Please urge Governor McDonnell to keep his promise and reject any legislation that seeks to accommodate “Obamanocare.”

Message From Bob Marshall To You For Governor Bob McDonnell

Dear Fellow Virginians,

Please urge Governor McDonnell to keep his promise and reject any legislation that seeks to accommodate “Obamanocare.”  The “Affordable Care Act” does not require States to run their own Health Care Exchanges.  At least 26 states have refused to set up exchanges which are website marketplaces of health insurance plans meeting federal criteria. (Google: “Virginia Health Care Exchange.” Several private marketplaces already operate).

If states refuse to set up their own exchanges, it will probably take longer for the federal government to deform healthcare and perhaps postpone enforcement of mandates requiring abortion pills and “medical” inquiries regarding which homes have guns.

In 2010, Governor McDonnell’s Secretary of Health set up a Commission to study health care “reform” with a $1 Million grant.  I asked Secretary Hazel why Virginia was proceeding with government-run health care while we were challenging the law in federal court.  I was told Virginia must be “prepared.”

Governor McDonnell has publicly stated he would not set up a Virginia exchange. Now he appears willing to sign bills which authorize state involvement while purporting to provide state “oversight” of a federal exchange. In reality the bills commit Virginia resources, including personnel from several state agencies, claiming (without guaranty) that Virginia will be reimbursed by the federal government (still our tax money).  If this is not a state insurance exchange then what is it?

Instead of Virginia exercising its right to refuse to set up a state exchange as other states are doing, Virginia will use its authority, resources and personnel to grease the Obamanocare skids and objectionable mandates.

Several bills have already passed the General Assembly. Senate Bill 922, introduced February 11, 2013, passed the House of Delegates.  It states in part:

Section 32.1-16 (b): “The Department shall be compensated for expenses incurred in providing such services. “   Does this mean compensation by state agencies or Washington?  In either case, it involves additional tax money.

Section 38.2-326 (A)(i) states in part: “full funding is available.”  Funding from where?

Section 38.2-326 (A) (ii) states in part:  “technology infrastructure, including integration with federal, state, and other necessary entities, is made available to the commission by or through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or the Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources…”  Will funding come from the feds or the state? What are the costs? Understand that “made available,” does not mean “provided free of charge.”  If the feds “provide,” what will they charge Virginia taxpayers?

Section 38.2-326 (B) states in part:  “the Commission may contract with and enter into a memoranda of understanding to carry out its plan management functions with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any other state or federal agency…”   A MOU with another state agency simply would obligate more Virginia tax money and resources from the other state agency to pay for costs associated with the plan.
 
Section 38.2-326 (C) states in part: “the Commission’s obligation to perform plan management functions described in subsection A is contingent upon receiving federal funding sufficient to pay the operating expenses necessary to carry out the plan management of functions.  The Commission shall seek full reimbursement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for such expenses.  “Seeking full reimbursement does not mean obtaining full reimbursement.   Without wording which states, “The SCC shall not perform plan management functions unless all Virginia expenses are paid in full by the Federal government” this section does not assure plan management functions will be paid for by the feds (still our money).   Even if the Commission has no obligation to perform plan management functions, there is no prohibition on their performing plan functions.

Section 32.2-326 (E) states in part that “Technology resources provided by the Commission in carrying out the plan management functions shall be limited to existing commission technology support functions…” How much will this cost Virginia taxpayers?

Section 32.2-326 (F) states in part that “The Commission shall make available to the public on its website a written report on the implementation and performance of its plan management functions during the preceding  fiscal year, including, at a minimum, the manner in which all funds utilized for its plan management functions were expended.”   How much will this cost the State to carry out this function? How many state employees will be needed? Will others need to be hired?

If you do not want Virginia to speed up compliance with “Obamanocare” please call (804) 786-2211 or email the Governor here: http://www.governor.virginia.gov/aboutthegovernor/contactgovernor.cfm

Ask him to veto any legislation that accommodates “Obamanocare.”

Thank you for your help!



P.S. I thank Dr. Mark Berg for his help and insights on this bill.

