Common sense would dictate that if you were given a grant, you could use the monies how you see fit, but with federal dollars involved, there are strings attached. The Texas Transportation Commission is merely the middle man in this whole doling out of federal stimulus dollars.

On top of this, the Transportation Commission is trying to close loopholes for when cities can build projects more cost effectively than their estimates and funding. Austin is not the only community impacted by these regulations, it is also north Texas and other communities as well.

Funny thing, the Texas Transportation Commission sold municipal bonds for $1.5 billion in some recent transactions. Hmmm….

You gotta keep your eyes on the weasels in the hen house. Anytime politicians get near money that is not theirs, there is trouble.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

Any serious student of economics knows that unstable laws lead to unstable economics. We have a regime that has radically changed the policies and laws. Logic dictates with such a radical change, that there will be changes in the economy. People can no longer make sound business decisions, due to the instability of the laws and policies. This leads to economic chaos. Rather than call it a Congressional recession or an Obama recession, since it was Obama’s policies passed by the Congress (come to think of it the Democratic Congress passed Bush’s policies as well-so it would be a Pelosi Recession without question.) This regime has stymied construction jobs, oil field jobs, military jobs, and health care jobs. They have only expanded government jobs. Sure there are health care jobs–if you want to work for the government.

Like the infantile spectacles they put on, the behavior of this regime is also infantile in blaming others rather than butching up and accepting responsibility for the fall out associated with bad policies and bad bills.

We need to leave this regime! We need Liberty!

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

League of the South News Service

Re: Feds strike down central provisions of Arizona immigration law

Imagine that! A federal judge ruling in favor of the federal government in a case against a State! But that’s what you can expect when there is no impartial arbiter to determine matters of constitutionality.

The League of the South, the premier Southern nationalist organization, encourages the sovereign State of Arizona to either 1) nullify the decision of U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton that removed the teeth from Arizona’s immigration law, or 2) begin immediately to prepare the State for secession from a union in which the compact has been broken by the general (federal) government. Anything less will not be sufficient to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the citizens of Arizona.

The League also encourages Southern Patriots (and those elsewhere of goodwill) to give aid and comfort to the beleaguered citizens of Arizona and their elected representatives and conversely to oppose the federal government and its minions by refusing the same.

For too long the federal government has shown itself to be an organized, criminal enterprise that defines the extent of it own power and rules for the benefit of the elite. This is but the latest example. Such criminal behavior must be stopped by the citizens of the sovereign States acting in concert with each other. We have the legal and moral authority to do so; but do we have the will?

While it might seem meet and right for supporters of Arizona to make the trek to that State to provide aid and comfort, we in the League suggest you focus your efforts against the feds at home. It is more difficult to extinguish a thousand brushfires than one larger conflagration. Be bold and creative in your dissent.

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Statement issued by Dr. Michael Hill of Killen, Alabama. He can be reached for further comment at (256) 757-6789 or by email

SB or HB _______
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT

To enact, pursuant to the amendment of the Official Code of the State of ___________, the State Sovereignty and Federal Tax Escrow Account Act;” to provide legislative findings; to define certain terms; to properly define the legal geographic borders of the State of _____________; to create the Federal Tax Escrow Account in the State treasury; to provide that moneys collected by the State for payment to the federal government shall be paid into such fund; to provide that any private person liable for a federal tax shall pay such tax into such fund; to provide that should the federal government, including, but not limited to, the federal courts, act toward the State of ____________ or any of its citizens in a manner deemed unconstitutional by the ____________ State Legislature, the State treasury shall withhold a certain portion of the funds due the federal government; to provide that if the federal government takes any punitive action against the State in any manner for failure to comply with a federal statute or directive of any kind that the ____________ State Legislature deems unconstitutional, the State treasury shall withhold from payment a certain portion of the funds due the federal government; to provide sanctions for failure to comply with such provisions; to provide that State officials shall comply with such provisions without regard to any action taken by the federal government; to provide for a special session of the ____________ State Legislature; to provide that unconstitutional measures taken by the federal authorities shall constitute an action against the State of ____________ and shall be met with all necessary measures to safeguard the sovereignty of the state and the constitutional rights of its citizens; to provide for retroactive application; to provide for the expenditure of funds withheld from the federal government; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to provide an effective date; to repeal all conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ____________

SECTION 1.

