And what happens if that should come to pass? Will we continue to be a republic with a central Federal government or does the whole shebang start to come apart with states and others doing as they please and treating anything out of Washington as merely a suggestion and not a requirement?
Issues that have been discussed where states and individuals have pushed back against the Feds include gun control, Common Core education standards, Obama Care regulations and requirements, Federal program enrollment such as Medicaid, and other large issues. To review past discussion on this topic, just enter the search term, ‘will the center hold” in the above search box to see how widespread but underreported this push back against federal tyranny and oppression has become.
Today is a continuation of the discussion we started yesterday on the latest push backs against the Federal government that are happening around the country as we continue to give examples on how the center might not hold in the face of an overreaching, ineffective, and inefficient Federal government and bureaucracy.
1) The following updates come from the Personal Liberty Digest website article that we started to talk about yesterday:
- New York state recently became the 23rd state in the country to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. This is just one of a multitude of state efforts to spit in the eye of Federal laws that prohibit the use of marijuana, considering it a crime in the eyes of the Federal government.
- In the fall elections, this effort to legalize or decriminalize marijuana independent of the Federal government will expand to the states of Alaska and Oregon, Voters there will have the chance to approve full legalization measures similar to what are already legal in Colorado and Washington.
- Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley have both recently signed new laws that authorize the growing and production of industrial hemp, a marijuana plant relative, within their States, effectively nullifying and ignoring the Federal ban on the hemp plant.
2) Other back lash efforts at the state level covered in the Personal Liberty Digest article include:
- A proposed Missouri piece of legislation to withdraw from Common Core was signed into law this month.
- Arizona voters will soon have a chance to approve a Right to Try measure that would effectively nullify some Federal Food and Drug Administration restrictions.
- Oklahoma became the second state, after Utah, to take the first step toward actually following the tender requirements of the Constitution and nullifying the Federal Reserve’s near-monopoly on money.
- A new Georgia law recently went into effect that blocks the implementation of some primary aspects of Obama Care.
When enough people say “No!” to the Federal government and when enough States pass laws backing those people up, there’s not much the politicians in Washington, D.C., can do to force their so-called “laws” or mandates down our throats.
Just saying no to an overreaching Federal government essentially makes them powerless to control our lives, our futures and our liberties and citizens and states across the nation are proving this point everyday.
3) In Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker has now joined other states and governors in calling for a full repeal of the Federal government’s Common Core education standards.
In a prepared, press release statement:
“Today, I call on the members of the State Legislature to pass a bill in early January to repeal Common Core and replace it with standards set by people in Wisconsin.”
“..with standards set by people in Wisconsin” rather than some politically motivated bureaucrats sitting half a country away in Washington. This is called democracy when people can control the major aspects of their own lives rather than being dictated to by people that are usually clueless of the needs and desires of those they order about.
Walker went on to state that he’d like Wisconsin to have its own unique standards that were higher than what was already established. “I’d like us to be in the position where we can identify our own unique standards that I think in many ways will be higher and more aggressive than the [Common Core] ones they’re talking about.”
School districts within his state have already moved against Common Core with the Cedarburg School Board voting to ask the state to delay implementing the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessments two years and the Germantown School District having voted late last year to dump Common Core and develop its own standards instead.
Walker is not alone among the country’s governors who are already killing Common Core within their states or are having serious doubts about its effectiveness and motives:
- Missouri Governor Jay Nixon recently signed legislation that would review and replace the Common Core in his state.
- North Carolina Governor Pat McCroary has publicly stated that he would sign a repeal and replace bill his state’s legislature passed this week.
- Utah Governor Gary Hebert announced he wants the Common Core process and content reviewed.
- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has signed an executive order to create a commission to review the Common Core.
- Iowa Governor Terry Branstad recently called Common Core “radioactive” when talking to reporters at a recent national governors; conference.
4) But on some issues, citizens are not waiting for their local and state governments to take action, they are taking to the street themselves and demanding that Washington listen to them. Despite being ignored by the mainstream, Obama leaning media, last weekend hundreds of rallies involving thousands of private citizens took place across the country in opposition to the large flow of immigrants banging up against our southern border.
According to rally organizers, over 300 protests involving at least 12,000 protesters took place over a two day period in locations ranging from state capitals to highway overpasses. These protests were in response to not immediately retuning these immigrants to their home countries, paying to board and feed them across the country with taxpayer money, and the possibility of granting them amnesty and/or citizenship for simply evading our border patrols.
Their views and actions would seem to support the voice of the majority of people in the U.S. since according to a June 20 Gallup poll, 65% of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s handling of the country’s immigration issues.
As you can see over these past two posts that Americans are raging against the machine of the Federal government and bureaucracy. From ignoring marijuana laws to dumping Common Core requirements to a plethora of other actions against an overreaching Federal government, each day we get closer and closer to the ultimate question: What if the Federal government enacted a law that no one obeyed?
When that day happens, it should not be dreaded but celebrated as the start of the process where Americans began the journey back to independence and freedom. And the good news, is that more rebellion and push backs will be discussed tomorrow. Of particular importance and interest is the Convention of States movement that is moving this process of rage further along strictly according to the tenets of the Constitution, that wonderful document that has lost its place among the Washington political class.
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