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Colorado: Emergency Powers Legislation Passes in the House

Via: NRA

Yesterday, the Colorado House of Representatives passed House Bill 1064 by a 45 to 19 vote.  This “Emergency Powers” legislation now goes to the state Senate for its consideration.

NRA-drafted HB 1064, introduced by state Representative Amy Stephens (R-20), would prohibit the state or any government agency, during a declared state of emergency, from prohibiting or restricting the otherwise lawful possession, use, carrying, transfer, transportation, storage, or display of a firearm or ammunition; seizing or confiscating a lawfully possessed firearm, or requiring registration of a firearm or ammunition for which registration is not otherwise required by law.

HB 1064 is important for law-abiding gun owners in the Rocky Mountain State.  Please call AND e-mail your state Senator TODAY and urge him or her to SUPPORT HB 1064.  Contact information for your state Senator can be found here.

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America on the Brink of Anarchy

The Patriot News: JB Williams - (12/22/11)

When government leaders demonstrate a blatant disregard for the rule of law, the citizens soon follow that example. When justice becomes nothing more than a tool for socialist experiments known as social justice, no longer a system of equal protections guided by existing laws, the people will seek their own form of justice and anarchy will reign, until justice is restored.

Our federal government has refused to keep its Constitutional promise to the states and the people, to among other things, control and enforce our immigration laws, demonstrating a blatant disregard for the rule of law, the state and legal American citizens, not to mention their constitutional obligation.

Border States were left to enforce the law within their own states. But federal courts, which have no jurisdiction over the states, stepped in and blocked the states from enforcing the law and today,dozens of Sheriff Deputies turn in their federal credentials, refusing to abide by federal mandates to break existing immigration laws.

Meanwhile, the Democrat Mayor of D.C. announces his executive order to stand down on federal immigration laws in his city, and Democrat Connecticut Mayor of New Haven, already known as a sanctuary city for illegal activity, announces his intentions to allow illegal aliens to vote in the upcoming 2012 election cycle. The Obama Administration supports both illegal acts.

Democrat Mayors, Governors, law-makers, judges and the White House are living in blatant violation of the law, their oaths of office, the will of legal American citizens and their constitutional authority.

How much longer will the people sit quiet, before taking justice into their own hands, in what has clearly become a lawless society?

Clearly, government officials from the White House all the way down to your local town and all points in-between, have a total disregard for the rule of law and the Constitution of these once United States. Every day, we see government officials act beyond their authority, in direct violation of the law and their oaths of office – still, the American people sit silent, waiting… but for what?

The people allowed their Constitutional Representative Republic to be quietly replaced with a Marxist form of democracy (aka Democratic Socialism) and we are now witnessing simple democracy at its worst. Washington D.C. is the belly of the beast, in terms of political and judicial corruption and lawlessness. But that corruption and lawlessness has been systematically spread across the country, throughout the federal courts, all the way down to your local traffic court.

Judges are no longer restrained by the law. They operate as political tools for change – henchmen for a corrupt administration, federal, state and local. Our nation has been systematically pushed to the brink of anarchy, a lawless society wherein the people will have to exact justice themselves, or live under the boot of government tyranny.

The people have already been silent too long. What are they waiting for?

Fifty years ago, the people could have resolved this matter peacefully, via constitutional processes put in place to protect the people and the states from government corruption and tyranny. But today, the mechanisms of justice have been stolen from the people, just like the rest of their government.

The people have no place to turn, to restore the rule of law and constitutional government. The people now stand alone, undermanned and out-gunned – divided, distracted and impotent.

Three-hundred million Americans live in fear of a small handful of evil tyrants operating their government well outside of constitutional authority, ready and willing to use the full power of the federal government, our military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies, to put down any resistance from the people.

The Department of Homeland Security has carefully identified every potential patriotic resister as a “potential domestic terrorist.” The White House has cross-trained federal, state and local law enforcement with military units, staging for civil unrest once the anarchy they created grips the entire nation.

