RepublicRats™
Of late, they've sped up the incremental part.
Posted on 07/17/2009 5:55:50 PM PDT by Copernicus
The ATF - as expected - has issued a letter in which it disregards the 10th Amendment restrictions on federal power (as seems to be the trend since the late 1930) and has notified Tennessee’s federal firearms dealers that the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act is meaningless. Essentially, ATF is saying to the state of Tennessee that the 10th Amendment no longer exists.
We expected such from a tyranny that no longer lives within the bounds of its express authority…
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I'm well aware of that. But I guess it depends on ones notion of "practical".
Tyranny never lives within the bounds of any authority but its own.
CA....
And that's a bad thing?
**If the Fedgov allows the various anti ATF state laws to stand, then the authority of the Fedgov is at an end.**
Fedgov sounds a LOT like ORWELL’s ... INGSOC! All the more reason to trim it to it’s knees.
Tennessee needs to wait till they can see the whites of the Feds eyes on this. That will give other states time to get the same or similar laws in place.
When the showdown happens it needs to happen all at once, in multiple states and it needs to be overwhelming. There is no sense doing this if it isn’t going to be done right. The states need to plan this out and coordinate it. They also need to plan for their response to any federal intrusion into this.
Im thinking the perfect “trigger” would be multiple high profile events (gun show, swap meet, new store, etc..) that takes FULL ADVANTAGE of the newly regained freedoms the state has insured. Something the FED’s cannot ignore, and it needs to happen in EVERY free state at the same time.
Let US pick the time, place and reason... Let US push the events and make the fedgov react to OUR agenda. We can make this work if folks are willing to put it on the line.
Bring it you baby killers! I live in MO but would proudly go and fight along side my brethren in Tenn.
Hey Cat, good to hear from ya.
I know A.T.F. was not part of the Gonzalez deal.
And yes I know that ATF isn’t the only Federal, State or Local govt. agency that needs disbanding and it’s employees thrown in the nearest garbage dump.
Way I feel and think is about 78 percent of govt is useless, and should be shut down.
Alaska
Idaho
Louisiana
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Tennessee
LOOKS PROMISING in
Arizona
Texas
Failed in three states - MT, AR, NH.
Pending in several others.
And so it begins.......
Yep, and Scotus found the extortion to be constitutional. Mark Levin is right. Rather than serve as the final bulwark defending our freedoms, the courts are the handmaidens to the destruction of our freedoms.
What has happened slowly over the years is that the feds and the media have gradually conned the electorate into believing that government is good and means well. We have largely lost the instinctual fear and loathing of large, centralized tyrannical government that our forefathers came here to escape.
>>People, and only people, have rights.
People, and those collective Frankensteins vested with personhood - aka Corporations.
Corporatism IS Collectivism IS Communism: and all of the above are simply forms of fascism - where the Individual is subjugated by the collective structure of governance.
A Law professor at the time wrote that the decision "cannot pass the giggle test."
It has been open season on our liberties and Constitution ever since.
That’s the problem with empowering a police force. A good police force is a wonderful thing. A bad police force is a nightmare. If you give the Police enough power to perform acts of ultimate good, then you are also giving them the power to perform acts of ultimate evil. So, I say assume risk on yourself or as a society be willing to assume risk, while de-funding and removing police powers.
Our constitution was a pretty good attempt... But to expect a government to act against it’s own institutional interest and limit it’s own growth is never gonna work! Jefferson understood that, and figured that periodically the streets would have to be washed clean with the blood of tyrants. We have only two hundred years of history. Can you imagine living in China where they have had 4000 years to build the structure of State Power?
>>78 percent of govt is useless, and should be shut down.
Yep, the majority of govt certainly seems, at present, to exceed the scope of the original American specification:
“TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men”.
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