Off the Grid News reports on one example. Washington State Representative David Taylor is a co-sponsor of Washington state House Bill 1473, which would make it a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $5,000 for state officials or state contractors that “provide material support, participation, or assistance in any form” with any federal agency which collects “electronic data or metadata of any person pursuant to any action not based on a warrant.”
This is the second time that Taylor has sponsored legislation to stop the NSA from operating within his state. Last year he sponsored a similar law, which did not receive a vote.
An organization called OffNow.org is encouraging state legislators to introduce similar bills. The group’s mission is a bold but simple one: Make it impossible for the NSA to operate in the United States by barring companies and local governments from doing business with it.
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The OffNow.org website contains model legislation called the Fourth Amendment Protection Act and details the group’s strategy to bypass Congress and assert state’s rights against federal surveillance. The model legislation is at the heart of a plan to install greater state control of issues over bloated federal bureaucracy.
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Its hard to just pull the plug because the feds will blackmail the state by with holding the tax dollars due to the state! Just like paid security, pay the thugs or they will destroy you place of business!
states should stop the feds cold!!!!!–use their powers
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There’s too much corruption in the world and in all the world’s governments right now. We don’t need to shut down organizations we need to weed out corrupt and terrorist organizations everywhere. People need to be aware and advised that is a global problem not one organization or another. People need to stand up now and take action against the corrupt and or evil. People need to stop talking about it and start doing something about it immediately before it gets any worse.
we’re a nation comprised of 50 sovereign countries united in a common cause for freedom, the fed is nothing without all that