NULLIFICATION, the movie! ISLANDS OF POWER IN AN OCEAN OF RIGHTS, the way it was meant to be

You know a link is on solid ideological grounds when it's got Rachel MadCow hissing at an icon of Southern greatness like John C. Calhoun:

http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/06/09/nullification-the-movie/

This link is unexpected. Nullification is when states finally exercise their rightful powers to, well, nullify federal tyranny, but it has been all but forgotten for most of the American experience.

In a sense, nullification was to be the American way of life: informed, enlightened citizens JUST SAYING NO to politicians and getting quick compliance from them every time. The fedgov was created for only a small handful of purposes such facilitating interstate commerce. Anytime it got the least bit too big for its britches, the states were to jump up and immediately bring the fedgov back to its senses. Everybody knew that central governments are prone to mischief as the sparks fly upward, and this was going to be the first country where things completely differently -- power from the ground up, the world upside down!

Nullification has in fact been practiced through America's saga, but only a fraction of the action there should have been. The day the fedgov considered its first outlay for kindly charitable purposes -- allegedly a very small one (search "not yours to give") -- the states should have jumped up and put a stop to it. Certainly the day CONgress first debated starting a dead-wood federal department

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_agencies

......there should have been an immediate outcry from the people, ordering their Sens and Reps to shoot it down or face white-hot rage when they came home. But no, people have had stars in their eyes for central governments since the dawn of time, and in the USA they've mostly bowed down and worshiped their fedgoons -- especially, of course, if the latter are crying wolf about some war emergency half a world away.

But war has been, in fact, the point at which nullification shone brightest: at the time of the then-greatest federal power grab ever, the 1860s yankee rape of Dixie, the Southern states rediscovered nullification with a passion, almost persuading the yankees to quash Presi-deity Lincoln's plans for nation wrecking. (The "New York draft riots" were in fact a second revolt against Lincolns usurpations across the cold northlands!)

From my 1996 review of Springs of the Virginias:

As the nineteenth century progressed "People from all over the South began flocking to the spa for both health and social reasons. The resort was especially popular with South Carolinians, and they even had a row of cottages appropriately named `Nullification Row.'"*

Note that film under discussion (link at top) begins with somebody aptly straightening out basic terminology: -- wrongful, usurping federal legislation is not LAW, she points out, it's merely "un-Constitutional ACTIONS" urgently in need of cancellation by states. People are human, state governments are half-human, fedgovs are inhuman. Everybody knows that under normal healthy conditions.

.............Speaking of socialism, didja hear about this?

Sesame Street Muppet Pitches Government Dependence: Free Food at School http://conservativebyte.com/2011/12/sesame-street-muppet-pitches-government-dependence-free-food-at-school/

This was also in the pile yesterday

Are the Muppets communists?
http://visiontoamerica.org/6195/are-the-muppets-communists/

.........but doesn't give any strong answer to the question,while admitting that

........Jim Henson was pretty much a secular postmodernist through and through. This is significantly reflected throughout the Muppets films. Science and religion are mysteriously absent. At best, their sense of morality is man-centered, this leading to humanistic tendencies, but even the morality is inconsistent and without a foundation. The Muppets in general are left attempting to bring order to non-stop calamities that come out of thin air. It is the driving force of chaos that propels their unexpected humorous fiascos. Their postmodern world reflects the childlike mindset that things just happen without causation in a world where anything and everything may happen.

........and isn't that "without causation" factor the way it is with leftism generally -- at least with the problems leftism causes, directly or otherwise? "Oh well," the lefties sigh, "stuff just happened, and now our only choice is...... government handouts, new laws dynamiting old standards, police power that favors our agenda, etc." As for the Muppets, it's no surprised their stuff's atheist -- aren't most things that Notional Pubhouse Rowdyo creates?

This from my Jew in Jew Jersey (hi, Linda!):

Verizon 'Emergency' Text Alert Causes Panic In New Jersey
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/verizon-emergency-text-al_n_1144982.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Did this item make the nightly news? Is it more like War of the Worlds -- or maybe 1956's Fail Safe?

It's a sunny, mild day for December. If you're having too good a time, check this show out -- it will bring you down a notch:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/defending-civil-liberties/pentagon-provides-military-grade-weapons-to-local-police-.html

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*Speaking of Virginias, note that the film appears measurably South-friendly and diversitarianity-immune.