A Plea to Governors Of FL, TX & The Like-Minded: Jointly Declare Your States "Constitutional Safe Havens"

Let's face it: a good portion of the federal government has little regard for us as people, as adults, as parents, as taxpayers or as citizens; or for the Constitution or the principles and spirit upon which this country was founded.

With each passing month, our overlords show less respect for the Bill of Rights, the rule of law, basic concepts of citizenship and property, the principle of equal treatment, due process, America's business climate, our solvency, our currency, our sovereignty, our history and heritage, representative government, our right to dissent, basic notions of logic, reason, civil debate and open scientific inquiry and the simple idea that words should simply mean what they mean.

America's governors need to wake up and smell the rot. They need to get together to do what they legally can to salvage what's left of America and establish a foundation from which to rebuild before the current regime becomes entrenched. They need to make abundantly clear, in unison, that future affronts to the Constitution will no longer go without challenge.

They need to officially recognize and publicly state the scope of the multi-faceted hydra we're dealing with here.

Agencies like the FBI, CIA, IRS and CDC have been used - and continue to be used - as weapons against political opponents and dissidents. The Supreme Court, either because of corruption, intimidation or incompetence, doesn't reliably enforce the Constitution. Over the course of the pandemic, many landlords lost full rights to their own properties - without compensation. Many government-run K12 schools, with federal support, have been spending more time on anti-American propaganda and indoctrination and less on reading, writing, math and critical thinking. A national crackdown on covid vaccine skeptics is underway, including threats to their access to education, employment and life in general. The federal government now borrows, prints and spends money with abandon, putting the U.S. dollar, our economy and our national security at ever growing risk.

The southern border is effectively open to under educated, sub literate migrants from all over the planet, who, with military support, are being systematically redistributed across red states in what looks like a demographic carpet-bombing campaign.

That same military, originally founded as a patriotic, unified, competent arsenal to defend America and vanquish her enemies, is being repurposed and weakened with divisive, debilitating, America-hating "woke" indoctrination, much like our schools.

As this litany goes on - and on and on and on - the divide between government and private industry, critical to sustaining a free society, is evaporating. The powers that be in Washington are going beyond using legislation and executive orders to impose their will. They're conspiring with companies and banks to get them to do their unconstitutional dirty work in eviscerating what's left of our rights: to limit our free speech rights, limit our gun rights, suffocate the fossil fuel industry and impose vaccine-passport restrictions on movement and employment.

What happens when banks are no longer banks? What happens when service providers are no longer service providers who you thought were in business to serve you, the customer, but are instead government agents, by proxy, carrying out political agendas?

The notions of private property, "freedom of assembly" and "freedom of speech" are being systematically dismantled in a country where we are left (deliberately or not) with the strong impression that anyone, any group and any given business or website unhappy with the regime might be monitored, demonetized, otherwise disrupted and taken down at any given time by partisans with financial clout or law enforcement powers.

It is an "America" devolving before our eyes from a beacon of freedom and universal rights into an open-air prison: a totalitarian regime of mass restrictions, mass censorship (including self-censorship) and selective political persecution most of us never voted for.

We need to start seeing and treating all of these developments as inter-related and mutually reinforcing, because they are.

Fundamentally, they represent a cascading collapse of integrity and accountability: people not doing their jobs; officeholders not abiding by their oaths or fulfilling their mandates; principles extolled and later jettisoned just as soon as they become inconvenient; labels of "private companies," "public sector" and "political operatives" collapsing into distinctions without a difference; a currency relentlessly being drained of whatever's left of its purchasing power; officials not meaning what they say; promises becoming meaningless, and power brokers not being honest and transparent about who they really are, who's responsible, who's really in charge, what they really want or what they ultimately have planned for us.

The collapse of integrity extends to the English language we rely on to think, communicate clearly with one another, assess ideas and identify threats and solutions. We're seeing a savage inversion of plain meaning across the board: patriots labeled evil insurrectionists; facts labeled misinformation; all kinds of evil labeled good; refugees treated like citizens, racists called civil rights activists; proponents of equal treatment under the law labeled racists and unequal treatment under the law labeled fairness.

