Defending property rights

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While visiting Sierra Times, I listened to an internet radio broadcast by Wayne Hicks which mentioned Catron County New Mexico as an example of how to take back our constitutional rights from the ever-encroaching federal government. It turns out that quite a few counties in the western US are following their example. www.votinghouse.com is going to make fliers available after the holidays to print out so others can get similar movements going in their states. Personally, I'm excited, it's just what I was yearning for. I also found the following article while doing a search about it:

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The following appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Wednesday December 21, 1994.

"STATES SHOULD SEEK SANCTUARY IN 10th ANEMDMENT LIBERTIES" "The 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." That's the clear message of the now-meaningless 10th Amendment to our Constitution. California has joined Colorado, Missouri, Hawaii and Illinois in asserting 10th Amendment rights, demanding that the federal government cease and desist all mandates and interferences exceeding those delegated by the Constitution. Under the leadership of state Sen. Don Rogers, a resolution claiming state sovereignty under the 10th Amendment won approval in the California Assembly by a vote of 54 to 12 and in the state Senate by 22 to 9. Similar resolutions, in protest against the heavy-handed mandates and edicts of Congress, are in the introductory or drafting stage in 12 other states. Were it not for the 10th Amendment, our founders would have never ratified the Constitution. They correctly feared the development and consolidation of a powerful and meddlesome federal government. In 'The Federalist Papers', James Madison explained Washington's role: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce .... The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the state." The meaning of the 10th Amendment is clear. Our power-hungry Congress and derelict Supreme Court have allowed Madison's vision to be stood on its head. Today, the powers of the federal government are "numerous and indefinite," and those of the state are "few." The 10th Amendment movement may be America's last chance to peacefully get Congress to obey the Constitution. Politicians have seriously understimated public anger and are blind to the rebellion spreading across the land. In response to the heavy hand of the U.S. Forest Service, New Mexico's Catron County officials enacted the U.S. Constitution as a county ordinance and put federal officials on notice that, before they even dared to breathe in Catron County, they'd better show up at the supervisor's meeting to get permission. Following Catron County's lead, five other New Mexico counties, every Utah county, and Clark county and Siskiyou County in Nevada have begun resisting congressional and bureaucratic tyranny. Tens of thousands of Americans are discussing the formation of armed militia units. These are not kooks but law-abiding people who wish to be left alone by an increasingly illegitimate and meddlesome government. The government response is predictable. According to an Aug.3, 1993 Albupuerque Tribune report, U.S. Forest Service Ranger Mike Gardner told Catron citizens, maybe with Waco on his mind, "What are you guys arming against?" A 30-30 (rifle) won't do any good against Bradley fighting vehicles and attack helicopters." Gardner should have been reminded that earlier patriots took on Great Britain, the mightiest nation at that time, and won. Like our founders, we should first peacefully petition by getting 38 state legislatures to enact 10th Amendment resolutions and put teeth in them by giving a broad outline of mandates and edicts we refuse to meet. If Congress doesn't listen, we shouldn't hesitate to use the language tyrants understand best. END OF ARTICLE

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-- Epona (crystalepona2000@yahoo.com), December 23, 2000

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Thank you for this info! I am a staunch supporter of states rights and individual property rights and we're really fighting a battle here in Alabama!

I will pass this along to a couple of my other reporter buddies who share these same feelings! thank you again!

-- Suzy in 'Bama (slgt@yahoo.com), December 26, 2000.


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