This article shall be known as the “State Sovereignty and Federal Tax Escrow Account Act.”

(a) The Constitution of the United States of America is a compact between the people of the sovereign States creating a general, or federal, government as their agent and endowing it with only enumerated powers. That general, or federal, government is not, and can never be, the sole authority in determining what powers were enumerated, or delegated, and what powers were reserved to the States and to the people thereof.

(b) The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America states: “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.” The ____________ State Legislature finds that the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America defines the entire scope of federal power as being limited to that specifically delegated in the said Constitution and no more.

(c) The ____________ State Legislature finds that the Congress of the United States has the power to lay and collect taxes pursuant only to clause 1 of Section 8 of Article 1; and clauses 4 and 5 of Section 9 of Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America.

(d) The ____________ State Legislature finds that the federal government, it agencies or agents, including the Congress of the United States, does not have the power under the Constitution of the United States of America to withhold from the States the benefits of those taxes defined in Section 1 (b) of this act by the use of federal mandates or other means that fall outside the scope of the powers delegated to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States of America.

(e) In consideration of the continuing unconstitutional federal mandates, directives, laws, court orders, and other usurpations that withhold the benefits of those taxes defined in Section 1 (b) of this act to the States, the State of ____________ hereby reasserts it claim of sovereignty pursuant to the original compact between the several States and the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
SECTION 2.

As used in the following sections of this code, the term:
(1) “Consumer tax” means any tax imposed by the federal government on any beer, liquor, wine, or similar alcoholic beverage, tobacco, gasoline, or any other consumer goods.

(2) “Excise tax” means any tax that forms a component of the State Highway Fund.

(3) “Federal Tax Escrow Account” means the escrow account described in this act.

(4) “Income tax” means any tax imposed by the taxing authorities of the federal government on incomes from whatever source derived.

(5) “Person” means natural persons, corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, associations, and other legal entities.
(a) The Federal Tax Escrow Account is created in the State Treasury. All federal tax moneys collected by the State of ____________ on behalf of the federal government, or any of its agencies or agents, shall be deposited by the State Treasurer into the Federal Tax Escrow Account.

(b) The State Treasurer, on a quarterly basis, shall disburse the funds to the appropriate federal recipient if the ____________ State Legislature deems that the federal government, and its agencies or agents, have acted in a constitutional manner toward the State of ____________ or its citizens. If, as a result of State action taken pursuant to this article, the federal government imposes or mandates any financial sanctions or penalties or otherwise acts in a punitive manner toward the State of ____________ and its citizens, the State Treasurer shall withhold from payment all or part of the quarterly disbursement that otherwise would be disbursed or transferred to the appropriate federal recipient.

(c) Funds that are withheld by the State Treasurer from the federal recipient shall be transferred to and deposited in the State of ____________’s General Fund for general use.
SECTION 3.

(a) Any person liable for any federal excise, income, or consumer tax shall remit such tax when due along with a federal taxpayer identification number (if applicable) to the State Treasurer for deposit into the Federal Tax Escrow Account. A Social Security Number, according to statute, is not to be defined as a federal tax identification number.

(b) All moneys collected pursuant to Section 3. (a) of this code shall be transmitted to the State Treasurer, who, as a fiduciary agent, shall credit such funds to the Federal Tax Escrow Account on behalf of the person who remitted the tax.

(c) The State Treasurer shall submit to the federal Internal Revenue Service, or other such tax-collecting agencies that the Congress of the United States may from time to time establish, the names and tax identification numbers, where applicable (and excluding Social Security Numbers), of, and the amounts deposited by, persons liable for any federal excise, income, or consumer tax so that the Internal Revenue Service can credit the State of ____________’s taxpayers for federal tax obligations.

