Supporters note that while the resolution can’t force Washington to do anything, it sends a message for Kansans upset with overreaching mandates like health care reform legislation, gun control, abortion rights and immigration policy.
“It ... speaks loudly for the freedom of the citizens of the state of Kansas,” said Sen. Mary Pilcher Cook, a Shawnee Republican and the main sponsor of the resolution.
Seven of the 40 members of the Senate voted against the resolution. One of them, Sen. David Haley, a Kansas City, Kan. Democrat, called it “sort of sad” and noted that the Senate had pledged allegiance to the U.S. flag just minutes before the vote.
“I’ve been unhappy with the federal government,” he said. “But not to the point of secession or sedition.”
Obviously, we have some educating to do. What is really sad is that Sen. Haley views a state sovereignty resolution as either secession or sedition. The Kansas state sovereignty resolution is an affirmation of the Tenth Amendment, which seeks to restore the balance between the states and the federal government that has been chipped away over the years.
Perhaps the Senator needs to be reminded of what seditious conspiracy really is:
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. (15 USC 2384).
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