Books like Meltdown, Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, and Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century – have educated more.

We’re excited to announce today that Tom will be making a rare personal appearance in Pennsylvania – March 31, 2012 at Nullify Now! Philadelphia.

Get all the info here:
http://www.nullifynow.com/philadelphia/

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Writes Tom Woods:

“When I was on a cable news program in June last year, unrelated to nullification, the cover of my (at that time) not-yet-released book (called Nullification) was flashed on the screen for several seconds. Just flashing it on the screen, without even discussing its contents, was enough to catapult it to the Amazon Top 100 for two days. Now if only I’d had just five minutes to discuss it.

A story like this is why I think we could be on the verge of something important.

We already know why the guardians of allowable opinion oppose nullification, and it isn’t because they’re actually losing sleep over what South Dakota might do. Even the worst emotional hypochondriac doesn’t seriously believe the biggest dangers of today are coming from Salt Lake City and Boise. There are quite a few vested interests that would like to see the federal gravy train continue undisturbed, and uppity citizens with Jeffersonian ideas appropriately suppressed.

To be sure, it is doubtful that governments can stay limited over the long run; they have no interest in remaining limited and every incentive to expand. At the same time, not all regimes are equally oppressive, and some political structures give the tyrants a tougher go of it than others. Hence our recourse to Jefferson and nullification.

Lots of informed people will make a stand in the name of a doctrine that official Left and Right despise, and which until now has been known only in caricature where it has not been suppressed entirely. The idea is already reaching the general public even in the face of almost complete silence on the part of those who posture as relentless foes of Barack Obama and Washington, D.C. Also worth noting is that Tea Party groups, which the usual suspects are trying to neuter into insignificance, are defying their overlords and participating as co-sponsors.

We are not supposed to do this. We are doing it anyway. Be a part of it.”

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Please join us – and join Tom Woods in Philadelphia on March 31, 2012 – and show the establishment that we don’t need them to tell us how to live. We can be free whether they want us to or not!

Joining Woods as speakers will be James Babb of We Won’t Fly, Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center and a morning keynote speech by Robert Scott Bell.

Tickets, details, and more here:
http://www.nullifynow.com/philadelphia/

Nullify Now! has worked closely with state chapters in New Hampshire, Kansas, Arizona and Florida – and they’ve all be quite supportive of our tour stops in those areas.  We’re both grateful and encouraged that our organizations are finding common ground – that more local and state choice (good ole fashioned federalism, that is!) is better for the economy and your liberty.

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Of note, this weekend, AFP-PA is holding a special event – a townhall in celebration of National School Choice Week.  01-28-12 - 2pm at the Hershey Convention Center.

“This is about our children, their education and the future not just of our Commonwealth but of our Country!  We already have more than 300 attendees…won’t you join them in putting our children first?  Sign up for this free event at:  http://schoolchoicehershey.eventbrite.com/“

Confirmed speakers are:

Fox News Contributor and National School Choice Week Board Member Dick Morris
Film Director Bob Bowdon
Philadelphia Magazine Columnist Chris Freind
Moderator: AFPF’s State Director, Jennifer Stefano

Thanks again to AFP for joining us on March 31 in Philly – and for putting on this event on 01-28-12!

On Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/262395517130759/
(please HELP spread the word, click INVITE friends on facebook’s event – near the top-right)

Tickets and details Here:
http://www.nullifynow.com/philadelphia/

EVENING KEYNOTE Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Author of Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, Leading role in the film, Nullification the Rightful Remedy. A leading intellectual giant in the growing national nullification movement, Woods has few equals. He has been a featured speaker at many Nullify Now! tour stops, dating back to the first event in Fort Worth, Texas in September of 2010.

His Nullify Now! speeches not only rail on the destructive nature of our present system – twisted from the original understanding of the Constitution – but provides a blueprint for activists to put a STOP to endless unconstitutional federal “acts.” In the Liberty Ballroom in Philadelphia, this is a speech NOT to be missed!

