Our First Step - Think Locally, Impact Nationally

Forming an entirely NewSA nation may someday become necessary, but in the meantime we have a set of tools built into our current system we should try.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. — 10th Amendment, OldSA Constitution

“Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.” — Samuel Adams

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” — James Madison

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The quote above by James Madison has been greatly abused by politicians at both the Federal and State levels. In D.C., they’ve essentially ignored this concept, and in State capitals many Governors have decided to take “numerous” to heart and “indefinite” to mean “infinite” instead.

There is much work we can do at the Federal level, and that will be the subject of a future post. However, since we at NewSA seek to lead and espouse by example the principles we want our government to follow, this post will be about what Red States can do to assert control within their borders as guaranteed by the 10th Amendment.

Funny enough, while putting this together Florida fired a huge volley against our children being indoctrinated in Leftist principles. This is a great first step and reflects items discussed in my last post on education:

https://www.flgov.com/2021/12/15/governor-desantis-announces-legislative-proposal-to-stop-w-o-k-e-activism-and-critical-race-theory-in-schools-and-corporations/

“Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (W.O.K.E.) Act, a legislative proposal that will give businesses, employees, children and families tools to fight back against woke indoctrination.”

But…We must do more.

Much more.

Many additional States are crafting similar legislation on this as well as “anti-ESG” bills. This (long) post will present background information and then provide a template for legislators to use…before it’s too late.

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Many libertarians and conservatives (including myself) were huge supporters of private companies; in particular large corporations which started off small and through a combination of talent, grit, and often great timing became an amazing American success story. Ford, GM, Chevy. IBM, Microsoft, Apple. Facebook, Google, Twitter. Indeed for decades most of the Fortune 1000 was admired, especially when still run by its founder or the family (e.g. Apple with Steve Jobs, Walmart with Sam Walton).

However, we missed a key point our more liberal friends were correct to be cautious about: Power can corrupt a corporation just as easily as it can a government.

Our response was usually something akin to “well private companies don’t have the power to tax, to take away your rights, to use force” or “these are private companies so they should be able to do whatever they want” and so forth.

We were both correct and yet so very wrong…

Outside of Ridley Scott’s brilliant Sci-fi depictions of Weyland-Yutani Corporation in his “Alien” movies, I don’t think I’m alone in the feeling that never in our wildest imaginations did we foresee a time when Crony Capitalism (already a bad trend) would morph into a 21st Century version of Fascism. We never saw a scenario where companies would willingly turn against their customers to enforce a political agenda, especially acting as a proxy to enforce government policies.

For example:

• Apple’s CEO stating anyone with opinions to the right of him aren’t welcome in their marketplace.

• The canceling and censorship of anyone not towing the party orthodoxy no matter the topic, not only in the virtual realm of Big Tech and social media but the firing of employees for having the “wrong” viewpoints.

• The government openly calling for more “othering” and censorship by private companies of anyone who disagrees with their policies, as Jen Psaki did recently at a press briefing.

• Major retailers forcing you to wear a mask and in some places requiring you to show papers to enter, while gleefully telling you to leave if you didn’t want to follow the “rules” or the “law.”

• Banks and other financial institutions seizing your assets or freezing your accounts because they no longer “approve” of your opinions nor recognize your right to protest (think Canada right now).

They got away with this because they either put viable alternatives to their goods and services out of business, or just called up their friends in government to shut any competitors down.

Many readers might associate Fascism more with images of 20th Century dictators, militarism, etc. than soyboys in Silicon Valley deleting people’s Twitter accounts. However, at its core Fascism is a system in which the government might not own private businesses but they control them nonetheless.

As John. D. Rockefeller said, “Own nothing, but control everything.”

Government may exert this control using many different methods, but coercion and threats aren’t necessary in our modern version: Collectivist, Marxist, and Authoritarian ideologies have so taken over our boardrooms they willingly comply. Indeed, they enthusiastically comply because they agree with the agenda completely. As David Reaboi puts it, government officials and corporate leadership (along with media, academia, etc.) form an “intellectual cartel”, so there’s no need for the government to be nasty.

• The government wants you to be vaccinated, but the Supreme Court strikes that down? No problem! All major companies will require it anyway as a wink and a nod to their buddies back in D.C.

