Posted by Talbert Black Jr on 11/20/09

This is a summary from the Senate Journal from May 19th.  The link to the journal entry is below.

Bright proposed to amend S424 by replacing it with all the language of H3509.  It passed on a voice vote.

Knotts proposed an amendment to replace the entire language of the bill to include justification of the General Assembly appropriating funds from the FedGov.  Roll Call was taken,  McConnell, Knotts, Larry Martin, and Peeler voted against our boys and Knotts amendment passed 28 to 17.

Malloy proposed an amendment recognizing the 14^th amendment.  The amendment was adopted on voice vote.

Leventis proposed an amendment to remove language specifying that the FedGov is an agent of the states. Roll Call was taken.  The amendment failed 31 to 11.

Larry Martin moved to vote on the sovereignty resolution.  We only needed a simple majority to force a vote.  Roll Call was taken.  The motion failed 22 to 22.  McConnell and Knotts voted against us.  Either one of these voting with us could have forced a vote on the resolution.  These two effectively killed the resolution.  A vote against this motion was a vote against the resolution.

Hutto moved to adjourn.  The motion passed 22 to 21.  Knotts voted against us. McConnell didn't vote because he had taken up the position of president (chairman) of the Senate.

Following is the pertinent part of the Senate journal from which the above summary was taken.  Link using http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/sj09/20090519.htm (visited on 5/20/2009)

Posted by Talbert Black Jr on 09/26/09
Last updated 09/26/09

Thanks to all who braved the bad weather to attend our conference!

We had two guest speakers today.  Bill Connor, who is running for Lt. Governor and Kelly Payne, who is running for Superintendent of Education.  Both were well prepared to answer our questions.

We did not record the speeches this time.  We need a volunteer to step forward who is willing to record them so we can post them up for those who couldn't attend.

After our quest speakers, we spent the remainder of our time discussing what we can do in our state to promote liberty and freedom.  The bulk of the discussion was considering different legislation.  After much discussion, it seemed that most of those present were willing to spend their time and effort supporting the following things:

 

Sovereignty Resolution - S424 and H3509 already introduced in the house and senate.  These resolutions will affirm that our state is sovereign under the 9^th and 10^th amendments.  The House passed their bill but the Senate is blocking theirs.

 

On the Record Voting (Roll Call) - H3047 and S11 already introduced in the house and senate.  These bills will require the legislators, by law, to record their votes.  Today, only very few are recorded.  Last legislative session only 1% of the senate votes were recorded and 8% of the house votes.

 

Paper Ballots - Not yet introduced.  Our S.C Constitution requires that all ballots be counted in public.  No one sees the counting of electronic ballots.  Additionally, there is overwhelming evidence that the electronic voting system is subject to fraud and deception.  We need to return to paper ballots counted in public.

 

Legal Money - Our U.S. Constitution only authorizes Congress to "coin" money.  It bars everyone from printing money not backed in gold and silver.  It also declares that "No state shall make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts"  It is time to hold our state to this mandate. 

This bill will set up a system whereby the state and its agencies will be required to make all their payments in gold and silver electronic currency.  No one will need to carry gold and silver in their pocket to the stores, but the electronic currency can be exchanged for actual metals if one wanted.  Legal money will not replace the Federal Reserve Notes that are currently used. It will be a competing currency system.

We are looking forward to the January session and making moving these items forward.  We have teams for each item.  Anyone who is willing to add themselves to one or more of the teams for any of these items, please send me a note.

Posted by Talbert Black Jr on 09/17/09

Second Southern National Congress Concludes With Passage of the

'Southern National Covenant'

September 13, 2009; Delta, AL - One hundred and fifty Southerners from the fourteen Southern States convened at the Second Southern National Congress (SNC), September 11-13, at scenic Cheaha State Park, the highest point in Alabama, and passed several important measures, including the Southern National Covenant.  The Covenant, like the SNC itself, has its roots in the age-old hunger for liberty in the Western world.  It echoes other historic covenants that proved to be crucial turning points in Western man's struggle to secure freedom and justice under law.  Signers of the Covenant on September 13, many of whom sealed their signatures in blood, pledge to resist Federal tyranny and work to restore liberty, justice, and sovereignty for the Southern States and People. 

Author Kirkpatrick Sale, President of the Middlebury Foundation and Delegate for South Carolina, called it an "extraordinary document."  Passed unanimously by the 14 State Delegations, he said it is "strong in its rejection of the United States empire and in the need for a new foundation for law and government and a restoration of sovereignty of the Southern people." 