The Clinton Administration launched UN Agenda 21 across America in 1996, under a federal program titled Global Governance 2025. The timeline for completing this agenda has since been bumped up to 2013, officially. But economic circumstances here and abroad have caused the Obama Administration to accelerate, attempting a 2012 completion, amid political chaos and partisan stalemates.

Everything we see unfolding today is in support of this agenda to end American sovereignty, security and supremacy in the world. They are even running Intel snitch ops on American citizens from the college campuses. The enemy is a hundred-years ahead of American patriots, who seem stuck in a rut, baffled by a constant diet of propaganda that keeps them only able to chase their own tails.

Only three potential lines of defense remain now – your state line, your county line and your front door.

If the states don’t quickly position themselves to fight back against a corrupt and tyrannical federal dictatorship, this thing is already over. The County Sheriff has an important role to play, but they cannot defend the people alone. They will have to deputize every citizen in their county, as they will face federal, state and local law enforcement, plus the U.S. military and even foreign military units from NATO and the UN. Are you aware of the fact that the U.S. Military enjoys world-wide air superiority?

The states must face the reality that “federal supremacy” is based solely upon “federal funding.” The federal government has very limited authority within a state. It is the federal funding that allows the federal government to dictate to the states and the states must cut themselves off from all federal funding.

If the people fail to stand up a real resistance at their state lines, closely working with their governors and state legislators in order to put their state on what can only be called a war footing, then the people will not be able to defend at their county line, much less their front door.

This thing has been a long time coming and it is coming fast and hard now.

Obama cannot be re-elected without massive voter fraud, including the votes of illegal aliens. The 2012 election cycle will be anything but legitimate, unless the people pile into the election centers and enforce laws that law enforcement agencies will not enforce. Study the Battle of Athens Tennessee 1946. This is what the 2012 election could look like in every district across the nation, especially the inner-city districts. Remember that the Obama Justice Department refused to prosecute Black Panthers who were openly intimidating voters in the 2008 election!

Those who truly understand the desperate condition of our country are not too focused on the 2012 election. They are instead, focused upon getting their states positioned to defend freedom and liberty at the state line.

I am NOT calling for anarchy, I am predicting it.

When our elected representatives operate with a total disregard for the rule of constitutional authority and law, it is only a matter of time before the people disregard the law as well.

The rule of constitutional law applies to everyone, including elected representatives – or it applies to no one at all.

Our federal government has created a lawless government operating against the will of the people, beyond constitutional authority. It is only a matter of time before the people act with total disregard for the law as well.

The people must act to position a last defense at their state line, or this thing, Global Governance 2025, is already over. Only a majority of the states have the power to stop it! If they won’t stop it at the state lines, the people will never know freedom, liberty, national sovereignty, security and supremacy in the world, again.

The time is here… it is now. Or it is never! Unite to fight!

JB Williams

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States Loosening Concealed Carry Gun Laws


Gunsmoke Gun Shop Owner Rich Wyatt breaks down the concealed carry gun laws.

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Judge Strikes Key Provisions of South Carolina Immigration Law

A federal judge on Thursday blocked three key provisions of South Carolina’s controversial law cracking down on illegal immigration.

U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel granted the federal government’s request for an injunction against the law that’s set to take effect Jan. 1.

The ruling applies to portions that require law officers to check the status of anyone they stop for something else and suspect is in the country illegally. Gergel also halted the implementation of sections pertaining to the transportation of illegal immigrants and immigrant registration cards.

Gergel has denied the state’s request that he suspend all court hearings on the case until the U.S.Supreme Court rules on a challenge to Arizona’s similar law. South Carolina prosecutors have said the nation’s high court will likely rule in six months or less.

 

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/22/judge-strikes-key-provisions-south-carolina-immigration-law/#ixzz1hI91bKJS

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YOU CAN FIGHT NWO AT COUNTY LEVEL: LAWMAN, RICHARD MACK, TELLS SHERIFFS

County Sheriffs Unite

AFP
By Pat Shannan

Sheriffs from all over America are being invited to gather on Jan. 30, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, for what could be the most important meeting “since the Constitutional Convention of 1787,” according to Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) founder Richard Mack.