MORNING KEYNOTE: Robert Scott Bell How is Nullification a matter of life or death? Robert Scott Bell – who hosts the “fastest 2 hours on radio” at NaturalNews.com will tell you how. Nullification isn’t just some simple idea, a historical oddity, or even an interesting philosophical discussion – it’s why Robert lives today.

Robert Scott Bell is one of the nation’s leading natural health experts and is a top-notch reporter and broadcaster on issues that are a huge part of the nullification movement today – including those that actively defy the federal government in business and in activism through raw milk. Robert will kick the event into high gear as he tells his personal story of Nullification – AND helps you learn just how you can put this into practice in every aspect of your life.

10-12 more speakers to be announced soon!

Nullify Now! Philadelphia – March 31, 2012
http://www.nullifynow.com/philadelphia/

It’s time to celebrate our founding heritage in the place where the constitution was born!

Did you know that when the Feds pass unconstitutional “laws” like Obamacare, we don’t have to wait for new elections, or even the supreme court to stop it? There is another option…that we really can tell the Federal government “NO!” – the key is the 10th Amendment…

People around the republic have been attending Nullify Now! events for more than 18 months – and have been empowering themselves with information that is nowhere to be found in the mainstream media. It’s called Nullification – and Founders like Thomas Jefferson considered it the “rightful remedy.”

Come join us at Nullify Now! Philadelphia as we learn together how to say “NO!” to unconstitutional acts from Washington DC. The top minds available will be there – live – to teach you how to use nullification to stop the assault on our Bill of Rights – at the state border.

Here’s what you will learn at Nullify Now! Philadelphia:

-What IS nullification – and how did prominent founders recommend we use it?
-How was nullification used in the early days of the American Republic?
-How is Nullification being used – successfully – right now, all over the country?
-What you can do RIGHT NOW – to stand up and say NO to Obamacare, the EPA, and violations of your rights that happen every day.

Best of all? Things that are outside of DC’s enumerated powers can and must be rendered ‘NULL, VOID & OF NO FORCE’, regardless of what the US Supreme Court has to say:

At Nullify Now! Philadelphia you’ll find out why Thomas Jefferson championed nullification with his ‘Principles of 1798’ – and laid the groundwork for us to deal with Federal overreach in 2012. These are not new challenges, after all. The founders met in Philadelphia to battle concentrated power back then- today we must rally against similar attempts by the few to control the many.

3 rooms – dozens of speakers – education – empowerment – action.
For the Constitution!

GET ALL THE INFO HERE
http://www.nullifynow.com/philadelphia/

Expecting Federal courts to reduce the Federal machine is anything but a sure bet- in fact it’s downright unlikely.  In preparation for the Supreme Court hearing the Federal health care case the week of March 26th, we at Tenth Amendment Center have decided to move Nullify Now! Philadelphia to a new date- March 31st to be exact.

This event will be one of our most power packed Nullify Now! offerings- now with two additional breakout rooms, full of information such as- why we can end Obamacare and any other unconstitutional Federal mandate in our states, whether the Supreme Court gives their blessing or not.

Other info being offered at Nullify Now! Philly will surely be a comfort to those who’s horse did not win the Super Tuesday derby.  We’ll tell you how the 10th Amendment and nullification are there to right the ship, regardless of who is sitting in the Oval Office for the next 4 years or which party they belong to.

It must seem almost inconceivable to those who have chosen the path of disempowerment- those who have their hopes pinned to a particular decision or party nomination- but the fact is that the founders left us with tools to take matters into our own hands and say ‘no’ to the cruelty, wastefulness and dangers of centralized power.

The thing stopping us from using those tools is not some court decision or lack of a ballot box miracle, but simply the will of We the People- a will that is changing rather quickly.

We hope to see you in Philly!

Get info, details, and tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/philadelphia/

Will you be there?

