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Bill reference links:
HB 1455 Wiretap devices; supervision and control by sheriff or chief of police.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?111+sum+HB1455
HB 1521 Water authorities, sewer authorities, etc.; specified as political subdivisions of State.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?111+sum+HB1521
HB 1522 Water and waste authorities; eminent domain powers.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?111+sum+HB1522
Dear Constitutionalists—One and All,
This is going to be a big email newsletter for the Constitution Party…and maybe…for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
As you know, we and our many Valley pro-Liberty organizations have noticed a pattern to the many small bills which have been introduced into the current General Assembly. The pattern, when taken together in the hundreds of bills, appears to be aimed at the Radical Transformation of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The process seems to be similar to one we saw at work in the last Congress of the United States. The common denominator in both instances is a strategy designed to overwhelm the opposition’s ability to resist the onslaught of Radical Transformation by unleashing a flood of legislation that cannot easily be contested. In the last US Congress, the orchestration of legislation designed to Radically Transform America was comprised primarily of large bills…so large in fact that the then Speaker of the House, Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is on record as having said of one bill in particular, “We have to pass the bill so that we can find out what is in it.”
In the Virginia General Assembly, we are now flooded with an ocean of many small bills which appear designed to radically transform the Commonwealth of Virginia by a piecemeal alteration of the Code of Virginia. We believe that the ultimate aim of the Transformation of the Code of Virginia is to harmonize Virginia’s code with USC (United States Code) and also with the many thousands upon thousands of rules and regulations of the many Federal departments and agencies. Although we are still looking into it, we have ample reason to believe that the process of harmonization of our bodies of laws and codes, both of the United States and of the many several states, is by extension international in scope.
One such bill, of the kind alluded to above and proposed to the Virginia General Assembly, was HB 1523. This bill trampled upon a basic constitutional Fourth Amendment Right, and happily, this bill was withdrawn. We applaud Delegate Richard P Bell, the bill’s Patron, for his withdrawal of the bill. We further commend and applaud Delegate Bell for explaining the circumstance of the withdrawal both publically and forthrightly, without halt or stammer, at a recent Town Hall. Delegate Bell, your explanation was positively refreshing and a cause for a resurgence of hope among the People.
We now ask another local Delegate to do what Delegate Bell has done. We now ask Delegate Landes, with immediacy attached to our request, to withdraw three very bad pieces of legislation of which he is the Patron. These are House Bills 1455, 1521 and the 1522. Withdrawal of these bills, Delegate Landes, would be a positive contribution by you and your office to the Blessings of Liberty. But to allow these bills to go forward without rescind on your part would constitute a clear and unmistakable assent to tyranny by signaling your acceptance of the Agenda 21 process now at work within our Commonwealth.
Who opposes these bills? Certainly not just the Constitution Party of Virginia. In addition to the Constitution Party, the 2nd Tuesday Constitution Group based in the Roanoke Salem area and the South West VA Tea Party based in Abington, both highly respected groups, adamantly oppose bills 1455, 1521 and 1522. So does the Roanoke Tea Party. And let it be said that the Virginia Campaign for Liberty also takes a very dim view of these awful bills.
Why are these bills so detested? A few simple reasons are:
HB 1455, a ‘wiretap bill,’ is detested because it dilutes the direct authority of elected constitutional officers, the Sheriff and the Chief of Police, over their jurisdictions. And it cracks open the door to cozy pro-forma snooping arrangements between the jurisdictions of the Sheriff and Chief of Police and that of state and federal agencies. As such, passage of this bill would promote and facilitate the long reach of federal authority into our backyard…and with little accountability directly to local citizens.
HB 1521 and 1522, ‘water and sewer authorities, as political subdivisions’ and ‘water and waste authorities, eminent domain powers’ respectively, are more problematic. One legal opinion received by our groups has it that:
“The bills further Agenda 21 by increasing ease of control by direct dictate of rules and standards in exchange for compliance with fed/state standards. Like highway money. Also like IDA (the Industrial Development Authority) places greater power in those not accountable directly to voters. Also, like IDA it would allow for creation of another vehicle to borrow money!”
Without a doubt, HB 1455 is more direct to understanding while HB 1521 and 1522 are more obtuse. But here’s the bottom line:
Not withdrawing bill 1455 is to be complicit in the Radical Transformation of America, in this case, by promoting a dilution of a constitutional strength now residing with the Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police. In short, the three word code amendment being proposed directs local law enforcement towards an ongoing trend of consolidating government into ever larger regionalized aggregates. We rather direct control remain local to our constitutional law enforcement officials in code as it now exists.
Regarding House Bills 1521 and 1522, the above proffered lawyer opinion is just the tip of the iceberg. Indeed, the body of information which persuades us to oppose 1521 and 1522 grows daily. As to these bills, we recommend that one and all think long and hard over ‘governing body of a locality’ and ‘create a water authority’ and by the way: ‘just how large an authority do you have in mind, and over what geographical sweep…and with an eye to the expansion of power…to what all encompassing extent of water resource are we setting up here to control and regulate?”
The bottom line is this:
House Bills 1455, 1521 and 1522 are Agenda 21 friendly bills and therefore actively promote a Radical Transformation of America. All of these bills carry with them the inherent aim of harmonizing federal, state and local jurisdictions more closely into a regionalized government model at the expense of control of government by the governed.
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