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Oklahoma challenge the Feds!
Topic Started: Aug 27 2008, 03:33 PM (154 Views)
Almonaster
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Nope - but I'd bet more states will follow!


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WHEREAS, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that
The federal government was created by the states specifically to be an
Agent of the states; and

WHEREAS, today, in 2008, the states are demonstrably treated as agents
Of the federal government;




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It would be epic if the did seperate. :B)

More power to the states! :cananim:
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now if democrats supported them it'd be the same as the democrats in the civil war who supported states rights as well, but also slavery.......... dun dun dunnnnnn, im more for regional sovereignity in the west.
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Knowing Oklahoma, I think they are doing it so they can declare abortion illegal, put Christianity in the schools, outlaw homosexuality and rip off more land from American Indians.

Even though I agree with the tenth amendment thing in the big picture.

EDIT: BTW, they are not declaring themselves separated from the U.S. government, only reclaiming the rights that are supposed to be fore states. They didn't secede, in other words.

THAT the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the
Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all
powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal
government by the Constitution of the United States.

THAT this serve as Notice and Demand to the federal government,
as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates
that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated
powers.

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jDELIGHT,Aug 27 2008
07:31 PM
Knowing Oklahoma, I think they are doing it so they can declare abortion illegal, put Christianity in the schools, outlaw homosexuality and rip off more land from American Indians.


:no:

Yeah - I can believe that... :rolleyes: I just don't understand no, wait. I do understand... :( :angry:
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Sounds like a joke to me. The links in it didn't work.
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Pez201,Aug 28 2008
01:30 AM
It would be epic if the did seperate. :B)

More power to the states! :cananim:

:clap: Hell yair!!

I like was OK is doing, they're simply defending the US Constitution and their freedoms and rights and powers as afforded by it.

It's a bit like WA in the lead up to 1933 :P
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Delta Golf Sierra,Aug 28 2008
12:28 PM
Sounds like a joke to me. The links in it didn't work.

Sounded like a joke to me, too, since the first two pages of Google search were just discussions on various boards. But, interestingly enough, not a hoax.

The link to the Oklahoma legislature WEb site:

http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/WebBillStatus/main.html


Oh THIS is funny, though...

The Fiscal Impact Statement:

Bill No.: HJR 1089
Version: Introduced (9466)
Author: Representative Key
Date: January 25, 2008
Analyst: Mark Tygret

Impact: $0

Reviewed: _______ Mark Tygret ___
House Fiscal Director

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OK, here's how this will work. The feds will tell OK to stfu. OK will sue the feds. It will go on and on till it gets to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will tell OK to stfu. Numerous lawyers will count the millions and millions in taxpayer dollars they got paid.
The end.
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I know this is late news: It seems the Oklahoma House of Representatives really did a voting about this issue (voting results) :huh:. Checked online the two big Swiss newspapers and CNN and couldn’t find something. The first news entry in a Google search was this russiatoday (Can’t say if this source is more authentic than forum-entries). Maybe I have missed something, since this was only a very brief research.

What irritates me a bit is that news reports are a bit rare. Sure this attempt doesn’t have to be taken too seriously, but there is at least a serious movement behind that idea. Sure worth to mention somewhere… Or does something like that occur everyday in the USA?




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if the states in the union became divided, and none were friendly to one another, then i would think that regionalism would follow suit and would make maybe a western united states or maybe the western confederacy, and they would take over the other side or maybe some other way around and what not. People love our union right now, and wouldn't really want to leave it, even if not technically leaving it.
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Lorelai County,Aug 29 2008
12:49 PM
I know this is late news: It seems the Oklahoma House of Representatives really did a voting about this issue (voting results) :huh:. Checked online the two big Swiss newspapers and CNN and couldn’t find something. The first news entry in a Google search was this russiatoday (Can’t say if this source is more authentic than forum-entries). Maybe I have missed something, since this was only a very brief research.

What irritates me a bit is that news reports are a bit rare. Sure this attempt doesn’t have to be taken too seriously, but there is at least a serious movement behind that idea. Sure worth to mention somewhere… Or does something like that occur everyday in the USA?

That's what I found, too. It is more often discussed on political boards than in news reports at this point - 2.5 months after the fact. Bet it had more news hits when the story was fresh.

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