On March 31, 2012, The Tenth Amendment Center will be hosting an event unlike any other.  Join us for Nullify Now! Philadelphia (tickets and info here – http://nullifynow.com/philadelphia) and become one of the millions across the republic who have revived the words of Thomas Jefferson and realized that when We the People stand up and say ‘NO!’, there is little the tyrannical powers in DC can do about it.

What do Agenda 21, ObamaCare, The Federal Reserve and the TSA all have in common?  Besides being examples of unconstitutional Federal overreach, they can all be dealt with using a single word:

NULLIFICATION.

What is Nullification?  How can this forgotten tool of We the People be employed today?

Learn the answers to these questions and many more from the best minds out there at Nullify Now! Philadelphia.

With so much corruption and cronyism at the Federal Level, we are left with one viable option- to focus reform elsewhere and turn our backs on DC.  Most of what the Federal Government does is not directed by the constitution- particularly the activities that victimize average Americans on a daily basis.

Did you know that it’s your state’s DUTY to stand up to the Feds?

Chances are your state legislators aren’t aware of their forgotten role as the check on an out of control Federal government- but they will understand perfectly after attending Nullify Now! Philadelphia.

RSVP right here:

http://nullifynow.com/philadelphia

General Admission tickets to Nullify Now! Philly cost about the same as a night at the cinema, so this event will sell out FAST.  Don’t be left out of this ‘Revolution of Thought’- get yours TODAY!

Southern Poverty Law Center blogger Ryan Lenz paid a visit to the recent Nullify Now! event in Jacksonville and wrote an interesting report on it over at the SPLC Hatewatch blog.

A Twitter page profile describes Lenz as a “Writer and journalist.” Now if by “journalist” we mean one capable of stringing words together in a reasonably coherent fashion – yeah, OK.

But if it means journalist in the professional sense, as in one who seeks out the truth and attempts to report it in a fair and objective manner. Well…not so much.

Journalists typically pride themselves on factual accuracy. It serves as the cornerstone of journalistic integrity. Even when writing opinion pieces, journalists seek accuracy and precision. It takes Lenz all of six words to make his first factual error, dubbing the event “Nullification Now!” Lenz can’t even get the name right.

And it goes downhill from there.

Let’s run down a few more errors in fact.

In the third paragraph, Lenz mentions John Bush and says he, “runs the Foundation for a Free Society in Austin, Texas.” Actually, Jason Rink runs the foundation, a fact Lenz should be aware of, since his cohort Robert Steinback reported it less than seven months ago in a Hatewatch post on Nullify Now! Austin.

In the next graph, our fearless reporter claims, roughly 100 people attended the conference.” Actually, the total attendance was double that. I will cut him some slack on this one. Numbers generally cause journalists some difficulty.

Next, Lenz takes a stab at describing the mission of the Tenth Amendment Center. “Their central idea—that each state has the constitutional right to invalidate and disregard virtually any federal law – relies on a spurious interpretation of the Tenth Amendment, which reserves to the states and the people any power not explicitly given to the federal government, and flies in the face of more than two centuries of jurisprudence.”

Not quite. TAC asserts states have the power to nullify unconstitutional laws, not any old law that suits them.  And he apparently didn’t actually read the text of the Tenth Amendment before he wrote his story. The word “explicitly” doesn’t appear. The fact that he never bothers to explain what he means by a “spurious interpretation” saves me the trouble of trying to refute his nonsensical position.

He later doubles down on his twisted definition of nullification, writing “The idea is universally applicable to any idea that defines the federal government as evil—or any regulation that is disliked.” It’s difficult to fathom how he could have actually listened to any of the speakers talking about nullification at the event and come away with this idea. He either didn’t listen, or chose to purposely distort the message.

Then there is this little jewel. “State lawmakers have introduced, but not passed, numerous bills to nullify federal initiatives like gun regulations and the new health care reform act.” (emphasis added)

You can go to the TAC legislative tracking page and see that state lawmakers have, in fact, passed numerous pieces of nullification legislation over the last two years.

