Text of remarks as prepared for delivery byMr. Brad Marston, Co-Director of the Sovereignty Alliance
Good morning. First I’d like to thank Dennis, Sheridan and others for organizing this rally.
Looking out at all of you I have to admit that if you aren’t doing it with billions of our tax dollars like acorn, being a “community organizer” isn’t all bad. Clearly we are organized but more importantly we are energized and I couldn’t be more proud of being a member of this community.
I drove up this morning from the people’s republic of Boston in the soviet socialist union of Massachusetts and i can tell you we don’t have this effort, this energy, this organization there. I guess that is why New Hampshire is and will remain “first in the nation.”
Most importantly I would like to thank Representative Itse and the members of the committee who co-sponsored hcr-6 which affirms states’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.
What I find mind boggling is that hcr-6 was voted out of committee as “inexpedient to legislate.” Now i am not a constitutional scholar and I am certainly not an expert on New Hampshire’s constitution but this one seems pretty simple, pretty clear. “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.”
Or to the people.
These days, a lot of people have been chanting “yes we can.” fortunately, the 10th amendment and NH HRC 6 are there to remind the people how government is supposed to work. When it comes to usurping states’ rights and more importantly individual rights…no you can’t.
Establishing martial law within a state without the consent of the legislature of that state?
No you can’t!
Requiring involuntary servitude or government service? No you can’t!
Passing any act regarding religion, restricting freedom of speech or freedom of the press? No you can’t!
Further infringement on the right to keep and bear arms? No you can’t!
Now some people are calling HCR 6 and the amendments and resolutions that have passed or are being debated in dozens of states “radical.” Radical? While HCR 6 is the most comprehensive of the legislation i just referred to as it covers not only the 10th amendment but the first, second and ninth as well as the Federal Reserve, taxes, martial law, a draft and more, it actually seems kind of tame to me. It talks to further infringements, further restrictions, and further limitations on our liberties. Further? How about the ones we already bear, day in and day out?
While I support HCR 6, it’s not radical. All it does is draw a line in the sand and says “here and no further.” that’s not radical. It will be radical when we are not a few hundred people drawing a line in the sand but thousands and tens of thousands, moving mountains of sand and with it that line back to where the framers of the constitution intended it to be.
As Thomas Paine said “a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” I am not telling you anything you don’t already know when i say what is going on today, what has been going on for years; the continued growth in the size and power of the federal government is wrong…it’s not even superficially right.
Now I understand it. My father was a federal regulator and he was infamous at the time for his descriptions of Washington DC. One of my favorites was “Washington DC is not the end of the world…but you can see it from there.” Right now Washington is spending literally trillions of our dollars and when someone like John Kyl or John McCain or Jim DeMint stands on the floor of the senate to decry pork barrel spending they are met with the response…and straight faced at that…that’s only 8 billion or only 15 billion. Folks, earmarks is congresses starter drug and the federal government returning money to the states is a little like the local drug dealer when he has a new prospect and says with a wink and a smile, “don’t worry the first taste is free.” but you get hooked and you constantly need more. Because you need that highway money you let the federal government tell you what the speed limit can be. Because you need that healthcare money, you let the government tell you what benefits you have to provide or who a hospital has to hire. Because you need that public safety money, you let the government tell you who can own a gun and when and how much and what type of ammunition they can own.
My father also described Washington DC as 85 square miles outside of which everything of any importance happens. Of course that was 30 years ago when really big numbers were hundreds of millions. However I maintain that what is scheduled to happen in the next few hours in this Capitol building is at least as important as what is going on down in another Capital building.
Let me close by saying that this is a bipartisan issue. This isn’t an issue of partisanship. It is an issue of citizenship. Our rights both enumerated and not are contained in the first nine amendments. The source of those rights is not a piece of paper or a government in Washington DC. They are here with us today and they are here with us today because they are us. We the People.
