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Jon Roland at UTSA Candidate Forum 2010/10/12
Jun 5, 2025
Jon Roland, Libertarian for Attorney General, speaks at a Candidate Forum at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Oct. 12, 2010.
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state Representative District 122 Lyall
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Larson is there anyone from Lyall
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Larson's campaign today
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uh Dr maserat Ali
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moving on to State Representative
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District 117
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John V garza
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david Mcuade
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Liboitz and moving on to Attorney
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General John
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Roller my name is John Roland i am the
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Libertarian Party nominee for Texas
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Attorney
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General
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that job is particularly well
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placed with its duties to deal with a
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critical issue for all
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Texans which
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is corruption at the local level
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right now the constitution the law gives
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primary
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responsibility
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to enforcement of laws against public
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corruption to the local district
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attorney but sometimes the local
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district attorney is too close to the
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other officials who require the
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attention of the law
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the attorney general can open up the
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grand juries for to public complaints
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about public corruption and get a
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special prosecutors appointed to
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prosecute those
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cases or if it's not a criminal matter
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to simply identify problems and bring
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them to public attention
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now on another note first of all my
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website j o n r o l a n
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d.org I am best known as the founder and
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president of the constitution society
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with website at
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constitution.org it is the ultimate
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website for all things having to do with
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constitutions and for those of you
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particularly you who are students of
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government politics law or whatever I
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think you'll find it a primary reference
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site that will help you in your
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studies now finally I'd like to mention
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one of the proposals I've developed that
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I'm trying to encourage people to
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support and get their state legislators
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to
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support that is a nullification
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commission the former title of which
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is Federal Action Review
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Commission the way this would work it
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would be a statewide grand
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jury it would not be appointed by a
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judge it would be selected at random
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from the entire community with a
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screening procedure to get qualified
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people who know something about
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law the grand jury this commission would
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be open to public complaints about
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usurpations of authority by federal
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officials and
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agents and if it
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found that the federal official or agent
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had acted outside of his
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authority it would immediately
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trigger another law which would require
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all state officials and agents and
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contractors to refuse to cooperate with
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that federal
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usurppation and to encourage private
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citizens to do likewise
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this would put the entire
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state as a
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mobilized effort of civil
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disobedience and if any of you have
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studied the history of nullification you
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know that civil disobedience that is
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organized and focused can bring about
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political and legal change if you can't
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get reform through the courts and you
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can't get it through the ballot box you
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may still be able if you can mobilize a
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sufficient number of determined minor
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was determined
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minority to uphold the
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Constitution to get them the violators
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to back off and bring us back to strict
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compliance with the Constitution as
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originally understood
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i invite you to go to
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jo.org and to
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constitution.org and to learn more about
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it to learn how you can be helpful in
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returning your country to its founding
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principles thank you
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very good speech thank
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you really like what you have to say
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