It's an endless hall of mirrors: vaccines that donât vaccinate; law enforcement that doesn't enforce the law; presidents that donât preside; reporters who don't report; teachers who donât teach; an army focused on something other than the nation's defense and preparation for the next war; and a United States that's not united.

When integrity evaporates on such a wide scale, you can't trust anything: not what you're told, not what you read, not the data reported, not the institutions that claim to work for you, not your tech devices, not even your bank or the shelf life of the money in your pocket.

This onslaught didn't begin with the likes of Biden, Schumer and Pelosi, but since the current regime assumed greater control of the federal government, the situation has become profoundly worse at an accelerating rate.

We're all witnesses to a profound assault on American civilization - weekly, unrelenting breaches across society more insidious, more multifaceted, more egregious, more corrosive, more damaging than anything King George's British Empire, Hirohito's Japan, Hitler's Germany or the Soviet Union ever did to this country.

Just read the last year of posts on American Thinker. You could boil them all down into four words: We are under attack. A multi-pronged attack.

Impeaching Biden or his entire cabinet, if that fantasy were even possible, would accomplish next or nothing. It would not arrest the rot. So what do we do?

First, what we should NOT do is make irresponsible and reckless calls for secession or civil war.

A second civil war would be a catastrophe for all of us. We'd be engulfed in chaos. Without clear front lines, a compelling strategy, reliable and secure communications, courageous and competent leadership and overwhelming resource superiority, we could see unprecedented, unpredictable, cascading damage to the country - the only certainty is that foreign adversaries would benefit and exploit the chaos.

Today's situation is also fundamentally different from that leading to the Civil War. This time it's the federal government that has gone rogue, become unmoored from constitutional foundations and is on the path to imposing lawless, arbitrary rule and effective slavery upon all of us.

We want to *prevent* a war, and since war is historically the result of lopsided power differences, uncertainty and miscalculations about what one side or the other will tolerate, the first step in preventing a civil war and keeping the peace (such as it is) would be to set clear, credible red lines as bright as neon signs.

We're getting no such clarity from the people who supposedly represent us in D.C.; they either don't understand the gravity of the situation, don't care or are compromised - perhaps all of the above.

Republicans in D.C., for the most part, keep expressing outrage, typing tweets, tossing quips, issuing fundraising letters, pumping out editorials, peddling books and dishing out half-hearted platitudes, tired mantras and hollow rebukes - basically, they've done nothing affirmatively concrete, more or less, even when in power, for more than 25 years but pass occasional tax cuts and appoint "conservative" judges who betray the Constitution. It's like it's just a game to these people.

No, the leadership we need is not coming from D.C. We need to encourage state and local politicians - especially the governors of Texas, Florida, South Dakota and other like-minded states - to assume leadership and take out an insurance policy against full-blown tyranny and chaos by acting now.

"Acting now" means they should convene and work together to issue a joint declaration of well specified red lines as a first step toward clearly and fully defining the danger, containing it and securing what's left of the American way of life.

It's time for governors to govern - to become leaders of Concerned States of The Republic rather than just provincial caretakers of a lawless, degenerating, corrupt kleptocracy.

Some states have taken action. Several are strengthening gun rights and free-speech rights. More states are looking into joining Arizona in auditing the 2020 election and securing the integrity of the upcoming 2022 and 2024 elections. Florida and Texas aim to preempt social-network censorship and interference going into the next elections. A number of states plan to resist vaccine mandates. Vaccine passports are being challenged by several governors.

But instead of fighting disparate, sporadic mini-battles on specific issues such as these - piecemeal, as individual states - states should come together to assess the big picture holistically, adapt accordingly and jointly assert themselves as Guardians of the Republic.

Millions of us want our governors to be less tactical and reactive, more preemptive, strategic and comprehensive - and therefore more effective: we need to ask them to please come together now to plan and coordinate comprehensive, collective action to defend and restore the Constitution, heritage and legacy of the United States.

Governors, would you please stop playing sporadic defense? Would you please stop playing wack-a-mole and go on strategic offense?

Would you take a break from leveling lawsuits against the latest destructive D.C. policy of the day and please consider making a joint, forward-looking, consciousness-raising declaration of first principles and red lines to save America?

