Freedom of Religion
It's nice to see Catholics waking up after their implicit support of Obama in 2008. Tea Partiers and constitutionalists tried to get them to wake up when Obamacare was being debated and ultimately passed. Better late than never. As the Heritage Foundation reported today:
Yesterday, the head of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, warned that the nation's 70 million Catholics are ready to go to war with the Administration's dictates, saying "Never before, unprecedented in American history, for the federal government to line up against the Roman Catholic Church. This is going to be fought out with lawsuits, with court decisions, and, dare I say it, maybe even in the streets."
You can bet that the Anglicans, Lutherans, Baptists, Jews, among others, are right there with them. It is truly the sleeping giant that has been awakened. Bearing the full force of worldwide support and money, this coalition has the power and clout to make the U.S. government miserable in the courts, at the voting booth and in the streets. You think the Tea Party was noisy and effective? They all belong to one of these churches. And they are bringing their friends.
States Defending the Constitution
And of course the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) codified indefinite detention of U.S. citizens. Hell, even the ACLU says as much. Bad legislation makes for strange bed fellows I suppose.
Well thankfully the states are defending the constitution. Tenth Amendment Center reports that Virginia was the first out of the gate last week with House Bill 1160:
“Prevents any agency, political subdivision, employee, or member of the military of Virginia from assisting an agency or the armed forces of the United States in the investigation, prosecution, or detainment of a United States citizen in violation of the Constitution of Virginia.”
Today the Tenth Amendment Center sent out an alert indicating that a similar bill, HB1629 and SB2669, is working its way through the House in Tennessee.
The legislation would effectively nullify the detention provisions in the NDAA and would also require federal agents making an arrest in the Volunteer State for any reason to first obtain written permission from the county sheriff.
Oklahoma is also moving legislation to stop the federal government tyranny.
It's about time the states started protecting us from the imperial federal government.
TSA Days of Groping and Thieving Could Be Over
I was also happy to see that embedded in the latest FAA funding bill was a provision that would force the TSA to reconsider applications from airports to replace TSA workers with their own privately hired screeners.
No, the TSA wouldn't be disbanded which would be the optimal solution, but at least going through airport security you wouldn't have to worry about sexual misconduct and theft of your possessions.
Infowars explains:
Following a massive nationwide backlash against the TSA’s invasive groping policies and its use of radiation-firing naked body scanners, linked by many prestigious health bodies to cancer, an increasing number of airports attempted to take responsibility for their own screening procedures by replacing TSA workers with privately hired personnel.
However, in January 2011, when the number of airports attempting to opt-out of the TSA had risen to 16, TSA head John Pistole put a freeze on the process, refusing to consider new applications from airports.
The newly approved legislation “would require the TSA to reconsider applications for private screeners that it had rejected.”
Should airports choose to replace TSA screeners with their own private security, it would not only mean the screeners were better trained and more responsible for their actions, alleviating the problems of thefts and abuse by TSA workers, but it would also create tens of thousands of much needed jobs for the private sector.
As usual, the religious-right over estimates it actual power in its attempts to turn this country into a theocracy.
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