SNC Chairman Thomas Moore noted, "The Southern National Covenant is patterned in part after the Scottish National Covenant of 1638, a turning point in the defeat of royal absolutism and tyranny in the British Isles, and which is part of America's heritage as well as of Scots and Englishmen.  At the Second Congress we felt we were standing in a procession of continuity with our forefathers who shed their blood for human dignity and freedom.  As the final vote was tallied, we all looked around at one another in awestruck silence.  It was a solemn, emotional, and historic moment when the SNC adopted this unique pledge devoting ourselves to Southern liberty."      

The SNC is urging all Southerners who oppose the increasing outrages of Federal corruption and tyranny to sign the Covenant, share it with their fellow Southerners, and encourage them to sign.  A down-loadable version is available on the SNC website, www.southernnationalcongress.org.

In the day-and-a-half session, made up of 111 Delegates and Officers and witnessed by 40 observers, the Second Congress also debated and agreed to the following measures:

• A proclamation calling for a Day of Repentance and Intercessory Prayer for the Southern Nation. 

• A "Resolution and Appeal" aimed at Southern law enforcement and National Guard officials reminding them that they serve the People and not the temporary occupants of public office.  It urges them to keep their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution; and in the event of a national emergency, to refuse to take part in an unlawful suppression of civil liberties.

• Two resolutions, called "Remonstrance and Petition for a Redress of Grievances," opposing the Obama Administration's government health care plan and abortion.

Warmly hosted by the Alabama SNC Delegation, participants at the Second Congress, including 25 new Delegates, enjoyed two evenings of Southern fellowship, enlivened with traditional Southern cooking, beverages, and music. 

The proven model for the SNC comes from America's own history - the First and Second Continental Congresses of 1774 and 1775, when our colonial forefathers created their own alternative, legitimate forum to represent their interests and voice their grievances in a way that was not otherwise possible.  The SNC goal is similar, to bring into being an independent forum with moral authority because it reflects the true interests of the Southern people - the preservation of their liberty, prosperity, culture, and identity.

SNC Chairman Thomas Moore is available for media interviews at chairman@southernnationalcongress.org.

For more information about the SNC, contact Jonathan Ingram, Chairman of the SNC Media and PR Committee, at jonathaningram@southernnationalcongress.org.

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Posted by Talbert Black Jr on 09/17/09

The Southern National Covenant

The undersigned Men and Women of the South to our fellow Southerners and on their behalf.

Our forefathers' worst nightmare has now come upon us.  They created a free government, limited in its powers and a servant to the people.  But today the United States has become an empire, fast decaying into tyranny; and we their children have become strangers and subjects in the land our fathers won.  Instead of a free and just social and political order, today we are threatened by a Godless national culture and a corrupt, despotic Federal government that knows no limits to its power.

Our political leaders, setting themselves above the law, have forged an unholy alliance with large corporations and the international money cartel.  These elites have purchased the lawmakers who are sworn to serve the People, enabling them to expropriate our wealth in the greatest act of plunder in human history.  Through threat of force, government seizes half of all we make for taxes, yet it is still not enough to satisfy the vaulting greed of our rulers.  Thus government spends staggering sums above its revenues, saddling our People with debt so colossal that it cannot be repaid to the fifth generation.  To service this debt, the government-banking alliance has stolen our Constitutional and God-ordained right to sound money and has given the power to create money out of nothing to corrupt, private banking interests.  Federal law forces us to use only this bank-created money; and because it must be borrowed into existence, our once free people have become enslaved to debt.  The burden of confiscatory taxation, combined with runaway federal spending and a currency manipulated to benefit the ruling elites, has brought our country to the brink of bankruptcy and economic collapse, with all the political and social turmoil that must inevitably follow.

The Federal regime has loosed upon us floods of immigrants, strangers to our laws and language embodying cultures and values contrary to those upon which our nation was founded, who are displacing us on the soil our fathers won with their sweat and blood.  Fomenting hostility between the races and regions, our rulers have destroyed hope and spread despair.  Injustice, tyranny, corruption, and deceit are the hallmarks of their governing.  They call good evil and evil good, the recompense for which is divine judgment.  Accelerated by dishonesty and corruption at every level of society and swept along by daily torrent of official lies, America is plunging toward the abyss.  We watch transfixed with horror at the destruction of a once free and prosperous country and are forced to acknowledge the American political and economic system is no longer sustainable.  It has become a long train of abuses, evidencing a design to reduce us under absolute despotism.  Thus it cannot be salvaged or redeemed, only replaced. 

