Sovereignty

[londubh]

First Oklahoma, and now New Hampshire (alternate link hereI suspect that New Hampshire followed OK's lead (8 months later), and now that there are two, I suspect a number of other states will pass similar legislation, given that they'd not be standing by themselves. It will be interesting to see how the Feds deal with this

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[danceswithwaves]

I'm kind of wondering what their point is -- what laws are they dissagreeing with that they hope to avoid -- what are they hoping to accomplish?

Not being someone who follows politics assiduously, the answers may be apparent elsewhere, but the articles linked weren't very explicative.

[londubh]

Basically, as i understand it, it is a reaction to the federal government taking more and more liberties with what liberties they can infringe upon. I mean, it started a long time ago, but got significantly worse with the Patriot Act, and some of the other peculiar things that have happened since 9/11

[danceswithwaves]

Ah, makes sense. Although I might think they would wait a bit to see what the new administration actually does -- or maybe not, if they want to push things harder. I think (well, my brain isn't doing too well lately, so it's only surface thinking) that on one hand I agree -- smaller units of government mean more locally important and sensible laws. But on the other hand, we do elect senators and congressmen, and I think I'm afraid of how some states, themselves, might deal with certain rights...or just...scattergram -- alright, my ideas aren't coalescing into words like they normally do, so I think I'll have to come back to them later