Links tagged “Virginia”

From Senator Mark Warner’s (D-VA) web site:

Senator Warner is providing this new comment feature that allows constituents to send messages to the U.S. Navy SEAL personnel who conducted the successful raid in Pakistan this week that resulted in the death of the world’s most-wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden.

Also, K. T. McFarland interviewed former Navy SEAL Ben Smith on FoxNews (via RadioPatriot):

-Phil

From a concerned citizen, several Virginia State Representatives have yesterday introduced HR61 (status page):

State sovereignty; Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Honor state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and claims sovereignty for the Commonwealth under the Tenth Amendment over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the United States Constitution.

A current listing of State-based initiatives can be found here.

-Phil

Don't Tread on Me Flag/Gadsden Flag

Lots of activity has been happening at the State level since the re-launch of The Right Side of Life.com concerning push-backs on health care, the Second Amendment, and illegal immigration (most updates via the TenthAmendmentCenter.com blog):

Firearms Freedom Act

• Eight and Counting: Parnell Signs Alaska Firearms Freedom Act
  • Full legislative tracking page here

Healthcare

Oklahoma State Senator Randy Brogdon on OK’s Governor-vetoed stance against federal healthcare…

…while the same Legislature passed SJR59, a referendum to be sent to the voters for approval, thereby bypassing the Governor’s signature;

A lawsuit has arisen from Tennessee to challenge federal health care legislation:

• Louisiana House Passes Health Care Freedom Act
• Health Care Freedom Act Goes To Voters in Missouri
  • Full legislative tracking page here
• Obama Regime Fires at Virginia Health Care Lawsuit
• Canada reconsidering health-care model in face of soaring costs

Illegal Immigration

• Massachusetts Enacts Immigration Law

“I Am The Mob”

• Maine Republican Convention adopts Tea Party Platform
• New Jersey Supreme Court Hears Case on Whether Members of Congress Can be Recalled

-Phil

Email: phil [at] therightsideoflife [dot] com

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From a concerned citizen:

The state of Virginia has one also and has been signed by both the house and senate and is now on to the Governor to be signed.  It is bill HB1587. This bill prohibits the Real ID as issued by the government and Virginia will not participate in it!

 

It has passed in the HOUSE and the SENATE already.  
House vote 88-10
Senate vote 39-10Now it has to be signed or vetoed by the Governor.   

He has two weeks.

A current listing of State-based initiatives can be found here.

Here is the text of the bill…

HOUSE BILL NO. 1587

House Amendments in [ ] – February 9, 2009

A BILL to authorize the Commonwealth’s lack of participation in the compliance of any provision of the Real ID Act.

———-Patron Prior to Engrossment–Delegate Marshall, R.G.

———-Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety

———-Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Participation in the Real ID Act of 2005.

A. For purposes of this Act, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this Act except in those instances where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

“Biometric data” means information relating to a biological characteristic of an individual that makes that individual unique from any other individual, including, but not limited to, the following:

1. Fingerprints, palm prints, and other means for measuring or recording ridge pattern or fingertip characteristics.

2. Facial feature pattern characteristics.

3. Behavior characteristics of a handwritten signature, such as shape, speed, pressure, pen angle, or sequence.

4. Voice data used for comparing live speech with a previously created speech model of an individual’s voice.

5. Iris recognition data containing color or texture patterns or codes.

6. Keystroke dynamics, measuring pressure applied to key pads.

7. Hand geometry, measuring hand characteristics, including the shape and length of fingers, in three dimensions.

8. Retinal scans, reading through the pupil to measure blood vessels lining the retina.

9. Deoxyribonucleic acid or ribonucleic acid.

“Economic privacy” means the privacy of an individual that relates to a right, privilege, or reasonable expectation that certain information is required by law to be held confidential or is otherwise considered to be confidential to that individual, including, but not limited to:

1. Information included in a tax return required by law to be filed with the federal, state, or local government.

2. Information on financial transactions conducted by or on behalf of the individual.

3. Information on investment transactions conducted by or on behalf of the individual.

“Real ID Act of 2005″ means Division B of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005 (Public Law 109-13, 119 Stat. 302).

