Arizona Tea-Publican Neoconfederate insurrectionists move for secession from the federal government

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Dear Mr. President:

When South Carolina did this in 1832, Congress authorized the use of military force against South Carolina and President Andrew Jackson was prepared to send federal troops to enforce federal law before South Carolina backed down.

When the Southern Confederate States seceded in 1860 and then fired upon federal troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln fought a bloody civil war to enforce federal law and to preserve the Union.

When Arkansas governor Orval Faubus refused to desegregate Little Rock schools in compliance with Brown v. Board of Education in 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas national guard to enforce federal law.

When Alabama governor George Wallace refused to desegregate the University of Alabama in compliance with Brown v. Board of Education in 1963, President John F. Kennedy federalized the Alabama national guard and sent U.S. marshalls to enforce federal law.

You get the point, Mr. President. When a state engages in open insurrection against the federal government, you are duty bound to act to enforce federal law against the insurrectionist state. The time is coming soon when you will have to federalize the Arizona National Guard and to send the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Marshalls to enforce federal law in Arizona. Those who refuse to comply with federal law can be prosecuted, as they were in the 1960s.

A Senate panel of the Arizona legislature voted Thursday to set up procedures for the state to void federal laws and regulations (the long-since discredited "nullification" theory laid to rest by the Civil War and the 14th Amendment) that Tea-Publican legislators here believe are unconstitutional. Senate panel approves measure to establish committee challenging federal laws:

SB 1433 would empower a 12-member committee of lawmakers to review any federal measure, no matter how long it has been in effect. If the panel concludes the issue exceeds federal authority, the Legislature would have 60 days to decide whether to nullify it.

And once that happened, "this state and its citizens shall not recognize or be obligated to live under the statute, mandate or executive order."

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Thursday's committee action of this measure wasn't the only challenge to federal authority.

In separate bills, the panel also approved a proposal by Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, paving the way for Arizona to challenge federal gun regulations and the Endangered Species Act. But those require compacts with other states.

The nullification measure, however, would set Arizona up for direct challenges to federal power.

"It positions our state Legislature to protect and preserve for the people of our state freedom from federal executive, legislative and judicial tyranny," Sen. Lori Klein, R-Anthem said.

Sorry, lady. The only "tyranny" here is coming from Tea-Publican Neoconfederate insurrectionists in open revolt against the federal government and the U.S. Constitution. What you are doing is un-American and spits upon the memory of millions of Americans who have fought and died to preserve the U.S. Constitution and our Union. You should be removed from office in shame for violating your oath of office.

Who would have ever imagined that Arizona in 2011 would become Alabama in 1963? This is disgusting.