Beware Santa's Secret Legislation 2010

It looks like it's going to be a very good month for the Bilderbergers. Both the Senate and House passed the Food Safety bill, a bipartisan committee is voting for austerity measures against the people under the pretext of deficit reduction, and the world's mayors signed a pact (prior to the UN climate change summit in Cancun, Mexico) to tax carbon emissions. Continuing a grand tradition, Congress has big hopes to jam-through some controversial legislation before the Christmas break, particularly in the middle of the night on the last weekend before Christmas.

Flashback: Beware Santa's Secret Legislation

Originally Published on December 24, 2009

Clarington Fund - It’s no secret this time around, but once again we see the unseemly prospect of a select group of key legislators staying up all night and delaying their Christmas break long enough to muscle-through some controversial legislation before the close of the year. In doing so, they are continuing a grand tradition. December 23 or 24 has been a great time to pass controversial laws, while nobody’s watching too closely. Here are a few examples of legislative skullduggery enacted on December 23 or 24 in history:

• On December 23, 1975: President Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act, still a controversial law, and still widely ignored 34 years later.


• On December 23, 1982: Congress passed an unpopular five-cent-per-gallon Gas Tax increase, on the premise that nobody would notice the nickel, or the secret vote.

While those items might seem trivial and harmless in the rear-view mirror, some of the worst legislation in American history was also hatched on Christmas Eve:

• On December 24, 1827, a group of Congressmen under the control of Andrew Jackson drafted a tariff bill so outrageously protectionist that it was later dubbed “The Tariff of Abominations.” It didn’t pass until the next Spring, but it had the intended outcome of helping Jackson oust John Q. Adams in the 1828 election -- and alienating the South.


• On December 23, 1913, Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act, President Woodrow Wilson’s economic initiative for the creation of a national bank to match those in Europe. President Wilson quietly signed the Federal Reserve into existence on Christmas Eve, while most of the press was on holiday break, ignoring the epochal news.


• And on December 24, 2009, a massive new healthcare bill is likely to pass, one for which the recent head of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean, said that he would NOT vote.

At the New Orleans Investment Conference in October, I had a chance to meet and interview Howard Dean. He seemed like a reasonable, honest, candid man, unlike the media image I’d seen before. That’s why I was not surprised when he wrote last Thursday:

“In Washington, when major bills near final passage, an inside-the-Beltway mentality takes hold. Any bill becomes a victory. Clear thinking is thrown out the window for political calculus. In the heat of battle, decisions are being made that set an irreversible course for how future health reform is done. The result is legislation that has been crafted to get votes, not to reform health care. …I reluctantly conclude that, as it stands, this bill would do more harm than good to the future of America.”

But rather than share a partisan stand on the current sausage of new laws and regulations, I want to use the rest of this column to take a closer look at the mistaken rush to create the Fed in 1913 . . .

S. 510, Cap & Trade, Codex and Federal Jurisdiction (Excerpt)

October 5, 2010

Devvy Kidd - . . . The purchase and use of vitamin supplements, herbs and natural remedies that I choose to take is none of Congress' business or some global panel who has no legal authority over me here in Texas.

The problem is because tens of millions of American have learned to eat properly and use natural remedies instead of pills from big pharmaceutical companies, it has cut into their profit margins deeply. Send in the lobbyists to buy the favors of the prostitutes in the Outlaw Congress and now we find ourselves being pushed into yet another corner. As I have said so many times over the past few months:

The epic battle for freedom will gear up next year and it will be between the states and the feds.

We the people must stand behind our state legislators and let them know we support their efforts regarding nullification and states rights. We cannot depend on the corrupt federal courts.

The same applies to the so-called Cap & Trade. In one bill it calls for yet another huge government bureaucracy of little Napoleon's running around checking your house to see if it's in compliance with the green agenda before you can put it on the market to sell.

The Outlaw Congress has no authority to legislate that which is clearly within the jurisdiction of the states and the states do not have to allow it. They must tell Washington, DC: No, you're not sending your federal agents or "compliance" officers into our state to run rough shod over our sovereignty and the rights of our citizens. You have no jurisdiction.

What do you think the federal government's going to do in response? Send in the 101st Air Borne? It's time for the state legislatures -- even without permission from a cowardly governor -- to call the feds bluff.

Oh, you can bet the feds will use the usual extortion: No federal money for this or that. The states must stand up to such tyranny. If they don't, they will find themselves little more than occupied territories under eventual global governance.

New headlines yesterday as the shadow government is going for broke towards the Sovietization of America:

Eye-popping Power Grab: Licensing of U.S. Colleges

Federal scheme poses 'greatest threat to academic freedom in our lifetime'

"President Obama's Department of Education, where Secretary Arne Duncan appointed a longtime homosexual activist who was part of the sometimes-violent Act Up organization to head his "safe schools" office, now is proposing to force colleges and universities to submit to a political agenda, according to critics.

"Under the proposed federal rule change, institutions of higher education 'would be required to have a document of state approval … to operate an educational program, including programs leading to a degree or certificate,' explained an analysis by Shapri D. LoMaglio for the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities.

"I think it is the greatest threat to academic freedom in our lifetime," former Sen. Bill Armstrong, now president of Colorado Christian University, told WND. "But only if you love liberty."

"Armstrong is so alarmed over the proposal identified by the federal agency as a rule change regarding "Program Integrity Issues" that he's joined with another former Colorado senator and higher education leader, Hank Brown, in writing a commentary on the subject. Brown was president of the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Colorado.

"The educators were joined by prominent columnists Cal Thomas and Jay Ambrose in alerting readers about the proposal. Armstrong is encouraging members of Congress to look into the measure, since as a proposed "regulation" change, most lawmakers probably haven't even heard of it..."

The Outlaw Congress has NO authority under Art. 1, Sec. 8 to legislate in the area of education, period:

"Another not unimportant consideration is that the powers of the general government will be, and indeed must be, principally employed upon external objects, such as war, peace, negotiations with foreign powers and foreign commerce. In its internal operations it can touch but few objects, except to introduce regulations beneficial to the commerce, intercourse and other relations, between the states, and to lay taxes for the common good. The powers of the states, on the other hand, extend to all objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, and liberties, and property of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the state." - Joseph Story, associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

The Federal Department of Education has always been unconstitutional, and this latest attempt to usurp the rights of the states regarding universities and colleges which operate within the states is equally unconstitutional. Every state's Attorney General, backed by a stern warning from the state legislatures, should immediately tell Education Secretary Arne Duncan that they have no jurisdiction inside our state and we will fight you in a court of law if necessary. First, we will simply refuse to comply. There will be no 'document of state approval' forced by the feds because the states already have jurisdiction over those learning institutions.

I encourage you if you haven't already, take the time to read this comprehensive analysis by constitutional attorney, Lowell Becraft, on federal jurisdiction. It is the Achilles Heel the Outlaw Congress fears the most.

FEDERAL JURISDICTION

"In the United States, there are two separate and distinct jurisdictions, one being that of the States within their own territorial boundaries and the other being federal jurisdiction. Broadly speaking, state jurisdiction encompasses the legislative power to regulate, control and govern real and personal property, individuals and enterprises within the territorial limits of any given State. In contrast, federal jurisdiction is extremely limited, with the same being exercised only in areas external to state legislative power and territory. Notwithstanding the clarity of this simple principle, the line of demarcation between these two jurisdictions and the extent and reach of each has become somewhat blurred due to popular misconceptions and the efforts expended by the federal government to conceal one of its major weaknesses. Only by resorting to history and case law can this obfuscation be clarified and the two distinct jurisdictions be readily seen."

Knowledge is power and YOUR voice directed at your state legislature is what will bring results in telling the usurper in the White House and the Outlaw Congress: NO. Call their bluff just as so many states have done over the National ID.

Important Links:

• S. 510: 12 Reasons Why the Food Safety Bill From Hell Could Be Very Dangerous for the U.S. Economy
• Tenth Amendment Center: States Rights and Nullification
• Treachery & Tragedy: The FDA
• Dec. 4, 2004. Department of Education must be abolished
• January 5, 2005. Why the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Must be Abolished

Devvy Kidd authored the booklets, "Why A Bankrupt America and Blind Loyalty;" two million copies distributed. Devvy appears on radio shows all over the country. She left the Republican Party in 1996 and has been an independent voter ever since. Devvy is a constitutionalist who believes in the supreme law of the land, not some political party. Visit Devvy's website at: http://www.devvy.com. You may also sign up for her free email alerts.