HomeMy WebLinkAbout20130711.tiffSusan Brown
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Jennifer Fuller
RE: A Proposal for Consideration
Susan Brown I I Deputy Clerk to the Board, Board of County Commissioners I I Weld County, Colorado I I
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From: Jennifer Fuller
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 2:49 PM
To: CTB
Subject: FW: A Proposal for Consideration
Item of Communications?
From: Jerald Weskalnies [mailto:jweskal@msn.com]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 12:33 PM
To: John Cooke; Sean Conway; Mike Freeman; William Garcia; Barbara Kirkmeyer; Douglas Rademacher; Jennifer Fuller;
Diane Beckman; Weld District Attorney
Subject: A Proposal for Consideration
Officials of Weld County,
Following is a collection of headlines and a story. They primarily concern gun control proposals at all
levels of government. All citizens should rightfully be concerned that the US Constitution and Bill of Rights
is under attack. The state of Colorado is obviously an imminent threat to gun rights and is moving toward
a progressive/socialist agenda. This, I believe is counter to most of the people in Weld County. What
could and should Weld County do?
Today's story about the Atlanta suburbs seceding from Atlanta caught my eye. Might it be possible for
Weld County to secede from the state of Colorado? It appears to me that Wyoming's values are more
attuned to Weld County's values than to Colorado's. Wyoming might be a better match and they are
already preparing for the worst.
I propose Weld County launch a study into seceding from Colorado if the state continues the political move
toward progressivism/socialism. These are urban values that are not compatible to rural Weld County.
Audentes fortuna iuvat (Fortune favours the bold).
Jerald Weskalnies
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City Proposes Disarming Citizens In The Event Of A Disaster
politicaloutcast.com, 2/27/2013
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Colorado Gun Control: State Lawmakers To Vote On Seven Strict, New Gun Laws
By IVAN MORENO and KRISTEN WYATT 03/08/13 11:45 PM ET EST AP
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Obama Puts a Bulls Eye on the Second Amendment
By Robert Knight, 1/22/2013, Newsmax
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DHS TO PURCHASE 7000 ASSAULT RIFLES
Jan 27,2012, The Blaze
The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to acquire 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO "personal defense
weapons" (PDW) — also known as "assault weapons" when owned by civilians. The solicitation, originally
posted on June 7, 2012, comes to light as the Obama administration is calling for a ban on semi -automatic
rifles and high capacity magazines.
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Sheriffs, state lawmakers push back on gun control
By JEFF BARNARD I Associated Press — Thu, Jan 17, 2013
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If They Come for Your Guns, Do You Have a Responsibility to Fight?
Posted on January 3, 2013 by Dean Garrison , http://dcclothesline.wordpress.com/
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SUBURBS SECEDE FROM ATLANTA
'Detroit of the South' bludgeoned by troubles
By John T. Bennett, 3/11/2013, WND.com
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Secession Fever Hits Texas
The New York TimesiPosted 01.24.2013IPolitics
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Wyoming House advances doomsday bill
By JEREMY PF.I✓ER Star -Tribune capital bureau_trib.con I Posted: Friday. February 24, 2012 6:00 pm, Trib.com online news
CHEYENNE State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch a study into what Wyoming should do in
the event of a complete economic or political collapse in the United States.
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By Walter E. Williams, 11/28/2012
For decades, it has been obvious that there are irreconcilable differences between Americans who want to
control the lives of others and those who wish to he left alone. Which is the more peaceful solution: Americans
using the brute force of government to beat liberty -minded people into submission or simply parting company?
In a marriage, where vows are ignored and broken, divorce is the most peaceful solution. Similarly, our
constitutional and human rights have been increasingly violated by a government instituted to protect them.
Americans who support constitutional abrogation have no intention of mending their ways.
Since Barack Obama's re-election, hundreds of thousands of petitions for secession have reached the White
House. Some people have argued that secession is unconstitutional, but there's absolutely nothing in the
Constitution that prohibits it. What stops secession is the prospect of brute force by a mighty federal
government, as witnessed by the costly War of 1861. Let's look at the secession issue.
At the 1787 constitutional convention, a proposal was made to allow the federal government to suppress a
seceding state. James Madison, the acknowledged father of our Constitution, rejected it, saying: "A Union of
the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a
State would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment and would probably be
considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound."
On March 2. 1861, after seven states had seceded and two days before Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, Sen.
James R. Doolittle of Wisconsin proposed a constitutional amendment that said, "No State or any part thereof,
heretofore admitted or hereafter admitted into the Union, shall have the power to withdraw from the jurisdiction
of the United States."
Several months earlier, Reps. Daniel E. Sickles of New York, Thomas B. Florence of Pennsylvania and Otis S.
Ferry of Connecticut proposed a constitutional amendment to prohibit secession. Here's my no-brainer question:
Would there have been any point to offering these amendments if secession were already unconstitutional?
On the eve of the War of 1861, even unionist politicians saw secession as a right of states. Rep. Jacob M.
Kunkel of Maryland said, "Any attempt to preserve the Union between the States of this Confederacy by force
would be impractical, and destructive of republican liberty."
The Northern Democratic and Republican parties favored allowing the South to secede in peace. Just about
every major Northern newspaper editorialized in favor of the South's right to secede. New York Tribune (Feb.
5, 1860): "If tyranny and despotism justified the Revolution of 1776, then we do not see why it would not
justify the secession of Five Millions of Southrons from the Federal Union in 1861." Detroit Free Press (Feb.
19, 1861): "An attempt to subjugate the seceded States, even if successful, could produce nothing but evil -- evil
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unmitigated in character and appalling in content." The New York Times (March 21, 1861): "There is growing
sentiment throughout the North in favor of letting the Gulf States go."
There's more evidence seen at the time our Constitution was ratified. The ratification documents of Virginia.
New York and Rhode Island explicitly said that they held the right to resume powers delegated, should the
federal government become abusive of those powers. The Constitution would have never been ratified if states
thought that they could not maintain their sovereignty.
The War of 1861 settled the issue of secession through brute force that cost 600,000 American lives. Americans
celebrate Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, but H.L. Mencken correctly evaluated the speech, "It is
poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense." Lincoln said that the soldiers sacrificed their lives "to the cause of self-
determination -- that government of the people, by the people, for the people should not perish from the earth."
Mencken says: "It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought
against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of people to govern themselves."
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