HJ Res. 590 FULL TEXT - Patron-- Bob Marshall

Read Bob Marshall's Statement on why we need to get our state senators to pass this resolution

FULL TEXT:

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 590

Offered January 9, 2013

Prefiled January 3, 2013

Establishing a joint subcommittee to study whether the Commonwealth should adopt an alternate medium of commerce or currency to serve as an alternative to the currency distributed by the Federal Reserve System in the event of a major breakdown of the Federal Reserve System. Report.

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Patron-- Marshall, R.G.

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Referred to Committee on Rules

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WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled in In re Rahrer, 140 U.S. 545, 554 (1891), that "the police power" of a State "is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered by them to the general government, nor directly restrained by the Constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive"; and

WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled in Beer Company v. Massachusetts, 97 U.S. 25, 33 (1877), that the police power of the states "extend[s] to the protection of the lives, health, and property of the[ir] citizens, and to the preservation of good order"; and

WHEREAS, the protection of the lives, health, and property of Virginia's citizens and the preservation of good order in the Commonwealth depend upon the maintenance of both an adequate system of governmental finance and a sound and robust private economy; and

WHEREAS, an adequate system of governmental finance and a sound and robust private economy cannot be maintained in the absence of a sound currency; and

WHEREAS, from our nation's founding, there has been concern regarding the country's monetary and banking systems and their potential to harm the citizenry; and

WHEREAS, founding father Thomas Jefferson expressed deep concern about the social instability that may ultimately result from bank-issued paper money; in a letter to John Wayles Eppes dated June 24, 1813, Mr. Jefferson stated, "Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs"; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Jefferson also cautioned Americans regarding the role that banks play in fostering excessive public borrowing, stating in a letter to John Taylor dated May 28, 1816: "And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale"; and

WHEREAS, this concern has been voiced  through the years by many people and was to a certain extent realized during a series of "bank panics" occurring throughout the country's history culminating in the Great Depression in the 1930s; and

WHEREAS, the closing of American banks during the Great Depression led to the issuance of scrip or emergency currency by both public and private institutions beginning in 1933; and

WHEREAS, efforts to establish strong and stable currency markets also proceeded at the international level; and

WHEREAS, to rebuild an international monetary system shattered by World War II, 44 Allied nations met in July 1944 to establish a system of rules, institutions, and procedures to regulate the international monetary system; and

WHEREAS, the resulting agreement, known as the Breton Woods Agreement, began operation in 1945 and established the International Monetary Fund with a key feature being the requirement for each country to adopt a monetary policy that maintained the exchange rate by tying its currency to the U.S. dollar, thereby making the dollar the reserve currency; and

WHEREAS, recent efforts have been made to remove the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency; and

WHEREAS, the present monetary and banking systems of the United States, centered around the Federal Reserve System, have come under ever-increasing strain during the last several years, and will be exposed to ever-increasing and predictably debilitating strain in the years to come; and

WHEREAS, the Federal Reserve System, in addition to the continuing strain it is under, continues to take actions that are questionable and simply not in the best interests of Virginia citizens, including in October 2011 authorizing the transfer of nearly $76 trillion in credit default swap insurance investment instruments to be insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) over the FDIC's objection; and

WHEREAS, the legality of the extension of the Federal Reserve System's activities in recent years has been compounded by the role it has taken with respect to the Troubled Asset Relief Protection Program (TARP) and the distribution of federal stimulus funds; and

WHEREAS, officials of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank have indicated to Delegate Robert Marshall of the Virginia House of Delegates that federal officials had significant doubts regarding the legality of the role of the Federal Reserve System with respect to TARP; and

WHEREAS, many widely recognized experts predict the inevitable destruction of the Federal Reserve System's currency through hyperinflation in the foreseeable future; and

WHEREAS, in the event of hyperinflation, depression, or other economic calamity related to the breakdown of the Federal Reserve System, for which the Commonwealth is not prepared, the Commonwealth's governmental finances and the Commonwealth's private economy will be thrown into chaos, with gravely detrimental effects upon the lives, health, and property of Virginia's citizens, and with consequences fatal to the preservation of good order throughout the Commonwealth; and