And in one of his more amusing misstatements, he describes the Ludwig von Mises Institute as “conservative.”

Finally, Lenz makes a big tadoo about the fact that we knew he was attending the event.

“On the eve of a Nullification Now! conference in Jacksonville, Fla., last week, the Tenth Amendment Center issued a warning: The Southern Poverty Law Center was sending someone to report that ‘those of us who want political decentralization as the Constitution requires [are] dangerous.’ Then, when the conference began, every speaker repeated the warning. Someone from the SPLC was there, they said.” (emphasis added)

Every speaker did not repeat the so-called “warning.” I spoke at the event. I didn’t say a word about the SPLC. In fact, I only heard two speakers mention the organization, and only one by name. That was Bush, when he intentionally called Lenz out. Incidentally, this was several speakers into the program…  Granted, I didn’t hear every minute of every presentation, but I can assure you, Lenz wasn’t nearly the focus he would like his readers to believe.

Then there was the merely amusing, such as Lenz’s attempt to paint folks advocating for the legalization of raw milk as “right wingers” and the specter of a man working for an organization called “Hatewatch” tacitly accepting the notion that using drones to execute American citizens counts as a good idea.

Lenz clearly came to Nullify Now! with an agenda – to paint the event as a gathering of extremists and racists. That is – after all – what Hatewatch does. And he wasn’t about to let facts get in his way. For all of his “reporting” on various speakers and vendors, he failed to mention my 35 minute speech, which included an emphatic denunciation of racism and a dramatic retelling of the story of a runaway slave’s escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

But that doesn’t fit the template, now does it?

The cowardly way Lenz went about gathering his information strikes me as the saddest part of this tale. Yes, we knew he was coming. We found out quite by accident when making routine follow-up calls to ticketholders. But despite the accidental tip-off that he was registered to attend, we didn’t actually know he was there until his journalistic brilliance hit the web. You see, he never even checked in at the registration table. And he never made any effort to talk with any of the speakers or organizers to get clarification (he clearly needed it), or heaven forbid, to engage in a standard journalistic practice – actually talking to the subjects of a story.  You know – getting their perspective. Asking questions. Actually reporting.

It wouldn’t have proven difficult. I was there the whole time, out in the open and available to talk . And there was no mistaking who I was. Lenz certainly saw me speak. I went right after Bush outed the SPLC “agent provocateur”.

Journalist indeed.

If anybody wonders about the credibility of the Southern Poverty Law Center, this piece should make it pretty clear just where that stands.

The second part of the Twitter profile reads, “Teller of truths and lies.”

I wonder if he can even tell the difference.

Note: The Twitter profile has since been changed.

Get all the info here:
http://www.nullifynow.com/philadelphia/

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GOOD NEWS! Recently the Washington Times reported on the growing rebellion in state legislatures – “17 states have enacted laws rejecting parts of the Affordable Care Act.” They told us that this “could be hazardous to health care overhaul.”

They’re right. When enough states stand up and say NO, we the people can win.

Going to the federal government to fix problems created by the federal government is a failed policy. People are waking up to the fact that they not only CAN stop DC by rejecting their unconstitutional acts in state houses, but as James Madison told us in 1798 – it is their DUTY to do so.

At Nullify Now! Philadelphia,

– you will be educated. The establishment doesn’t want you to know that Madison and Thomas Jefferson advised us on how to stop an out-of-control federal government. We’ll teach you all about our lost constitutional roots. Nullification, stopping the feds at your state line, is what Jefferson told us is the “rightful remedy” to unconstitutional federal acts.

–you will be aware. Beyond the Times, almost no one is reporting on the fact that the states are standing up to DC all over the country. More than 2 dozen have banded together to block implementation of one law. 15 others are working on blocking another. 17 are in the process of making parts of Obamacare illegal. Others are working on expanding gun rights, blocking the EPA, and we’ll even discuss stopping Agenda 21 in your local area!