(d) Upon enactment of this code, no federal agent or agents may operate within the borders of the State of ____________, as defined in Section 4. (f) of this code, for the purpose of collecting taxes or of exacting punitive measures because of the exercise by the State of ____________ of any provision or provisions of this code.

(e) Except as provided for in Section 2.(b) of this code, the State Treasurer shall transfer at the end of each quarter the moneys held in the Federal Tax Escrow Account, less any interest earned on the deposit, to the appropriate federal recipient in payment of the tax obligations of those persons who remitted the tax funds to the State Treasurer.

(f) Should the federal government, or any of its agencies or agents, impose sanctions on or take punitive actions of any sort against the State of ____________ for failing to enact legislation called for by a mandate from the federal government, of any of its agencies or agents, a vote shall be taken in the ____________ State Legislature as to the constitutionality of the said sanctions or punitive actions. By a simple majority vote in each house of the ____________ State Legislature, if the federal government, or any of its agencies or agents, is found to be operating beyond the scope of its constitutionally delegated powers, and therefore unlawfully, the State Treasurer shall be notified in writing within two (2) days by the Attorney General of the vote of the each house of the ____________ State Legislature, and the ____________ State Legislature shall instruct the State Treasurer to carry out the procedure specified in Section 2.(b) of this code.

(g) It shall be determined by a simple majority vote in each house of the ____________ State Legislature when the federal government, or its agencies or agents, have properly rescinded or removed any sanctions or have ceased punitive actions against the State of ____________ and its citizens. Until such time as both houses of the ____________ State Legislature have determined by a simple majority vote in each that the federal government, or its agencies or agents, are operating within the scope of its constitutionally delegated powers, and therefore lawfully, the State Treasurer shall disburse or transfer no funds from the Federal Tax Escrow Account to the federal tax recipient.

(h) Any person liable for any federal excise, income, or consumer tax who fails to forward said federal tax moneys to the State Treasurer shall be subject to penalties assessed pursuant to the applicable laws and statutes of the State of ____________.
SECTION 4.

(a) The Governor, members of each house of the ____________ State Legislature, judges, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the State Treasurer, the State Auditor, and all other State officers and employees shall implement the provisions of this article regardless of any sanctions, threats, punitive action, federal court orders, or other measures brought to bear against them by any and all federal authorities and their agencies and agents.

(b) Should the federal government, or its agencies or agents, impose any sanctions on or execute any punitive action against the State of ____________ or any of its citizens while the ____________ State Legislature is not in session, the Governor shall call the ____________ State Legislature into special session for the purpose of implementing the appropriate provision of this article.

(c) Any action by the federal government, or its agencies or agents, including the President of the United States, the Congress of the United States, and the federal courts, against any person in the State of ____________ for compliance with the provisions of this article shall be considered a hostile and unconstitutional action against the State of ____________ and its citizens, and the State of ____________ shall by all necessary measures act to preserve its sovereignty.

(d) This article shall apply to all federal actions within the State of ____________, including, but not limited to, the collection of federal excise, income, and consumer taxes, upon the date, which it is enacted. Because the Constitution of the United States of America has been the fundamental law of the land since its ratification by the requisite nine (9) states in 1788, this article shall be enforced retroactively to repeal any unconstitutional federal laws, mandates, edicts, and court orders that have been imposed on the State of ____________ and its citizens.

(e) The ____________ State Legislature, by a simple majority vote in each house, shall determine how the moneys transferred from the Federal Tax Escrow Account to the State General Fund, including accrued interest, are to be used for the benefit of the people of the State of ____________. These moneys shall be used only for the benefit of the people of the State of ____________.

(f) The ____________ State Legislature shall, upon approval of this article, commission an official survey of the current geographical borders of the State of ____________. Upon completion of such survey, the ____________ State Legislature, by a simple majority vote in each house, shall declare the current borders of the State of ____________ inviolate against any action undertaken by the federal government, or its agencies or agents, to change or otherwise alter such borders. The federal government, or its agencies or agents, including the President of the United States, the Congress of the United States, and the federal courts, shall have no authority to determine the geographic borders of the State of ____________.
SECTION 5.

