Posted on 06/07/2017 6:08:34 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
The Treasonous Secession of Climate Confederacy States Prosecute Governor Brown for treason. June 7, 2017 Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.
After President Trump rejected the Paris Climate treaty, which had never been ratified by the Senate, the European Union announced that it would work with a climate confederacy of secessionist states.
Scotland and Norway’s environmental ministers have mentioned a focus on individual American states. And the secessionist governments of California, New York and Washington have announced that they will unilaterally and illegally enter into a foreign treaty rejected by the President of the United States.
The Constitution is very clear about this. “No state shall enter into any treaty.” Governor Cuomo of New York has been equally clear. “New York State is committed to meeting the standards set forth in the Paris Accord regardless of Washington's irresponsible actions.”
Cuomo’s statement conveniently comes in French, Chinese and Russian translations.
“It is a little bold to talk about the China-California partnership as though we were a separate nation, but we are a separate nation,” Governor Brown of California announced.
In an interview with the Huffington Post, the radical leftist described California as “a real nation-state”.
Brown was taking a swing through China to reassure the Communist dictatorship of California’s loyalty to an illegal treaty at the same time as EU boss Juncker was bashing America and kissing up to Premier Li Keqiang at the EU-China summit. It’s one thing when the EU and China form a united front against America. It’s quite another when California and China form a united front against America.
The Climate Alliance of California, New York, Washington, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Oregon, Colorado, Hawaii, Virginia and Rhode Island looks a lot like the Confederacy’s Montgomery Convention. Both serve as meeting points for a secessionist alliance of states to air their grievances against the Federal government over an issue in which they are out of step with the nation.
"We’re a powerful state government. We have nine other states that agree with us," Brown boasted.
Two more and Jim Jones' old pal could have his own confederacy.
All the bragging and boasting about how much wealth and power the secessionist states of the climate confederacy represent sounds very familiar. But that wealth and power is based around small enclaves, the Bay Area and a few dozen blocks in Manhattan, which wield disproportionate influence.
Like the slaveowner class, leftist elites are letting the arrogance of their wealth lead them into treason. And as they look out from their mansions and skyscrapers, they should remember that the majority of working class people in California and New York will be far less enthusiastic about fighting a war to protect their dirty investments in solar energy plants and carbon credits funded by taxes seized from many of those same people in these left-wing slave states.
The declared intention of the Climate Alliance, in words appearing on the New York State government website, is to treasonously “convene U.S. states committed to upholding the Paris Climate Agreement”.
States cannot and are not allowed to unilaterally choose to “uphold” a treaty rejected by the President. Their leaders are certainly not allowed to travel to enemy nations to inform foreign powers of their treasonous designs and to solicit their aid against the policies of the United States government.
This is all the more treasonous at a time when the United States is on a collision course with the People’s Republic of China over North Korea’s nuclear weapons and trade agreements.
“It’s important for the world to know that America is not Washington," Brown declared. "Yes, we’re part of the union, but we’re also a sovereign state that can promote the necessary policies that are required for survival.”
Governors don’t normally feel the need to declare that their state is still part of the union. But they also don’t announce that they’re a separate nation and then set off to cut separate deals with enemy powers. No state should be issuing, “Yes, we’re part of the union, but” disclaimers before going to China.
The disclaimer is the first step to leaving the union.
Governor Brown's trip to China isn't funded by California taxpayers. That might be a relief to that overburdened tribe except that it's partially being paid for by the Energy Foundation. Behind that generic name for a pass through organization are a number of left-wing foundations who have been paying for American politicians to travel to the People’s Republic of China.
Donors to the energy foundation include Ecocrat billionaire Tom Steyer who has pumped millions into EF. Steyer’s finances are entangled with China and even with members of the Chinese government.
Steyer has accused President Trump of treason for rejecting the unconstitutional Paris Climate Treaty. But who are the real traitors here?
Other major EF donors include the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Bloomberg and George Soros.
There is something deeply troubling about a governor’s treasonous trip being funded by private interests with business ties to a foreign power. If Democrats were really serious about rooting out influence by foreign powers, they would be taking a very close look at Brown’s backers.
But the greater outrage is that the governors of secessionist states are using a manufactured crisis to conduct “diplomacy” with foreign governments in defiance of the policies of the United States.
Washington’s Jay Inslee was recently talking Global Warming in a meeting with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau. “We’re both very strongly engaged on issues of climate change, on issues of openness to trade, on leadership on refugees as well,” Trudeau declared.
“We share an incredible commitment to defeating climate change,” Inslee flattered him. “And it is a great pleasure we have a national leader on the North American continent who is committed to that.”