Here's a humble suggestion for an opening speech to announce this new initiative, including a statement of first principles:

We represent [...] states that are home to more than [...] million American citizens. We're here to represent all concerned Americans.

We're concerned that our country is drifting away from everything we're supposed to be about, everything many of our ancestors fought and died for - the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, freedom, honor, human dignity and integrity. That puts America's future at risk. The list of constitutional and other systemic failures is detailed here (present a website that lists the most serious chains of abuses), and that list is growing by the month.

Taken together, they represent a system failure that jeopardizes the lives and livelihoods of all Americans because they jeopardize the rule of law, our freedom and therefore our prosperity, our safety and our national security. There is no lasting security or freedom unless the Constitution, in particular, is followed and enforced.

A living Constitution keeps us from becoming a dictatorship - from becoming slaves subject to the arbitrary whims of unaccountable rulers - so we feel we must propose a serious, strategic and collaborative effort to deal with this multi-faceted threat to our American way of life.

Texas made the stakes clear in its December lawsuit to the Supreme Court. In its Bill of Complaint leveled against multiple constitutional violations during the last election season by Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin, the state said:

"Our Country stands at an important crossroads. Either the Constitution matters and must be followed, even when some officials consider it inconvenient or out of date, or it is simply a piece of parchment on display at the National Archives."

The Supreme Court, one of whose very founding mandates was to resolve disputes among states, dismissed the evidence laid out and this expression of deep concern as being "without standing."

More than 18 states representing the concerns of more than 70 million Americans were told by the highest court in the land that they had no standing in the halls of justice - in their own country - on the most fundamental issue of self-governance.

The Constitution isn't just a piece of paper, and this isn't just about the 2020 elections. This isn't about where anyone stands on that issue. This is about whether we are a civilized country of laws and universal rights, or we're some lawless, open-air prison ruled by an illegitimate and unaccountable government that picks favorites, dismisses citizens' concerns and petitions for redress and flouts laws and the spirit of the laws at the expense of the rest of us.

By refusing to defend the Constitution and even consider - just hear out - the serious grievances shared by millions of Americans, the Supreme Court along with much of the rest of the federal government reinforced a signal they've been sending us for years. They broke the camel's back and jeopardized their own "standing" with millions of citizens. By repeatedly treating many of our citizens with contempt they've placed themselves in contempt.

We all need to take a deep breath here, restore confidence and bring all institutions back into compliance with the Constitution before it's too late - before we face an even worse situation all of us might regret.

Millions of Americans have been wondering how best to do that, wondering who feels as they do, wondering who will back them and wondering what's the plan they can count on their leaders to support.

Many Americans currently lack clear and secure methods of communication, coordination and joint action. We governors will establish networks upon which all Americans of good faith can more confidently come together to restore the Republic we love.

The first step is to be clear about what the United States is. The U.S. was fully formed in 1787 under a written agreement forged by sovereign, independent states. Those states agreed to pool some of their powers over war, interstate commerce and foreign trade into a new central government - in return, the central government would be kept in check with clearly defined limits to minimize any abuse of its powers.

The idea was that this country would never allow a dictator to rise who'd impose arbitrary, self-serving whims on us and treat us as subjects, rather than as citizens. America wouldn't replace one King with another King.

The central government's role was to act as a steward, as a secretary, on the people's behalf, not as our ruler. The government would serve us, be accountable to us and explain its actions to us.

To emphasize the limits on government power the states insisted that the Constitution include a Bill of Rights that protected all Americans' basic rights to freedom of speech, of the press - all of the press - of assembly, of religion, due process and armed self defense - no matter who ran the government. War or not. Pandemic or not.

Essentially, the Unites States is a contract defined by the Constitution. That contract appears to be in the process of being breached. Since the Supreme Court and other federal authorities - of both parties - have neglected their duty to help correct matters, over many years, not just the past few, it's now up to states to shore up the contract. We need to bring violating parties back into compliance by all legal means at our disposal.

But for too long we Americans have allowed one part of the system after another to lose its integrity. This has allowed other parts to lose their integrity. We now see a cascading system failure that is feeding on itself. The problem has to be addressed holistically, not piecemeal. Not issue by issue. Not individually. We need to act comprehensively and collectively to restore the Constitution and the culture that historically sustained it.

