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I have brought up nullification many times. I think that our country has spun so far out of control that starting over would be the only way to bring it back. The States all need to succeed and declare sovereignty then decide if they want to have a federated government over them again. I don't really understand why the states can't run themselves with the Senate and House empowered for the United States instead of the feds. The feds get their power from the states and the people anyway.
If you have not read this yet you may like it. I know I did and do.
HCR 6 – AS INTRODUCED
2009 SESSION
09-0274
09/01
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 6
A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.
SPONSORS: Rep. Itse, Rock 9; Rep. Ingbretson, Graf 5; Rep. Comerford, Rock 9; Sen. Denley, Dist 3
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
ANALYSIS
This house concurrent resolution affirms States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.
09-0274
09/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legisla ... R0006.html
Just watched a video that I had never seen. Very well put together and really made me sit up and take notice. Like to hear what others think about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHxb_vZe7Ao
I was just reading about another case regarding the "National day of prayer" where a federal Judge determined that "hurt feelings" were enough to give the atheists standing. Maybe we should all file friend of the court briefs telling the judges that our feelings are hurt that zero will not prove he is constitutionally qualified for office.
Freedom and tyranny
I think everyone on this forum is quite aware of the current threats to our country and to our culture, including our religion. We have been focused on Barack Obama and his usurpation of the presidency, which as we all recognize, was aided by willing dupes and really malicious progressives and communists within and without our own country.
One of the aspects of Obama's usurpation is that he appears to be a closet Muslim, and, in his usurped presidency, we see him supporting every Muslim effort he is exposed to. This is all in addition to the damage he does to American liberties and Judeo/Christian culture through his own day-to-day communist activities and through the willing support of the equally unlawful progressive congress.
There is now, out in the open, a two prong attack on America: one from the progressives and communists, and the other from the Muslim world. Both have sworn to destroy America and everything we stand for. These are our enemies.
Let me repeat: these are our enemies! They are not our friends, and they will never be our friends, They follow a different path in life - they follow a path of tyranny and oppression.
There is a relatively new video from Pat Condell that I would suggest you view and forward to as many people as possible. Pat is a Brit, but he has, for several years that I am aware of, sounded the alarm about the Muslim takeover of Europe and the USA, and he now addresses the World Trade Center's new 13 story Muslim mosque - a building that will be dedicated by the Muslims on September 11, 2011 unless we can convince the New Yorkers to prevent the madness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjS0Novt3X4
Understand that when we preach freedom and individual liberties in a world that is largely totalitarian, we will find resistance and attacks from the tyrants running the totalitarian religions and states. We will always have enemies. We are almost at a point where we will have been destroyed by these tyrants, and unless we strongly (and by that I mean STRONGLY) re-assert our American and Judeo/Christian position in the world, we and our children are going to be simply a small note in the future history books.
So, folks, now is the time to stop watching the TV and start getting involved in local politics and in the efforts to restore our God blessed country. Growth starts small, but everything we do for our religion and for our country counts - our actions either count for us, or they count against us.
Make everything you do count for us and for our children.
A quick Google for this guy Adams turned up both a WaPo piece and an interview he did which got reposted on YouTube ...Quote:
Originally Posted by MinutemanCDC_SC
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right- ... e_who.html
Not sure what to make of his credibility ....
One can understand why the City Clerk's Office would circle the wagons and try to discredit Adams - simple CYA tactic.Quote:
Originally Posted by FreedomFirst
But then, one should probably also ask the question as to why Adams would make such claims in the first place. Fifteen minutes of fame? Not clear.
Is there anyone actively working in any U.S. government agency or any state agency that will openly broadcast the truth about Obama to the American people? Is everyone corrupt or afraid of reprisals?
What the hell has happened to American character? Are there no whistle blowers left in America? Has our law enforcement simply stopped working for the people? Is it time to simply shut down the federal - sorry, central government?
Nothing in government seems to be working for the American people anymore.
"On" or "at" the Ground Zero site vs. "near" GZ in what was once a Burlington Coat Factory store?Quote:
Originally Posted by HighlanderJuan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trad ... and_mosque
Expression of public opinion against the mosque:Quote:
Planned construction of Islamic center and mosque
In July 2009, the Muslim-run real estate company Soho Properties purchased a five-story building located two blocks north of the former World Trade Center site. During the September 11 attacks, the building, then a Burlington Coat Factory, was severely damaged and until its 2009 purchase, lay abandoned. Soho Properties paid the owner $4.85 million in cash for the property. One of the investors in the transaction, the Cordoba Initiative, along with the American Society for Muslim Advancement, would later propose to use the property as the site for a $100 million Islamic center and mosque. For several months after its July purchase, the building was used as a makeshift Muslim prayer space, with services led by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.[46]
On May 6, 2010, neighborhood authorities approved plans for a $100-million Islamic center and mosque to be built on the site. The project was unanimously endorsed by the 12-member Community Board 1's financial district committee. Committee Chairman Ro Sheffe said "it will be a wonderful asset to the community." While nobody at the board meeting protested the mosque plans, some 9/11 families found the proposal deeply offensive because the terrorists who committed the September 11 attacks were Muslim.
