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Thread ID: 8329 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-07-21
2003-07-21 22:32 | User Profile
Fighting For Local Government
By Chuck Baldwin July 22, 2003
According to The Washington Times, some 165 communities nationwide have passed resolutions condemning the USA Patriot Act. One community in upstate California recently took its opposition even further. The city of Arcata passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor for city employees to cooperate in enforcing the federal measure.
Over the past several decades, the federal government has encroached upon state and local governments to the point that the original American concept of limited central government has completely disappeared. What the fed cannot achieve through bribery (also known as grants), it achieves through brute force and intimidation.
That over 160 communities nationwide would go on public record as opposing the perpetual abuse of power by the federal government demonstrates the level of frustration being felt by citizens throughout the country. These local grass fires would doubtless grow into a national inferno but for the fact that the national media smothers the stories so as to keep these flames of resistance from spreading...
[complete article here: [url=http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1128&mode=&order=0&thold=0]http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=Ne...order=0&thold=0[/url]]
2003-07-24 04:50 | User Profile
toddbrendanfahey,
Well I am glad someone is fighting.