Posted on 03/31/2018 10:01:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
When I spoke at the Patriot Movement Arizona rally in early March, I heard a lot of people say “Make California America Again.” A former Navy seal who later ran for Congress made the same joke to me when he was out of state. “I’m not in California right now. I’m in America.”
Those comments really incensed me, though. Four and a half million Californians voted for Trump in 2016. Even though the state legislature has gone full-tilt communist, Californians up and down the state are rising up against the state legislature, which has become destructive to the ends for which governments are instituted among men. The media won’t cover these restorative trends emerging throughout the state, so here goes. Entire counties in North State (Siskiyou, Tehama, Shasta, and El Dorado) have resolutely refused to comply with California’s sanctuary state insanity. Kern County has also joined that list.
Then the cities started rising up. On March 19th, 2018, the Los Alamitos City Council passed their first draft of the official Constitution Compliance ordinance, rejecting California’s ill-conceived, abusive, unconstitutional sanctuary state law. In spite of a massive crowd from within the city and throughout the region, plus intimidation from the ACLU, the city council voted 4-to-1 for the ordinance. On April 16th, they will vote for the second reading and make it official. March 19th will be viewed as a historic day in California and for the country, not a date of infamy, but defiance against the arrogant, narrow-minded political establishment, conservative and liberal, as well as the well-wishing yet cynical media.
Los Alamitos fired the Second Shot Heard Round the World, and the fight hasn’t stopped here. The little city with a world-renowned race-track took the risk, and it is paying off. Within days, Yorba Linda, CA (the birthplace of Richard Nixon) filed an amicus brief with Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s lawsuit against California’s sanctuary state policies. Then the Orange County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution condemning the sanctuary state law and filed their own amicus brief in turn. I was there, and the thrill of victory filled the chamber, even while open border zealots and left-wing interest groups pouted in disgust as the Board unanimously voted to defy the lawless state legislature.
Then another welcome surprise emerged on the breaking news horizon: Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens has published all the release times for inmates in her county jail, legal or illegal! This move skirts the demonic spirit of the sanctuary state law and put the lawless statewide law enforcement officials (like California Attorney General Xavier Becerra) in a worse bind. Becerra then had to face a crushing press conference in which he was forced to answer whether he planned to prosecute Sheriff Hutchens. Laughably, he told the press corps that he would uphold state law. Funny! The state legislature routinely flouts their own rules, and they pass legislation defying federal law. The Democrats in Sacramento started out threatening cities and private businesses. Now they are feeling the heat.
The winning didn’t stop that day. Quickly, I dashed over to Buena Park in North Orange County, the location of Knott’s Berry Farm. One city councilmember was prepared to seek a resolution against SB 54, too, but backed off at the last minute. I fired back during public comment. Now more than ever, we need elected officials to protect citizens, our law enforcement, and most importantly the rule of law! Then I dashed down to Mission Viejo. For the first time in three years, I attended a city council meeting where likeminded, pro-American patriots outnumbered the vocal yet viciously ignorant opposition.
Naui Huitzilopochtli was there, too, the man who has routinely harassed women, children, and people of color over their pro-enforcement views. Not only was he outnumbered, but Mission Viejo Mayor Ed Sachs slammed him for his repeated interruptions and outbursts in the city council chambers: “Some people don’t seem to realize that this country is the last place on earth where you can say whatever you want, even if it means the right to act like a buffoon!” The whole chamber rocked with laughter at the bigot in our midst. The city council then voted unanimously to approve a resolution condemning SB 54 and join the DOJ lawsuit with an amicus brief.
It was a stunning victory. It is nothing short of a dream now becoming a reality. The cities of Escondido, San Juan Capistrano, and now San Diego County are joining the fight! Granted, residents in droves are fleeing California. Businesses are closing, and homeowners can’t sell off fast enough. U-Haul companies are running out of trucks to rent to customers ready to move out of California. But for me, and for many of my conservative friends, we are not leaving. Why should we have to pull up stakes and run from the state where we were born, which we call home? The American colonists didn’t run away when the British came. They stood up and fought back.
So are we Californians, for California is still very much America—and worth fighting for!
The Left owns California and the population cannot do anything about it now sans armed uprising which would be opposed by the US military. I suspect it will come to individual towns opting out of California laws like “sanctuary” and those towns will be taken over by the State.
The sanctuary issue will go before the Supreme Court in a few years. States cannot pick and choose their favorite laws. Things will be different.
It seems to me that there are, 2 California’s.
One, the coastal, liberal, wealthy areas. Places and people that aren’t really effected by the decisions, as their wealth offers them insulation.
Two, the interior, farmers, ranchers and the folks that live in NorCal and along the eastern border of the state.
These people cannot live anywhere else, it’s too expensive or too infested with 3rd world savages that they don’t want to be around and who could blame them.
California Freepers are the biggest contributors to the Freepathon along with Texas. So all you California haters step up to the plate and open your darn wallet and your B*tchin’ about us
They're severely outnumbered. The population of California is almost 40 million. Moonbeam is nothing but a quisling for Mexico. Federal govt needs to take action before Mexico annexes California by shear numbers.
Hard not feel sorry for people like this. It’s delusional to think that CA can be salvaged, but if I were living there I suppose I would want to delude myself too.
“which would be opposed by the US military”
Really? You think the Trump administration would defend Xavier Becerra and Kevin de Leon, two Mexican separatists trying to overturn the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
And as for towns being taken over by the state, under color of what authority? When the State itself is in rebellion against the Federal government, what legal fig leaf would they have?
“farmers, ranchers”
Those are the jerks who hire the illegals and caused this problem in the first place.
They should have their land confiscated by the Federal government under asset forfeiture laws when illegals are found working on their lovely little estates.
The Americans in California who call it home make it America despite the lefts attempt to destroy it for everyone. They are also the reason we cannot simply abandon California to the scumbag lefties.
I’ll agree and disagree. Yes they offer the low paying jobs to the illegals to put more money in their pocket and avoid paying taxes, etc. I agree with that.
My disagreement.....The one and only thing that has caused this problem....THEEEEEEEE OOOOOOONNNNNNNNLLLLLLLLYYYYYY THING.... is, BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP. Without that, then the vast, vast majority wouldn’t be here. They come here, pop out some citizens and then that’s all she wrote. Then the whole family comes. Their kids have more kids and the check just keep flowing.
Get rid of that and the bennies that go with it and you get rid of all of it.
California causes cancer.
Ohh, and my first ancestors came from Switzerland and settled in the Sacramento region in the 1840s. So I’m technically a “Forty-Niner” and from a “Pioneer” family, which I’m sure is being disparaged as “white privilege” now. But I wouldn’t set foot there now.
I seriously wish that California would return to sanity. But since it still seems to be deteriorating, I’m making my plans to retire in the south somewhere.
I wouldn’t even want to visit Kalifornia, yet alone live there.
Twenty years ago we were camping in northern CA and we went into town to get groceries and I was intrigued by the large Reagan poster on the wall behind the checkout line.
"Big Ronald Reagan fans, huh?" I said.
"How could we ever forget him?" she said.
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