Accordingly, we are compelled to declare ourselves "Constitutional Sanctuary States" or "American Safe Havens" that will *consistently* abide by the following set of 22 basic principles and "red lines" consistent with our laws, our Constitution, our history, our heritage and who we are:

Number 1) All life is precious. All lives matter. No one is disposable. Not black, not white, not yellow - no one - of any age, from their first heartbeat to their last. We are all unique and essential, to the people around us, to our friends, colleagues and community, in ways we might not even realize until much later - and we must all be treated as such by our government at all times. Even the most modest person could affect the course of this nation for the better. When we deny this, we deny our own future. The life and constitutional rights of every resident of every age are sacred and therefore must be protected up until the point that life and those rights threaten someone else's.

Number 2) Accordingly, there should be absolutely no legal caste system in the United States. Absolutely none. There should be no two-tier system of justice in the U.S. where one group gets special treatment at the expense of other groups - where one group is treated more or less favorably than others by the government. Where different groups get treated differently even after committing the same crimes. It's unacceptable. It's appalling. It's un-American. There should not even be the perception of such unfairness. Justice without equal treatment isn't justice at all. It's discrimination. It is a recipe for ever-growing resentment, strife, disunity, disorder and disaster. All Americans should be treated equally under the law no matter their race, religion, ethnicity, origin, creed, class or political affiliation. There is no lasting unity unless everyone feels they're being treated fairly and equally under the law.

Number 3) Freedom is meaningless if you cant protect yourself and the ones you love. All law-abiding Americans have a right to armed self defense. The Constitution is clear. It says the right to bear arms shall not be infringed, so no permission - no permits - are required. Conceal-carry will be universally authorized in all of our states to all law abiding citizens for their own self defense. Additionally, as a public safety measure, training in the use of firearms will be strongly encouraged in residents age 16 and up.

Number 4) The military's top job is to protect American citizens. All of them. State militias' first priority is to serve and protect state residents. National Guards are prohibited from firing upon any state resident without the express authority of their commanders-in-chief: their respective governors.

Number 5) Dependence and freedom don't coexist for long. Dependence breeds an unhealthy, unequal relationship of dominance between the dependent and their benefactor. We're states, not colonies. We need to restore the proper historical relationship between states and the federal government. We pledge to reduce our states' dependence on federal funding by at least 50 percent as a share of our states' economies by 2045.

6) The Constitution is the supreme law of the land and governs all relationships among all levels of governance in this country and between citizens and their government. Any government official, including any state or federal law enforcement, of any level, caught violating the Constitution will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

7) Freedom is not secure if it exists on quicksand or thin ice. Greater stability and financial security can come with greater diversification. At a time of massive debt, pronounced financial-market instability and uncertainty about the U.S dollar's future, states recognize, accept and welcome the use of viable, robust, liquid backup alternatives to the U.S. dollar for all payments within state borders, including gold-backed payments.

8) Freedom is meaningless without the freedom to use your talents, get a job, work and earn a living. States fully recognize the right of any resident to work in any field regardless of whether or not they are unionized, vaccinated or anything else. Beyond necessary skill-based licensing or tests or a public-health measure - that is supported by objective data and logic, is clear to everyone and is put to a vote - any restrictions on employment will be banned.

9) America exists primarily for the benefit of American citizens who live here and lawful residents who emigrate and work here legally. We accept newcomers who come in legally through our immigration system. This is our home - we choose who lives and works in our home. To help enforce this, all employers most adopt E-Verify and submit all job applicants to the system - any employer found to have employees not approved by E-Verify and without proof of US. citizenship or authorized residency will be fined and banned from doing business in our states.

10) America is not defined as an ethnicity nor as a religion or race. What unites us are the ideals of our founding, which must be reinforced with every new generation to maintain the integrity of this country. We plan to fully restore civics classes and traditions like the Pledge of Allegiance. We want The Constitution and The Declaration of Independence memorized in their entirety by all school children by age 13. We want the Federalist Papers to be a mandatory part of the secondary school curriculum.

