Here’s a must-read.
Or for those of you too lazy to click on a link and skim through an article, I shall, out of my eternal and most excellent good graces, summarize for you.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona are being investigated by congressional Democrats and allegations by liberal activists that the department has violated the civil rights of illegal aliens.
16,000 inmates [1/3 of all inmates] were determined to be illegal aliens in the Maricopa valley.
The Illegals are being deported after serving their jail time.
The work being done be Arpaio’s detention staff is a likely contributor to the recent reduction in crime in the valley.
Democrat Congressional members are not even trying to hide the motive behind their actions. Which, in this day and age, is a good thing[: we now are finding out on a daily basis who the Patriots are and who the liberal disestablishmentarians are. The latter should be tried on accounts of treason and jailed for life.]
But with national attention on the economy, the issue of illegal immigration which was at the forefront of national scrutiny not more than three years ago has been placed on the back-burner. Yet the situation as seen in the linked article shows the States are obviously still battling the problem. As Michael Savage sums, the national experience is borders, language, culture.
Kudos to those willing to stand up and defend.
With the federal gov’t not only unwilling to defend its borders [and deport illegal immigrants who steal American jobs, steal from the socio-economic well-being of countless American cities and towns and drive up crime rates,] but willing to punish those who are defending the border, I wonder when cries for secession will become audible.
The Constitution, which is essentially a precarious agreement between independent and autonomous States to establish a national gov’t to provide for the common good of all the States and their residents in an unintrusive way, is only a binding document when all constituents agree to uphold it [the States and the thus-effected national gov't]. Since the national gov’t is no longer willing to protect its borders, amongst the myriad of other duties it seems to find irrelevant to uphold, the States are at the least rendered free of all duty towards their Constitutional duties.
It is apparent to me that the best thing for the future of the United States is for the States themselves to enact a three-tier system of correction:
- Officially secede from the Union.
- Re-enact the Articles of Confederation. Though things such as a unified currency and provision for the common defense should be tied over from the Constitution.
- Call a Constitutional Convention.
Over a period not to exceed five or ten years, the Constitution ought to be reinstated with the understanding and implementation of the original intentions of the Founders. Since Republics have a lifespan of only roughly two-hundred years, and since the United States’ Republican experiment ended with the eruption of the Civil War due to the inability to properly address the plight of the black man, we are far overdue in wiping the slate clean and reinstating our Republic.
Jefferson’s words still ring true today:
…[T]o secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.