Speech Given at July 14th, 2001 Anti-UN Rally - Seattle

It's bad enough that we have to keep fighting our own government over this. But now we actually have to send people before a foriegn power to explain why we should be allowed to keep our freedom. This just frosts me to no end.

So we're here to do the obligatory things we always do. We're here to try and get some public attention to what's happening, and try to pressure our congresspeople to act against what they want to do, or at least not support it actively. Sad to say however, we're dealing with the Feds and the U.N. here, and the bigger the government entity, the harder it is to make them listen. The Federal Government will only listen if we have a huge, not to mention expensive, groundswell of opposition to whatever they're doing. And then they only listen long enough to wear us down and try again. As for making the U.N. listen to what we want? It's pointless to even try.

The trend toward centralization of power is what has to be reversed. And the solution to that will never be found at the Federal level. The nature of politicians is to present themselves as the solution to our problems, and they can't achieve that by giving up power. Where we have to do our work is at the state level. This is more in keeping with the nature of politicans, because by siezing back power from the Feds, the state legislators will be making themselves the heroes. We have to make our state governments start reasserting their authority. We have to make them start to nullify Federal laws and acts that violate our state's rights. Then we need to make them pass states rights reassertion acts, with regard to the tenth amendment, the second amendment, and the rest of the Constitution. Then we will be in a position to have the state start putting a stop to the illegal acts being committed by Federal law enforcement and other agencies, and start closing down offices that don't have constitutional authority to exist. Some states are already starting to move in that direction, and we need to encourage it. Utah has recently siezed back huge amounts of land that the Feds had taken over. Now that's the kind of thing we need more of.

Of course the biggest problem to doing this is that our state politicians are bought off with Federal money. Our money. So we have to solve that little problem along the way. We have to do that by getting our state to opt out of the income tax system, and go to a system where we pay all our taxes to the state directly, and the feds have to come to the legislature for their funding. It's easy for the Feds to pick on us, the little guys, and extort us for all we're worth. It would be a lot harder to extort the legislature like that. With that kind of system, the state could say, "Instead of taking your Federal dollars for schools and highways with all the strings attached, maybe we'll just keep them in the first place and save ourselves the 70 percent you'll skim off the top."

Cutting their funding is the only way to stop their out of control growth and power expansion. Government agencies are like cancerous tumors, and they have to be treated as such. Tumors are bad enough when they first get started. But when they really get out of control is when they establish their own blood supply, i.e. funding. That's what the U.N. is trying to do now with their e-mail tax they want. If they ever get that, it's all over.

Under the current system of funding for the U.N., any money sent to them is sent in the form of dues and has to be approved by Congress before it goes anywhere. This is a good system because Congress has the power to not approve the funding, unlike us individuals. If we had a system like that for paying "dues" from the states to the Federal government, then when we said "jump" they would jump. It would be the ultimate leash around their neck, and it's the only kind with real power to make them listen.

With this type of action, complete secession wouldn't be neccessary to return to a relatively constitutional state. Reassertion of states rights, and a partial economic secession would be enough. We would simply pay the federal government our fair share for military protection, and the other services we want, and cut the funding for the rest. And a lot of states could cut out altogether any funds destined for the U.N.

At that point, we would be in a far better position to demand withdrawal from the U.N. Dropping our membership would not be isolationist, far from it. By dropping our membership, we would be free to act swiftly in world matters, in ways that serve the interests of ourselves and our allies. We wouldn't need approval from a bunch of foriegn powers anymore before acting. We could continue to work with the U.N. on things we agree on, and on things we don't, either we would act unilaterally or they would. And we would be free to oppose them when they act against our interests. This is an important power to have, because there is a new evil empire on the rise, and it is the U.N.

The Tyranny Response Team is preparing to begin a campaign of proactive work in Olympia, designed to start taking back our rights instead of fighting against losing more. Our main focus, at the time, will continue to be second amendment rights. But along the way, the reassertion of states rights, and national rights, should definitely be on the radar screen.

Thank you.