11) Obsession with race and ethnicity divides people into warring tribes. It could turn America into the Balkans, South Africa or the old Rwanda. It weakens us. In America, all that should matter is what you can do and reaching your potential, which ultimately benefits all of us. Race and ethnicity should play no part in public affairs except where absolutely essential. All Americans are unique individuals. We should all be treated as unique individuals, based not on the color of our skin, but on the content of our character, as the Reverend Martin Luther King implored, and on what we can contribute to the advancement of society. Our states will resume the march towards King's vision of a fully color-blind, meritocratic society because we still believe in that vision. We will move to limit all racial and ethnic distinctions in state government documents, processes and reporting, similar to unifying measures taken in France and Rwanda.

12) No parent should ever have to beg anyone to teach their kids - to educate them properly. A good education is too important for anyone to be denied one for any reason, pandemic or no pandemic. At home learning is no education at all for the young. Too many public school systems have failed us miserably, for decades and especially through these past two years of Covid. Unlike almost every other major area of American life and business, including our universities, the K12 system lacks customer choice; it's sheltered from full competition. That breeds arrogance, complacency, abysmal service and a terrible future for our at-risk kids. A healthy democracy needs a well educated, confident and productive citizenry that doesn't grow up dependent on government.

If any parent wants at-school learning and doesn't currently have it, they should be able to buy it - at will - with state support, switch schools and change education arrangements. Private schools, home schooling and home schooling cooperatives will be fully authorized as an option. We will move to abolish the public education system and have those funds redistributed directly to parents as K-12 subsidies, vouchers or tax credits equivalent to current per-child state K-12 education spending. States will continue to set and enforce curriculum standards on all schools. That will include mandatory testing of reading, writing, math and science proficiency and required reading of The Road to Serfdom, Atlas Shrugged, 1984, Animal Farm and They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945. All other aspects of school management will be left to private individuals and parents.

13) Besides education, one of the best ways for any American to access the American Dream is to be part of a loving family that's achieved the dream and has more love, knowledge and experience to share. If we are serious about eliminating barriers to upward mobility - faced by too many Americans - then we should eliminate all barriers to interracial, inter-ethnic and inter-class adoption. Good American parents in good neighborhoods seeking to adopt should not be restricted in any way from adopting any American because their race or their ethnicity or their class is different than the adoptees'. That's un-American. Americans should be allowed to adopt other Americans in need of a good home. Any inner city child needing loving parents and a loving home in a good neighborhood with good schools shouldn't be denied the opportunity.

14) A healthy democracy needs clean, transparent elections where all states play by clear, simple, solid rules that reinforce the integrity of elections and people's confidence in the system. The public needs to know for certain that they're being governed by the people they voted for â people who they feel have their best interests and values at heart.

We will move toward comprehensive, no-cheating election reform that ensures only legal votes count - including voter ID, the end of Internet-connected, remote-controlled voting machines, the re-establishment of paper ballots, unique QR coded absentee ballots with signature verification requirements and the introduction of indelible finger ink.

In order to minimize fraud and bolster confidence in election results, all statewide elections will be subject to universal deadlines - so all precincts must submit their tallies at the exact same time, no sooner and no later, and subject to random audits. Audits are critical for the same reason audits of government operations and company books are always critical: because the integrity of the system needs to be ensured. People need to know they're not being lied to. They have to have confidence in the numbers. We work for our citizens. Citizens have a right to demand a review of the elections they paid for.

15) Residents of a state have every right to preserve the character of the state they were born in, helped build and live in. These are not just states; they're our homes. Fresh arrivals from other states are always welcome - we've welcomed tens of thousands of fellow Americans who've migrated into our states just over the past year - but new arrivals should not be allowed to abruptly and deliberately alter a state's character without buy-in from the families who've lived here, many of us for generations. Any American should be able to live with people who share their priorities, preferences and values and not have these things imposed upon them by people who never grew up in our states.

We favor the end of automatic residency. Residency - and voting on state elections - should be earned and granted only after 5 years of living in the state in good standing, assimilating, developing a deeper understanding and appreciation of its culture, its business climate, its priorities and values.

