State Legislatures, Another Potential Ally

This is a guest post from Mark C.

Boycotts are an effective first step toward rejecting an oppressive policy, but often they are just a first step. My purpose here is to inform people of additional activities and approaches that can supplement a WeWontFly boycott.


You should know of the strategy of one other organization combating federal intrusions into our privacy and into our right to monitor our government. Here’s a link to and a few key excerpts from a brief story about the National Veterans Committee on Constitutional Affairs:

www.americanfreepress.net/html/hands_off_246.html

Bolinger, legislative director of the National Veterans Committee on Constitutional Affairs (NVCCA.net), has informed AFP that the organization’s new workbook, American Leadership, contains detailed legislation that could be introduced immediately to put a stop to invasive, unnecessary security measures initiated at airports and in other public buildings.

“It’s our collection of over 30 pieces of model legislation,” said Bolinger, who strongly believes in getting state and local lawmakers to play a major role in resisting federal tyranny. “There’s county-level stuff. There is sheriff-level stuff.”

One of those 30 pieces of legislation makes clear that citizens can photograph government workers on the job. This started with state and local police arresting drivers for photographing traffic arrests and now it’s leading to places like airports where the feds are clearly out-of-control.

The lone citizen or activist group directly confronting the federal government might be a longshot — for the moment. NVCCA’s approach is to have the states and state law confront the federal government. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that if something is a federal matter, then it’s not a state matter. On the contrary, if it’s a federal matter, then it’s automatically state matter.

With REAL ID, and now Obamacare, being directly challenged by multiple state governments, there is no better time than now to pressure our state officials to stop the scans, stop the groping and let us resume collecting photographic evidence helping us address grievances against government.

Don’t let the “veterans” part of NVCCA scare you. Those NVCCA veterans I met here in Pennsylvania are sickened by the way government is discarding the very rights that they took an oath to protect. Here’s their contact page: www.nvcca.net/contact.html. If you don’t like NVCCA, then find another organization and share their contact information here for us.

Boycotts are fine, but if successful then government might just fly around government workers to subsidize airlines and airports while printing more money to pay for it.

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