By Richard D. Fry

Madison and Jefferson had no doubt what the States’ obligation was regarding unconstitutional federal law. The states were “duty bound” to call out any usurpation by the federal government, to give such usurpation no validity and to “interpose” the state between its citizens and any unlawful act of the federal government, when necessary to protect the rights and liberty of their citizens. (See the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798.)

The National Defense Appropriations Act of 2012(NDAA) is just such a law. It seeks to apply the rules of a “battlefield” to the continental United States and to treat the U.S. citizens as if they were on a “battlefield”. And, what law has Congress unlawfully given the Executive Branch to use against the American people; the Law of War and martial law.

What treacherous “attack of sophistry or ambition” and vile violation of their oath to the Constitution has allowed Congress to give this Republic a status it in reality does not possess and impose upon the citizens of this Republic a standard so blatantly unconstitutional. It matters not. The duty of our state legislators is to denounce such betrayal. Will they?

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