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General Topics => Legal and Activism => Topic started by: punaperson on March 24, 2019, 07:16:59 AM
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I'm sending this to each of the Hawaii County Counsel members tomorrow morning asking them if they will introduce this resolution, and if not, why not? I don't expect, as is my near universal past experience, to get a response from any of them. They've got far more important things to do, like coming up with totally lame excuses as to why they continually raise every known tax (and create new ones) and raising their and the other government (union) workers salaries and current and (unfunded) retirement benefits.
Everyone please feel free to send the resolution to your county government, including others here on the Big Island... if they got it from a few hundred people they might know that at least a few people are watching their corrupt asses.
I've amended the this resolution to apply to Hawaii county, which was originally assembled and written by Dr. Dan Eichenbaum, Cherokee County North Carolina Commissioner, using constitutional law internet references and is based in part on similar ordinances and resolutions from Columbia and Josephine Counties, Oregon.
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A Resolution Declaring Hawaii County, Hawaii, a Gun Sanctuary County
On behalf of the citizens of Hawaii County, Hawaii, the Hawaii County Council states and accepts as true the following:
1. The Declaration of Independence states that people are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, ... to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men … deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
2. John Adams wrote in 1A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765): “I say RIGHTS, for such they (the people) have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government, Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws, Rights derived from the great Legislator of the universe.”
3. Natural Law Rights, given to each of us by Our Creator, are the basis of our Constitution by which they are protected and secured to each of us. Natural Law Rights, including that of self-protection, are guaranteed by our Laws, our History, and our Traditions.
4. It is the natural tendency of civil government to expand beyond the limits of its rightful Constitutional authority and to usurp powers which have not been given to it through the delegated consent of the governed.
5. Whenever the uses of government are perverted, individual sovereignty is overtly endangered or threatened, and all other means of redress are ineffective, the People may, and in fact ought to, force the reestablishment of the original constitutional limits of government.
6. Resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is the obligation of every Patriot, as not to do so is destructive to the good and happiness of mankind. In fact, it is the duty of the People of Hawaii County, through the actions of their lesser magistrates, namely local elected officials and law enforcement, to challenge the civil government when and where it exceeds or threatens to exceed its bounds.
7. The Constitution of the United States is the Supreme Law of our nation.
8. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America states: “A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
9. The U.S. Supreme Court found in Miranda v. Arizona (1966) stated that “Where rights secured by the constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them.”
10. The U.S. Supreme Court in the District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) decision affirmed that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is not connected in any way to service in a militia.
11. The U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Miller (1939) stated that firearms that are part of ordinary military equipment with use that could contribute to the common defense are protected by the Second Amendment.
12. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, Section 1, states: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
13. The U.S. Supreme Court in the McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) decision affirmed that a person’s Second Amendment rights to “keep and bear arms” is further secured by the “due process” and the “privileges and immunities” clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision also protects rights closely related to the Second Amendment, namely the right to manufacture, transfer, purchase, and sell firearms, accessories, and ammunition.
14. The Hawaii state Constitution, Article I, Section 17, states: “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
15. The Preamble of the Hawaii state constitution states “The Constitution of the United States of America is adopted on behalf of the people of the State of Hawaii.“
16. 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.”
17. The U.S. Supreme Court found in Prinz v. United States (1997) that the Federal government cannot compel law enforcement officers of the states to enforce federal laws as it would increase the power of the federal government far beyond that which the Constitution intends.
Therefore, the people of Hawaii County, Hawaii, through their duly elected officials on the County Council and their Police Chief, resolve that Hawaii County, Hawaii is hereby designated a “Gun Sanctuary County” in order to preserve for the People of, on, and in Hawaii County:
1. The unalienable right to keep and bear arms, as specified in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, the Constitution of Hawaii, and further upheld by subsequent decisions of the US Supreme Court.
2. The right, as originally written and understood, to keep and bear arms for self-defense, personal safety, protection of one’s family, and in defense of one’s community and county.
3. The right to manufacture, transfer, purchase, and sell firearms and ammunition designed for those purposes outlined above, rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and the Constitution of Hawaii.