This Act shall become effective immediately upon its approval by the Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.
SECTION 6.

All laws and portions of laws in conflict with this Act will be thereby repealed upon its approval
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Revised Drafts: Prepared by The League of the South, 31 July 1999 & 29 July 2009. © Copyright 1999-2009, The League of the South, Inc. All rights reserved.

On the page you will find data to show that increased government spending on public indoctrination (education) has not produced better results.

New home sales are down everywhere except…Texas

Texas is outpacing other states in job creation (even with the stimulus package for Detroit)

Five of the fastest growing States are in the Confederate South (Texas, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, and….South Carolina).

Unemployement rates in major cities. Guess who has the lowest?….Texas

The fact that sitting presidents always loose seats in Congress for their party.

Check out these and other numbers. You’ll be proud to be a Texan and from the South

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

The violence in Laredo follows yesterday’s violence and explosions in Nuevo Laredo.

Some of the early reports include the possibility of a news blackout on the events in and around Laredo.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

UPDATE: There are many conflicting reports about this incident. I have included the links so that you can make up your own mind. What is for sure is that there are problems on the border with Texas, which is a concern to all of us. Texas has a long history of dealing with border incursions, whether Pancho Villa or Juan Cortina. The United States did little to stop Cortina from taking over Brownsville in the days prior to the war. Let us see what the empire does in response to this situation.

From our history, it is not unheard of for politicians to dismiss events as rumors. Sam Houston dismissed fires across the Texas related to abolitionist activity as nothing more than rumors as well. He made the statement to downplay events as they were unfolding in Texas.

Governor Ann Richards made claims that no military vehicles were used at Waco, hmmm. … would a politician lie to appease the people?

It behooves us to watch the news, find good reliable sources of information and forsee the evil as much as possible.

The Confederate Nation never sought the obliteration of the Northern States. They never advocated wholesale slaughter of a people. They never used human bombs and terrorist activities, yet they are branded with negative stereotypes in the main stream press, while terrorist supporters are approved.

This is a clear case of men calling ‘evil’ good and good evil. This regime has got their priorities the wrong way. They will force Israel into giving up part of its sovereign nation to create another nation, yet do all in their power to prevent the Southern peoples from leaving their empire. Talk about a double standard!

So with this regime, friends of terrorists=good and acceptable, secession=good when you are forcing Israel to give up land or Kosovo, secession=bad if it is a Southern State.

The regime lives by a double standard. Their priorities are clear-They hate the South, its culture, its values, and its Christian foundation. They are doing all they can through the Obama Reconstruction to destroy the people and institutions of the South.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

1) The US legal establishment has held that secession is illegal based on it not being specified as allowed in the Constitution. The grounds for that logic is now in flawed. (It was flawed before, but few legal scholars had the cajones to address it).

2) With the increasing emphasis on international law, especially with the US Supreme Court relying on it in the Lawrence V. Texas case and Elana Kagan wanting more international law applied, this precedent says that the UN trumps previous US court decisions. In this case, the UN trumps the Texas v. White ruling, which many legal pundits cite as case law on the illegality of secession, yet had they read the case, it does not make secession illegal, it just puts so many strings on it, that it is cumbersome. It was never ruled that secession is illegal.

3) The SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) will need to decide whether US case law or international case law will be its standard. If it goes with international, then secession is legal. If it goes with US, then the Constitution and US law still has some power.

4) If you are an ardent secessionist, you realize that there does not need to be another secession vote by any state. They just need to be enacted again. The question is whether the states will have the courage to do so.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

P.S. Is it any surprise that the Obama regime is now quickly spinning the Kosovo decision as a unique situation that is not applicable elsewhere?????

I am sure that the visit to Houston will include an appearance by CONgress critter “Hurricane Sheila” Sheila Jackson Lee, who can not find a camera she doesn’t like and thinks that there are still two Vietnams and demonized the tea party by comparing it to the KKK. It seems that anytime someone disagrees with the progressive agenda, they are branded as Nazis and KKK members. The same old smear campaigns with different labels. Oddly enough the regime itself has more in common with the Nazi party than do its opponents.

