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Show BSSIHCITY OF D1 LIBRARIES TESTER;: nilRIGANA DEC 2 11973 m Ini : FR ft W: Independent Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth Vol. 4, No. 51 Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Like the fog, collectivism is coming to the United States on little cats feet. While the Supreme Court strikes down laws designed for the protection and Tax of the American people. Congress rubber-stammeasure after measure, ostensibly in the public and national interest, but actually robbing us of more and more of our inherited freedoms. One of the most dangerous and deceitful laws ever to be presented to the House of Representatives comes clothed in the robes of environmental protection. This is the proposed Federal Land Use Planning Act which passed the Senate on June 21, 1973 as S268 and which is pending before the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee as HR 10294. This bill places in jeopardy all private property rights in the United' States. The House bill as currently drafted could provide grants to each state for the purpose of developing and implementing a comprehensive well-bein- g ps Meralb of freeborn FEDERAL LAND CONTROL- - Fossil Th Co of the Therefore, no matter how many legal provisions for the' Posse, laws and rules are laid down in Comitatus can be explained in the regard to abortion, land planning, The significance-today- , following. In recent years our legislative bodies seem to have gone all out for illegal, JEAN STODDARD UTAH INDEPENDENT 2459 Major Street Salt Lake City, Utah 94115 Second Class Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah ul . H 05 05 rv CC t- 00 - o r- - cu 14 ol M 4 w H S 00 p. oi to tJ O 3ns I M o O H til at M n r.s ,jt u H o; t unconstitutional water planning, and the like, such laws cannot have the force of law, for they are illegal laws. They are in conflict with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. No law restricting our right to life, liberty or property can be legal. Our sheriffs, who are endowed with discretionary powers, are in duty bound to refuse to.enforce them. The much publicized Equal Rights Amendment cannot be legal, for, as those knowledgeable in the law tell us, if it is passed it will take away the rights of both men and women, and the congress will then decide which ones we may have back. It is obviously designed to nullify the Bill of Rights. As anyone can see, it cannot be a legal amendment. When we as citizens try to explain these matters to our elected officials, many of them ignore our pleas, defy the Constitution, and go right ahead and do as they please. Some of them tell us that once a precedence has been set, that it then becomes an established 25C December 20, 1973 statewide land use planning program. This program would have to include among other things a state veto power over local government zoning decisions. If a state fails to come up with a plan acceptable to the Federal government the Department of Interior will impose its own rules. What is worse, the House bill, unlike the Senate measure, mandates sanctions against states which prefer to chart a course different than that of the Washington bureaucracy. The penalties would involve 21 per cent of their Federal grant funds for highways, airports and conservation. Fortunately there are those who are not fooled by the bills seeming innocence. There are a few dedicated Americans in the House of Representatives fighting' against this phony bill, among them Congressman Angelo Roncallo of New York who has stated: (Quote) It is not popular these days to oppose any . Continued On Page 8 Ratos Today as ascertained by authoritative canons, that meaning cannot be overruled by such construction, however often repeated. No of number statutes, or infractions of' the Constitution however numerous, can be permitted to import a power w'hich does not exist, or to furnish a construction not warranted. legislation, and our president has been having a field day with his illegal legislation. The president has been given no authority by the Constitution to do any legislating Thus, we can plainly see from this that every provision of the he is charged with at all Constitution is just as valid today enforcing the law, not making it. as it has ever been. No matter how When he writes up an executive in did the order such as he early many tricks are tried by subversives to enslave the people of stages of the coyote protection the United States, our Constitution issue, and expects the common stands as written by the Founding people to obey it as law, he is doing Fathers, and it is the Supreme Law something illegal. The Congress and the States of the Land. When officials defy it, have been, forbidden to pass any they are breaking the law. When they attempt to change Bills of Attainder or Ex Post Facto our Constitutional Republic into a Laws, or to make any laws which Bill totalitarian of Rights intrude on the government by passing laws first ten the designed to steal from us our commonly known as amendments. property and our water rights, to When the Constitution was regulate our businesses and our written, many of the states refused farming operations until they have Bill forced us to quit operating, when of Rights to ratify it until the had been added. An interesting they pass laws that will manage every aspect of our lives by aspect of the Bill of Rights is: (quoting from Corpus Juris government and take away our law. Constitutional Law says, It's that very purpose (quoting from page 83, USCA freedom, they are subverting the Secundum) was to withdraw certain subjects Constitutional Construction and law. This is often referred to as front the vicissitudes of political at ion): Long subversion, a word which means to Interpret them beyond acquiescence of Congress and the overthrow the existing government controversy, to place the reach of majorities and Executive, by which the rights of by illegal means. I charge that officials, and to establish them as parties have been determined and illegal laws are the means by which ' legal principles to he applied by the adjudged for many years, docs not subversives have schemed to courts: and these fundamental make constitutional that which is overthrow this government. I rights may not be submitted to vole unconstitutional. When a agree that there may be only a few who have done this with and do not depend on the outcome congressional is construction subversive intent, and that there of an election. inconsistent with the Constitution, have been a lot of legislators and ' congressmen who have been confused and deceived because they know little or nothing about Constitutional Law. If they are willing to repent and undo the mischief they have done, 1 believe the Ieople Would be willing to overlook it. But for people who bow their necks and say, The People and the Constitution be damned, 1 think these must be removed from all positions of responsibility in ourgovernment at once. If the political machinery is such that it is impossible to remove them by cither the ballot box or by recall, then 1 think it may eventually be necessary to use the Posse Comitatus, or full power of the County to arrest them, and to bring them before a jury to try each individual case. In the following, please i ate that the common law is equally valid with the statutory law. Constitutional Lw states, In a proper case the sheriff may summon to his aid, in the performance of his duties, the posse comitatus, or the whole power of the County . . . The right of the Sheriff to summon a posse comitatus exists by virtue of the common law, and statutes empowering a Sheriff to summon suitable aid in the suppression of a disturbance of the peace have been held to be an affirmance of the common law by which the sheriff might raise a posse comitatus. . . . In order to constitute a posse comitatus the persons involved Continued on page 15 |