That the House of Representatives passed the
healthcare bill yesterday--on the Lord’s day
(Sunday) no less-- is no shock. That the House
of Representatives have placed their stamp of
approval on socialism’s philosophical principles
in the United States is no surprise. That the
growth of the federal government and its
agencies and bureaucracies will be multiplied
exponentially by the passage of this bill is to
be expected from the federal government.
Naturally, many people in
America are very angry at yet another act of
egregious usurpation by the federal government.
But what else were these people thinking would
happen? The federal government has already
proven what it is, how it operates and the means
it uses to accomplish its goals. The U.S. has
walked in steady strides down the road of
tyranny and oppression for many, many years,
under both Democrat and Republic leadership. Do
you think that these traitors have all of a
sudden reverted back to the fundamental beliefs
of freedom as expressed by our enlightenment
forefathers in the 1600 and 1700s? Or are you
satisfied with their three-steps-forward,
one-step-back approach to politics and
“restoring freedom”? The federal government
continually upgrades its engine, oils its
wheels, and maintains the tracks for its long
train of abuses, with no apparent intent to the
contrary.
I, along with some other
authors, have communicated repeatedly about the
States’ responsibility and duty to resist
federal encroachments. More and more, this
reality of truth is coming to light. More and
more, people who have been duped to focus all of
their energy, time and mind to “changing
Washington D.C.” are waking up to the reality
that the only meaningful line of defense against
this evil agenda is through those powers that
the people of the states possess as a sovereign
state (retained in the tenth amendment), in
addition to those natural powers of self-defense
and self-preservation, which every person and
every body-politic has under God.
Do not be totally
discouraged: there is always good which arises
out of evil. At the least, many people have
opened their eyes and minds (1) to the utter and
complete disregard that the federal government
has for the freedom which God grants and the
constitution was to protect; (2) to the
worthlessness and fruitlessness of federal
politics and voting for “lesser evils;” (3) to
the false doctrine of “whatever the federal
government passes, executes and upholds through
its political branches is the ‘Supreme Law of
the Land’;” and (4) to the enslaving
presupposition that the states have no power to
actively resist the federal government against
laws, orders and judgments that are contrary to
the intent, meaning and application of the U.S.
Constitution as ratified in 1787.
With every suppressive push
that the federal government forces down upon the
clay of individuals, families, businesses,
society and states, there is and will be a
remnant and overflow that escapes from the hand
of tyranny. Freedom exists in human nature: God
has created in mankind (1) the virtually endless
ability to recognize and analyze his interests,
condition and circumstances and apply principles
(derived from human nature) for his survival,
sustenance and perfection for the present and
the future; (2) the capability and desire to
protect himself, his family, his community and
the body-politic to which he belongs against
forces that threaten the very essence, purpose
and meaning of his joining together into
families, societies and governments; and (3) the
responsibility and duty to obey and enforce the
HIGHER LAWS he owes to God, himself, his family,
his neighbors, his fellow-citizens, and his
posterity for the perpetuation and exaltation of
the freedom.
Many books and articles have been written; many
speeches have been made; and many arguments have
emanated concerning the nature and character of
our federal system of government under the U.S.
constitution, as ratified by the then-existing
States from 1787-1790. But we have reached a
pivotal point in our history where it is
obviously time to apply more than academic
perspective to the form of government our
fore-generation bequeathed to us, their
posterity, for the blessings of liberty. It is
time to do more than just talk about what the
people of the states can, should and must do to
resist tyranny and uphold freedom. It is time
for leaders to rise up within the state arena
and with confidence, knowledge, understanding,
conviction, fortitude and courage, lead their
state in an active resistance against this
never-ending train of abuses perpetuated by the
federal government (and those who control its
agenda).
We must stop to observe that
some states in the union are, to some degree,
already doing just this. In fact, some
thirty-seven (37) states, following the
leadership role of Idaho, are planning to file
suit against the United States government should
the healthcare bill become law (FN1). I commend
those states for their active role in this
regard. Citizens of those states should likewise
show their commendation to those state officials
who are attempting to stand between them and the
usurpation of the federal government.
