Boise, Idaho (TVOI News)
SPECIAL SESSION Remarks
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. My name is Jeff Wright from Boise County. I am a former chief consulting engineer for AT&T/Bell Labs and military intelligence cryptologic Tech/Analyst. Nowadays I’m an author/analyst and researcher, currently working on the release of my 3rd book on Political-Economy.
I’ve been a political researcher and analyst, directly involved with Constitutional, Legal and legislative issues in several states now for nearly 25 years. Having been originally trained as a Crypto-Analyst and engineer and in international law and political science it was easy to see the irony of SB-1067. It is the equivalent to (and paraphrasing Winston Churchill) “…a riddle, inside a mystery, wrapped in an enigma and shoved inside a Trojan Horse….”
To stand before you today required digesting, during the last two months, 600-700 pages of detailed documentation, including the S.1067 bill itself. That included the output of The Hague Treaty Convention from 2007, the 2008 UIFSA legislation, the 2014 Sex Trafficking enabling Act and numerous other analytical and legal papers put out by the Hague, the Uniform Law Commission, the Federal government and other state legislative documents, memos and transcripts.
To say that I’m disappointed at having to be here, today would be a gross understatement. For reasons discussed in the multiple analysis papers, I and others released concerning the debacle of S-1067, this Draft bill should have died with the House committee vote at the 11th hour before Sine Die.
A few here may have read a portion of those analyses. If you wish to read those critiques please go to TVOINews.com It is highly recommended all members read those analyses and objections before voting the final bill at the end of this session. Those issues and objections will come back over and over again depending on today’s outcome.
The attempt to resurrect the bill in today’s special session, forced by the Orwellian concept of “cooperative federalism” and “conditional spending,” is worthy of nothing short of utter contempt.
I also hold the general press and media in particular contempt for their near TOTAL failure to objectively report on that core aspect of SB-1067 and the extortion procedure of “cooperative federalism.” It should read “coercive federalism.” Threatening and holding 150,000 Idaho families hostage in exchange for less than 100 foreign enforcement support orders is beneath contempt. Questions YET to be ANSWERED.
If not for following the entirely BOGUS; “it’s for the children,” narrative laid out by the ignorant and uninformed reporters since the session ended, the public might have had a chance to understand the actual stakes involved in this bill. They would have known also why this special session should have never been called or held.
Especially heinous was the editorializing and vitriol against the 9 members of the committee who voted to hold the bill. They should have been hailed for their courage and responsibility in looking out for the people of Idaho. How the press and media so managed to turn the entire discussion upside down and inside out is a discussion for another day. The lowest-common-denominator, unaccountable nature of the press and media seems to have become just another routine feature of contemporary life.
However, there was nothing “routine” about S-1067 and nothing that will be fixed by the so-called “amendments” being made to the current “new draft” bill before the committee. All the substantive parts of the bill remain unamendable for reasons also yet to be reported in the general press and media.
However, this morning I’m going to toss every argument of direct unconstitutionality, in violating the state and federal constitutions multiple times, right out the window. I’m also going to toss the huge direct violations of Idaho sovereignty and due process and the extortion of “cooperative federalism” and “conditional spending” being employed to force compliance. Let’s assume, for the moment, those and the other deficiencies that have been noted about S.1067, don’t exist.
It remains the most egregious aspect of this bill is that THE SAME GOAL COULD HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED 100% CONSTITUTIONALLY with minimum involvement from Idaho OR ANY STATE and minor, instead of major, changes to Idaho Code.
It could have been accomplished through the federal Executive Branch, State Department and Department of Justice directly without having to incorporate a single line of the international Treaty language directly into Idaho code. Or, without over-riding and compromising any existing Idaho executive, legislative or judicial process. THAT IS WHAT MAKES S.1067 SUCH A SCAM and an attempt at a complete end-around run.
It is the growing pattern of coercive federalism and state acquiescence that is most objectionable. The Feds are taking more and more. The legislatures are just giving away more and more of the People’s and State’s sovereignty for nothing. Idaho is losing the ability to be called a state at all and should simply be declared an over-sized county or federal parish. We should just burn the state constitution and call the Governor, the Parish Executive.
This is all being forced down the States’ throats to service a total 150,000 foreign support orders at the expense of the domestic INTERSTATE system of 30,000,000+ support and maintenance orders. Yet it is the 30,000,000 orders being put in jeopardy if this legislation commandeering the state, does not pass. How does that make ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER?
Commandeering the state courts and family service processes for an International commission IS NOT the job of the Federal government. How is it that the Federal government is handing off more of their tasks internationally to the states and then making the states suffer on the domestic side if they don’t do as commanded? How did the states arrive at the point where coercive federalism is both accepted and tolerated?
I fear the ‘FIX’ is already in on this bill and it will pass out of this committee onto the floor of the chambers and right on over to the Governor’s desk for quick signature. If so, be advised that a lot more people are aware and will be made aware of what has been done here this day to give away our future. More people than ever are awake throughout Idaho and the states.
We are aware, we are watching and we know that as the federal and state fiscal implosion incrementally proceeds where the blame for these events lay. It’s time to stand on our hind legs and be a state again ladies and gentlemen, proud to be Idahoans, instead of federal serfs and sycophants to a far larger agenda that most are totally ignorant of, even when it is most obvious.
Thank you for your time and I’ll stand for any questions the committee may have of me.
Jeff Wright
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