GOP House votes to expand Federal power into every school district in America

The Bi-Partisan Tentacles of Big Brother

• On a voice vote with zero opposition, the GOP House acts to violate the 10th Amendment and dictate the hiring policies of every school district in the United States.
• Increasingly the bi-partisan Federal Big Brother is telling schools what they are allowed to teach, what children are allowed to eat and now who they are allowed to hire. 

The so-called Conservative "small government" Republican Party strikes again.

In yet another "Think of the Children" campaign, the GOP House voted to unconstitutionally expand the power of the centralized State.  Congress is telling public schools who would be allowed to be teachers and other workers. 

The foot in the door excuse is keeping sex offenders against children and those convicted of other violent crimes out of schools.  As if local schools are somehow hiring sex offenders left and right.

Like all Federal programs, once the principle of Federal control is established it will grow ever larger and more powerful.

The measure would force school systems to check state and federal criminal records for employees with unsupervised access to elementary and secondary school students, and for people seeking those jobs reports ABC News.

 

Workers refusing to submit to the checks would not be allowed by the Feds to work in local school jobs.

 

It also found that state laws on the employment of sex offenders in schools vary. Some require less stringent background checks than others, and they differ on how people with past convictions are treated, such as whether they are fired or lose their teaching license.

 

The bill has run into objections from major teachers' unions like the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. In letters to lawmakers, their criticisms included concerns that the measure might jeopardize workers' protections under union contracts.

 

In addition, the NEA wrote that criminal background checks "often have a huge, racially disparate impact" — a reference to critics' complaints that minorities make up a disproportionately high proportion of people convicted of crimes.

 

Despite those concerns, the House approved the measure by voice vote.

 

"Keeping children safe is not a partisan issue," said the chief sponsor, Rep. George Miller, D-Calif. "It's a moral obligation."

 

"Every school employee, from the cafeteria workers to the administrators, to janitors to the teachers, principals and librarians, that every one" is subject to background checks including the FBI fingerprint identification system to the national sex offender registry, said Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind.

 

No one said they opposed the bill.

 

But Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., said that by imposing lifetime bans and ignoring the ability of people to overcome criminal backgrounds, "We do run the risk of doing a good thing, but doing too much of a thing." He said he'd continue seeking changes in the measure as it moves through Congress.

 

 

Think of the Children

Think of the Children - the rallying cry of every political hack who worships the

authoritarian power of a centralized, all-powerful, Big Brother State.

 

 

Bi-Partisan Authoritarianism
Both parties proudly and eagerly expand centralized Federal power and piss all over the Bill of Rights on live TV in an endless pandering for the votes of the non-thinking mouth-breathers.

Obama kicked in the teeth by California - NDAA Nullified

Obama is Pissed

California makes it illegal to cooperate with the Feds

when they jail people without a trial.

Today I am again proud to be a resident of the greatest state in the Union - the Golden State of California.

Democrats and Republicans joined arm-in-arm to nearly unanimously pass a bill upholding the Bill of Rights and refusing to cooperate with unconstitutional Federal actions.

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a law barring state cooperation with any attempt by the federal government to indefinitely detain people. The legislation targets the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Brown signed into law AB351, which goes beyond any other state in rejecting federal indefinite detention power, according to the Tenth Amendment Center. The law reads, in part, “It is the policy of this state to refuse to provide material support for or to participate in any way with the implementation within this state of any federal law that purports to authorize indefinite detention of a person within California.”



The NDAA allows the US military to indefinitely detain anyone - sans charges or a trial - on the basis of “national security” concerns. The legislation has drawn a series of legal challenges and attempts in several states to limit its strength reports RT News.

California’s new law not only targets the NDAA provisions, but also any future federal law that grants officials open-ended detention powers.

Though the NDAA has not been used to date, both administrations of Presidents Obama and George W. Bush have claimed power to detain indefinitely without charge “enemy combatants” caught in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world at Guantanamo Bay and other prisons.

In September, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges announced that he would be taking part in a federal lawsuit demanding the Supreme Court weigh in on the constitutionality of the NDAA provision allowing for indefinite detention. 

That move was only the latest in a long legal saga following a legal victory with the appellate court of New York which last year declared Section 1021 of the NDAA unconstitutional. The Obama administration quickly appealed that ruling, and in July it was overturned. 

