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.
Michael Savage is a poser, a phony, an inane nutritionist. When it comes to constitutional law, Mark Levin is much more salient.
Sheriff Joe has survived the witch hunts of the left for a decade. Without, him the southwest would be the wild wild west.
The War of Northern Aggression, which really doesn’t meet the definition of a civil war, was really about the North trying to turn the South into a colony. Slavery was just a smokescreen that allowed the usurpation of states rights. It was the “financial collapse” and “health care” of its time.
The South never intended to conquer the North, they wanted independence from tyranny. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in the states that seceded. The North got to keep its slaves. Any agreement that one party is not free to ever withdraw from has to result in tyranny. Even God allows divorce for infidelity which is what the government is doing.
As usual the Fourth Estate has failed us. Instead of reporting on the Fed’s usurpation of States Rights and Individual Freedom they are busy running features on “How To Survive A Shark Attack”.
Anyone who cares about fixing our corrupt, dysfunctional government system should learn all the facts about the provision in Article V for a convention of state delegates that could propose constitutional amendments; please go to http://www.foavc.org to learn all the facts, particularly that there has been over 700 applications from states for a convention, more than satisfying the single requirement given in Article V, but Congress has steadfastly disobeyed the Constitution, refusing to call a convention.
I’ve never understood you and your brother’s obsession with Jefferson. The dude was smart. I give you that much. But, he did not always speak what was best for this country (though I am sure he might have thought that he did).
Jefferson is an intriguing character. I’ve always been fascinated by him [I did a biography report on him in 3rd grade!].
His understanding of Western history and his theoretical writing is what draws me to him the most. The disparity between his writing and his actions make him a man of irony. Publicly he acted to the contrary of what he wrote. Pro-yeoman farmer in thought, Jefferson was an admirer of city culture. In theory he wished to free his own slaves, but practically speaking he couldn’t as they would have had a much harsher life with freedom. A citizen of the Virginian elite, he favored State Rights far above that of the power of national government, but used his presidential position in the beginning of the 19th century to buy the Louisiana Territory from the French, and he came under fire for doing so [did the president have the Constitutional power to act unilaterally in purchasing land from a foreign government or did such negotiation necessitate a treaty in which Congress should have had jurisdiction?]
In thought and writing he was quite smart. But how he lived make him out to be a sort of tragic hero type.