• Even though your social media accounts aren’t associated at all with your employer, the government doesn’t like what you said recently. No problem! Twitter is already on the case, along with armies of fellow Fascists just itching to get you fired. They just need that quick search on LinkedIn and an email to your boss.

• All of this is brought to you by the supposed Department of Homeland Security aka The Ministry of Truth, using Big Business as a proxy to violate your rights.

• Company leadership teams and governments around the world seek to form the Orwellian-sounding alliance of “Public-Private Partnerships” to solve all the world’s ills, and bring about a New World Order…ahem…“The Great Reset.”

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It is this combination of modern Fascism within our country, and the outside forces of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset, that seeks to replace Western-style representative democracies with a Chinese-style “governance” over every aspect of our lives. To fight back, the Red States (and indeed any like-minded parts of other nations) need to pass a basket of legislation while their governments are still under the control of the people. If we wait, we risk more territory being lost, turned Blue (or at least Purple) by illegally importing millions from outside the country combined with outright cheating in our elections.

So, with this post, I propose Red States pass a collection of laws similar in concept to Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” Its goals are to:

• Ensure that within these states the inalienable rights of the people are more explicitly defined, with specific measures to ensure they are protected.

• Reassert that at all levels government’s job is to protect our rights. Period.

• Outlaw any participation by any entity, public or private in the World Economic Forum

Below is a start to this legislation. It is divided by subject matter into sections for easier consumption. I am not a lawyer, so members of this community and our state representatives will need to greatly edit this for clarity and legal strength, but my hope is this will inspire them to take action.

Now.

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The State of X’s Contract with its People

Introduction

Within the U.S. Constitution, a Bill of Rights was added as an explicit promise that the Federal Government would never infringe upon the already-existing Natural Rights of the people. This portfolio of legislation seeks to humbly follow in those footsteps to more explicitly define within our State the principles our forefathers fought for. These laws are necessary to protect our people from immediate threats to their liberty, our children from indoctrination, and to codify the ideas of our nation’s founding before they are lost, so that future generations will remain free and protected from present and future tyranny.

Life

Medical Protections:

• Compelling or mandating the taking or injection of any substance, such as but not limited to vaccines, medicines, or therapeutics, as a condition for entry, to buy, sell, trade, obtain loans, employment or any other action in a person’s life shall be illegal within this State.

• Compelling or mandating the use of a device, be it external or internal to a person’s body, or the wearing of an article of clothing or symbol as a condition for entry, to buy, sell, trade, obtain loans, employment or any other action in a person’s life shall be illegal within this State.

• Requiring the disclosure of health information, such as but not limited to mental or physical conditions, medical treatments, or vaccination status, as a condition for entry, to buy, sell, trade, obtain loans, employment or any other action in a person’s life shall be illegal within this State.

• No doctor, nurse or other medical professional may have their employment terminated or face retaliation from their employer for using their medical judgement to treat a patient, particularly when their patient’s life is in jeopardy, with a treatment varying from a standard protocol, unless their employer can prove patient outcomes or survivablity were less successful than if the standard protocol had been used. This includes but is not limited to off-label use of medications, nutritional supplements, and dietary changes.

• Gender reassignment procedures, hormone blockers or therapies, or any other treatment or procedure designed to transition a person from one gender to another are restricted to persons 18 years of age and older. Any one encouraging or providing these services to minors shall be prosecuted under existing child abuse law.

Medical Liability and Incentives:

• Tax incentives will be provided for doctors and medical entities to take non-insurance based, direct payment, as well as to offset the administrative costs of public health insurance benefits such as Medicare and Medicaid.

• No hospital or other medical facility may require or compel a patient, or their designated care-giver, to agree to receive a particular treatment protocol as a condition of service.

  • Patients and their care-givers have the right to request and receive other forms of treatment in addition to or instead of the recommended protocol.

  • However, if doctors at the facility are not comfortable with this, they may abstain, but the facility must immediately allow licensed medical professionals who are willing into their facility to provide treatment, until the patient can be moved to another facility. Should the patient or care-giver have in their possession medication to be used as part of this treatment, the patient cannot be prevented from taking it.

  • By allowing these items the facility can require signature by the patient or care-giver transferring liability to those willing to provide the requested treatment.

