Mendocino County Self-Determination Ordinance a Fallacy

In this previous November election, Mendocino County became the first County in the State of California to pass a "Right to Self-Governance" ordinance in the pursuit of "community self-governance." This ordinance is purposed to declare local self-government rights over state and federal jurisdictions. This ordinance, on its face, appears noble and justified, however; we will quickly see how this ordinance lacks substance, logic, and is, philosophically, at odds with the Supreme Law of the Land.

In order to exercise the Right to Self-Determination, declaring "community self-governance" over state and federal jurisdictions makes absolutely no sense. How do we "self-govern" if we are still consenting to the government of state and federal authorities? We cannot. It is fundamentally impossible. We can see the aim of of these people, but at the end of the day this measure will have no substance when federal authorities come knocking on their doors to prosecute non-approved marijuana users as offenders of their federal laws.

In order to exercise the Right of Self-Government, it is imperative that citizens understand they can no longer be citizens/nationals as they are legally exiling themselves from citizenship. That means they leave both the good with the bad. They must "form a new society" according to the Law of Nations. Those who have not signed founding documents or are descendants of those who signed founding documents cannot "take back" a country that never belonged to them. That is stealing. They are required to form something new or they will be found guilty of trespassing on somebody else's intellectual property (breaching somebody else' contract/compact without being a party to it and without permission).

KrisAnne Hall can be seen addressing an audience as a "Constitution Attorney." As a student of International Law, she frankly baffles me. How can she be "proud" of the milestones they have reached when the constitution itself says "in order to form a more perfect Union"? Union does not refer to "counties." The signatories to the constitution did not form the document to unionize counties. They formed it to unionize 13 states into a federalized government, hence "federalist" and "anti-federalist" papers.

What Mendocino County essentially did was wage a war against both the state and federal authorities because the constituents STILL consent to be governed by state and federal authorities while becoming a "self-governing community." We are either self-governing or we are not - there is no "in between." That is a decision for each individual of society to make; not entire counties situated on United States-owned land.