AFP recently spoke with Mack by cell phone as he zigzagged by car across Florida as a guest speaker for various groups.

As Americans push back with their tea party and occupy movements, screaming at the corruption of big banks and Wall Street, they still have not realized the rudimentary solution right in their own backyards, says CSPOA.

English: Sheriff Richard Mack at the Nullify N...

Mack is the former sheriff of Graham County, Ariz. who took the federal government under President Bill Clinton to the Supreme Court in the 1990s in a “David vs. Goliath” struggle that he won. His efforts stopped the Brady Bill from forcing all county sheriffs to do federal paperwork and conduct background checks on gun buyers. Now he is taking another giant step to educate some 2,000 county sheriffs across the nation who have been so numbed with bureaucratic propaganda many don’t even remember the meaning of their oaths of office or the rulebook they swore to follow.

“Your local sheriff needs to know,” Mack told AFP, “that there is nothing that the UN or the New World Order boys or the feds want to shove down our otherwise healthy throats that we cannot stop at the county level with a constitutionally educated sheriff.”

The goal, according to Mack, is to get 10 percent of all the sheriffs, or about 200, from around the nation on board for a free education. He figures that when 200 of them begin to behave constitutionally by telling federal agents not to step beyond their county boundaries and taking positive action to prevent it, much of the remaining majority will wake up.

English: Las Vegas, Nevada.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Here is CSPOA’s plan: raise $200,000 to bring 200 county sheriffs to the Nevada conference at an average cost of $1,000 each. This may not be as high a mountain to scale as it sounds because many citizens are so anxious for their sheriffs to attend, they already have taken it upon themselves to send them. This has greatly lightened CSPOA’s load.

We are told that security will be tight and no employees from any federal agency will be allowed inside the meeting room. Anyone not endorsed and accompanied by a visiting sheriff will be turned away. However, any private citizen who wishes to pay $1,000 may sit in, as the money will be used to fund the expenses of another out-of-state sheriff.

“We have collected nearly $50,000 and need only $100,000 more because of the commitment of various county citizens who strongly want their sheriff to be there and are willing to raise the money locally,” said Mack. “This is what we need a few more counties to do.”

Raising only $1,000 for the good of one’s county is far easier than Mack’s effort of trying to raise $200,000 on his own, but he hasn’t slowed down.

There are 17 active sheriffs from 14 different states who sit on the board of directors of CSPOA, and many of them have admitted that they did not live up to their oaths of office until recently because they simply didn’t know any better. Many are angry and repentant.

Some who would be there cannot—such as former sheriff Melvin Holly of Latimer County, Okla. He is incarcerated in federal prison. Holly’s crime: He attempted to stop a drug-running operation in his county that was apparently federally sanctioned. His error? He didn’t stop investigating and ended up framed for multiple sex crimes he says never happened. Holly was then convicted after witnesses reportedly received payoffs for their deceitful testimony.

It is a growing problem that all sheriffs face because of the Fed’s ability to create unconstitutional money and the feds’ ability to pass  unconstitutional statutes legalizing payoffs to witnesses in the event of a conviction. But almost no lawyers, let alone sheriffs, even knew that these statutes existed before AFP’s story alerted them last year. See AFP’s Aug. 16, 2010 edition (#33) for that article.

“The bottom line is that county sheriffs need to know that their power exceeds that of federal interlopers,” pointed out Mack. “Ultimately, he is the one who will decide what is and what is not enforced in the county. He has the authority and an oath-bound duty to interpose himself on the citizen’s behalf to protect you from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. But a large majority of these 2,000 sheriffs just don’t know it.”

Georgians got a dose of this power on Dec. 1 when Fulton County (Atlanta) sheriff’s deputies defied a court by refusing to evict bedridden Vita Lee, 104, and her 83- year-old daughter from their home of 53 years.