WHEREAS, Virginia can avoid or at least mitigate many of the economic, social, and political shocks to be expected to arise from hyperinflation, depression, or other economic calamity related to the breakdown of the Federal Reserve System only through the timely adoption of an alternative sound currency that the Commonwealth's government and citizens may employ without delay in the event of the destruction of the Federal Reserve System's currency; and

WHEREAS, "legal tender" denotes a currency that must be accepted in payment of a debt denominated in United States "dollars" if the parties have not stipulated that some alternative currency is to be used as their medium of payment or are not otherwise required to use such alternative currency; and

WHEREAS, the Federal Reserve System's currency has been designated "legal tender" under color of Title 31, United States Code, Section 5103; and

WHEREAS, under Title 12, United States Code, § 411 and Title 31, United States Code, § 5118(b) and (c), the Federal Reserve System's currency is not redeemable in gold or silver coin or the equivalent in bullion; and

WHEREAS, that the Federal Reserve System's currency is not redeemable in gold or silver coin or the equivalent in bullion is being identified by more and more experts as a, if not the, major reason for the ever-increasing instability of the Federal Reserve System; and

WHEREAS, all gold and silver coins of the United States are designated "legal tender" under the aegis of Title 31, United States Code, §§ 5103 and 5112(h) and must be so designated perforce of Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 and Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 of and the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, each state must make gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; and

WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the United States in Lane County v. Oregon, 74 U.S. (7 Wallace) 71, 76-78 (1869), and Hagar v. Reclamation District No. 108, 111 U.S. 701, 706 (1884), has ruled that the states may adopt whatever currency they desire for the purposes of performing their sovereign governmental functions, even to the extent of adopting gold and silver coin for those purposes while refusing to employ a currency not redeemable in gold or silver coin that Congress has designated "legal tender"; and

WHEREAS, “the police power” being the primary sovereign governmental function of every state, under Lane County andHagar every state may adopt its own currency, consisting of gold or silver, or both, whenever necessary and proper to facilitate exercises of that power in aid of the general welfare of the state and its citizens; and

WHEREAS, under the aegis of Title 31, United States Code, § 5118(d)(2), and perforce of Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 and Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 of, and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to, the Constitution of the United States, Americans may employ whatever currency they choose to stipulate as the medium for payment of their private debts, including gold or silver, or both, to the exclusion of a currency not redeemable in gold or silver that Congress may have designated "legal tender"; and

WHEREAS, under the aegis of Title 31, United States Code, § 5118(d)(2), and perforce of Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 and Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 of, and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to, the Constitution of the United States, the citizens of Virginia may choose to employ as the medium for payment of their private debts whatever alternative currency, consisting of gold or silver, or both, that the Commonwealth may adopt in the exercise of "the police power"; and

WHEREAS, in light of the possible instability of the Federal Reserve System, proposals for states and their citizens to adopt an alternative currency consisting of gold or silver, or both, are receiving increasing attention throughout the United States, as evidenced by bills that have been or are being introduced in the legislatures of the other states; and

WHEREAS, various systems of alternative currency employing gold or silver, or both, in the form of coin or its equivalent in bullion have already proved themselves in the free market and could either be employed by the Commonwealth directly or be used as models for a new system created by the Commonwealth to meet Virginia's unique needs; and

WHEREAS, the adoption of an alternative currency consisting of gold or silver, or both, would not destabilize the present monetary and banking systems, the Commonwealth's governmental finances, or Virginia's private economy because it would not compel or commit the Commonwealth or her citizens to employ such alternative currency to the exclusion of the Federal Reserve System's currency immediately, but would merely make the alternative currency available, and enable it to be used in competition with and preference to the Federal Reserve System's currency, to the degree that the need for such use became apparent; and

WHEREAS, the United States Congress, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Federal Reserve System have taken and are preparing to take no action to provide the United States with an alternative to the Federal Reserve System's currency, in the likely event that the latter would be destroyed through hyperinflation; and

WHEREAS, because legislators in Virginia know or should know all of these facts; and because the General Assembly has the authority, the ability, and the duty to take timely action to deal with this situation without first seeking the approval of or assistance from Congress or any other state; and because the Constitution of Virginia provides, "That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people, that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them" - for these reasons, the citizens of the Commonwealth will properly conclude that the members of the General Assembly will be primarily responsible if the Commonwealth is found to be without an alternative medium of commerce or currency when the Federal Reserve System's currency collapses in hyperinflation, or some other related economic calamity supervenes; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That a joint subcommittee be established to study whether the Commonwealth should adopt an alternate medium of commerce or currency to serve as an alternative to the currency distributed by the Federal Reserve System in the event of a major breakdown of the Federal Reserve System.

