department of the federal government. It also applies in the case of a local official preventing a state official from abusing a citizen’s personal or property rights.
When State and local officials actually begin to exercise their legitimate authority, then we will truly have a Free Tennessee.
It does not take much intelligence to read about the conflict which the thirteen colonies had with Great Britain and relate their situation to ours. It does take a desire to govern and lead with dignity and within the limits of a respect for unalienable, God-given rights of the individual. To relate our situation with that of our colonial ancestors takes only a moment to open your eyes and ears.
The third sentence from the Declaration of the causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms adopted by the Second Continental Congress:
The legislature of Great-Britain, however, stimulated by an inordinate passion for a power not only unjustifiable, but which they know to be peculiarly reprobated by the very constitution of that kingdom, and desparate of success in any mode of contest, where regard should be had to truth, law, or right, have at length, deserting those, attempted to effect their cruel and impolitic purpose of enslaving these colonies by violence, and have thereby rendered it necessary for us to close with their last appeal from reason to arms.
Men are sinful by nature and will revert to a sinful manipulations to obtain their desires. In the body politic there are two driving forces: power and money. The obtaining of one usually helps provide the other. The manipulations to gain power (or maintain it) will happen in city and local governments as quickly as it will in state and international settings. Churches, clubs and volunteer organizations are all susceptible as well.
The sinful yearnings of men are restrained individually by the Holy Spirit. In the body politic, men must be restrained first by their oath of loyalty to their governing constitution and secondly, by a regard for “truth, law or right.” Our founding fathers understood that.
One of the great failings of today's politicians is that they neither know nor understand our constitutions. Many have never even read them.
Our founding fathers saw that the King and Parliament had decided to do what they wished regardless of constitution or truth. Emperor Obama and the Congress of the Columbian Empire are repeating the desperate actions of Great Britain in the 1770s. The Emperor and his minions have the “cruel and impolitic purpose of enslaving” us all.
They are moving toward a last appeal to reason. The cry for secession is now audible. It will soon grow to a chorus of such multitude that it will sound as the thundering roar of a tumbling rapids.
Some would prefer to do away with not just some, but all government. Our patriot fathers in the 1770s had a deeper knowledge of the purposes of civil government than 99% of our politicians today. In the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, John Dickenson’s second sentence was,
But a reverence for our Creator, principles of humanity, and the dictates of common sense, must convince all those who reflect upon the subject, that government was instituted to promote the welfare of mankind, and ought to be administered for the attainment of that end.
Although not all of the delegates to the Continental Congresses were orthodox Christians, they all were profoundly influenced by a biblical worldview. They recognized that the affairs of men are governed by a Creator who so rules over His creation that they also utilized the term Providence in speaking of Him.
Civil government was in their minds a divine provision for the safety of men. When they spoke of promoting the “welfare of mankind,” they gave no hint of interpreting that phrase as an opportunity for government to finance the livelihood and medical care of the population.
When our patriot fathers spoke of the “welfare of mankind,” they were speaking of safety from evil-doers, and protection from unruly magistrates, and the security of private property.
When our patriot fathers spoke of such safety, protection, and security they were calling to mind the effective punishment for violations of the Ten Commandments – such as, Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not do murder; Thou shalt not covet.
Our patriot fathers were able to conceive of a limited civil government, because they focused on negative law – the “nots.” Today civil government continues to encroach on our lives because it focuses on positive law – the “shalls.” There are never enough rules to how we should do things, but it’s easy to say how not to.
The Columbian Empire continues to pump out massive amounts of regulations and rules. The Empire is not just hungry to rule other countries, it is thirsty to rule every facet of our daily lives.
The only way to be free of that oppression is to gain a Free Tennessee.
Perhaps we should begin to discuss some of the issues which demand a separation from the Columbian Empire.
Most people start their argument with the Declaration of Independence, but I wish to start with a document penned a year earlier on 6 July 1775. Called the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, it went through three drafts, first by John Rutledge, then Thomas Jefferson, and finally by John Dickenson.