The project, a collaboration between the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative, is intended to foster better relations between Islam and the West. In an interview, Daisy Kahn, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, stated, "we decided we wanted to look at the legacy of 9/11 and do something positive." She added that her group represents moderate Muslims who want "to reverse the trend of extremism and the kind of ideology that the extremists are spreading."
It has been reported that the opening date of the mosque may be set as September 11, 2011; the 10-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
American Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is the chief exponent of the mosque project.
http://beforeitsnews.com/news/74/041/Gr ... Rally.html
http://beforeitsnews.com/ckfinder/us...hurch%20st.JPG
[quote]On Sunday, June 6, in the shadow of the Ground Zero construction site, with huge cranes looming overhead, an estimated 5,000 people gathered to show their opposition to the proposed ‘Cordoba House Mosque and Center.’ The protestors overflowed the corner of Church and Liberty Streets where a stage area and podium were constructed. The crowd peacefully filled the areas beyond the barriers, up into Zuccotti Park, the triangle area whose owner revoked the permit, and way past the corner along the Church Street blocks. And the terrific NYPD was there for what appeared to be for the protection of the protesters rather than needing to police them.
The mass of people held up signs and stood in the partial sunny streets for over 2.5 hours, listening to Pamela Geller, Robert Spenser and 18 people passionately speak about the “insultâ€
It looks like this project has the backing of elected officials like the NYC mayor.
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/g ... e/19486708
Quote:
http://o.aolcdn.com/photo-hub/news_g...459696775.JPEG
Mark Lennihan, AP
A 13-story mosque and Islamic community center is slated to be built where this building stands near ground zero in New York. The building was closed after it was damaged in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Quote:
(May 21) -- Plans to build an Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from New York's ground zero have inflamed passions among supporters of the project and opponents who see it as an offense.
Last week, tea party founding member and conservative commentator Mark Williams turned up the heat when he wrote a blog post titled "Protected: Savage Islam Wants Mosque at Ground Zero -- monument to hijackers, 9/11 a 'positive' thing."
Williams wrote: "The monument would consist of a Mosque for the worship of the terrorists' monkey-god (repeat: 'the terrorists' monkey-god.' if you feel that fits a description of Allah then that is your own deep-seated emotional baggage not mine, talk to the terrorists who use Allah as their excuse and the Muslims who apologize for and rationalize them) and a 'cultural center' to propagandize for the extermination of all things not approved by their cult."
The original post is protected by a password, which readers can sleuth out by buying a copy of Williams' book, flipping to Page 81 and typing in the first word of the quote from Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. Otherwise, The Huffington Post has reproduced part of it.
The 13-story complex would include a 500-seat auditorium, a swimming pool, art exhibition spaces, bookstores, restaurants and a space for prayer that could accommodate 2,000 people. The $100 million project is the brainchild of two Muslim organizations: the Cordoba Initiative and its sister organization, the American Society for Muslim Advancement.
The Cordoba Initiative website says the project "is about promoting integration, tolerance of difference and community cohesion through arts and culture." The center will be based on "Islamic values in their truest form -- compassion, generosity and respect for all."
On Thursday, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the chairman and founder of the Cordoba Initiative, appeared with city politicians in front of the Burlington Coat Factory building, the future site of the Cordoba House, and denounced Williams' comments as "lies" and "bigotry."
"We condemn terrorists. We recognize it exists in our faith, but we are committed to eradicate it," Rauf said, according to the New York Daily News. "This is about moderate Muslims who intend to be and want to be part of the solution."
Standing with Rauf Thursday were New York City Comptroller John Liu; state Sen. Daniel Squadron, who represents the area; and City Council members Margaret Chin and Robert Jackson. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has called Williams' comments "appalling," also supports the plan.
"Our city's open to anybody, no matter what your religion is," Bloomberg said.
On Wednesday, Williams issued an apology -- to Hindus. He said his comment about a "monkey god" was unintentionally offensive to Hindus who worship Lord Hanuman, an apelike deity.
While Williams, a frequent commentator on cable news networks like Fox and CNN, dramatically fanned the flames of the debate, other objectors, like families of Sept. 11 victims, have raised their voices as well.
"I think it's despicable, and I think it's atrocious that anyone would even consider allowing them to build a mosque near the World Trade Center," Rosemary Cain, whose son George, a firefighter, was killed in the attacks, told the The Associated Press.
Other victims' family members have voiced concern that the center will be used to plan more attacks, while some say it's just too close to ground zero. The site is so close, in fact, that a piece of landing gear from one of the hijacked planes fell through the coat store roof. The structure, badly damaged, was closed.
Writing in The Huffington Post on Monday, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, an Orthodox rabbi and media personality, suggested the main focus of the Cordoba House should be a memorial and museum dedicated to 9/11 victims.
"If the groups building the Cultural Center and mosque are prepared to make this its focus, they will have proven that they are not only enormously sensitive to the families of the victims who lost loved ones there, but that they are courageous voices who wish to take back their religion from the fiends who purport to represent it."