The joint subcommittee shall consist of eight legislative members who shall be appointed as follows: five members of the House of Delegates to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates in accordance with the principles of proportional representation contained in the Rules of the House of Delegates and three members of the Senate to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules. The joint subcommittee shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman from among its membership.

In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall call or hear from such witnesses and take such other evidence as it deems appropriate and shall consider recommendations for legislation, with respect to the need, means, and schedule for establishing such an alternative currency.

Administrative staff support shall be provided by the Office of the Clerk of the House of Delegates. Legal, research, policy analysis, and other services as requested by the joint subcommittee shall be provided by the Division of Legislative Services. Technical assistance shall be provided by the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Bureau of Financial Institutions of the State Corporation Commission. All other agencies of the Commonwealth shall provide assistance to the joint subcommittee for this study, upon request.

The joint subcommittee shall be limited to six meetings for the 2013 interim, and the direct costs of this study shall not exceed $22,560 without approval as set out in this resolution. Approval for unbudgeted nonmember-related expenses shall require the written authorization of the chairman of the joint subcommittee and the respective Clerk. If a companion joint resolution of the other chamber is agreed to, written authorization of both Clerks shall be required.

No recommendation of the joint subcommittee shall be adopted if a majority of the House members or a majority of the Senate members appointed to the joint subcommittee (i) vote against the recommendation and (ii) vote for the recommendation to fail notwithstanding the majority vote of the joint subcommittee.

The joint subcommittee shall complete its meetings by November 30, 2013, and the chairman shall submit to the Division of Legislative Automated Systems an executive summary of its findings and recommendations no later than the first day of the 2014 Regular Session of the General Assembly. The executive summary shall state whether the joint subcommittee intends to submit to the General Assembly and the Governor a report of its findings and recommendations for publication as a House or Senate document and shall specify the date by which the report shall be submitted. The executive summary and the report shall be submitted as provided in the procedures of the Division of Legislative Automated Systems for the processing of legislative documents and reports, and shall be posted on the General Assembly’s website.

Implementation of this resolution is subject to subsequent approval and certification by the Joint Rules Committee. The Committee may approve or disapprove expenditures for this study, extend or delay the period for the conduct of the study, or authorize additional meetings during the 2013 interim.

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Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?131+ful+HJ590

Read Bob Marshall's Statement on why we need to get our state senators to pass this resolution

HJ Res. 590 - VA GA - Gold and Silver Virginia Alternative Currency - Patron-- Bob Marshall

"Dear Virginians,

My HJ Res. 590 has already passed the full House of Delegates and the Senate Rules Committee.  It sets up a General Assembly study of ways to protect Virginians from cyber security threats and Federal Reserve policies which adversely affect our economy.

The full Senate vote is expected on Monday, February 18.

The Chair of the Senate Rules Committee announced that Forbes Magazine editor, Steve Forbes, wrote in support of my study.  Despite a few critics at the Washington Post, the study is a serious one, necessitated by cyber security breaches and devaluation of the dollar.

CYBER SECURITY BREACHES:

How long would your family “survive” without a working credit or debit card due to banks’ computers being disabled or losing records?  In mid-October, 2012 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave a speech in New York in which he recounted serious threats to our computer dependent economy:

“In recent weeks…large U.S. financial institutions were hit by…attacks delayed or disrupted services on customer websites…the scale and speed with which it happened was unprecedented.  But even more alarming is an attack that…infected computers in the Saudi Arabian State Oil Company Aramco…This routine replaced crucial systems files with an image of a burning U.S. flag.  