If it was possible for men, who exercise their reason to believe, that the divine Author of our existence intended a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in, and an unbounded power over others, marked out by his infinite goodness and wisdom, as the objects of a legal domination never rightfully resistible, however severe and oppressive, the inhabitants of these colonies might at least require from the parliament of Great-Britain some evidence, that this dreadful authority over them, has been granted to that body.
A rather long and run-on sentence which asks, “Where did you of the Empire get the idea that you have the authority to rule over every area of our lives?”
The various groups which have been forming and speaking out against the totalitarian tendencies of the Columbian Empire are asking the same question. We are not so different from our “1776” ancestors.
Liberty is the ability to govern our own affairs without interference from government, as long as we are not interfering with the affairs of others. Put another way, my liberty ends where yours begins.
I will be exploring more of the Declaration of the Causes… over the next several blogs.
I arrived early last evening at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville to attend an “Economic Forum with the Fed. While waiting for the doors to open, I read a few pages of Bastiat’s “The Law.”
You say: “There are persons who have no money,” and you turn to the law. But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk. Nor are the lacteal veins of the law supplied with milk from a source outside the society. Nothing can enter the public treasury for the benefit of one citizen or one class unless other citizens and other classes have been forced to send it in. If every person draws from the treasury the amount that he has put in it, it is true that the law then plunders nobody. But this procedure does nothing for the persons who have no money. It does not promote equality of income. The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.
Frederic Bastiat, (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman, and author. He published “The Law” as a pamphlet in June 1850. Bastiat did most of his writing during the years before and after the 1848 socialist revolutions in throughout Europe.
The 1848 revolutions are largely ignored in history courses in this country, but they had a tremendous impact upon our government and culture. Few people realize that German ex-patriot socialists settled in and around St. Louis in the early 1850s and played an important role in Lincoln’s War against the Republic.
The excerpt quoted above from “The Law” provides such a simple argument for restricting any government largess. Anytime the government pays for something, it has to take that money from someone by force. If that something is outside the limited sphere of protecting the innocent and punishing the lawless, then you and I have been robbed. It’s just that simple.
The thieves are not at Brushy Mountain, they are in Washington, DC and unfortunately their children are in Nashville.
May we all begin to understand our own participation in the theft.
It may be time for you stop appearing on all the fancy national network news shows and come back to Tennessee and live with the common folk for awhile. You have become infected with that most deadly of diseases, Potomac Fever.
The Fever is distinguished by a “tax and spend” mentality. Its most recognizable symptom in those who claim to be “conservative” is the support for legislation which is destructive to local economies and the average household.
If you were to actually spend a day or two drivingslowly through the rural counties of your district, you would be able to see the factories vacated as a result of “free trade” agreements such as NAFTA. Thousands of Tennesseans have been left without employment because their jobs have been shipped across our southern border or to any number of cheap-labour countries overseas.
In the wake of closed factories, Mom & Pop stores on every rural Main Street have been forced to close. And what has appeared in their place? Big-boxes like Super WalMarts are supplying cheaper-than-dime-store merchandise from China while advertizing more things for a better life.
A tremendous bulk of your campaign support comes from Big Business donors and their PACs, so it has become easier for you to listen to their “experts” pontificate, while your constituents suffer. A twenty and fifty dollar donor is not really a voice worth listening to. Obviously, their lack of financial resources is a result of intellectual deficiency and thus an inability to actually view a situation realistically and logically.
NAFTA and its ilk benefit Big Business. These “free trade” agreements are destroying the economic foundations of the county you claim to love. They are also destroying our ability to defend ourselves in the event of a real war, instead of the neo-con adventurism which has plagued the United States and caused the deaths of so many young men and women. Should we actually have a real war, we no longer have the domestic manufacturing capability of defending ourselves.