“We are not in trouble in this country because we follow the Constitution too closely,” Mack told AFP. “Just the opposite. But there is a way to get back to it, sheriff by sheriff, county by county.”

See www.cspoa.org for information on how you can help.

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Alabama immigration law being challenged by Obama administration

Participants bow their heads in prayer during a demonstration to protest Alabama's new law against illegal immigration. | AP Photo

Thousands of Hispanic students and workers have stayed home in response to the new law. | AP PhotoClose

Politico

The Obama administration filed a challenge Friday to Alabama’s tough new immigration law, asking an appeals court to block enforcement of the controversial measure because it tramples on federal powers.

The Department of Justice filed an emergency request with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta to halt the law, The Associated Press reported. In its challenge, the Obama administration wrote that Alabama’s immigration law “is highly likely to expose persons lawfully in the United States, including schoolchildren, to new difficulties in routine dealings.”

A federal judge denied requests from the Obama administration and civil-rights groups this week to block key provisions of the law while the DoJ appeals the ruling upholding the measure.

On Friday, the Justice Department asked the federal court to halt the law’s enforcement pending their appeal, calling the measure a “sweeping new state regime” that “contravenes the federal government’s exclusive authority over immigration.”

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said he will fight this latest attempt to stop the law and added that the state will continue enforcing the new law.

“I remain committed to seeing that this law is fully implemented. We will continue to defend this law against any and all challenges,” Bentley said in a statement.

In response to the law — which requires schools to verify students’ immigration status and allows police to determine citizenship and status of those they stop, detain or arrest — thousands of Hispanic students and workers have stayed home since enforcement began.

The DoJ appeal said provisions in the measure conflict with federal law and “attempts to drive aliens ‘off the grid’ will only impede the removal process established by federal law,” the AP reported.

It could also affect diplomatic relations with other countries, the Obama administration wrote.

“Alabama is not in a position to answer to other nations for the consequences of its policy. That is the responsibility of the federal government, which speaks for all the states and must ensure that the consequences of one state’s foray into the realm of immigration law are not visited upon the nation as a whole.”

The law also “unnecessarily diverts resources from federal enforcement priorities and precludes state and local officials from working in true cooperation with federal officials.”

“We therefore ask that the court hear this appeal on an expedited basis to resolve the constitutional issues presented,” the DoJ wrote. “In the interim, the public interest, as well as the interests of the United States, will be served by an injunction pending appeal, an exercise of this court’s authority that will result in no irreparable harm to the state.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65424.html#ixzz1a8kHwHcl

The states must fight Obama’s amnesty decree

Posted: August 26, 2011

4:17 pm Eastern

WND © 2011

If anyone had any doubt about President Obama’s lack of respect for the Constitution, the separation of powers or the rule of law, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano dispelled that doubt on Aug. 18.

Napolitano has announced rather cavalierly that her department will no longer enforce the nation’s immigration laws. According to White House spokesperson Cecilia Munoz, our immigration laws will henceforth be enforced “in a smart and effective manner.” Reading the fine print, this translates into deporting only illegal aliens who commit “serious crimes,” and all others will get the benefits of “prosecutorial discretion.” This amounts to amnesty by White House decree, not by act of Congress.

Over 300,000 existing deportation orders will be disregarded by the agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, and millions of future cases will never get that far. But, oh, wait – don’t panic. This benefit of “prosecutorial discretion” will be applied only “on a case by case basis.” This dishonest disclaimer comes from the mouth of the same person who continues to assert that “the border is more secure than ever.” It’s the public official we trust to guard our nation’s homeland security.

The public has been misled by the White House to believe that this is a simple matter of establishing “law enforcement priorities.” Even Fox News mischaracterized the decree in an online poll question: “Do you agree that violent criminals should be deported first?” Well, sorry to break the news to Fox, but that’s not what the new policy does. The seven-page memo from DHS Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement John Morton says something quite different.Onlyserious criminals will be deported, and all others will get a pass.

The really bad news is that a divided Congress will probably do nothing to reverse this usurpation of congressional authority and dangerous expansion of rule by decree. The good news is that states can act to protect their citizens from this monstrous abuse of power.