–you will be empowered. Not only will you learn the constitutional history of nullification. Not only will you learn that states are using it around the country today. But, you will also learn how YOU can work to make it happen in your state right now. That is what is most important. Education that leads to real activism in support of your liberty.

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There are very few generations with the great opportunity to defend liberty at its maximum moment of danger. This is that moment. And you ARE that generation.

Join us at Nullify Now! Philadelphia on January 14th, and together, we CAN stand up for the Constitution. We CAN be free!

Info and Tickets are here:
http://www.nullifynow.com/philadelphia/

NOTE: Tom Woods will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Jacksonville. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/jacksonville/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS

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The Hill’s Bernie Quigley says we should be thrilled with our political choices: “Three of the Republican candidates for president, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman, are of the highest caliber, on a level we have barely seen in the post-war period.”

But the people are too stupid to see this. In fact, he says, political decentralization — in other words, a push to take powers away from our would-be highest-caliber presidents — is gaining steam among the people:

There are now dozens of states’-rights and sovereignty movements across the continent. And the so-called “Occupy” movement resembles the Pirandello play in which the actors are in search of an author.

They could very well find them in authors like Thomas Woods, or at Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch or at the 10th Amendment Center, a Petri dish for brilliant new constitutional thinking. And if the grown-ups don’t get it right this time, they may find no other options.

Three men who adopt pretty much every predictable position under the sun, who supported arguably the most unjust war in U.S. history (which is saying something), and who have all made threats against countries that have not harmed the U.S., are supposed to satisfy us. You are not supposed to listen to people who deviate from the respectable Huntsman/Romney spectrum. Those are crazy people, by definition. They’re so crazy we don’t even need to bother refuting them.

This Saturday in Jacksonville, Florida, I’ll be talking about precisely this, so Quigley’s timing, at least, is good.

Americans stare at each other across a great political divide. We have Tea Partiers and Occupiers, Democrats and Republicans, left and right, conservatives and liberals. What can bring the two sides together?

Decentralization of power and the principles of nullification.

A recent Rasmussen poll revealed the majority of Americans believe states should have the power to opt out of federal programs they don’t agree with.

“Think about that. A majority of Americans accept the basic principle of state sovereignty. The majority of Americans believe in the fundamental premise of the Tenth Amendment. And a majority of Americans apparently don’t approve of a federal government wielding nearly unlimited power,” Tenth Amendment Center communications director Mike Maharrey said.

And federal overreach crosses political and ideological barriers.

“We’ve got exploding debt, war without end, government demanding we purchase health insurance on its terms and federal agents raiding business for the heinous crime of selling whole milk,” Maharrey said. “From guns to weed to TSA groping, the feds poke their noses into areas where they have no business or constitutional authority. Whether they realize it or not, Tea Partiers and Occupiers are both reacting to the same problem – Washington D.C.”

James Madison said the states are duty bound to interpose when the feds overreach, and Thomas Jefferson called it, “the rightful remedy.” But what exactly is nullification? What are its origins and history? Can states really declare a law unconstitutional, null and void within its borders?

The Nullify Now! Tour answers these questions.

The national program, sponsored by the Tenth Amendment Center and the Foundation for a Free Society, will roll into the Florida Ballroom of the Omni Hotel, on Saturday, Oct. 22. Featuring Harvard and Columbia University educated historian Thomas Woods Jr. Ph.D. as the keynote speaker, the presentation will weave together a logical, moral, and constitutionally sound case for nullification through historical writings, case studies and the words of the founders.

“Nullification isn’t some mystical legal principle buried in cobweb covered books. In fact, it’s so simple, a toddler can do it. You can explain it in one word – No!” Maharrey said. “It’s a principle rooted in the Constitution and woven into the philosophical foundation of the United States. The Nullify Now! presentation makes the case for nullification in an entertaining and captivating way.”

The Nullify Now! Event begins at 10 a.m.

For more information, log on to www.nullifynow.com/Jacksonville