But it also put additional garbage data that overwrote all the real data on the machine.  More than 30,000 computers … had to be replaced … foreign cyber actors are probing America‘s critical infrastructure networks…chemical, electricity and water plants and those that guide transportation throughout this country…intruders have successfully gained access to these control systems.  

The collective result of these kinds of attacks could be a cyber-Pearl Harbor: an attack that would cause physical destruction and the loss of life.”

FIAT MONEY, DEVALUED DOLLARS AND ECONOMIC INSTABILITY:

Federal Reserve policies have hurt Virginia’s Retirement system and budget and are producing disincentives for families to save as bank accounts now provide near zero interest.  At the same time, the Fed is providing perverse incentives for self-indulgence by Wall Street and runaway spending by Congress.  Congress needs an “intervention” which only a state study by experts can provide."

 ~ Bob Marshall~

Please contact your own State Senator by 3:00 pm on Monday, February 18 and ask him to support HJ Res. 590.  Click here to find out your state senator’s contact information.

Read the entire bill here

Virginia 7th District Republican Primary Candidate Interviews

Kirby Harris wrote an earlier column about Eric Cantor having a challenger in the Republican Primary (here), so I thought I would follow it up with interviews. 

With the Republican Primary for Virginia's 7th District fast approaching on June 12th, a few days ago I extended an invitation to both candidents, Eric Cantor and Floyd Bayne, giving both candidates the exact same amount of time to respond to my request. As I figured would happen, Eric Cantor stood me up in 2012 like he did in 2010 (read about it here). Floyd Bayne granted me an interview.

Read Part One       Read Part Two

*Stay tuned for Kirby's interview with independent occupy candidate for the 7th District congressional seat Dr. Vivek Jain.

George Allen Anti-Gun Record, Bob Marshall Passed 100%

CHECK OUT THIS EMAIL FROM : Gun Owners of America Dudley Brown ✆ Dudley.Brown@nationalgunrights.org via bluehornet.com

