GunnyFreedom
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Ladies and gents,
I've been at this "change the country" thing for a while now. While Ron Paul got me motivated to get involved in politics, I have been a Constitutional Activist for years.
For the longest time I thought all we had to do was to get a Constitutionalist President, or a Constitutionalist Governor, and it would all magically become sunshine and rainbows.
Then, around April-May ish 2007 when someone told me about Ron Paul, I though every prayer I had every had had been answered. The same person also old me that just electing a President wasn't going to do it, but that change has to come from the bottom up. At the time I didn't believe it.
Truth be told, I was afraid to believe it, because the task seemed so monumentally huge -- it just 'felt' like it would be a lot easier to elect one President than it would be to elect untold thousands of State Assemblymen.
Well, it's two and a half years later now, and I realize now more than ever that the fella who told me this was wiser than I knew. To begin with, the task is not nearly as gargantuan as I thought. It is big, but not impossible.
I have also come to the inescapable conclusion that we need these several forces to work in concert. The State Governors only have those tools which the legislature provides them. The Governor cannot assert the 10th Amendment unless the Legislature hands them enforcement power to do so. The US Congress will never have a majority that wants to restrict their own power, so they will require pressure from the States in order for our minority of Constitutional Activists in the Congress to do their magic.
The President, it turns out, is the least important figure in all of this. It all starts in the States. The State Assemblies have to give the Governor the enforcement power to assert the 10th Amendment against the Federal Government. The Governor has to use that power in a way that puts pressure on the US Congress. The US Congress needs a few dedicated Constitutionalists who will take that pressure and leverage it into a demand for the rest of them to accede to reform.
The President must then sign (or ignore) the bills that the US Congress passes affecting that reform.
After years and years of activism, and 2 and a half years of politics, I can not escape the fact that the only process whereby we can restore the Constitutional Order for the entire nation, most originate in the States. That's why I chose to run for State House instead of the US Congress.
I'm not posting this for myself, but for everybody around the nation. Yes, it is important to get behind our favorite Congressional or Senatorial candidates. But I plead with you, beg you to understand that it is even that much more important to get behind local State Legislature candidates. Without us applying pressure on the Federal Government, the few Congressmen and Senators who we WILL elect, will not have the pressure they need to exert against their fellow Congressmen who will oppose our agenda.
It is indeed time. The year 2010 is our best opportunity in a century to initiate the process whereby we can in fact restore the Constitutional Order. We do need our people in Congress and in the Senate -- but they can't do what they need to if we don't also have our people in the State Assemblies.
So I'm asking you, everybody, to get in and work from the ground up. Find one or two or ten State House candidates in your State who will draft legislation to give the Governor enforcement authority for asserting the 10th Amendment and enacting nullification. Support a gubernatorial candidate who will actually use that enforcement authority, and support a Congressional candidate who can take that pressure and use it to demand reform in the US Congress.
We can do this -- we really can -- but we have to start fromt he ground up or there will be no foundation for it. Thanks so much!
I've been at this "change the country" thing for a while now. While Ron Paul got me motivated to get involved in politics, I have been a Constitutional Activist for years.
For the longest time I thought all we had to do was to get a Constitutionalist President, or a Constitutionalist Governor, and it would all magically become sunshine and rainbows.
Then, around April-May ish 2007 when someone told me about Ron Paul, I though every prayer I had every had had been answered. The same person also old me that just electing a President wasn't going to do it, but that change has to come from the bottom up. At the time I didn't believe it.
Truth be told, I was afraid to believe it, because the task seemed so monumentally huge -- it just 'felt' like it would be a lot easier to elect one President than it would be to elect untold thousands of State Assemblymen.
Well, it's two and a half years later now, and I realize now more than ever that the fella who told me this was wiser than I knew. To begin with, the task is not nearly as gargantuan as I thought. It is big, but not impossible.
I have also come to the inescapable conclusion that we need these several forces to work in concert. The State Governors only have those tools which the legislature provides them. The Governor cannot assert the 10th Amendment unless the Legislature hands them enforcement power to do so. The US Congress will never have a majority that wants to restrict their own power, so they will require pressure from the States in order for our minority of Constitutional Activists in the Congress to do their magic.
The President, it turns out, is the least important figure in all of this. It all starts in the States. The State Assemblies have to give the Governor the enforcement power to assert the 10th Amendment against the Federal Government. The Governor has to use that power in a way that puts pressure on the US Congress. The US Congress needs a few dedicated Constitutionalists who will take that pressure and leverage it into a demand for the rest of them to accede to reform.
The President must then sign (or ignore) the bills that the US Congress passes affecting that reform.
After years and years of activism, and 2 and a half years of politics, I can not escape the fact that the only process whereby we can restore the Constitutional Order for the entire nation, most originate in the States. That's why I chose to run for State House instead of the US Congress.
I'm not posting this for myself, but for everybody around the nation. Yes, it is important to get behind our favorite Congressional or Senatorial candidates. But I plead with you, beg you to understand that it is even that much more important to get behind local State Legislature candidates. Without us applying pressure on the Federal Government, the few Congressmen and Senators who we WILL elect, will not have the pressure they need to exert against their fellow Congressmen who will oppose our agenda.
It is indeed time. The year 2010 is our best opportunity in a century to initiate the process whereby we can in fact restore the Constitutional Order. We do need our people in Congress and in the Senate -- but they can't do what they need to if we don't also have our people in the State Assemblies.
So I'm asking you, everybody, to get in and work from the ground up. Find one or two or ten State House candidates in your State who will draft legislation to give the Governor enforcement authority for asserting the 10th Amendment and enacting nullification. Support a gubernatorial candidate who will actually use that enforcement authority, and support a Congressional candidate who can take that pressure and use it to demand reform in the US Congress.
We can do this -- we really can -- but we have to start fromt he ground up or there will be no foundation for it. Thanks so much!
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