What point is there in “immigration reform” if Obama can unilaterally decide not to enforce laws he doesn’t like? But states can still enforce state laws, and they can also augment the enforcement of federal law. Who says so? The US Supreme Court, that’s who.

The court’s recent Whiting v. U.S. Chamber of Commerce decision has given states a green light to legislate against illegal immigration in the area of employment sanctions. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued in federal court to invalidate a 2005 Arizona statute, and the Supreme Court upheld Arizona’s authority. A more recent Arizona law, SB 1070, is still on appeal, but it has nothing to do with sanctions against employers. The path is clear for states to enact laws mandating compliance with existing federal law against hiring illegal aliens and to impose state penalties on employers who knowingly violate that federal law.

The Obama administrative amnesty makes the Whiting decision even more important. The top court in the nation has told states they have a constitutional right to legislate in this area. Employment is the “magnet” that attracts illegal aliens in the first place. While states cannot reverse Obama’s decree, they can effectively neutralize its practical effects.

The Arizona experience with the Legal Arizona Workers Act shows that when states act to turn off the jobs magnet, illegal aliens leave and go elsewhere. If enough states enact tough laws to protect the jobs of American workers, most illegal aliens will “self-deport” and go home voluntarily.

Thus, politically, we have come full circle in the national debate over what to do about illegal immigration. Obama’s administrative amnesty shows the whole world that seeking a federal solution in Congress is futile as long as Obama sits in the White House. The only recourse now is state legislation.

State-level enactment of mandatory E-Verify laws and tough sanctions against employment of illegal aliens is the best way – indeed, in the short term, the only way – to obstruct and neutralize Obama’s unilateral, administrative amnesty.

The Obama amnesty ought to be the provocation for a national citizens’ movement to institute mandatory E-Verify laws in every state. Over 20 states besides Arizona allow initiative ballot measures, and several states have passed strict anti-illegal immigration laws through the legislature. It’s time for dozens of states to initiate such legislation, and there must be a national, coordinated effort to assist states in doing so.

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Old and Busted: Obama Refuses to Meet With Border Governors on Illegal Immigration. New and Hot: Obama Meets With Celebrities to Discuss Illegal Immigration…

Because actresses Eva Longoria, America Ferrera and “Sabado Gigante” host Don Francisco are more important on the flood of illegals pouring over the southern border than Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

(LA Times) — The White House on Thursday is calling on an eclectic mix of Latino entertainers, media personalities and activists for another meeting with President Obama to discuss his goal of enacting immigration reform.

Among those expected to attend the meeting are influential figures including actresses Eva Longoria and America Ferrera, radio host Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo, “Sabado Gigante” host Don Francisco and Voto Latino Executive Director Maria Teresa Kumar.

The meeting is listed by the White House as “closed press,” but curiously the guest list includes several working journalists as well, such as Jose Diaz-Balart of Telemundo and Maria Elena Salinas of Univision.

August 2010:
DALLAS — President Barack Obama is refusing to meet Gov. Rick Perry (R.-Tx.) during his scheduled visit to Fort Bliss, Texas on Tuesday, as disclosed by the governor’s spokeswoman.

The Houston Chronicle reports that, “Perry spokewoman Katherine Cessinger says the Republican governor had asked to meet with the president on Tuesday to discuss border security. Cessinger said Monday that White House aides said the president would not be available for such a meeting.”

On Monday evening, the White House would not immediately respond to a request for comment.

June 2010:
(AP) — President Obama has turned down Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s request to meet while she’s in Washington next week as tensions mount between his administration and Arizona over the state’s new law cracking down on illegal immigrants.

Brewer will be in Washington to meet with other governors. She said Friday that she had asked to meet with Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to discuss border security and immigration. But Obama’s schedule “doesn’t allow for a meeting” with her, White House spokesman Adam Abrams said, adding that the president “does intend to sit down with the governor in the future.”

Is the Constitution partisan?

Is the Constitution partisan?.