Let’s see: Smoking bans, the funding of private armies, restrictions on free speech, restrictions on freedom of religion, race-based judicial actions, alliance with Islamic groups, … (and the list goes on). It looks more like the pot calling the kettle black. Even their techniques are straight out of Himmler, with the constant repeating their mantras until enough people believe them.

In her speech at the NAACP, she bragged about her support of Obamacare. I hope that those who live her district (18th Congressional District) remember that she bragged about supporting murderous government abortions, and the massive taxes that will soon come upon them with Obamacare. I hope they remember that she was one of the ones who supported legislation that mandates changes in Air Conditioners and appliances. When the people can’t afford those things, will they be calling her office? Will she be there to pay their taxes and bills when they can’t? Perhaps there is a reason she thought that the US planted a flag on Mars in 1969.

She is sure to make a splash during the regime’s visit. Her frequent making a spectacle of herself is sure to happen again. If ever the circus of a regime that this one is needed a clown, Sheila Jackson-Lee would fit the bill. This is the same woman who wants more African sounding names attached to hurricanes. Her desire for the name change is not the reason for the moniker “Hurricane Sheila”. That name is a description of her temper and anger issues. She is also a supporter of Attorney General Holder’s lawsuit against Arizona.

Perhaps many of those unemployed oil field workers, and the military assembly plants that have shut down should ask the regime about the jobs they have actually saved versus those that have been lost. Perhaps all the chemical plant workers and refinery workers whose jobs are on the line with EPA threats should pay them a visit.

Even Bill White, who is the democratic candidate for Governor is avoiding the clowns and circus parade and the regime plans for its visit.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

The priority of the regime is creating dependency among the subjects. The creation of that dependence is a higher priority than the preservation of industry or the jobs they bring with them. It is part of a deliberate restructuring of the society and culture.

This is upside wrong. I use that term because it is beyond bassackward. It is beyond stupid. It is a deliberate plan and policy to institute a new reconstruction of the South and the nation as a whole. It just so happens that the South is catching the brunt of his policies. How will Sheila Jackson-Lee, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Lloyd Doggett, and Ciro Rodriguez explain these job losses to their supporters? The regime they support so blindly is costing Texas and the South jobs. Real jobs with real wages. Jobs that actually pay rather than consume taxes.

By giving the jobless more money, it will create more joblessness. What gets rewarded, gets repeated in this economy.

If Sheila speaks out like she did recently citing the two Vietnams, it makes it clear where her head is at. She is living in the past and in a past reality. She is out of touch with today, with what is going on in Texas and with the real world job market. I recall when she was speaking in Houston and referred to the “Nations of the United States”. Even then she knew that there are several distinct groups in the empire or was she loosing it back then. I’ll let you decide. Her logic is very similar to Congressman Hank Johnson who expressed concern that Guam would tip over into the sea.

Where is the new reconstruction taking us? Try connecting the dots.

-New banking rules which have quotas, preferring minorities and women rather than credit-worthiness
-More regulation of home energy use
-Reporting of your medical records and health status to the government
-Instigation of the food and diet police
-More taxes on those who refuse to comply with the new health plans
-Redistribution of wealth
-Radical reconstruction of the language we use in discussing Mohammedeans, jihad, terrorists, the war on terror, etc.
-Radical changing of priorities for the justice department
-More government (tax-payer supported) abortions
-Promotion of alternative lifestyles and families
-Promoting illegal immigration
-Discourage the rule of law
-Remove all references to the God of the Bible
-Bowing (a form of worship or reverence) to several foreign leaders.

The direction things are going are sure to incite divine punishment. Rather than praying for God’s mercy and forgiveness, the regime has rejected the God of the Bible, rejected the teachings of the Bible and is forging ahead calling evil good and promoting dangerous and destructive policies which embrace death and destruction.

And the list goes on.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah