We need salt…

If they ban salt… prepare for goiters being the new human appendage…

it is time for active and sustained disobedience – especially corporately, as individually it is happening, but corporately, it will be noticed and felt, and it will bring about the push-comes-to-shove that will cause the masses to rally and act.

Check out his video encouraging illegals to fill out their census.
http://bit.ly/bZnYTw

Ortiz is a poor representative. Brooklyn has great people living there…Ortiz is not one of them.

Talks about secession and nullification in a 10 mintue interview. If you are at the point where tar and feathering goes from a figurative descriptive to an actual desire (Erick is being tongue-in-cheek – well, sort of), then it is time to look for a non-violent way to take back your rights.

Erick is very correct in asking the rather uncomfortable question “At what point do people revolt”. There are to kinds of revolt – violent and non-violent. See “Precariously We Stand: On The Edge Of Revolt – A Thoughtful Appraisal Concerning The Possibility Of Violent Revolution In America.” – http://tinyurl.com/l2k3bq. I will post this here at Redstate as well.

As Obama likes to say, let me be clear, IF enough states nullify a law then by God it cannot be enforced. So the goal is to use the passion to drive local politics to nullify the entire ObamaCare law (not just the mandate, but the taxes, the bureaucracy – all of it. If your state legislature or governor is not on board – recall them. A member of Congress at the federal level is beyond your power to recall, but your state officials are not. Start taking action now.

While I think secession is a way to far for my tastes and not at all necessary to put the federal government in its rightful place, Napolitano’s statement that if enough states nullify a law then it cannot be enforeced is not. I have always been an advocate of nullification. I also like his statement that those who disagree with such a viewpoint often resort to namecalling (he uses the word wingnut as an example), but that they never have an actual argument against nullification (he also includes secession in this argument).

Again, secession is out of the question in my book. But nullification is a real constitutional option that we can use to block ObamaCare and Napolitano sites examples where it worked in the past without ANY violence.

He also lays the blame for our current situation squarely at the feet of not only Obama, but also GWB and both parties.

Over the many years since the Constitution was ratified, there has been an assault on individual liberties by all three branches of governement. The result is that today we find ourselves in a situation where no party has the will to extricate the country from the pathway of self-destruction we find ourselves on. The answer is for State’s to take back their rights – NOT through secession but through nullification. We can only restore fiscal sanity when we control the purse strings.

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=33362

http://tinyurl.com/ya3dc7f

This movement is gaining steam and over 30 states have passed, or are in the process of passing, nullification laws and resolutions. We are on our way. The second link provides the necessary background. Learning why nullification is constitutional, how it works, what needs to be done, and where the good sites are are included in the second link. Educating oneself takes effort and time, but in comparison to the sacrifices made by many in this country’s history both in the past and today, it is not a whole lot to ask. And the rewards of becoming a nation more powerful and free than any time in recent memory are priceless. Your children and their children will thank you it.

We live in interesting times.

Geez, Mr. Assemblyman, if you’ve got some kind of condition that leaves you intolerant of anything not totally bland, just tell us about it rather than impose your dietary restrictions on the rest of your district just so you don’t have to worry about going out for dinner!

(Yes I’m tongue-in-cheek here but couldn’t you see that happening?)

but where are the libertarians on issues like this? Is it only moral issues that concern social conservatives that get their blood up? This is just another example of the loss of liberty. You can’t even use salt???

How about the land grab out west Obama is ready to do by executive order?

Where are the libertarians? Their silence is deafening.

And I still want my incandescent light bulb back.

but where are the libertarians on issues like this? Is it only moral issues that concern social conservatives that get their blood up? This is just another example of the loss of liberty. You can’t even use salt???

How about the land grab out west Obama is ready to do by executive order?

Where are the libertarians? Their silence is deafening.

And I still want my incandescent light bulb back.

Only outlaws will have salt – preferably loaded into shotguns.

how horrible food tastes without salt? And you can’t just add it later….that doesn’t fix it.

Maybe they should go a month without salt and then tell us if they support the ban.

Obama’s desire to take more land from the ranchers and farmers out west is the quickest way to get to that open revolt. Of course the elites really don’t get this. They really don’t understand how tied to the the land those people are. They consider those farmers and rancher just another group of uneducated underclass. But, they are a well armed underclass.

When do people revolt? When they are scared, hungry and can’t feed their kids. There are two waves coming ashore from opposite directions and D.C. is in the middle.

Wave one is the unsustainable debt owed generations of Americans. Welfare, SSI, Medicare etc. Sooner or later the checks will quit coming and we’ll see Greece here. That scares the dickens out of the politicians. Why? Simple. When the crowds have no money to feed their kids they’ll come looking for it, and who has the money? Rich elites.

Wave two- And not to shamelessly promote the book, but I predicted this thirteen years ago. The elitist plan to stop wave one is to steal the cash from any source of private industry and private citizens then turn around to pay the mounting debt. A “Peter to pay Paul” moment but at the end of the barrel of a gun.

However, this is America. A nation not built of indentured servitude or a peasant population, unlike Europe or China. We are also very, very well armed. Which means when the moment comes, when that last straw is thrown onto the camel’s back, citizens are going to say no. And only a violent response by the government will frighten them enough to submit. Maybe. The issue will be how scared are they because they can’t feed or care for their families verses how afraid of the violence and repercussions the government can bring (tax audits, public smears, police intervention, etc., even being jailed).

In the book “REVOLT” (www.revoltthebook.com) the plot centers around that very moment and all that happens afterward as a rogue President, supported by a frightened political class and a compliant MSM, initiates the takeover.