And he didn’t mean the President of the United States.
Inslee’s fondness for the illegal Paris Climate treaty is unsurprising as his own efforts on Global Warming similarly depended on unilateral moves that lacked legislative support. But that is a problem for Washington’s Constitution. His participation in a secessionist pact is a problem for our Constitution.
And the problem isn’t limited to the Climate Alliance.
California and many of the other entities declaring that they will enforce an illegal treaty are also sanctuary states and cities. They are choosing not to follow Federal law while implementing foreign treaties that they have no right to unilaterally participate in.
This is a treasonous situation that is more troubling in some ways than the original Civil War because it involves states making open alliance with enemy powers such as China and welcoming them in. State governments are undermining the united front of the national government in the face of the enemy.
"California will resist this misguided and insane course of action," Governor Brown ranted. The logic of “resistance” has inevitably turned into treason.
A civil war is underway. In the last election the territorial majority of Americans rejected the rule of a minority of wealthy and powerful urban enclaves. Outside of their bicoastal bases, the political power of the Democrat faction has been shattered. And so it has retreated into subversion and secessionism.
“China is moving forward in a very serious way, and so is California,” Brown declared. “And we're going in the opposite direction of Donald Trump.”
While Democrats have spent the better part of the previous week waving their arms in the air over a back channel with Russia, one of their faction’s leading governors is openly allying with China against the President of the United States. And the treasonous Democrat media is cheering this betrayal.
Brown and his colleagues are in blatant violation of the Logan Act. Their actions are in violation of the United States Constitution. And all this is another dark step on the road to another civil war.
If the climate confederacy is not held accountable for its treason, the crisis will only grow.
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So the states that don’t join the “confederacy” will have stronger economies.
Exactly. These states will become even less competetive than they already are, demand for labor will decrease, they will suffer.
Fine by me.
The only risk is liberals will follow the money and turn red states purple.
The Obama/Kerry “Paris accords” called for the United States to send $100 billion annually to third world leaders ( not known for their managerial skills and honesty) to develop “clean” energy. Will the vile Democratic leaders of these states tax their dopey constituents who elected them and send the money?
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Bttt.
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Trump needs to jump on this early. A Governor cannot enter into any agreement with a foreign government on matters within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal government. This is outright Sedition.
I agree. He’s tolerating way too much of this and making it look as if it’s okay for states - or even cities - to go around conducting their own foreign policy.
What Brown is doing is in fact repeating what the Democrats did which led to the Civil war in 1861. But I see the makings also of the Democrats through all the leaks and undermining of the Federal government now as a coup attempt because they lost an election. Now we have a confederacy forming. I knew the Democrats were power hungry but I doubted they would attempt a revolution, but it seems they are. And no the millennials are not going to fight a war for the confederates. And I doubt president Trump will deploy troops. But I think simple calculated arrests of the conspirators in the middle of the night would end the insurgency. Who do these people think they are? What do they think gives them the right to throw away over 200 years just to satisfy their party objectives?
I agree. This should be stopped immediately.
What if China decided to defend their interests in these States? Its just asking for foreign troops on OUR soil - and WAR.
The governors of these states need to be perp-walked straight to federal prison, or at the very least, all federal funding should be withdrawn.
[Will the vile Democratic leaders of these states tax their dopey constituents who elected them and send the money?]
Would that open up a lawsuit for illegally taxing citizens to pay for their treasonous agreement?
Um, I think these "confederate states" can reach some sort of agreement with Europe and not call it an official treaty, thus side-stepping any treason.
Talk about over-inflated language.
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I would guess the liberal governors will argue that Mr. Greenfield’s conclusion that Brown et. al. are in violation of the Constitution is incorrect on the basis that the Paris Climate Accord is not a “treaty” in the understood meaning of this word.
http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/1/essays/69/state-treaties
Based on this commentary, I think it would come down to exactly how Brown et. al. enjoin with the foreign nations in this accord. If he attempts to pledge California’s involvement in such an accord, I think he is violating the US Constitution. Conversely, if he merely agrees to actions in kind with such an accord, but doesn’t explicitly join it, I think he will skirt the Constitutional question.
The political, theological, and philosophical differences in the US are irreconcilable. The logical answer is for the two sides to split. What we see happening now is positive. The blue states, of their own volition, are peacefully moving to separate themselves from the Republic. This is good and should be encouraged.
Not calling such an agreement a treaty does not actually diminish the fact that it is a treaty. Much like the Paris “Agreement” was a treaty for the federal government, despite Obama’s lying about it.
NO, they can't. Here's what Article I, Section 10 of the U. S.Constitution provides:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation[.]
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No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a Foreign Power[.]
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