[142857] The Magic Number / "Palin to feds: Alaska is sovereign state" by Chelsea Schilling"--Coutesy of Miguel Uría

Tue Jul 21 14:24:45 EDT 2009

THE SARAH CHRONICLES
Palin to feds: Alaska is sovereign state
Constitutional rights reasserted in growing resistance to Washington

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Posted: July 20, 2009
11:08 pm Eastern

By Chelsea Schilling

© 2009 WorldNetDaily 

      Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a joint resolution declaring Alaska's sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution – and now 36 other states have introduced similar resolutions as part of a growing resistance to the federal government. 

Just weeks before she plans to step down from her position as Alaska governor, Palin signed House Joint Resolution 27, sponsored by state Rep. Mike Kelly on July 10, according to a Tenth Amendment Center report. The resolution "claims sovereignty for the state under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States." 

Alaska's House passed HJR 27 by a vote of 37-0, and the Senate passed it by a vote of 40-0. 

According to the report, the joint resolution does not carry with it the force of law, but supporters say it is a significant move toward getting their message out to other lawmakers, the media and grassroots movements. 

Alaska's resolution states: 

  Be it resolved that the Alaska State Legislature hereby claims sovereignty for the state under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States. 
  Be it further resolved that this resolution serves as Notice and Demand to the federal government to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers. 

While seven states – Tennessee, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Alaska and Louisiana – have had both houses of their legislatures pass similar decrees, Alaska Gov. Palin and Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen are currently the only governors to have signed their states' sovereignty resolutions. 

The resolutions all address the Tenth Amendment that says: "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." 

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The Tenth Amendment Center also reported that Florida State Sen. Carey Baker, R-Eustis, introduced a memorial earlier this month urging "Congress to honor the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and United States Supreme Court case law which limit the scope and exercise of federal power." 

"Now more than ever, state governments must exercise their Constitutional right to say no to the expansion of the federal government's reckless deficit spending and abuse of power," Sen. Baker said. "With this resolution, our Legislature can send a message to Washington that our state's rights must be respected." 

The full text of Florida's memorial is available on the Tenth Amendment Center website. 

As WND reported, South Carolina's proposal, S. 424, is titled: "To affirm South Carolina's sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution over all powers not enumerated and granted to the federal government by the United States Constitution." 

Essentially it's a reminder that the United States is made up of individual states; it's not a federal authority broken up into political subdivisions. 

In South Carolina, the proposals remains pending in the state Senate, where Sen. Lee Bright said he still hopes that it will be adopted this year. 

The proposal there notes specifically that the "federal government was created by the states … to be an agent of the states," and the states currently "are treated as agents of the federal government," many times in violation of the Constitution. 

Bright told WND the movement is spreading from state to state as fast as lawmakers discover it. 

Michael Boldin, a spokesman for the Tenth Amendment Center, said his organization has created a posting for all such proposals to be tracked. 

Among the states where such proposals at least have been considered are Louisiana, Colorado, Wisconsin, Florida, Illinois, West Virginia, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Nevada, Oregon, Alabama, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Idaho, New Mexico, South Dakota, Virginia, Kentucky, Alaska, Indiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota, South Carolina, Georgia, Kansas, Texas, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Missouri, Iowa, Montana, Michigan, Arizona, Washington and Oklahoma. 

In Louisiana, it passed the Senate in May and the House in June. 

In Idaho, it passed the House in March and the Senate in April. 

In North Dakota, it passed the House and Senate both in April, with the House a short time later adopting changes made by the Senate. 

In South Dakota, it was approved by both houses of the Legislature and under that state's rules does not need the governor's signature. 

In May, Rep. M.J. "Manny" Steele, a Republican in South Dakota, wrote that he believes up to $11 trillion is being wasted in the coming years by Washington's efforts "to duplicate and micromanage our states' affairs." 

He said states should manage their own affairs and not be dependent on a federal cash cow to make ends meet. Likewise with industries, he said, citing federal cash dumps on the banking, insurance and automobile industries. 

Steele told WND his dollar estimate was based on what President Obama himself has allocated in the coming years to spend on stimulus packages, industry bailouts and the like. 

"If we would just let the market take care of these things," he said. 

His letter noted that Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Carolina legislatures joined South Dakota's in passing some statement on the Tenth Amendment this year. The results vary based on state procedures, however. In Oklahoma, the governor vetoed the plan and it was launched on its second trip through the legislature and has been passed by the House. 

"Over the course of decades, there have been increasing federal mandates and acts designed to effectively step in and legislate the affairs of our various states from Washington D.C.," Steele said. "Federal usurpation into state affairs severely limits the ability of state governments to operate according to their citizens' wishes." 