B. Neither the Governor nor the Department of Motor Vehicles nor any other agency of the Commonwealth shall participate in the compliance of any provision of the Real ID Act of 2005 [ and any other federal law, regulation, or policy ] that would compromise the economic privacy or biometric data of any resident of the Commonwealth.

-Phil

The following is part of an email I received from a Virginia-based concerned citizen who wrote to their State delegate concerning HR61. A press release from caucus members canvassing for their Tenth Amendment resolution is included:

Thank you for your e-mail in support of HR 61, a measure to honor state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and claims sovereignty for the Commonwealth under the Tenth Amendment over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the United States Constitution. This resolution was first introduced to the House of Delegates on 2/26/09 and referred to committee as is the standard procedure. Since the session adjourned on 2/28/09, there was insufficient time for the committee to take action. Delegate Peace, the patron of HR 61, will consider carrying the resolution over to the 2010 session. 

I, too, am concerned by federal intervention in state matters especially with regard to stimulus funding, the kitestrings of which have lasting financial and standards measurement impact on state performance. I am a member of both the Republican Caucus and the Conservative Caucus and follow the common sense conservative principle that the Federal Government must preserve individual liberty by observing Constitutional limitations, 

Below is a copy of a press release from two fellow caucus members in reference to the 10th Amendment. Thank you for your interest in this legislation and I encourage you to follow the progress of this legislation in 2010.

Commonwealth of Virginia
House of Delegates
RICHMOND
   

 Delegates Peace and Fralin File State Sovereignty Resolution
–The federal government is a creature of the states – not the other way around –
(Walter E. Williams January 27, 1995)

 

 

Richmond, VA - From the Capitol where representatives cast the necessary vote on December 15, 1791 to ratify the United States Constitution, Virginia Delegates Christopher K. Peace (R-Hanover) and William H. Fralin, Jr. (R-Roanoke) today introduced a House resolution to affirm those founding principles of Federalism guaranteed under the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The resolution sets forth the principle that the Commonwealth of Virginia is sovereign and has authority to claim powers not specified or granted to the federal government. 

Delegate Peace wrote in his Richmond Times-Dispatch Commentary (February 22, 2009), ” Case law expounded upon this fundamental principle… Printz v. United States  held that the federal system limits the ability of the federal government to use state governments as an instrumentality of the national government. But this traditional notion of Federalism has devolved into “cooperative federalism,” where Congress creates new state programs by affixing certain conditions to the receipt of those funds. These coercive acts may become so intolerable that long-term sustainability is in real question, and the ultimate danger is the erosion of the principles of Federalism whereby Virginia becomes, effectively, a ward of the federal super state.”

As a result, over the past year, states around the country passed resolutions claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment and resolving to serve notice and demand to the federal government to cease and desist mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers. Virginia, upon passage of this legislation, joins the movement that so clearly demonstrates the imbalance and growing concern that the federal government is increasing its dominance over their state policy affairs. 

Del. Fralin states that “The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States of America and each sovereign state of the United States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal government may not usurp. The states today in some cases are treated as agents of the federal government; and many federal laws are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. “ 

-Jimmie Massie 

James P. “Jimmie” Massie, III 
Member, Virginia House of Delegates 
Henrico County, District 72

A current listing of State-based initiatives can be found here.

-Phil

CountUsOut is reporting this evening that a reader of theirs recently received a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) response in Virginia:

via Virgil, Count Us Out Reader

I have a PDF sent from Virginia SOS that is signed by Nancy Pelosi that specifically states she certified OBAMA’s qualifications. This is important because if OBAMA is not qualified by pending lawsuits, she can be held responsible for fraud , high crimes and misdemeanors, and misrepresentation.

(will post pdf as soon as we receive it from Virgil)

Here’s the link!

-Phil

Update: Sources say this document does not in any way mean that the Speaker has certified anybody’s eligiblity; this is merely stating that former Senator Barack Obama and Senator Joe Biden are duly nominated as the Democratic National Committee’s nominees for their respective offices.