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April 14, 2014

WI GOP to vote on secession at state convention

It's a moot point since the SCOTUS ruled in Texas v. White 74 U.S. 700 (1869) that no state can unilaterally secede from the union, but the teabaggers were never ones to accept constitutional law.

To secede or not to secede.

That will be the question for Wisconsin Republicans at next month's convention.

Earlier this month, the party's Resolutions Committee voted in favor of a proposal that says the state party "supports legislation that upholds Wisconsin's right, under extreme circumstances, to secede."

A version of the so-called "state sovereignty" resolution was first OK'd last month by one of the state GOP's eight regional caucuses as an assertion of the state's 10th Amendment rights. The measure also calls for ending all mandates that go "beyond the scope of the constitutionally delegated powers of the federal government.

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Link to Milwaukee-Wisconsin Sentinal Journal article.


April 12, 2014

Hey America! Don't like some law? Get together a couple hundred of your friends with guns!

The law won't be in effect any more so long as you and a couple hundred friends have guns and say you won't abide by the law!

Welcome to Galt's Gulch, where freedom reigns!

We're now livin' the Ayn Rand dream here in America!

April 12, 2014

BREAKING: Cliven Bundy DEMANDS National Park Service Employees be disarmed.

See what happens when you embolden a violent terrorist?

Rancher Cliven Bundy demanded of sheriff Doug Gillespie that all narional park service employees working on the cattle roundup operation be disarmed before 10:45 a.m.

He gave Gillespie one hour to comply, and added for the firearms to be brought to him. The demand comes on the heels of the Bureau of Land Management pulling the plug on the roundup due to safety concerns.


Link to the story.

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