Where do we go from here.....Answer as American as Apple Pie
The Court decision to blunt Arizona's attempt to defend itself from foreign invasion has caused Americans to ask, where do we go from here? by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Friday, July 30, 2010
The Court's decision to block implementation of an Arizona law to enforce current federal law has left many Americans in a state of desperate frustration. The idea that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people is completely failing to defend the people, to protect the borders, and is even going so far as to stop the states from doing what the federal government should be doing, is the most obvious example of modern day government failure.
At a time when the federal government, through President Obama, is asking Americans to trust the government with the responsibility of "health care," the govenrment is at the very same time blocking the enforcement of standing laws and completely failing a primary responsiblity of the federal government!
The American news media, with the exception of Sean Hannity, Dr, Michael Savage and to a certain extent FOX News, has totally failed the American people in reporting the tragic and violent story of the American - Mexican border. More people have died on this border, due to violence connected to illegal immigration, drugs, and gang wars than deaths in Israel as a result of the rocket attacks launched from Gaza. And the deaths are many more, hundreds more, thousands more.
In addition, Americans along our border see their property violated every day as illegals, drugs, etc cross the Rio Grande in the first steps towards invading the United States. These illegals do NOT want to be American citizens. They are not coming for a new life. They are coming because of health care, because of jobs, because they can secure benefits. But you need only ask them, or better, watch their protest parades with Mexican flags flying! (If you think some Southerners remember our civil war too much, ask Mexicans about the American southwest!)
This isn't a problem of the Democrats and Obama. Both Bush's and President Clinton allowed tens of millions of illegals to cross into America. At the very time when the Twin Towers fell and President George Bush declared we were in a global war with an ideology that would attack us here at home and created a Department of Homeland Defense, he completely ignored our border! This is as much a Republican failure as a Democrat failure.
Americans look for someone, anyone, to stand up and say enough. Americans look for a leader, and a governing party to finally stand up for our own nation. But we also look at 250,000 Americans deployed in wars in the Middle East, while we hear that only one small brigade, not more than 3000 soldiers will someday be deployed to guard our 2000 mile southern border. One soldier a mile. Our government must think our Amry equal to the Texas Rangers. The Ranger motto is "One riot, one Ranger."
The day the Court decided to turn its back on the Constitution and the responsibility to protect Americans, on the Rush Limbaugh Show, a caller expressed the pure frustration of a majority of Americans when he asked,; "Where do I go?" He went to say I don't feel safe, I don't trust our government, and they are not going to fix it. He went on to say where do we go?
Limbaugh replied, there is no where to go, we have to fix it here.
I offer an alternative, an American answer to failed government.
When Britain failed to protect America and taxed us without representation. When the federal government did nothing to enforce federal laws or act against the radical abolitionist supporters of John Brown and his violent revolution, the American people of the South sought redress through secession and the creation of new nation.
The federal government is infested with special interests. Both parties refuse to represent the majority of Americans. The Constitution has been usurped by the power of activist Courts at all levels. The government - both political parties are more hostile to the American majority than to our terrorist enemies. On subjects as diverse as border security, gay rights, energy self sufficiency, and taxation and spending, both political parties and the Supreme Court are in direct opposition to a large majority of Americans.
The solution is clear. The states must re-assert their sovereignty.
The idea of "American nation" is not dead. It may not be today's US with the same borders.. It may not include states like New York, Massachusetts and California. It may not be from sea to shining sea. But, it could be America again. It could be a nation of common sense and capitalism. It could be a nation where majority rules, majority meaning the majority of people, not the special interests, corporations, neo cons, and leftists. The Bill of Rights defending religion, freedom of speech, and the individual rights of citizens could be re-established.
The Constitution of the Confederate States of America offers an alternative view of American democracy. With slavery ended, we don't need to be distracted by that issue, but instead can focus on creating a nation to the standard of the Founding Fathers. We can look to create a nation where the states re-assert their prominence in domestic issues and we can ask that the God of the Bible guide our nation and our values. .
There is somewhere to go. We don't have to move one foot, cross one border. We can simply decide that it's time to exercise our right to peacefully withdraw from a failed government and commence to create one which represents the majority of the people, with rights established to protect all, including the unborn!.
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Posted By: Billy Roper
Date: August 1, 2010 01:19:52 PM
According to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo going the rounds of Capitol Hill and obtained by National Review, the agency is considering ways in which it could enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action” — that is, without the consent of the American people through a vote in Congress.
“This memorandum offers administrative relief options to . . . reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization,” it reads.
Also: “In the absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, USCIS can extend benefits and/or protections to many individuals and groups by issuing new guidance and regulations, exercising discretion with regard to parole-in-place, deferred action and the issuance of Notices to Appear (NTA), and adopting significant process improvements.”
In recent weeks, Sen. Chuck Grassley and others in Congress have been pressing the administration to disavow rumors that a de facto amnesty is in the works, including in a letter to Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano. “Since the senators first wrote to the president more than a month ago, we have not been reassured that the plans are just rumors, and we have every reason to believe that the memo is legitimate,” a Grassley spokesman tells NR. (NR contacted DHS, but a spokesman did not have a comment on the record.)
Many of the memo’s proposals are technical and fine-grained; for example, it suggests clarifying the immigration laws for “unaccompanied minors, and for victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, and other criminal activities.” It also proposes extending the “grace period” H-1B visa holders have between the expiration of their visa and the date they’re expected to leave the country.
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