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RE:
Your powers & independence are under attack
To Whom It May Concern:
Behind the smoke and mirrors of
two unilateral wars that are about to morph into a third, and possibility
a fourth: the people of the 50 states are now under siege by the
pretenders in office at the federal level of government. The sovereign
powers of the state Governors to determine and maintain their own
independence from the federal government has been compromised by a one-two
punch to the relevance of your authority. The first blow came late last
year:
"Over objections from all 50
governors, Congress in October changed the 200-year-old Insurrection Act
to empower the hand of the president in future stateside emergencies. In a
letter to Congress, the governors called the change "a dramatic
expansion of federal authority during natural disasters that could cause
confusion in the command-and-control of the National Guard and interfere
with states' ability to respond to natural disasters within their
borders."
The change adds to tensions
between governors and the White House after more than four years of heavy
federal deployment of state-based Guard forces to fight in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, four out of five guardsmen
have been sent overseas in the largest deployment of the National Guard
since World War II. Shortage of the Guard's military equipment -- such as
helicopters to drop hay to snow-stranded cattle in Colorado -- also is a
nagging issue as much of units' heavy equipment is left overseas and
unavailable in case of a natural disaster at home." (1)
Additionally, with the financial
impossibility of implementing the national ID card, we begin to see the
death by a thousand cuts that we've been living with for six long years
However, this goes far beyond the problems of funding this
un-Constitutional travesty. This was created on 5-10-05, and because it
was so expensive many dismissed this outright as something that could
never happen: yet on January 15, 2007 as part of Pelosi's first 100 hours
- this happened. (2)
While these decisions will do
great harm to the power and abilities of the individual governors, to
administer their states-the real losers will be the people in all the
states that will suffer from these illegal and unconstitutional actions
that will reduce the Offices of individual Governors to fact gathering
figureheads with no real say in whether or how their people can be
protected from an out-of-control federal bureaucracy.
In just six years those who run
the country have been slashing away at the entire constitutional
infrastructure of this nation-under cover of the wars and the economic
isolation of our people. This is not an issue of political affiliation, or
of race: it is however paramount in the class war that is ongoing. In both
cases cited above, the victims are those people who must pay taxes and who
may one day need Social Security and Medicare. The rich will most likely
not be bothered with being part of the national ID card problem because no
one with millions probably needs to fear that their entire lives will be
contained on that electronic strip on the back of that odious card.
Meanwhile the poor and the working people must have it or face certain and
virtually instant poverty: along with non-personhood-if they "opt-out"!
Someone needs to make clear that
these two issues have virtually nothing to do with HOMELAND Security,
except in what they will remove, from any real protections by the states,
from the corrupted federal power that claims to be the leadership of the
USA at the present time.
I'm writing to suggest that the
NGA hold an international press conference and invite reporters from
around the world-to insure that what you say will at least be reported
somewhere. Neither of these acts by congress is "SECRET" - yet neither
have yet made it into real coverage by the American media.
If your association could discuss
what's at issue in both these laws on the public record, as an
organization; then perhaps those most deeply affected by these changes
might have something major to say about whether either should have become
laws in the first place?
Thanks-for whatever consideration
you can give this pivotal problem at the core of American government, and
in favor of continuing an American way-of-life.
Sincerely,
Jim Kirwan
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