• No hospital or other medical facility, doctor, nurse or other medical professional may receive direct or indirect compensation from any source as an incentive to prescribe a medication or adhere to a certain treatment protocol.

Governance:

• No vaccination or other medical treatment statuses may be recorded by government which are tied to a person’s name or other Personally Identifiable Information. Any other such database in the private sector is expressly forbidden from being accessed by a person’s employer. Any person in such a database:

  • May request their information be deleted

  • May fully control with whom this data is shared

  • Must be notified whenever any person or entity attempts to access this information

• All current aspects of the State government involved in the business of “public health” shall be discontinued, unless part of a publicly-funded insurance program, providing a service to the poor, or food health inspections.

  • However, no restaurant, grocery, or other food-related business may be closed by the government for any reason outside of food safety nor without due process

  • Medical licensing will be performed by private organizations subject to government oversight

  • During a medical emergency, doctors from the private sector will be consulted for their expertise on an as-needed basis so that the government may determine public policy. Public health officials may not make policy.

Liberty

Expressly Protected Rights:

• Employment termination or retaliation, or any other action detrimental to any person based on speech or expression protected by the First Amendment, unless while expressly representing an employer or on company property, shall be illegal within this State, regardless of where the employer is incorporated or based.

• Censorship of a resident within this State by social media companies, whether or not incorporated in another State, will be subject to a fine of $1 million in today’s dollars. The fine shall be adjusted for inflation annually.

• The Natural Rights of the People within this State to peacefully assemble for any reason, to associate with whom you chose without disclosure to others, to make a living by legal means, the right to privacy, and to freely travel within this State and others who pass reciprocal legislation, and other Rights not listed per the 9th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution shall not be infringed by government, nor by proxy by any other entities within this State. Any attempt by the Federal government to do so will be met by legal action in Federal court, funded by the State, and at no time may any State or Local government personnel assist the Federal government with these infringements.

• All persons over the age of 18 may bear arms, concealed or open carry, without a permit, under the following conditions and exceptions:

  • State and Local Judicial Branch buildings. Given that these facilities inherently are involved in criminal justice proceedings, protection must be provided by the government for the public and the personnel inside, while respecting the right to bear arms. Therefore, these buildings must provide a check-in/check-out system for weapons upon entering, armed security, as well as metal detectors to ensure no other weapons are brought into the building. Should an incident occur resulting in injury or death in one of these facilities, whereby a person had delegated the ability to protect themselves to others, the government facility shall be liable for damages.

  • Employers may:

    • prohibit firearms and other weapons inside their facilities and require them to be kept locked in their employees’ vehicles, as long as the employer provides a fenced and guarded parking facility, along with metal detectors as a condition of entry.

    • Or, require any firearms or weapons to be kept fully concealed at all times while on company property, as well as complete and pass with proficiency a firearms safety course. This applies to any business operating within this State, and no employer may retaliate or otherwise limit a person’s career should they chose to bear arms.

    • If an employer chooses to ban firearms and weapons without the above accommodations, should an incident occur resulting in injury or death on, in transit to, or in transit from company property, whereby a resident of this State had delegated the ability to protect themselves to others, the employer shall be liable for damages.

  • Schools must allow teachers and administrators to bear arms under the following conditions:

    • Require any firearms or weapons to be kept fully concealed at all times while on company property, as well as complete and pass with proficiency a firearms safety course and a tactical shooting course on active shooter scenarios.

    • No employee may be retaliated against or otherwise have their career limited should they chose to bear arms.

  • A person may have this right suspended for a period of time, who has been evaluated by at least three mental health professionals, who under oath testify that the individual has the propensity to be a danger to others. These statements must be brought before a judge, along with any counter expert testimony to ensure due process before restricting their right to bear arms outside of the home, or to possess firearms at all.

  • A person who has been convicted of a violent crime may have their right to bear arms outside of the home restricted or forbidden to possess firearms at all, for a time period of a minimum of 20 years after serving their sentence. This shall also require expert testimony and due process before a judge for this right is abridged.

Governance:

• In accordance with the Separation of Powers principle, all prior legislation whereby the State Legislature has delegated its power to make law to the Executive or Judicial branches, or to Agencies and Departments, are hereby null and void. These include but are not limited to:

  • Emergency powers granted to the Governor, and any Executive Orders affecting any person other than those employed by the Executive branch of the State government.

