{"id":265462,"date":"2016-09-03T20:23:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T20:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-need-secession-and-nullification\/"},"modified":"2016-09-03T20:23:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T20:23:19","slug":"we-need-secession-and-nullification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-need-secession-and-nullification\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need Secession and Nullification"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In his new book Nullification: Reclaiming Consent of the Governed<\/em><\/a>, Clyde Wilson pinpoints the folly and futility of \u201cpresidential politics\u201d \u2013 of hoping against hope that some Great Savior will somehow restore American liberty.\u00a0 Only those who are almost completely ignorant of American history could be fooled by such a farce.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that seems to include most Americans.<\/p>\n

Early Americans were never so na\u00efve as to believe that national politicians could preserve their freedom; that was their <\/em>job.\u00a0 They <\/em>are the ones who, acting through their state-level political societies, created and gave authority to the Constitution.\u00a0 The government was to act as their agent<\/em> and was delegated by them only a few specific powers.\u00a0 Moreover, the government itself could never be the judge of its own powers, for that would lead to \u201cnothing less than a government of unlimited power, a tyranny,\u201d writes Wilson.\u00a0 Of course, that is what Americans have now lived under for generations with the \u201cblack-robed deities\u201d of the \u201csupreme\u201d court announcing for all of us what freedoms we shall have.<\/p>\n

A monopoly or \u201cnational\u201d government was always understood to be the greatest threat to liberty by such American statesmen as Thomas Jefferson, author of the Kentucky Resolution of 1798 that enunciated the concept of nullification.\u00a0 (He was invited to author the Resolution by friends in the Kentucky legislature).\u00a0 It was a response to the first totalitarian power grab by the New England, leftist establishment led by John Adams who enforced the Sedition Act, an abominable law that outlawed free political speech in America.\u00a0 \u201cResolved, That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government,\u201d Jefferson wrote in the Resolve. \u201c[A]nd that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.\u201d\u00a0 Kentucky would not allow the enforcement of the unconstitutional Sedition Act within its borders.\u00a0 James Madison authored the Virginia Resolution of 1798 that said the same thing.\u00a0 If \u201cconsent of the governed\u201d were to have any real meaning, that consent would have to be enforced through such political vehicles as nullification and secession.<\/p>\n

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The leftist New England establishment first invented the lie that Jefferson was not the author of the Kentucky Resolve \u2013 until the great man\u2019s grandson produced a copy of it in his grandfather\u2019s own handwriting.\u00a0 They then invented a second lie that Jefferson was only defending free speech and not states\u2019 rights. Jefferson himself denied this all throughout his life, Wilson points out, by insisting that in the American system of government, states\u2019 rights and liberty could not be separated.\u00a0 If Americans were to have a constitution that protected their freedoms, they would have to enforce it through political communities organized at the state and local level.<\/p>\n

The central government itself could never be trusted \u2013 especially through its \u201csupreme\u201d court \u2014 to do so.\u00a0 \u00a0Jefferson understood that if the day ever came that five government lawyers with lifetime tenure would decide what everyone\u2019s liberties were to be, then the American Revolution would have failed and Americans would live under a tyranny.\u00a0 That day arrived in 1865, when the U.S. government finally destroyed federalism and states\u2019 rights and consolidated political power \u2013 including the power of constitutional interpretation \u2013 in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Once empowered by a monopolistic, consolidated, centralized government used to enrich its operators, there would be no logic that could overturn it, said Jefferson, for \u201cyou might as well reason and argue with the marble columns\u201d in the Capitol, he said in a letter.\u00a0 He was well aware during his lifetime that the New England \u201cconsolidators\u201d wanted a highly centralized government that would subsidize their business enterprises with cheap credit through a bank run by politicians; protect them from international completion with protectionist tariffs, and lavish canal- and road-building corporations with tax dollars.\u00a0 Jefferson\u2019s nemesis Alexander Hamilton, the intellectual leader (of sorts) of the New England\/New York\/Philadelphia leftist establishment, gave this British-style<\/em> mercantilistic corruption scheme the Orwellian label of \u201cThe American <\/em>System.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Wilson points out, Hamilton praised the American ideals of federalism and states\u2019 rights in The Federalist Papers<\/em>, and then spent the rest of his life doing everything he could to undermine and destroy those ideals.\u00a0 This included inventing a false history of the founding in which he claimed that the citizens of the states, who ratified the Constitution in state political conventions, were never sovereign, and that Americans\u2019 real \u201coriginal intent\u201d was to create a highly centralized, monopolistic government like the one in England.\u00a0 Hamilton\u2019s theory, Wilson correctly points out, \u201calways rested upon coercion, chutzpah, and lies.\u201d\u00a0 It was also the theory of the American founding that was embraced by Abraham Lincoln who used it to \u201cjustify\u201d waging war on his own fellow citizens, killing them off by the hundreds of thousands with the self-proclaimed objective of \u201csaving the union.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the sillier arguments fabricated against true federalism, which includes the rights of nullification and secession, is the slogan that \u201cstates don\u2019t have rights, people do!\u201d\u00a0 Duh.\u00a0 As Wilson points out, it was John Taylor of Caroline who actually first said this in the context of explaining the Jeffersonian dictum that \u201cStates are instruments<\/em> by which the people may assert their rights against usurpers and oppressors\u201d (emphasis added).\u00a0 At least they were in Taylor\u2019s day.\u00a0 Today they are appendages of Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