George Allen's anti-gun record is dangerous to Virginia gun owners. With your Republican U.S. Senate primary taking place tomorrow in Virginia, I want to make sure you are armed with gun rights facts. Republican candidate Delegate Bob Marshall returned his National Association for Gun Rights Candidate Survey 100% in favor of our right to keep and bear arms. The bad news is, George Allen refused to respond. But I'm not surprised -- his anti-gun record is well-chronicled. Please read the detailed analysis of George Allen's anti-gun record in my email below. -- Dudley I have some bad news. George Allen’s anti-gun crusade will continue if he gets back to the U.S. Senate. More on that in a minute. Now, sometimes folks assume that just because a politician is a Republican, they ‘re a solid supporter of the Second Amendment. I hope you don’t make that mistake. You see, you and I are only a handful of votes shy in the U.S. Senate of losing our right to keep and bear arms. We have the most anti-gun administration in nearly 20 years. The last time such a rabid anti-gunner was in charge in Washington, we got the Brady Bill, a ban on an entire class of semi-automatic hunting and target rifles, and millions of gun owners lost their rights. Unfortunately, it’s virtually certain that we won’t have a true gun rights hero in the White House regardless of who wins this November. That’s why it’s especially vital that gun owners know where every candidate for U.S. Senate stands. And that’s why we sent candidate surveys to the Republican candidates for U.S. Senate in Virginia asking very specific questions about where each candidate stands on your gun rights. The results might shock you. First, the good news, Republican candidate Delegate Bob Marshall has returned his survey 100% in support of your right to keep and bear arms. This should come as no surprise. Delegate Bob Marshall has a long history of fighting for Virginian’s gun rights in the House of Delegates. In the General Assembly, Delegate Bob Marshall was the chief co-sponsor of the repeal of the unconstitutional one-gun-a-month rationing scheme that finally passed this year. Delegate Bob Marshall also led the charge to expand the right of law-abiding citizens to carry their firearms on college campuses. Marshall has pledged to continue his long support of gun rights in the United States Senate. However, I do have some disturbing news. Republican candidate George Allen refused to answer our survey. This isn’t new. Some politicians refuse to answer the tough questions we ask. Unfortunately, when politicians refuse to answer, it virtually always means they’d vote anti-gun if elected. Often, it’s a sign that they’re hiding their anti-gun views -- and George Allen’s anti-gun record will shock you! *** George Allen proudly declared his support for the so-called “Assault Weapons” ban and pledged to renew it. 1 *** George Allen supported and refused to repeal Virginia’s unconstitutional, and recently repealed, one-gun-a-month gun rationing scheme. 2 *** George Allen voted to crack down on private gun sales, and to end private gun sales at gun shows. 3 *** George Allen believes magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds of ammunition should be outlawed. 4 *** George Allen supports stringent background checks as a condition of owning a firearm. 5 *** George Allen voted for legislation that would coerce gun owners into locking up their firearms or face criminal prosecution. 6 *** George Allen believes that handgun buyers should be tracked in a massive centralized database. 7 *** George Allen pledged to support mandatory trigger locks for all firearms. 8 *** George Allen pledged a crackdown on enforcement of currently existing unconstitutional federal gun laws. 9 George Allen has joined with liberals time and time again in opposing your God-given constitutional right to self-defense. Furthermore, with Allen’s refusal to answer the National Association for Gun Rights candidate survey, voters have no idea if he is in favor of the U.N. gun controls that are right now looming over our head. Allen may not have answered our survey, but his abysmal record on our gun rights is crystal clear. All across the country anti-gun lawmakers and politicians are pushing the same anti-gun platform as George Allen has throughout his career. The next U.S. Senator from Virginia will face important choices on many or all of these issues. So, the question is: How long will it take George Allen to cave in like a house of cards as he has so many times before? Allen is likely to sell-out gun owners the first time it’s politically expedient to do so. It makes sense. Many of the gun controls that passed during the Clinton Administration were supported by weak-kneed Republicans who often say “politics is the art of compromise.” Nothing gets my blood boiling as much as politicians playing fast and loose with our constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms. With all that’s at stake this election year, and with your June 12th Republican Primary fast approaching, it’s crucial that freedom-loving citizens of Virginia State know exactly where their candidates stand on the Second Amendment. That’s why it’s vital you send George Allen a message. Demand that George Allen apologize for his abysmal record on gun rights. Demand that he answer the National Association for Gun Rights survey 100% in favor of your gun rights, and pledge that if elected he will stop acting like a gun-grabber and cast his votes in support of our Second Amendment rights. But there isn’t much time. Here’s what you can do to help: o   Thank Delegate Bob Marshall for his 100% support of your right to keep and bear arms! o   Give Republican candidate George Allen an earful by calling him at 804-726-2012. Demand that he answer the National Association for Gun Rights survey 100% in favor of your gun rights, and pledge that in the future, he will stand up to the gun-grabbers and cast his votes in support of the Second Amendment. There’s no doubt about it, the upcoming elections will have a greater impact on our Second Amendment rights than any other election in our lifetime. And with so much at stake, I’m really going above and beyond to make sure every person in Virginia who cares about the Second Amendment knows exactly where their candidates stand. And I’m counting on good folks like you to help make that possible. So please, consider making a generous contribution of $15, $25, $50 or perhaps even $100 -- or whatever you can afford -- to help me contact as many Virginia citizens as possible. But most importantly, contact Republican George Allen and tell him change his position on the Second Amendment. There’s not a moment to lose. Please act today!     For Freedom,          Dudley Brown     Executive Vice President P.S. Republican U.S. Senate candidate George Allen won’t answer the National Association for Gun Rights candidate survey -- and his long history of supporting left-wing gun control schemes is crystal clear. Gun owners must demand answers. It’s vital that you contact George Allen at once and demand he apologize to gun owners for his gun-grabbing past, and answer the National Association for Gun Rights candidate survey 100% pro-gun immediately! Reference: 1. The Washington Post, 9/13/2000; and George Allen for U.S. Senate Campaign press release, 9/12/2000. 3. Project Votesmart 2000 U.S. Senate Candidate Survey. 4. The Washington Post, 9/13/2000; and George Allen for U.S. Senate Campaign press release, 9/12/2000. 5. Project Votesmart 2000 U.S. Senate Candidate Survey. 6. Voted for SB 424 in 1990 and SB 685 in 1991 as a VA Delegate 7. 1993 Allen for Governor campaign policy statement. 8. Project Votesmart 2000 U.S. Senate Candidate Survey. 9. Project Votesmart 2000 U.S. Senate Candidate Survey. The National Association for Gun Rights is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, single-purpose citizens' organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the Constitutionally protected right-to-keep-and-bear-arms through an aggressive program designed to mobilize public opposition to anti-gun legislation. The National Association for Gun Rights' mailing address is P.O 7002, Fredericksburg, VA 22404. They can be contacted toll-free at 1-877-405-4570. Its web address is www.NationalGunRights.org/ Not produced or e-mailed at taxpayer expense. To help the National Association for Gun Rights grow, pleaseforward this to a friend. Help fight gun control. Donate to the National Association for Gun Rights!