However, with that said, let
us use a little conjecture here. What if the
FEDERAL courts rule in favor of the FEDERAL
government? And what if the federal court does
not enter a stay order of the healthcare law,
and consequently, the enforcement of it goes
forward without a ruling from a federal court in
favor of the States? What will the States do?
Are they going to allow the
federal courts to draw the lines of state
sovereignty which only the sovereigns of the
states can do? Are they going to allow the
federal government to once again confirm and
cement their supposed supreme power over the
states? Are three-fourths of the states going to
miss their prime opportunity to seriously and
meaningfully limit this monstrosity of central
government by amending the constitution to more
effectively place the chains of the constitution
around the federal government’s neck and ankles?
Additional, would three-fourths of the states do
what the States did in 1795 by confirming the
TRUE construction of the constitution, mandating
that the constitution not be CONSTRUED to deny
the states their powers to resist the federal
government’s unconstitutional actions? (FN2)
Are the county sheriffs and
state governors going to arrest those federal
agents for attempting to enforce those
unconstitutional laws, which are void and null
in that state? Are those state governments going
to withhold tax dollars coming out of their
state from being used by the federal government
in what they deem to be unconstitutional? In
essence, are these states going to resist or
submit?
If a vast majority of the
states do not draw a line in the sand now and
enforce its rights when that line is crossed,
then this leaves little option for those
remaining states, who in truth and liberty,
stand upon those sacred fundamental maxims and
principles of individual, familial, societal and
political freedom, as expressed by those noble
and sacrificing generations before us. Serious
decisions will have to be made for the body,
soul and spirit of freedom not only to thrive,
but to merely survive, within any of the states
in the union.
There is little room left for
mere academic debate any more. The federal
government, along with those who control them,
laughs at us as we try to figure out what to do
and how to do it. Meanwhile, they openly make
haste with our freedom, property, rights, future
and prosperity in their thieving hands, making
it that much harder to accomplish anything
meaningful through a peaceful political method.
The matter is really not that
complicated: the states, as individual,
sovereign bodies-politic, either invoke their
rights and powers under the Supreme Judge of the
Universe who ordained their rights and powers
through those people comprising its borders and
actively resist through its individual political
process; or the states drudge along in this
corrupted federal system, hoping, praying and
begging some federal official to restore freedom
to the states, and then upon being denied yet
again, those states submit to the continual
egregious assaults upon our freedom.
The solution at hand is not a
national issue to be debated on a national
level. That is just what the federal government
wants us to do: keep freedom’s debate in
Washington D.C.! (How clever and conniving are
tyrants who love centralized power!) The
solution is a state issue to be decided on a
state level: bring freedom back home, where it
belongs! Until those states draw a line in the
sand, you can expect that the ocean of the
federal government will continue to encroach
upon and beyond the sands of the States’
shoreline, destroying everything in its path.
The States cannot be mere pebbles and weeds of
resistance on the seashore separating the land
of the States and the ocean of the federal
government. They must be a strong wall made of
the most durable, powerful and lasting material
to resist the tides of tyranny.
FN1. 2ndDivisionVet,
Idaho to Sue If Health Care Bill Passes,
CBS/Associated Press, March 17, 2010
FN2. Eleventh
amendment, U.S.C.: “The Judicial POWER OF THE
UNITED STATES SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED TO EXTEND
to any suit in law or equity, commenced or
prosecuted against one of the United States by
Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or
Subjects of any Foreign State.” (emphasis added)
© 2010 Timothy N. Baldwin, JD
- All Rights Reserved.
This article was first
published at
NewsWithViews.com, and is republished here
with the author's permission.
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Timothy Baldwin is an
attorney from Pensacola, FL, who received his
bachelor of arts degree at the University of
West Florida and who graduated from Cumberland
School of Law at Samford University in
Birmingham, AL. After having received his Juris
Doctorate degree from Cumberland School of Law,
Baldwin became a Felony Prosecutor in the 1st
District of Florida. In 2006, he started his own
law practice, where he created specialized legal
services entirely for property management
companies. Like his father, Chuck Baldwin,
Timothy Baldwin is an astute writer of
cutting-edge political articles, which he posts
on his website,
libertydefenseleague.com.
