LETTER: Don't trust politicians who kowtow to D.C.

Media ads are showing Bullock as some “champion” of Montana. Yet, he declared a month or so ago, that he has to do what Obama wants and what D.C. wants — specifically, “you must take refugees I send you.” Well, he is simple wrong, and he is lying, and he knows it. As does anyone who can READ.

ANYONE who supports the NONSENSE that Montanans must do what Congress or the president says is an idiot. And our congressional delegates, the tribal leaders of nations within which I get NO vote but from which their members may vote away my rights, and the UN — all know that this is BS.

The Montana Constitution declares that the waters of Montana exist for the beneficial purposes of MONTANA citizens — not the UN, not D.C., not Bullock, and most certainly not a minority of Montana citizens pretending to be the dictators of “indigenous peoples” of Montana.

Article VI of the Constitution of the United States of America makes it CLEAR that the Congress of the United States, the executive of the United States, and the judiciary of the United States are LIMITED in their powers and duties.

Article VI, sometimes known as the “Supremacy Clause,” re-affirms that the FEW powers delegated to Congress and the FEWER powers prohibited to the states are and were designed to PREVENT a tyrannical government from arising in North America, specifically within the United States.

The 10th Amendment specifically states that powers not delegated to Congress nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states or the people. In the Montana Constitution, it is clearly stated that all powers by right derive from the people. That means they do NOT come from elected officials or presumptive power mongers ...

Thus, taking an example from current events, when Gov. Bullock says that he “has no power to refuse what Obama says” regarding so-called “re-” settlement of refugees, he is, simply, lying. And HE knows it. Why? Because his oath was NOT to any president. It was to the people of Montana. And he did NOT swear to uphold what Obama said. He swore to uphold the constitutions of the United States and Montana.

And, nowhere in those constitutions are there requirements that governors or states do what presidents in Washington, D.C., tell them they must do. Nowhere. So, to all those tribal leaders, Tester, Daines, Zinke, and other tyrants of afar I say, STAY OFF MY LAND. I was born in North America of “indigenous peoples” who came here four centuries ago, and you do NOT have a right to denigrate or steal MY constitutional RIGHTS. Take your “civil rights” and shove them. —Jim Greaves, Thompson Falls