"We're Charging Governors With Violation of Oath of
Office!"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron
Ewart, President
National Association of Rural
Landowners (www.narlo.org)
and
nationally recognized author and speaker on freedom and property rights
issues for over 10 years
© Copyright Sunday, August
9, 2015 - All Rights Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, August 5, 2015
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The Framers of the American Republic and the U. S. Constitution
knew how governments, left un- attended by the people, would eventually morph
into kingdoms, dictatorships, or a pseudo Democracy run by the mob, in what
Alexis de Tocqueville, 210 years ago, predicted would be the "Tyranny of the
Majority". The Framers set up two (2) major impediments to this
evolution through 1) the Separation of Powers Doctrine in the executive,
legislative and judicial branches of government, but 2) also granted to the
states in the 9th and 10th Amendments to the U. S. Constitution, the following
extraordinary rights:
9th Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution of
certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by
the people."
10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United
States by this Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to
the States respectively, or to the people."
The basic idea of all these protections was to inhibit the
federal government from becoming so powerful that it would overwhelm the rights
of the states and the people. Welcome to today's America.
Since we have been essentially unsuccessful in getting others
to join us in this fight against an ever more powerful central government and
since it is the responsibility of the governors of the individual states to stop
the federal government from exerting more power, we, unilaterally, are
proceeding with charging the governors of several states with violation of their
oath of office and criminal negligence in discharging their duties as governor,
for failure to enforce the provisions of the 9th and 10th Amendments, along with
other serious charges.
The President of the National Association of Rural Landowners
(
NARLO),
being a staunch advocate for the American rural landowner, is making these
charges against the governors for and on behalf of all rural landowners who find
themselves virtually disenfranchised and unrepresented in the legislative and
administrative law-making process. In fact, rural landowners find
themselves having to bear almost the entire burden of environmental protection
while their urban brothers and sisters remain unaffected.
The governor has a duty to serve all the citizens of his or her
state, not just urban dwellers who have become the "Tyranny of the Majority"
supporting sanctuary cities, social justice, radical environmentalism,
multi-culturalism, collectivism, political correctness, Progressivism and the
one-world-order. What do city folks care about the rural landowner being
savaged by radical international environmental law that deprives them of their
fundamental right of use, due process and 5th Amendment protections and reduces
their property values?
So, on behalf of the American rural landowner that produces our
food, our wood products and are oil and minerals, we are making the following
charges against the governors of certain states, starting with Jay Inslee, the
Democrat Governor of Washington State, with a Certified - Return Receipt
Requested letter and an accompanying Affidavit of Truth. In that letter and
Affidavit we charge the governor with, TO-WIT:
1. The governor of said state, as its chief executive, has
allowed the federal government to tax the citizens of his state and then allowed
the federal government to blackmail those very same citizens by forcing those
state citizens to accept federal law or policy, on the threat of withholding
federal funds to that state if the state doesn't comply, funds that belonged
to the state citizens in the first place. By so doing the governor has
failed to uphold the provisions of the 9th and 10th Amendments of the U. S.
Constitution and has by his or her actions given greater power to the federal
government, thereby reducing the constitutional power of said state.
2. The governor of said state has allowed the invasion of
international law to supersede and override federal and state constitutional law
by not stopping the implementation of the International Maintenance Code, or
other international codes or policies, in state, county and city regulations. In
addition, the governor has allowed the United Nations affiliate agency called,
the International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), to invade
said state and contract with county and cities to further the implementation of
international environmental policies that are in direct conflict with
constitutional law, state and federal.
3. The governor of said state has instituted law to limit
carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions across the board for the international con game
of man-caused global warming, when the science of man-caused global warming is a
theory at best and anything but settled science. By instituting those laws
the governor has burdened the citizens of said state with millions of dollars in
taxes and fees for an alleged future danger that in all probability is nothing
more than the natural cooling and heating cycles of the earth over time. In
fact, there is equal science supporting such a claim that directly contradicts
the man-caused global warming theory, but it is ignored for political reasons.
By purposely rejecting one of two scientific theories on alleged global warming
in the governor's decisions, the governor has either knowingly, or unwittingly,
become an unregistered international foreign agent, acting for and on behalf of
foreign interests.
4. The governor of said state has allowed state agencies to
violate the constitutional property rights of rural landowners by not
prohibiting those agencies from promulgating draconian environmental
regulations, driven largely by international radical environmental policies,
such as UN's Agenda 21. These regulations fall disproportionately on rural
landowners, in violation of their 5th Amendment and due process protections, as
well as violating their equal protection rights under the U. S.
Constitution. Rural landowners own most of the private land in said state,
but find themselves totally disenfranchised from and virtually unrepresented in
the legislative and administrative law-making process.
5. The governor of said state has allowed federal agencies,
like the EPA, the DOE and the DoED, and others, to run amok in said state
without invoking states' rights under the 9th and 10th Amendments. The
federal government owns said state and the governor let it happen.
6. The governor of said state has allowed past and current run-away
legislatures to buy votes with public monies to fund welfare and public
assistance to able-bodied citizens and illegal aliens and has done nothing to
stop it. The governor has made promises to state employees for pension
plans that are criminally under funded. By such actions the governor has
violated his or her fiduciary and financial responsibility to state citizens,
thereby sending state finances towards insolvency and further burdening state
citizens with exploding taxes to pay for government's gross negligence.
Our first governor letter and Affidavit of Truth was sent to
Governor Inslee of Washington State on August 3, 2015. We have given the
Governor 30 calendar days to respond to these allegations. Copies of the
letter and the Affidavit were also sent to the leaders of the State's House and
Senate.
Because the issues we raise are so serious and systemic in all
state governments and are the reasons why the federal government has become so
powerful, thereby superseding states' rights in violation of the 9th and 10th
Amendments, we will be contacting other state governors over the next few months
and charging them equally, as we have done here, on behalf of the rural
landowner that has been disenfranchised from the political process.
States have become complicit and co-conspirators in these power
usurpations by the federal government. It would seem very few Americans
understand how vital is the relationship between the states and the federal
government, to the separation of powers and to the success and survival of our
allegedly "free" Republic.
Our first letter to Governor Inslee of Washington State and
Affidavit of Truth are posted on the NARLO website
HERE
This effort will take a considerable amount of time and expense
on our part. If you wish to donate to this effort, or become a member of NARLO,
you can do so
HERE.
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Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org) an advocate and consultant for urban and rural landowners and a
non-profit corporation headquartered in Washington State. He can be
reached for comment at: info@narlo.org.
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