  • Powers granted to Public Health and other unelected officials

  • Delegation of election law and policy making to the Secretary of State or any other official, in particular regarding the Legislature’s U.S. Constitutionally appointed role of having plenary power regarding Federal elections.

• All regulations created by State Agencies (i.e. Agency Law) currently in-place shall remain unless challenged in court or reviewed by the Legislature. All future and proposed regulatory action by agencies shall be performed first by presenting these to the Legislature, where they may then be debated by elected officials and potentially passed into Law once signed by the Governor.

The Pursuit of Happiness and Property

Anti-World Economic Forum Environmental, Social, Governance (“ESG”) Legislation and Financial Protections:

• The use of digital currency by persons within this State shall be protected and remain legal within this State and between any other States passing reciprocal legislation.

• Tax incentives for businesses shall be created by the Legislature to encourage the use of digital currency as a parallel legal tender to the U.S. Dollar, and any Federal attempt to interfere with its use shall not be enforced or assisted by any authority within this State.

• The act of tying a person’s identity to purchases made with cash or with digital currency is hereby prohibited for residents within this State. Any Federal attempt to do this shall not be enforced or assisted by any authority within this State.

• No resident of or businesses incorporated within this State may have their access to bank accounts or other financial assets frozen, payment processor use restricted, or otherwise prohibited by banks, financial brokers, or the government as a result of supporting or donating to a political movement. This includes public statements on but not limited to social media. However, individuals convicted of a violent crime as part of a political protest may have donations redirected to the victim(s) of the crime.

• All residential real estate purchases by investment management corporations are hereby prohibited immediately, as well as any scheme to artificially inflate residential home values. All residential properties currently owned by such corporations shall be subject to a 50% tax based on the current market value or the purchase price, whichever is higher.

• No businesses incorporated within this State may participate in the establishment, as defined by the World Economic Forum, of Public-Private Partnerships with this or any other government, nor any other aspect of The Great Reset or similar schemes.

• The use of Environmental, Social, Governance “ESG” Scores, or any such system of “social credit” as a criteria or condition to buy, sell, trade, obtain loans, employment or any other action in a person’s life shall be illegal within this State. If a business incorporated in another State normally uses these criteria, residents of this State shall not be subject to that company or other State’s use of such a system.

• The use of Environmental, Social, Governance “ESG” Scores, or any such system of “social credit”, or the type of industry, as a criteria or condition to prohibit a business to buy, sell, trade, obtain loans, or obtain insurance shall be illegal within this State. If a business incorporated in another State normally uses these criteria, businesses incorporated within this State shall not be subject to them.

Employee Rights and Protections:

• A business license or a professional’s license may not be terminated by the State without due process in the courts, and may also not be terminated as the result of an act of civil, non-violent, disobedience. The Executive branch may not interfere with or contradict this inherently Judicial power.

• Professional licensing currently performed by the State will be evaluated by the State Legislature through public hearings to determine if private accreditation programs are more effective for a certain profession at determining competence and proficiency.

• No employer may require its employees residing within this State to view content or receive as training material related to Diversity-Equity-Inclusion, CRT, or other similar subject matter. Employees who opt-in to receive this training shall not be provided any advantage over those who do not attend, nor shall there be any retaliation against those who do not attend. Employers incorporated within this State are forbidden to provide this kind of training to their employees as it may create a hostile work environment.

Education:

• The K-12 schools within this State shall be subject to the following:

  • All classrooms will have the ability for parents and legal guardians to securely watch live or a recording of video and audio while children are present at the school.

  • Any curriculum related to Marxism of any type, such as but not limited to The 1619 Project, Critical Race Theory, Diversity-Equity-Inclusion, etc. are forbidden to be taught as part of any subject area. Any teaching that one human race is superior to another, or that one is guilty of past crimes by virtue of that person’s heritage is forbidden. History curriculum must acknowledge mistakes of the past and the human imperfections of our Founders, but imbue pride and patriotism in our nation and its founding principles.

  • All curriculum and lesson plans must be accessible to the public at all times.

  • Sex education may only be presented to 6th graders and above, and only with parental consent which can be withdrawn at any time. Content discussing LGBTQ, etc. themes requires a separate parental consent and is limited to grades 9 and above.