We Southerners proclaim our right to be free of these evils our ancestors warned against and shed their blood to prevent.  The seeds of our deliverance remain alive within our faith, culture, and historic principles of governance of individual liberty, rule of law, and impartial justice.  Southern culture is founded on the enduring and permanent: trust in God, family, tradition, manners, property, community, loyalty, courage, and honour. We know that free and just government cannot derive from laws, regulations, bureaucracies, and ideologies.  It springs only from the soil of faith and love, watered by struggle and sacrifice, and the harvest of which is liberty, justice, prosperity, and peace.

Before all the nations of the earth we affirm that we are a separate and distinct People, with an honourable heritage worthy of the respect of all mankind.  Bound together by a shared history, faith, and blood, we have endured hardship and tragedy but have also enjoyed the fruits of Christian civilisation built by God's grace and the works of our hands.  Under heaven, we possess the right to govern ourselves in our own land under our own laws, customs, and religion.  

With more sadness than anger we recognize that the country our forebears bequeathed to us no longer exists.  By depending on the central government's increasingly worthless currency, its loans, subsidies, and payments, its putrescent schools, and its false promises of security, we have forged our own chains.  But if we have forged our chains, we can also sever them. 

We are left us with no recourse but to look to our own counsel to secure our welfare.  We must "abjure the realm," withdrawing our support from the tyrannical government and corporate institutions created for our enslavement.  Then we must work to restore the power of our States, the first bulwark of freedom, self-government, and Southern identity.  As our forefathers did, we must establish a new foundation for law and government by all honourable means.

Therefore, with humble trust in the Sovereign Lord of Nations, and in the name of the Southern Nation and People whom we serve, we the Delegates of the fourteen Southern States, in Congress assembled September 12, 2009 in Delta, Alabama, make and publish this Covenant, to which we invite all Southerners who yearn for liberty and justice to join us in subscribing.

By this Covenant we corporately pledge ourselves to the protection of our Southern cultural heritage and to the defence of liberty and justice for the Southern People and States.  We bind and oblige ourselves, as we are by God and nature tied, with our lives, fortunes, and sacred honour to stand in defence of our native soil and People, contrary to this perverse and infamous regime now arrayed against the South.  We swear that we will be ever ready to use all our best endeavours for her preservation, and that we will not cravenly and shamefully bow the knee to tyrants.  By this bond, each of us faithfully promises to assist one another as the need demands.  All of which before God we most solemnly vow and promise to adhere to and never to turn from, all the days of our lives.  

In mutual support of one another as Christian Southerners, we covenant together

• To renounce the evils of corrupt government that our forebears warned against, and to resist by all honourable means acts of federal tyranny, as our circumstances permit and as the Lord leads.
• To seek to revive our local economies, working together to promote every man's prosperity as our own and toward freeing ourselves from the snare of the Empire's worthless money and perpetual debt which are the lifeblood of tyranny, and seeking a return to honest public money in daily use -- gold and silver coin or currency backed by gold and silver.
• To support every measure which restores the sovereignty of our State and local governments, and the sovereignty of the Southern people.
• To resist any Federal statute or Presidential directive that threatens our fundamental freedoms of speech, press, assembly, exercise of religion, and petition for redress, freedom from illegal search and seizure, and the right of due process under law.
• Never to allow ourselves willingly to be disarmed nor submit to the confiscation of our means of lawful self defence; nor comply with any firearms registration scheme, which is the certain precursor to confiscation.

We declare before God and men that we earnestly desire to restore a Godly order in our respective States by peaceful means.  We seek only that which may turn to the honour of God and the increase of peace and justice in our States and communities.  Yet the growing evils of the time may not grant us the choice of peaceful means of redress.  In such a pass, when criminal violence may be directed against one of us by the state, our fortunes shall be as their fortunes, their wives or husbands as our wives and husbands, their children as our children, their losses as our losses, and injuries done them as injuries to our own persons; and we shall not rest till they be delivered.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF to the God of our Fathers, to all Southern People, to all powers, nations, and states, and to all humankind, we affix our names to this Covenant, beseeching the favour of Almighty God on a just cause.  May God bless our Covenant and keep us faithful to perform all we have covenanted together to do.

Subscribed by the undersigned Citizens of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Signature______________________________________________________________

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