Molon Labe! (65 page)

This I:8:3 clause is the direct source of the most important peacetime powers of the USG. The Government's war on (some) drugs, guns, privacy, cash, alternative medicine, etc. stems from I:8:3. So does the discredited scheme of "affirmative action." Any random federal intrusion of your life, such as the National ID Card, is likely powered by the commerce clause.

Until FDR's New Deal, the commerce clause was rarely used to interfere with the internal commerce and activities of the states. Since the 1930s, however, the Supreme Court has declared that the clause embraces anything which
"affects interstate commerce"
— a phrase of limitless scope. According to this rationale, the cumulative effect of minor intrastate transactions affects interstate commerce. Under the "aggregation principle" even a farmer consuming 100% of his own wheat falls under I:8:3 because if millions of farmers did so it would suppress the wheat market.

All of this was foreseen, if not planned, by Alexander Hamilton. In 1788 he assured America in
The Federalist
#17 that:

The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same State, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all those things, in short, which are proper to be provided for by local legislation,
can never be desirable cares of a general jurisdiction.

Three years later he divulged the hidden, though inexorable, truth about the I:8:3 clause:

What regulation of
[interstate]
commerce does not
[theoretically]
extend to the internal commerce of every state?

—Alexander Hamilton,
Report on Manufacturers
(1791)

Wyoming intrastate commerce

Phase V of our plan is to directly challenge the unconstitutionally excessive
"affects"
scope of I:8:3 by starting or supporting several new
intra
state industries. We have several concurrent goals — legal, commercial, and sociological:

1)   Drive a legal wedge in the expanded commerce clause power.

2)   Augment the commercial self-sufficiency of Wyoming.

3)   Increase the unified spirit of Wyomingites.

Even if legal and commercial fail, we still achieve sociological. We've nothing to lose by trying, and it's high time at least
one
of the states begins to
directly
challenge the USG for its constitutional prerogatives. Our own
Flyoming
airline is a perfect example. Here are two others.

intra-Wyoming CyberGold

Although the US Constitution (in I:10:1) prohibits the states from coining money or emitting bills of credit, individuals are free to do so. A Wyoming electronic scrip would help strengthen the state's economy by giving its people the easy opportunity of supporting each other first.

Transactions would be allowed only between Wyoming IP addresses on our own Intranet. Electronic credits would not be exportable outside Wyoming's borders. This would negate most of the nexus with I:8:3.

A substantially insular Wyoming economy based on its own encrypted digital gold would break the state's dependence and vulnerability on the failing "US dollar" (
i.e.
, Federal Reserve Note) and US economy.

Imagine Wyomingites sitting in a lifeboat onboard the
Titanic
. If the mothership does not sink, fine our situation is improved without us having to do a thing. If the mothership finally goes under, we survive . . .
without us having to do a thing
. The lifeboat's buoyancy provides for an inevitable detachment from the mothership. As long as those in the lifeboat boarded their vessel to capacity
prior
to any emergency, it will remain
their
lifeboat during the ensuing panic.

Time is quickly running out, however. Wyoming must become watertight and capacious
before
the rush begins. Very soon it will be "any port in a storm" and Wyoming must have achieved near full occupancy before then, else we'll be swamped by the desperate who have little to offer.

intra-Wyoming gun manufacturers

Here, the plan is
extremely
bold and will attract the most attention. Is a wholly intrastate gun making industry possible in the 21st century? Perhaps, especially if we tie it into Wyoming's constitutional right of a militia.

USG response vs. Wyoming counterresponse

First, the Government will enjoin through federal court the cessation of these lawful intrastate industries.

Wyoming will not comply. Her message to the other 49 states will be,
"Why does Washington, D.C.
care
if we operate industries solely within our own state borders? What is harmful or unconstitutional about
that
?"

Then come the US Marshals, FBI, etc. The Governor will block them with personnel from local police, sheriff's deputies and
posse comitatus
, the Wyoming State Patrol, and, if need be, the state militia.

After that, it is up to the Congress and the President to declare Wyoming in
"insurrection"
under I:8:15 of the US Constitution and attempt to occupy the state with federal troops under martial law. It is time to force the Government's hand and demonstrate to the country that America has been under quiet Occupation by an internal foreign government since WWI. The time for meek acquiescence is over. We will at last withdraw the leverage of our putrid cooperation and give the feds no option but to physically occupy (versus virtually through intimidation).

If we are a free people, then we should
act
like a free people.

If we are an occupied people, then
they
should act like occupiers.

No more whitewash of freedom! No more faτades! No more Potemkin villages of American liberty!

Unless we are brave we will never be free. It has been generations since we have been brave, and thus generations since we have been free. It's time to quit resting on the laurels of 1776. It's time to quit coasting on the momentum given us by the blood of 18th century patriots.

We either roll over like puppies with urine-soaked pink bellies, or we stand up and fight like Americans once did.

There is no middle ground.