  • No employee or contractor with the education system may encourage a student to use alternative names, identities, preferred pronouns, etc. without the express written consent of a parent or legal guardian, or to hide any of those items from the student’s parent or legal guardian. Also, no such employee or contractor may be terminated or retaliated against for refusing to address a student by an alternate name, identity, pronoun, etc.

  • In the case of sports teams or leagues funded by taxpayers, dedicated teams and competitions for trans and other non-cis-gendered athletes must be created OR athletes must compete based on their biological gender. Trans and other non-cis-gendered athletes must use their own showers or locker rooms, access at a different time these same facilities for cis-gendered athletes that match their gender identity, or use these facilities that match their biological (DNA-based) gender.

  • School administration and School Boards are employed by the People, and as such are answerable directly to the residents of this State. As such:

    • No rules on content or length of time less than 3 minutes may be enforced on persons speaking at a school board meeting.

    • School board members may not leave, except for a personal family or health emergency, during the time period allotted for public feedback.

    • The school board must set aside a minimum of 30 minutes for public feedback, and may not use trespassing laws or other reasons to cut short feedback sessions.

• Colleges and Universities which receive taxpayer funding shall be subject to the following:

  • All classrooms will have the ability for parents, legal guardians, or anyone who is funding the student’s education to securely watch live or a recording of video and audio of each class session.

  • All curriculum and lesson plans must be accessible to the public at all times.

  • Any curriculum related to Marxism of any type, such as but not limited to The 1619 Project, Critical Race Theory, Diversity-Equity-Inclusion, etc. may only be taught inside dedicated classes. However, these classes shall not be required for graduation for any major or minor, and these subjects are not to be included without an equal presentation of alternative viewpoints.

  • All identity-based studies programs, including but not limited to Black Studies, Latin Studies, Queer Studies, Women’s Studies, etc. will no longer receive State funding. These funds must be redirected to STEM, business, history, and foreign language courses. Donations may be given by private citizens, foundations, and businesses to cover these identity-based programs as long as a list of these entities is provided to the public.

  • In the case of sports teams or leagues funded by taxpayers, dedicated teams and competitions for trans and other non-cis-gendered athletes must be created OR athletes must compete based on their biological gender. Trans and other non-cis-gendered athletes must use their own showers or locker rooms, access at a different time these same facilities for cis-gendered athletes that match their gender identity, or use these facilities that match their biological (DNA-based) gender.

  • At state-run colleges and universities, departments and positions focused an Diversity-Equity-Inclusion will hereby no longer receive public funding and are eliminated. As such, admissions to these institutions shall not use any other criterion outside of academic and/or athletic ability.

Immigration and Election Integrity:

• All undocumented immigrants 23 years of age and older, illegally residing within this State, who cannot provide proof of residency for at least five years must relocate to another State or Nation. Failure to do so on their own within one year of this legislation will result in deportation for adults and their minor children unless they have another legal guardian.

• All other undocumented immigrants illegally residing within this State may remain, but are prohibited from voting in any future elections unless they achieve legal U.S. citizenship, or serve in a combat zone for a minimum of one tour of duty in any branch of military service.

• All voters must provide proof of U.S. citizenship prior to voting in any election.

• All voting shall be done in person unless the voter is physically unable due to a medical condition (proof must be provided), serving in the military, or attending school out-of-state.

• All voting shall be done via paper ballots and hand-counted. Ballot boxes, mail-in ballots save for the scenarios listed above, and other remote methods are prohibited.

• Voting for State elections shall occur only over a designated weekend, with early voting available on weekdays prior to that weekend.

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I know this was long, so thank you for getting to the end.

Calls to action for this community:

• Share this list far and wide online, as comments on relevant videos and podcasts, social media, etc.

• Email your State Representatives and Senators, as well as your Governor’s office. Encourage them to take action on some or all of these areas. I’ve tried to put them in order of priority under each section and heading.

• If you know of like-minded people in other nations or regions/states/provinces, where some or all of this could be useful and applicable (Hungary, Poland, and parts of Canada come to mind), get this to them and their legislative bodies.

• Comment below on your ideas so that as these people visit this post your voices can also be heard.

In Liberty,

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