In a chapter on \u201cThe Real Constitution\u201d Wilson states the obvious fact that the fabled \u201csystem of checks and balances\u201d has been a complete failure in limiting governmental powers to those delegated to it by the Constitution.\u00a0 In reality, all three branches of the federal government work in tandem<\/em> to limit our freedoms.\u00a0 <\/em>It is \u201cwe the people\u201d who are limited and controlled, thanks to the state\u2019s judicial monopoly of constitutional interpretation.\u00a0 \u201cThe real Constitution did not belong to lawyers, who obfuscate for a living,\u201d writes Wilson, who points out that most of the participants at the constitutional convention were not<\/em> lawyers, unlike today\u2019s political class.\u00a0 The people do not need lawyers to tell them what \u201cTHEIR\u201d constitution says, Wilson proclaims.<\/p>\n

The fatal mistake of conservatives and libertarians who call themselves \u201cconstitutionalists\u201d is their belief that the federal government can somehow be persuaded to begin enforcing the Constitution and thereby limiting its own power, prestige, remuneration, and perks.\u00a0 \u201cThe peoples of the states have not delegated to federal judges the power to decide what their rights are. This is a power they have reserved to themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

By \u201cthe people\u201d Wilson, like Jefferson, does not mean a majority of the electorate.\u00a0 \u201cBy people, do we mean that if a million Chinese wade ashore in California and outvote everybody else, then they are sovereign?\u00a0 I think not.\u201d\u00a0 If \u201cconsent of the governed\u201d has any meaning at all, writes Wilson, then it means what it was always intended to mean:\u00a0 the people of the free, independent, and sovereign states.\u00a0 \u201cThe right to self-government rests on the right to withdraw consent from an oppressive government,\u201d says Wilson, and in the real American system that has historically been achieved by the people acting through their state-level political communities.\u00a0 It is how they decided to fight the Revolution; it is how the Revolution ended, with King George III signing a peace treaty with each individual state; it is how the Constitution was ratified; and it is how the Constitution can be amended.\u00a0 This is why, in all the founding documents, \u201cUnited States\u201d is always in the plural, signifying that the free and independent states are united.\u00a0 It never meant some Leviathan called \u201cthe United States government.\u201d\u00a0 That was the lying fabrication of Lincoln in his Gettysburg address in which he invented the strange notion that the founders created a \u201cnew nation\u201d instead of a confederacy of free and independent states, as is clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence, among other places.<\/p>\n

Real federalism or states\u2019 rights is all but nonexistent today, says Wilson, because \u201cit presented the most powerful obstacle to the consolidation of irresponsible power \u2013 that consolidation which our forefathers decried as the greatest single threat to liberty.\u00a0 For that reason, states\u2019 rights had to be covered under a blanket of lies and usurpations by those who thought they could rule us better than we can rule ourselves.\u201d\u00a0 After the \u201cCivil War,\u201d writes Wilson, \u201cthe American idea of consent of the governed was replaced by the European idea of obedience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The destruction of the Jeffersonian, states\u2019 rights tradition, with the elimination of nullification and secession as the essential ingredients of the consent of the governed, allowed the rotten Hamiltonian system of government by crony capitalists, for crony capitalists, and of crony capitalists to become cemented into place.\u00a0 This is what Lincoln and the Republican Party of his day meant when they said they were \u201csaving the union,\u201d Wilson observes.\u00a0 It was NOT the voluntary<\/em> union of the states they wanted to preserve; they utterly destroyed <\/em>that and replaced it with a Soviet-style, compulsory <\/em>union held together by violence, mass murder, mayhem, and plunder. \u00a0Their \u201cunion\u201d was a large, centralized government that would dispense corporate welfare and protect the party\u2019s corporate political supporters from international competition while showering them with cheap credit through a government-controlled banking system.\u00a0 As Wilson himself explains:\u00a0 \u201cWith the Lincoln revolution the Hamiltonian program triumphed. Indeed, that was the purpose of the Lincoln revolution. Thus today, all the politicians of both parties\u00a0 rally around so that the taxpayers and posterity can reward the Banksters, Too Big to Jail, <\/em>for their evil deeds\u201d (emphasis added).<\/p>\n

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