There are about 45,000 voters in Longmont. 59% of which said yes to a ban on fracking. That is over 25,000 residents in the community against fracking with the city limits, not counting the thousands of child who can't vote yet.
To the previous comment. Does it have to be so black and white. How about some middle ground here. Right, because we said no to fracking in Longmont, electricity, cars and everything else that oil and gas gives us will instantly become extinct, forcing us back to before running water. Haven't we found many ways to break away from the O&G chains that hold us back - bio-fuels, sustainable energies, recycled materials to reduce our need of oil, more efficient cars/furnaces/building, etc.
We have enough O&G gas to last a 100 years, but not if we dig it all up, use or export it. How about we take what we need and leave the rest there for future generations to decide when they need it. Yes, this will force us to think outside of the oil tank for ways to do without someday. Because there will come a day when there is none left to extract. Not in any of our lifetimes, but not too far off either.
I'd like to point out some factual errors with regards to nullification and slavery.
Visit this site of secession documents and search for 'null'. http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html
You will find that Mississipi, South Carolina and Texas all explicitly stated that nullification of the fugitive slave laws was a primary impetus for secession. They name the states using nullification to protect human rights: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa.
So, the assertion that nullification was used to protect slavery is false, nullification was actually used to protect the slaves. Slavery was effectively abolished in the non-slaveholding states via nullification, prior to any change in federal law or the Constitution.
The next error has to do with the first uses of nullification. Nullification was first used to reject the Alien and Sedition acts which were clear violations of the First Amendment and free speech. This was in 1798, where the terms 'nullification' and 'interposition' were used by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions.
I noticed that you neglected to mention the most recent and potent uses of nullification. The states of Washington and Colorado have nullified federal law by legalizing marijuana for recreational use in their states. There are 17 states with some form of medical marijuana. These are direct nullifications.
While you may not like Obamacare nullification efforts, the people of the states have the right to reject bad laws, and can be shown to have used nullification to protect freedom and human rights.
Karl Rove's Heinrich Himmler style of telling lies long enough until people believe them did not work. Some people other than the most ignorant Fox news followers have caught on to his lie.
Yes most sportsmen/women try to be humane in their "killing of the animals. The sportsmen I know use the meats of animals in their diets. Happy to see the amendment passed as we may have to acquire much of our meats in this way, if the USA financially crashes. I pray we will rise again, be financially fundamentally morally. family ethics, etc. We have lost our footing, we need to not slip any further. Jobs, less spending,frugality can be the answer. Prople have to want to do better, or we become totally dependent on government and that strips us of the freedoms.
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