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Loyalty above all else

PENSAMIENTOS POR SELECCION DE MIGUEL URIA QUE ESTIMAMOS APLICABLE A LA CAUSA QUE NOS UNE

* “Congressmen  who willfully take actions during wartime that damages morale and undermine  the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, quickly tried and hanged!!!' / Abraham Lincoln

“ The truth is , in order to get things like universal Health Care  and a revamped Educaton System. Then someone is going to have to give up a piece of the pie so that someone else can have more”

Michelle Obama

“I don’t like the idea of spending more government money, nor am I interested in expanding government’s role 

Barack Obama

"I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist." Van Jones Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).

"A sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future. ... Hence the relentless effort by totalitarian governments to destroy memory. And hence the ingenious techniques for abolishing the social allegiances within which individual memory is given strength and power of resistance." / Robert A. Nisbit

* "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." 

Barak Obama Hussein / Colorado Springs on July 2, 2008.

* "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand  by the president"

Teddie Roosevelt

"The russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration . They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people". - Winston Churchill

"You may try to destroy wealth, and find that all you have done is to increase poverty" ... Commons, March 12, 1947

Winston Churchill

* "A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many 
want in... And how many want out" / Prime Minister Tony Blair

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
- P.J. O'Rourke

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. 
-Mark Twain (1866 )

Talk is cheap . . . except when Congress does it. 
-Unknown

Under this system the best incentive for work disappears, production necessarily drops and indolence and misery prevail in all of society”

Plinio Correa de Oliveira

Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (“Carlos the Jackal”) wrote in his book, L’islam revolutionnaire (Revolutionary Islam) that “only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States.”  Revolutionary Islam, he argues, "attacks the ruling classes in order to achieve a more equitable redistribution of wealth" and Islam is the only "transnational force capable of standing up the enslavement of nations"

“We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ7LcplfkgY&feature=related

Nikita Khrushchev, 1959

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.   But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
 Norman Thomas / U.S. Socialist Party

Presidential candidate 1940

"You don't need God anymore, you have us democrats."
-- Nancy Pelosi (said back in 2006) 

Amigos, segun escribio  Remy de Gourmont

Los amos del pueblo serán siempre aquellos que puedan prometerle un paraíso. 

“The problem with socialism in that you eventually run out of Money”

 Margaret Thatcher

El fanatismo tendrá aún sus días, ya sea el fanatismo solapado de los hábiles o el fanatismo violento de la ignorancia. La ignorancia tendrá mucho tiempo sus abismos y la mediocridad seguirá pretendiendo invadirlo y nivelarlo todo, oponiéndose, sin cesar, a la aristocracia del espíritu, más necesaria a la democracia que a ningún otro sistema de gobierno». 

Ramón Grau San Martín, 1926

Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
By Edwin Mora 

"Socialismo el mejor "leading indicator of disaster" que conozco."

José Butari

President Barack Obama said in Turkey: "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."  

We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism

                    Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev, 1959

Es saludable recordar que el poder del estado siempre crece en exacta proporción inversa a la autonomía individual de los ciudadanos. 

                                              Hugo Byrne

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

Judge Sonia Sotomayor

«Este es el mayor peligro que hoy amenaza a la civilización: la estatificación de la vida, el intervencionismo del Estado, la absorción de toda espontaneidad social por el Estado; es decir, la anulación de la espontaneidad histórica, que en definitiva sostiene, nutre y empuja los destinos humanos. 

El resultado de esta tendencia será fatal.

 Ninguna nueva simiente podrá fructificar. La sociedad tendrá que vivir para el Estado; el hombre, para la máquina del gobierno. El Estado, después de chupar el tuétano a la sociedad, se quedará hético, esquelético, muerto con esa muerte herrumbrosa de la máquina, mucho más cadavérica que la del organismo vivo» 

José Ortega y Gasset, La Rebelión de las Masas, 1993

Como cubano estimo que es sabio recordar al apostol nuestro jose Martí nos dijo:

*  “El Amor a la Patria no es el Amor ridículo a la tierra,

ni a la yerba que pisan nuestras plantas; es el odio invencible a quien la oprime, es el rencor eterno a quien la ataca” / ABDALA / José Martí

* "Sobre serpientes,  ¿Quien levanta pueblos?"

* "Hay hombres varones y hay hombres hembras."

* "Otras veces, los hombres se alquilan."

 * "Hay que arrojar a los "mercaderes del templo."

* "Picardias contra mi, bueno: no contra mi Patria"

* “No, no hay perdón para los actos de odio”

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