Furthermore, any regulation of the right to keep and bear arms or affiliated firearm rights that violates the Second, Ninth, Tenth, or Fourteenth amendments to the US Constitution, that violates Article I, Sections 17 of the Hawaii state Constitution, or that violates numerous related US Supreme Court Decisions including those listed above shall be regarded by the People of, on, or in Hawaii County to be unconstitutional, a transgression of the Supreme Law of the Land and its spirit of individual sovereignty, and, therefore by necessity, unenforceable and invalid from the outset.
Moreover, the criminal misuse of firearms is due to the fact that criminals do not obey laws and this is not a reason to abrogate or abridge the unalienable, constitutionally-guaranteed rights of law abiding citizens. The last protectors of the US Constitution are We the People of the United States and our ability to fulfill that role successfully rests on our Second Amendment rights.
Therefore, the Hawaii County Government will not authorize or appropriate government funds, resources, employees, agencies, contractors, buildings, detention centers or offices for the purpose of enforcing or assisting in the enforcement of any element of such acts, laws, orders, mandates, rules or regulations, that infringe on the right by the people to keep and bear arms as described and defined in detail above.
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Lotsa luck on dis one.
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Need the county sheriff on board for this one. Do they just fall in line behind honolulu PD on this stuff?
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Need the county sheriff on board for this one. Do they just fall in line behind honolulu PD on this stuff?
Hawaii counties dont have sheriffs.
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Need the county sheriff on board for this one. Do they just fall in line behind honolulu PD on this stuff?
While there are no sheriffs (thus I changed the original North Carolina language from "sheriff" to "police chief"), I believe even Honolulu PD, at least "indirectly" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) receive their "orders" from the state AG office.
Lotsa luck on dis one.
Yeah, it would take more than "luck" for this to get anywhere... even introduced... more like divine intervention.
Surprisingly, I already got a response (and I was expecting no responses (yeah, I couldn't wait until tomorrow morning to send it... ;))).
From Council Chair Valerie Poindexter:
"A resolution has no force of law."
To which I responded:
Is that your response to any and all resolutions placed before the council?
Why are resolutions even allowed to be entered, much less considered, if that is the objection?
The resolution merely states the intention of the Council to protect the rights of the county citizens as per the U.S. Constitution and the Hawaii state constitution.
In this case, the council is the "force of law". In keeping with your sworn or affirmed oaths of office to uphold both constitutions, members could vote as per the final paragraph and not provide funds nor other services to violate citizen rights as protected by those constitutions.
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Get the new Kauai top cop to do it. He just came from Vegas and may be able to push it.
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Funny thing is on the Big Island, cops usually encourage people to have at least one gun in the house for protection. They also admit that in many areas of Puna, response time will be at least 45 mins minimum. Cops won't come without at least one backup.
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Hawaii counties dont have sheriffs.
whaaaa? So who are driving the police cars with "sheriff" written on them?
"A sheriff is a chief officer of a county responsible for law enforcement. The county's sheriff is often an elected position."
Is that not true in Hawaii?
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whaaaa? So who are driving the police cars with "sheriff" written on them?
"A sheriff is a chief officer of a county responsible for law enforcement. The county's sheriff is often an elected position."
Is that not true in Hawaii?
Sheriff Deputies in Hawaii are under the Law Enforcement Division of the Department of Public Safety.
http://dps.hawaii.gov/about/divisions/law-enforcement-division/sheriff-division/
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Sheriff Deputies in Hawaii are under the Law Enforcement Division of the Department of Public Safety.
http://dps.hawaii.gov/about/divisions/law-enforcement-division/sheriff-division/
what kind of backward weirdo place did I move to? There are no elected sheriffs in Hawaii.... Well, never mind about getting anyone with authority on board
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what kind of backward weirdo place did I move to?
Please, let's not get that list started... :rofl:
There are no elected sheriffs in Hawaii.... Well, never mind about getting anyone with authority on board
And everyone with authority is "protected"... Hawaii is the only state that has NONE of the following to address abuses: term limits (state legislature), initiative, referendum, recall.
Welcome to the party, pal. :shaka:
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This is truly the democrat utopia I've heard so much about :)