Hedges, who says he has illegally been held by the US government numerous times during his career as a foreign correspondent, wrote that the appellate court overturned the initial victory against the NDAA because “with respect to citizens, lawful resident aliens, or individuals captured or arrested in the United States, Section 1021 simply says nothing at all.”

“The court, in essence, said that because it did not construe the law as applying to US citizens and lawful residents we could not bring the case to court,” Hedges wrote in his September op-ed.
Hedges pointed out that the Supreme Court may never hear the case, as it receives some 8,000 requests each year. Out of those, it only hears between 80 and 100. 

California’s move against indefinite detention powers, however, marks a continuing trend among individual states. 

Last year, Virginia signed a bill into law prohibiting state cooperation with federal government attempts at indefinite detention. The state of Alaska then passed a similar bill.

Justin Amash: Nullify Indefinite Detention NDAA  

Arrest by the Military without a Trial
Power hungry Democrats and Republicans in Congress passed the NDAA giving any President the dictatorial power to jail Americans inside the U.S. forever without a trial by jury. 
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Now Democrats and Republicans in California have joined Virginia and Alaska to pass laws to uphold the Bill of Rights by refusing to cooperate with a Fascist and unconstitutional Federal Government.

Obama's unconstitutional national police force

The Jack Boots are Marching

Obama and Congress are turning ICE into an unconstitutional Federal police force.

Think of the Children!  -  The rallying cry of every political scumbag from the right or the left to grow a 1984 Police State.

Using "the children" as cover, Comrade Obama's new Federal cops unveiled a new “predator app” that is designed to enlist Americans to spy on other Americans in urgent hunts for potential sex predators by pushing photos and descriptions of suspects onto their mobile phones.

The app, released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), allows tips to be reported anonymously 24 hours a day, builds on a recent program where the agency has released photos of people it believes are involved in child pornography or sex abuse reports the Washington Times.

Stop right here.

The FBI is being cut out of their legal role in law enforcement and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is being funded, equipped and directed to become an unconstitutional Federal police force to (at first) investigate local sex crimes.  Soon to expand into other "necessary" areas.

The Times reports the app allows people to easily share the latest alerts on their own social media profiles or to email them around to friends, tapping their own networks to help authorities.

The project grew out of the success ICE has had harnessing social media to catch predators over the past year.

The growing Federal Police State can be seen in just a few of our recent articles:

DEA has been spying on your phones since 1987

DHS installs spy scanners at shopping malls

TSA morphs into Obama's National Police Force

Secret Service to spy on Facebook, Twitter

Police State Too Much? Send in a Marine!  

Peter Martino is a citizen of the State of New Hampshire. Martino is a Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve who has been mobilized three times. During his military career, he commanded an infantry platoon, company, and battalion. He was also the senior U.S. adviser to an Iraqi Army brigade.

Oliver Stone: Obama is a Snake

A Bi-Partisan Police State.
The "Liberal" Democrat Senate eagerly joins with the "Conservative" GOP House to grow, fund and protect an ever growing unconstitutional Police State.

30,000 Thugs released from prison by Supreme Court

Why Does the GOP Even Exist?

Two Republicans join with four Leftists on the Supreme Court to release 30,000 thugs from prison to prey on honest Americans.

It is a world gone mad.  We have Democrat California Governor Jerry Brown effectively defending the 10th Amendment for the right to run his own state prisons. 

Meanwhile two so-called small government "Conservative" Republicans on the Supreme Court voted with the four Liberals to take control of State prisons and release 30,000 thugs, thieves and rapists from prison.

Republicans keep claiming they support the Constitution while more often than not in Congress or on the courts they eagerly support the growth of the Big Brother Centralized State.

 

In a 6 to 3 ruling the U.S. Supreme Court refused Friday to let California delay the release of thousands of inmates from state prisons to relieve crowding.

In an act of total insanity the Court ignored the 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights and ordered the release into the public of tens of thousands of violent criminals.

In June, a lower court ordered California to release about 10,000 inmates — nearly 8 percent of all state prisoners — by the end of the year to improve to improve medical and mental health treatment. Gov. Jerry Brown last month asked the Supreme Court to delay the order, arguing that it would jeopardize public safety.

Brown also blasted the decision Friday, saying, "California must now release upon the public nearly 10,000 inmates convicted of serious crimes, about 1,000 for every city larger than Santa Ana," reports US News NBC.