There never was.

2017

2017 USA political news

In accordance with the UN's July 2006 conference on "light weapons", mandatory gun registration for all member nations goes into effect 1 January. Only in America is there any significant popular outcry and resistance. US Congressmen claim frustration at the UN directive, saying that their "hands were tied" by the VI:2 treaty power clause of the Constitution which makes UN "gun control" our
"supreme law of the land."
Privately, these same politicians gloat at the long-last arrival of national gun registration.

Confiscation was only a matter of time.

Washington, D.C.

January 2017

White House Chief of Staff Phillip Miles has been uneasy for several months. He is now almost positive that he is under surveillance. On three separate occasions he was convinced that he was followed. Some of his letters appeared opened, while others never arrived. The White House Communications Agency inexplicably requested that he swap his pager and wireless PDA for "newer" models, but no other colleague had to turn in theirs.

He tried to persuade himself that his two years of, well, spying for Governor Preston had inculcated a natural sense of paranoia. But when he came home last week to discover some of his USBs missing, he owned up to the fact that the feds were on to him. Though he had steeled himself over the past months for this likelihood, accepting it was difficult for Miles.

He begins to make plans to resign and move far away from the East coast. Even Wyoming might not be far enough. New Zealand, maybe.

As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism
(patriotism)
, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The
(public)
school should therefore...combat family attitudes that favor jingoism .... We shall presently recognize in nationalism the major obstacle to the development of world mindedness....
[E]
ach
member nation ...has a duty to see to it that nothing in its curriculum, course of study and textbooks is contrary to UNESCO's aims.

— UNESCO, Publication 356

Cheyenne, Wyoming

State Capitol, General Session

January 2017

"Point One. Waste water. Regarding the environmental concerns over the private use of our water, we have a simple solution: Waste water shall outflow upstream from your fresh water intake. You will intake your own effluvia before anybody else does. If you can live with it, then most likely your downstream neighbors can, too. Think of it as a mandatory Golden Rule.

"Point Two: Taxes. Several states have managed to do without sales and/or income taxes
¹
. Wyoming, however, will set a new example. We propose to eliminate and prohibit all property taxes on homesteads
²
in conjunction with the privatization of all Wyoming public schools.

"Which brings us to Point Three: education . . ."

...he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem, is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

— Machiavelli

Washington, D.C.

The White House

January 2017

"What in the fuck
happened
?!" spits President Connor. "They want to dump their entire public education program! Next year! All of it, including the U of W!"

"Mr. President, according to our source in Cheyenne —"

"Your
'source'
? Fuck him!
Fuck
your 'source'! Tax credits and vouchers my ass! We got D-Day'ed! God
damn!
"

"
D
-day'ed? Sir?" Miles asks, flummoxed.

"Yes, Miles, D-Day'ed! You know, June 6, 1944? It's like we were staring at Calais because of all the bogus intel about Patton's phantom army in East Anglia, and 'Dwight D. Prestonhower' lands at fucking Normandy Beach with a quarter million troops. We got suckered by those Cheyenne shitkickers is what happened!"

Still stomping about, President Connor says, "Well, they may propose this, but let's see if they can wade through the shitstorm the country sends their way. Abolishing public education! It's
unAmerican!
"

Attorney General Janet Vorn speaks up. "Mr. President, we just looked into their education reform. They can't dump the public schools."

Connor freezes in mid-grimace. "What do you mean?"

"Sir, their own constitution
requires
public education:"

The legislature shall make laws for the establishment and maintenance of systems of public schools which shall be open to all children of the state and free from sectarian control.

— Wyoming Constitution, Article 21, section 28

"But they
can't
repeal it because of a previous section which is controlling:"

...The following article [sections] shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of this state:

— Wyoming Constitution, Article 21, section 23

Vorn continues, "Mr. President, they're 'locked in.' They'd need the consent of Congress to repeal section 23. They're
stuck
with public schools. In fact, they can't even go very far with a voucher or tax credit scheme because of unavoidable 1st Amendment conflict. If their supreme court doesn't enforce section 23, the federal judiciary will. I've spoken with the Solicitor General about this, and he's prepared to take it all the way to the Supreme Court."

"That's great news! Preston's libertarian wave will crash on the sand bar of their own constitution — I love it! With any luck it'll drown 'em all."

Cheyenne Sentinel

February 2017

"Yesterday the Wyoming legislature passed several proposed constitutional amendments that would fully divest the State of Wyoming from public education by the beginning of the school year next September. A concurrent proposal would eliminate all residential property taxes, which are levied specifically for public schools. Mineral royalties and other taxes earmarked for education would continue to go into a general education fund, to be drawn upon by the parents on a per student capita basis.

"Voters will decide during a special election set for this August. Reaction around the country is strong and mixed. This is apparently an issue with little room for fence-sitting. The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers have announced that they will file suit in federal court if the Wyoming constitutional amendments are ratified."