Nullification: Winning States Rights Guarantees Freedom from Tyranny

I Thank my opponent for her response Observation of the government at work, particularly the past decade, more particularly the past five years, has overtly demonstrated the dysfunctional nature and the void of disconnection which has developed between the public and Washington. Watching Congress attempt to pass any legislation, good or bad, results in bipartisan bickering, divisions along party lines, and potential perpetual gridlock. This Presidential campaign and the political blood sport which running for elected office has devolved to, runs for congressional seats equally vicious, and to a slightly lesser extent, with State and local level as well illuminates the primary function today of government is getting there, and fighting to stay there. The inability of regular everyday citizens to be able to influence government policy in any way, that government policy is structured with interests of the citizens in mind only secondarily if at all makes a clear example of just how broken our United States political system has become. A few very powerful interests dictate and run the show. American people are being herded down a long dark road to economic destruction, moral depravity, and loss of our liberties. Recent history demonstrates that Washington and the people who exploit their reason for being there, ignoring or forgetting who sent them there, is immune to conventional traditional national political action under our current systems. We can't change Washington because Congress is owned and controlled by special interests. Neither can we take over the establishment control of either political party as the media elites can and will break, sideline or ignore any candidate that threatens the elite interests. Third party efforts at the national level are doomed to failure and an ineffective tool for promoting freedom principles. The powers that be easily manipulate such an effort into a "divide and conquer" exercise. This is very sad but a fact we must face. Finally, education, although important, is not a fast enough solution to save our nation when more than 50% of the electorate lives off the looting of taxpayers through government benefits or make-work jobs. Education, too is not a viable solution in it's current state; where the environment, once dedicated to learning, enlightenment, discovery, and creativity is now utilized as an indoctrination program determined to transform the little darlin's into loyal clones of some undefined politically correct utopian ideology. As advocates of freedom and liberty our choices for remedy are disappearing quickly. Do we just give up? We…just await the imminent collapse of our economy, political system, and society? Do we have the tools to cope with economic-societal collapse, hyperinflation, food shortage, and random acts of violence? Even people who are "financially prepared" for such a cataclysm will not remain unscathed. Fascism and wealth and property confiscation is a probable result of conditions and are sure to follow. To imagine that policies and programs which influence all of our daily lives are determined by a few who were the highest bidder, owed someone a favor, knew the "right people", or somehow otherwise personally benefited should be the nightmare which startles everyone awake. This sort of abhorrent behavior is no longer carried out in the shadows, clandestinely, in the "smoky back rooms". These people feel entitled to conduct OUR business in such a manner. They'll occasionally throw a weaker player or one who is out of favor with the rest to the dogs, to show the world the wonderful job they are doing in policing themselves, but generally such action proceeds unchecked. By decree of the Constitution itself, Congress is charged with execution of the affairs and business of the citizens. The Representatives, who directly represent the population pass law and spend money. The House side of the Congress represents the interests of the people directly. The Senate is charged with assuring the actions of the government are representative of the country as a whole. They are supposed to assure that a certain bill introduced, though maybe beneficial for some, won't at the same time be detrimental for others. The Supreme Court, in theory apolitical in nature, assures that all business being conducted is constitutional. The Court has demonstrated a tendency to apply a degree of judicial restraint by applying a narrow interpretation of the powers and rights reserved by the States because the Constitution is not specific toward those powers. The Constitution is specific about those powers granted to the Federal, however. The same Court tends to apply broad activist interpretation to the Constitution when determining what the document allows the Federal Government to consider. Just what it is that the Constitution allows? A broad interpretation would imply that if the issue isn't prohibited, then it must be allowed, and therefore Constitutional. This double standard creates the tyranny of denying the States exercise of powers and rights which the States themselves reserved upon the ratification and reaffirmed wit the Bill of Rights. The Court looks at the Tenth Amendment and concludes that it doesn't add anything to the core enumeration powers of the original Articles of Confederation a/k/a The Constitution. This is the narrow judicial restraint and a conservative interpretation. Then the Court, through a broad interpretation, the activist interpretation, interprets Congress' powers granted to be broad in nature. Pair the two methods together, it's easy to conclude that the States reserved to themselves very few or no powers or rights. Judges who don't (or won't) recognize the double standard application, also will not recognize the Tenth Amendment as an embodiment of rights. There is only one effective, democratic and peaceful tool left to Americans to defend their liberties and restore the original republic of our founding fathers. It is the right of state sovereignty and nullification. Citizens can, of course, continue feeling important and wasting time, money and efforts on establishment approved candidates for Congress and Presidential campaigns claiming to represent our free-market views and pledging to defend our freedom . But if we do, we are just encouraging continuation of a rigged game designed to keep productive Americans busy at doing nothing that matters or interferes with the status quo and certainly does not threaten those who are in charge. Many other freedom advocates have proposed nullification and state sovereignty movements that could be launched in all 50 states. Although the elites ruling our nation have total control over the federal government and the two-party system nationally, they have neglected to extend this top-down control to the state level. This is because over the last fifty years states have become mere powerless appendages of Washington and with little if any real influence, and have become dependent upon them. Some states are subsidized over 70% of their total budgets by the Fed. This presents an opportunity for the Freedom movement. A decentralized national movement focused state-by-state at the legislature level is the only game left for us to play if we wish to be effective. When a state or states vote to nullify a congressional bank bailout, the sovereign debt of Washington or the Fed's dollar policy, this will attract media attention, especially uncontrolled foreign journalists and the alternative freedom media. Media coverage attracts investor and market attention and as we see today in the European sovereign debt crisis originally born on Wall Street with Goldman Sachs, markets move politicians and governments. I look forward to my opponent's response