Sooner or later we are going to have to face the music. It is the natural order of things and the fate of all dominant nations which fell from its own internal corruption.

How we respond as a people will set our future and our children’s future for the next hundred years.

I have been boiling pitch and plucking feathers for the past week!

from one of the former Eastern Block countries, can’t remember which one. They were in a new restaurant that was trying the raise the culinary level in their city since under communism food was for survival only and people had just gotten used to eating bland lifeless dishes. Apparently, most people are still just eating the few recipes that they learned to cook from their parents and this restaurant was trying to raise their awareness of ‘good food’.

Also, when skiing out west another person on our long gondola ride said that he heard the gov’t might go after companies like Kraft for making snack foods tasty, since that adds to the obesity rate. He thought it was a good idea. I thought he was joking. Maybe he wasn’t!!!

I’m sure some of the nanny staters would love to pass it, but there’s a bigger issue at stake here.

This would absolutely cripple the dining industry in the culinary capital of the world, right in the middle of a terrible budget crisis. That’s a whole new level of crazy.

I am a Dietitian by trade and I would love to see people take better care of themselves, BUT (and it is a big but) regulating what we CHOOSE to eat is not going to stop anyone from unhealthy behavior. I am so sick and tired of the government trying to regulate everything we do…my God is nothing sacred anymore. I mean are they going to charge in and arrest me if I add salt to my food after it is served to me. Why can’t the Dems understand things like personal choice, responsibility, consequences for poor choices…oh wait they do understand those things but only when it applies to something THEY want!!!! My question to all of the legislators is this: When legislation is passed that prohibits chocolate from being sold in the free market, will you still think it is a good idea to regulate our food consumption and free will in choosing what we eat as your wife stabs you with a whittled carrot stick?

These true believer, utopian fascists are so committed to their program of domination that nothing will stop them except a credible threat of physical harm. They do not beilieve that the American people have the guts to take that extreme step. They believe that, if they exert enough pressure, the fat, lazy majority of Americans will just shrug its shoulders and let them destroy the political system.

because New York won’t allow Restauranteurs to add salt to their food. I live in Washington State, in Seattle. If New York politics leads them to ban salt I couldn’t care less. It doesn’t affect my interest. Frankly, I’m glad we have the power in the states to make these choices. What works for New Yorkers doesn’t work for Washingtonians . The enviroment(s), culture, history, and make-up of the people, are entirely different. Oftentimes the State politicians march down the wrong road, or make an unpalatable choice for the People of Washington, and we have to change some personell, or get an initiative on the ballot to stop or change (theirs your nullification) a law. If your state doesn’t have a right to initiative, work to get one. It works great here in Washington.
My bigger concern is when Federal City imposes their ideas on my State. They don’t know anything about Washington State. Apples and oranges, even apples and apples. An apple doesn’t taste the same grown in New York or Michigan as it does in WA. The external markets for Apples is different. The growing method and certification process is different. Organic farming is highly profitable in Washington and Oregon, not so much elsewhere, I think; I don’t know ’cause I don’t live there.
Eastern Washington near Spokane is Semi-Arid, and waste water doesn’t dissipate or get carried off to the Ocean. If Spokane County wants to ban Phosphates, thats their problem. In Seattle, were more mountainous, and the difference in grades facilitates movement of rainwater from inland to the sea. Ponds and water tables don’t accumulate these minerals. We have modern waste treatment plants, that release into the Puget Sound, which eventually carries into the ocean.
Apparenly the progressives in Western WA can’t stand the fact progressives in Spokane have a more stringent enviromental Regulation than in Western Washington, and have done a knee-jerk law to catch up. When the dishes come out dirty, and the dishwasher stops working and the repairman has to be called out, there is going to be hell to pay politically. This will be a good internal state issue. we’ll could pick up a couple R’s in the legislature over it. But please don’t nationalize it or the Lib’s will rally with the progressives and use the gun issue to mock conservatives (previously linked article). Murray is already raising funds over a ‘hanging Patty Murray’ remark, taken out of context of course, made in Asotin County. We need to remember Swamp Yankee’s advice when dealing with metropolitan areas. Stay away from the buttons. When talking about cities and urban environments, use the word Liberty, not rights, choices, not duty, lifestyle, not tar and feathering government officials.
The mayor in Seattle got thrown out over an imposition of a twenty cent tax on plastic bags, and poor snow removal last year. The cities can be penetrated, and enough people convinced to vote for a Republican to replace Murray. Just be careful as an outsider not to seem like your pushing your national or rural values on the state. We can make our own choices, and we have our own tipping points. You may not agree with them, but we are a sovereign state.
Thanks, and you’ve been writing some fabulous stuff recently.

Listen to my reasoning. Everyone who is born eventually dies. Therefore if you live a very long life or a very short one it is of no consequence since eventually you will probably need some medical care.

However if I drop dead of a massive heart attack at the age of fifty five while my neighbor lives to be ninety then you tell me who is most likely to use up health care and put burdens on the system?

If you live old enough you will have a LOT of things go wrong with you.
Furthermore you will certainly use up more retirement and social security than someone who dies before the age of 65.

So, I categorically deny that entire argument. We would be better off as a society (cost wise) if everyone just died at the age of sixty fivefive.

so don’t buy into the argument that they want to regulate our lives for our own good, that is a lot of horse hockey.

When you give power to people with disturbing authoritarian tendencies, and whose intellecutal development falls someplace between wood and toothpaste….