Will Virginia's anti-NDAA (indefinate detention) law really protect us?

The main question in many minds of those who hold individual liberty dear is:

Will Virginia's anti-NDAA/Indefinate Detention Law actually protect us from out of control Feds on a witch hunt?

Or will our State Leaders like Bob McDonnell, who originally opposed the anti-NDAA bill, because he claimed it hurt the war on terror ignore implementation of the bill when the time comes to protect Virginia citizens?

To read more on this subject click here

Real ID might not be as dead in the water as was orginally thought.

History

In 2005, both houses of Congress passed The Real ID Act, then signed by so-called conservative George W. Bush. The Act failed pass as a stand alone bill several times, but only passed when the sponsors had it tacked onto the back of an Iraq Defense spending bill.

In turn, thirty-four (34) states, including Virginia, enacted anit-real ID legislation that outlawed such provisions that were in the Act from becoming law in their state.

Virginia passed Anti-Real ID Act (SB 1431, HB 1587) which prohibits compliance with Real ID provisions. (Enacted 3/31/09)

Current Virginia Attorney General Ken T. Cuccinelli was the chief patron in the Virginia Senate and Delegate Bob G. Marshall was the Chief Patron in the Virginia House.

Other Senate Patrons: Emmett W. Hanger, Jr., Frederick M. Quayle, Jill Holtzman Vogel

Other House Patrons: Charles W. Carrico, Sr., Anne B. Crockett-Stark, Sal R. Iaquinto, Brenda L. Pogge

Which states enacted legislation and what such legislation entailed.

Virginia Anti-Real ID Patrons 


Dangers of Real ID

• Real ID mandates RFID readable chips that can be read by any one who buys a reader.
• Unfunded Mandates on the State governments costing Billions.
• A central database that must be shared with all states, localities and in some cases foreign entities.
• No statutory limitations on “official purpose”
• Creates a federal identity document that every American will need in order to fly on commercial airlines, enter government buildings, open a bank account, and more. 

The language says that those who don't have it can't participate in "Federal Activity", which is rather vague language that could be stretched into anything that comes under Federal Jurisdiction.

Here is a list of a few things that come under Federal Jurisdiction, law or oversight:

Getting a loan to buy a home, opening a bank account, getting any regular loan, getting a student loan, a car loan, refinancing your home, buying a gun, selling products across state lines, flying in a plane, driving your car (if your doesn't offer a state Drivers license alternative to real ID), getting a JOB, possibly crossing state lines (especially if the next state doesn't recognize your non-Real Id state license) and the list goes on and on and on. To see more about the dangers to your liberty and privacy click Here


Real ID Resurfaces

Computerworld.com reports:

"A controversial 2005 bill designed to create a national standard for driver's licenses may not be quite as dead in the water as many might have assumed, according to a report released this week by the Center for Immigration Studies." (Read More Here)

It goes on to say how the Federal government is trying everything they can to re-implement this draconian Nazi style identification system which will limit your freedom of choice and movement . The States rejected it but they keep trying to find new ways to enforce it on us against the wishes of the states and the People.

So tell every one you can to call their Local, State and Federal Officials and urge them to fight a national ID of any kind.

Check out  Kirby Harris' Articles in his Column at the Richmond Examiner.