Political Class Dismissed

I recently had the honor of appearing on AntiWar Radio with Scott Horton in my role with the Tenth Amendment Center.  Here’s the overview:

Michael Boldin of the 10th Amendment Center discusses how the doctrine of enumerated powers has become quaint, how the Constitution provides persuasive talking points for a strictly limited government for those otherwise undisposed, why activist priorities should be on limiting federal power as it is the most expansive and potentially destructive and how the states are, in some cases, resisting federal laws and asserting their own.

That big bump you just felt under the wheels on your morning commute was the LGBT Community being thrown under the bus by Barack Obama’s administration and Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic congress. (Warning, some may find the content on the linked news pages not to their preference.)

Over the weekend, the White House website removed the page explicitly outlining its rather radical eight-point agenda supporting the LGBT Community, and replaced it with a tepid two-point support statement that highlights instead traditional New Left civil rights reforms.

The message to the last hatefully discriminated-against group of American citizens is clear, “Thank you for your votes, now please close the door behind you on your way out.”

When are they going to learn? The Feds and radical Progressives currently controlling the Democratic Party cannot be trusted.

The only significant advances the LGBT community is achieving are in the States (Massachusetts, Iowa, Connecticut, Vermont, etc), and therefore they should be supporting civil libertarians, the libertarian state sovereignty movement, and the 10th Amendment as the key step to achieving their equality. After all, it was the Libertarian Party that was the first major political party to openly endorse equal rights (including marriage rights) for all citizens way back in 1972 — long before the Democrats were willing to even touch the issue.

Would it not be better to have something (a few safe havens) at the State level, than nothing (except exploitation) at the Federal level?

I was warning voters eight months ago that only the radical neo-con conservatives were likely to end up being pleased with an Obama administration. I hate being right so often.

Michael, a great quote, indeed.  Now if politicians could just be trusted to do more than just spurt out some good rhetoric from time to time - we’d be in business!

Whether it’s just political posturing or not, Perry is saying some really good things that are far beyond the normal “conservative opposition” you hear as primary season ramps up.

You can see the video of his full speech here

Just an “FYI” - at the Tenth Amendment Center we’ve verified, as of this writing, that 33 (yes, thirty-three) states have already introduced resolutions in support of the 10th Amendment.

State Sovereignty Resolutions

I’ll add one more quote, which I believe fits quite well here - and with James’ post about a peaceful revolution:

“The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.”
–John Adams

On the growing “state sovereignty movement,” I had the opportunity to speak with CNN’s Bill Tucker for about 15-20 minutes yesterday - the short video report here is the result.  Not a bad report coming from a state-approved media outlet.

Kevin Gutzman will be on CNN at 7pm Eastern (or thereabouts) for a follow up.

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