Posted on 10/23/2010 11:58:14 AM PDT by Bokababe
....Nullification was used throughout American history on behalf of free speech and free trade, and against unconstitutional searches and seizures, military conscription, and the fugitive slave acts. Pyke doesn't mention this. No one ever does. We must stick to the narrative: the states are stupid and backward, the federal government is a progressive force, and anyone skeptical of this version of events belongs on a watch list.....
(Excerpt) Read more at campaignforliberty.com ...
Freedom Ping — Nullification, Tom Woods!
....the "progressive" Left always prefers a neoconservative to an antiwar libertarian. That's Woods' Law #2. They can overlook the support for war, the centralization of power (what "progressive" would disagree with that these days?), the encroachments on civil liberties. That's all fine and ...dandy. But someone who opposes the initiation of violence against peaceful people? Get him! So many so-called progressives, it turns out, are really just neocons with sandals. Political centralization, comic-book-style demonization of dissent -- these people deserve each other. I am under attack from these people because I wonder if 300 million people ruled from one city is the most humane way to live. Don't I know I am not supposed to ask such a heretical question?
Zombies get the BFG!
C4L: Boo. Hiss. Ron Paul lunatic fringe.
DO NOT FORGET TO DOUBLE TAP!!!!!!!!!!!
You can qualify a Zombie by those who don't argue logic, but react with knee-jerk emotion and attacks to anyone promoting the ideas of the Constitution, Nullification, States' Rights or economic theory, because Zombies are brain-dead. They only know how to worship -- or hate -- leaders, because real thinking is beyond their capacity.
Good discussion here.
But it seems that of the only three who didn't like Woods book (excluding the guy who complained that he couldn't get the audio version to play without an MP3 player), two argued that Woods didn't go FAR enough in upsetting the apple cart, and the other argued for the judiciary being the sole arbiter of what's Constitutional. "Didn't go far enough" with specific objections is NOT "Zombie behavior", it's disagreement. "Let the Federal courts decide" IS Zombie behavior. I would suspect that Woods got far more of the latter than the former -- along with the "lunatic fringe" label, and that's who he was referring to as "Zombies"
Thanks for the ping! It’s a very good article!
The left loves a neocon. But they don’t so much overlook support for the war as complain how immoral it is as a tool to attack Republicans in general, then clamp up when it’s a progressive either continuing the wars they said they would stop (Obama in Iraq and Afghanistan), or start new ones of their own (Clinton in the Balkans).
For the group: along with a few chuckles, material for cussing and discussing NULLIFICATION for the most part.
The two young things in white shirts in the foreground appear to be having a good time wholly unrelated to politics. :)
The current Rat party and a frighteningly large portion of the GOP think that the people and states exist to worship and support the federal government.
Woods spoke here in Phoenix on Wednesday night, so of course I had the rare night job that couldn’t be rescheduled. And yes, while Woods, unlike most conservatives, is unafraid of calling liberal idiot liars “idiots” and “liars”, that’s a result of the arguments which he makes quite persuasively, not their substance.
The humor may strike you well enough, but I was wondering what you may know has been tried using the nullification to defeat the Feds signing any old treaty that steals States’ or individual Rights?
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