The legal issue was Brown's request for a stay of a ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for Northern California ordering the state to release about 9,600 inmates in the short term as part of larger proceedings requiring it to reduce its prison population by about 30,000.

The panel's demands, Brown has argued repeatedly, create a serious public safety threat. The state had asked the high court to put the panel's order on hold while an appeal goes forward.

But the Supreme Court was not persuaded. The majority denied Brown's request for a stay without comment.

Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a sharply worded dissent, which Justice Clarence Thomas joined. Justice Samuel Alito also dissented, but he did not join Scalia.

Scalia wrote that he does not believe the federal courts have the authority to order California to remove thousands of inmates from its prison system.

"California must now release upon the public nearly 10,000 inmates convicted of serious crimes — about 1,000 for every city larger than Santa Ana," he wrote. The order, he wrote, goes "beyond the power of the courts."

(Los Angeles Times)

Your new neighbors thanks to the Court.
The U.S. District Court for Northern California ordered California to release about 9,600
inmates in the short term to end overcrowding as part of larger proceedings requiring it to
reduce its prison population by about 30,000.

We are a Nation of Pussies.
In World War II our brave soldiers (above) had to live in crowded barracks in order to protect the nation from our savage enemies. 
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But in the "modern" and "enlightened" United Pussy States of America our moronic rulers shiver in fear that rapists, murderers and child molesters might be living in an over crowded prison.  Oh the horror!  How can it be?
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It looks like I have awakened in some fucking alternate dimension where only the retarded are allowed to hold office.  

DOMA and Voting Rights - Constitutional Federalism in Action

The Supreme Court Supports the 10th Amendment

The Court upholds the right of the states to control their own

affairs in the areas of election and marriage laws.

By Gary;

The Supreme Court must be doing a good job.  In one week they have managed to both piss off and bring praise from Liberals and Conservatives.

The Court is the last properly operating fragment created by the Federalists at the Constitutional Convention.  So naturally both Big Government Liberals and Conservatives will be angry at the Court at different times for daring to be the third branch of government and operate the way Alexander Hamilton and Federalist Chief Justice John Marshall wanted them to.

Gay Marriage  -  Yes and No

The pro and anti Gay marriage sides along with the media missed what I consider to be the main points of the DOMA ruling.  The ruling represents a victory for the cause of state's rights and the 10th Amendment.

 

The Supreme Court for the first time said the Federal government couldn't discriminate against same-sex couples if their marriage is recognized by a state.

Conservatives argued Gay Marriage
from a religious not Constitutional
point of view.  America is not a
Theocracy where the courts exist
to support Holy doctrine. 

In the case before the court, New York resident Edith Windsor would have been exempt from a Federal estate tax of $363,000 had her late spouse been male.  The Court was simply upholding the marriage laws of the state of New York and equal treatment under the law for all groups.

Ms. Windsor will now get a refund from the IRS of $363,000 plus interest.

Conservatives attack the ruling from a religious, not a legal, point of view. 

The United States is not a theocracy like Saudi Arabia, Iran or Vatican State.  The courts to not exist to support Sharia, Biblical or Buddhist religious teachings.  The U.S. is a secular society with many different points of view from atheist to dozens of very different religions.

Voting Rights

Here is was the Liberals turn to scream at the "evil" Supreme Court for overturning the key elements of the oppressive Voting Rights Act.

Liberals (including most Republicans in Congress) were more than happy to keep fifty year old voting law restrictions in place against selected states.  That way both parties could parade themselves before the voters at election time and boast how "progressive" they are.

Under the Constitution and the Civil Rights Acts passed in the 1860s and 1870s the Congress has the right to protect the rights of the people from oppression by dictatorial state governments.

The Supreme Court rightly decided that using 50 year old data to control selected states for political purposes was unconstitutional.  Again, this was a victory for the 10th Amendment right of states to control their own affairs.  If that power is used to oppress a group then the Federal Courts are there to seek justice.

The 10th Amendment
So-called "Conservatives" are beating the anti-gay marriage drum.  So bet it.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion . . . on a state by state basis that is.  The Supreme Court's ruling on DOMA effectively upholds the 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights. 
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The Court is saying that an All-Powerful Federal Government cannot discriminate against or unfairly tax people legally married under state laws.  This is yet another case where so-called "small government" Conservatives want the Federal Government to dictate policy to the states.  The ruling is actually a victory for Constitutional Federalism.

The Federalist Papers #78
"The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body."
Alexander Hamilton