Your sworn duty in your oath of office is to uphold the Constitution. Have you read it lately? Your obligation Biblically is to be a servant of the people you represent. Have you actually listened to your constituents lately?
I am President of a rural county Chamber of Commerce. Not just the businesses, but the county itself is on “life support” because of the empirical-style policies coming for the District and which have your support. Wake up! Or stay home!
Most people today think of government exclusively within the civil realm. In reality, there are a multitude of “governments” which influence our everyday lives. The most common governments beside the state are those of the family and church.
Some other examples are local clubs such as the Elks, Civitans, Rotary, the Quilting Circle, Swim Club, Boy Scouts or the Brownies. Every human association has rules – written or unwritten – which are meant to maintain order within the group, and that is government!
But the most important government of all is self-government. The inability to maintain control of self was Adam’s problem in the Garden. The lack of self-control has provided tremendous profits for the media as they have reported on control failures as varied as sports figures, entertainment idols, political stars and religious icons.
The lack of self-control also caused disharmony at your work or in your family this past week. In every one of these instances of lack of self-control, we find that the lack of self-control tends to require an increase in exterior control.
There are a variety of disciplinary measures which maintain control in families, churches, and clubs. Civil government utilizes physical force and economic manipulation to maintain control.
When people around us exhibit a lack of self-control, the common reaction is “there oughta-be-a-law.” The civil government historically has been all too happy to oblige with a new and more severe form of force.
In order to truly be a free people – in order to have a Free Tennessee – we as a people must develop a greater sense of and use of self-government. Individuals must take the responsibility of maintaining order in our lives and the lives of those closest to us.
We must think of government first in the personal realm.
The center of the Columbian Empire (Washington, D.C.) is entering its fourth day of being closed for business. Snowed in!
I sense this wonderful euphoria sweeping the hills and hollers.
Don't y'all feel safer knowing that all the mindless bureaucrats and duplicitous elected officials and self-serving appointees and witless judges are doing nothing? I do!
Let’s all boycott the airlines until they decide to tell the FEDs to “butt out!”
After everyone had to start taking their shoes off because some idiot, would-be martyr tried to ignite his shoes, I had decided that flying any commercial airline was just too much trouble. Now, everyone is going to be strip-searched via machine because another idiot, would-be martyr tried to ignite his underwear. Actually, I am a little surprised that the Kindergartners running the Department of Homeland Security haven’t issued a security update requiring that all underwear be removed and visibly searched by the minimum-wage employees at the air terminals. (My apologies to all Kindergartners for the above comment. I know you children are smarter than the bureaucrats running Homeland.)
A little review, if you please. In the eight years since the September 2001 incidents, there have been exactly 8 fatal accidents in the United States involving commercial airlines. Those eight accidents resulted in the death of 103 souls. None of these deaths could have been prevented by all the security being paid for by you and I. In fact, all the security that we are paying for has not even produced a would-be martyr for prosecution.
I am aware that country legend Eddy Arnold couldn’t board an airline because he was on the terrorist watch list. There was a recent story in the media about a child that was prevented from boarding an airliner because he was listed as a terrorist. I believe I also remember U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy was once stopped from boarding a plane because he was “on the list.” But the idiot, would-be underwear martyr was able to fly even though his own father was warning the authorities to watch him.
In the year 2008, there were 1,043 traffic fatalities in Tennessee alone. That is ten times the eight-year record of deaths in airliners. Yet Tennessee legislators have not felt it necessary to pass legislation, nor has the Tennessee Department of Transportation felt it necessary to implement regulations to screen your underwear before you drive.
I do not intend to board any airliner in the near future, not because I fear for my safety. Flying is a very safe mode of transportation! I won’t fly because of the stupidity of the Empire, thinking that another restriction is going to make it safer.
Tennesseans will be so much better off when the Columbian Empire finally falls under the stress of its own weight. Tennesseans will then be able to enjoy a Free Tennessee.