We need to remind the legislators here in Concord of that and in state capitols all across these United States and help them tell the federal government…no you can’t.
http://www.conservativesolutions.org
Looking out at all of you I have to admit that if you aren’t doing it with billions of our tax dollars like acorn, being a “community organizer” isn’t all bad. Clearly we are organized but more importantly we are energized and I couldn’t be more proud of being a member of this community.
I drove up this morning from the people’s republic of Boston in the soviet socialist union of Massachusetts and i can tell you we don’t have this effort, this energy, this organization there. I guess that is why New Hampshire is and will remain “first in the nation.”
Most importantly I would like to thank Representative Itse and the members of the committee who co-sponsored hcr-6 which affirms states’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.
What I find mind boggling is that hcr-6 was voted out of committee as “inexpedient to legislate.” Now i am not a constitutional scholar and I am certainly not an expert on New Hampshire’s constitution but this one seems pretty simple, pretty clear. “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.”
Or to the people.
These days, a lot of people have been chanting “yes we can.” fortunately, the 10th amendment and NH HRC 6 are there to remind the people how government is supposed to work. When it comes to usurping states’ rights and more importantly individual rights…no you can’t.
Establishing martial law within a state without the consent of the legislature of that state?
No you can’t!
Requiring involuntary servitude or government service? No you can’t!
Passing any act regarding religion, restricting freedom of speech or freedom of the press? No you can’t!
Further infringement on the right to keep and bear arms? No you can’t!
Now some people are calling HCR 6 and the amendments and resolutions that have passed or are being debated in dozens of states “radical.” Radical? While HCR 6 is the most comprehensive of the legislation i just referred to as it covers not only the 10th amendment but the first, second and ninth as well as the Federal Reserve, taxes, martial law, a draft and more, it actually seems kind of tame to me. It talks to further infringements, further restrictions, and further limitations on our liberties. Further? How about the ones we already bear, day in and day out?
While I support HCR 6, it’s not radical. All it does is draw a line in the sand and says “here and no further.” that’s not radical. It will be radical when we are not a few hundred people drawing a line in the sand but thousands and tens of thousands, moving mountains of sand and with it that line back to where the framers of the constitution intended it to be.
As Thomas Paine said “a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” I am not telling you anything you don’t already know when i say what is going on today, what has been going on for years; the continued growth in the size and power of the federal government is wrong…it’s not even superficially right.
Now I understand it. My father was a federal regulator and he was infamous at the time for his descriptions of Washington DC. One of my favorites was “Washington DC is not the end of the world…but you can see it from there.” Right now Washington is spending literally trillions of our dollars and when someone like John Kyl or John McCain or Jim DeMint stands on the floor of the senate to decry pork barrel spending they are met with the response…and straight faced at that…that’s only 8 billion or only 15 billion. Folks, earmarks is congresses starter drug and the federal government returning money to the states is a little like the local drug dealer when he has a new prospect and says with a wink and a smile, “don’t worry the first taste is free.” but you get hooked and you constantly need more. Because you need that highway money you let the federal government tell you what the speed limit can be. Because you need that healthcare money, you let the government tell you what benefits you have to provide or who a hospital has to hire. Because you need that public safety money, you let the government tell you who can own a gun and when and how much and what type of ammunition they can own.
My father also described Washington DC as 85 square miles outside of which everything of any importance happens. Of course that was 30 years ago when really big numbers were hundreds of millions. However I maintain that what is scheduled to happen in the next few hours in this Capitol building is at least as important as what is going on down in another Capital building.
Let me close by saying that this is a bipartisan issue. This isn’t an issue of partisanship. It is an issue of citizenship. Our rights both enumerated and not are contained in the first nine amendments. The source of those rights is not a piece of paper or a government in Washington DC. They are here with us today and they are here with us today because they are us. We the People.
We need to remind the legislators here in Concord of that and in state capitols all across these United States and help them tell the federal government…no you can’t.
http://www.conservativesolutions.org
1 comment:
http://www.cnht.org/news/2009/03/04/house-members-vote-in-violation-of-oath-of-office/
216 Constitutional oath violators should have been ousted right then and there.
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