16) Clear communication is fundamental to a functioning society. All government officials must speak and answer all questions in clear, concise and meaningful English. Language should be used to inform and clarify, not obfuscate. We must not allow language to be corrupted because that clouds the mind and gets in the way of clear thinking on all policy issues, which affects everything else. We need to be clear about basic things. For instance: up isn't down, unarmed protests are not an insurrection, riots are not peaceful protests, girls are girls, boys are boys, illegal aliens are illegal aliens, stranded means stranded and 2+2=4, not 5.

17) A healthy society requires a free press that informs, not propagandizes, misleads, selectively censors, lies or targets people for political persecution. A free press with all press freedoms includes independent media and all citizen-journalists. All perspectives. Citizens should have full access to all media and be able to more easily sue media organizations for journalistic malpractice, including damaging inaccuracies and libel: that would include compensation for more than $5,000 in damages suffered by victims in direct losses. Direct losses would include the loss of future wages, business income and employment resulting from media malpractice.

18) The best way to ensure freedom, safety and security is resilience. States must urge resilience over safety to their residents and extend this principle to all of their own internal operations. Accordingly, all residents must be encouraged to start plotting home gardens, amassing additional farmable land for cultivation and learning survival skills as well as diversifying their assets.

19) All states reserve the right to repossess and sell unused state land seized by the federal government without compensation, as we seek to make our states healthier and stronger financially.

20) Freedom of speech is guaranteed. A healthy society relies on the free flow of information from all sides. The public square - online and offline - must be open to every citizen at all times. We will seek to sanction and ban social networks engaged in political censorship, especially when it's chronic and selective.

21) Freedom is threatened when power is concentrated in the hands of too few flawed individuals, institutions or companies. Our states will ensure legal protection and full access to all startups, including those at an advanced stage of building secure networks for the free and open exchange of all types of data.

22) Government shouldn't abuse its regulatory powers to force changes that were never approved by the people through their representatives. The regime in D.C. has been trying to compel private industry (rather than just use legislation and executive orders) to impose measures the Constitution doesn't authorize and neither the people nor their representatives had any say in.

As we speak, banks and financial companies are being urged to deny access to fossil fuel companies to "stop climate change." Many of these measures amount to redistributing wealth and favor to preferred industries often owned by people in power, their fellow partisans, families, friends or colleagues. We will do what we can to put a stop to this corruption. Service providers like banks exist to serve their clients, not to serve politicians - those that donât will have their licenses to do business in our states re-evaluated.

Some might frame this as an insurrection, perhaps even a rebellion, when it's really just an attempt at restoration - restoration of the Constitution and the standing American citizens are supposed to have as the true sovereigns of their own affairs, their own businesses, their own destinies, and over the actions of their own government.

The real "insurrection" took place over the past year in violent riots across the country and in D.C. where actions taken over the past three decades have devolved into a rebellion against the American Constitutional order, our heritage and our history - so this is an attempt to bring back the Constitution, not break from it.

More than two centuries ago, in return for ceding some of their powers to the federal government, the states signed the Constitutional contract. The relationship between the states and the federal government was based on that contract. It was conditioned on respect for that contract. The federal government keeps breaking that contract. We need to bring it back into compliance with the contract.

In the meantime, at this uncertain time of constitutional distress, our states intend to serve as a constitutional refuge - a sanctuary.

While the restoration of America is being worked out, our states will seek to work peacefully as secure islands of constitutional integrity and consistency to bring the federal government back into compliance with its proper role and duty.

Our goal is simple: to restore government's proper role in safeguarding the lives, liberty and opportunities of all Americans.

We welcome all Americans from all states to join us. You can find out more at our website: http://.........

All of the line items proposed in this announcement could be debated and modified. What matters is whether they are all constitution-affirming, mutually reinforcing and supported by like-minded states.

The goal is to get states like Florida, Texas and South Dakota to chart a clear course that salvages what's left of the United States while D.C., New York and like-minded states continue to isolate and wrap themselves into their own self-destructive, atrophying, imploding bubbles of despair, criminality, decay, hate, confusion, incoherence, irrationality, cognitive dissonance, dysfunction, dementia, debauchery and outright chaos.

Biden, Schumer and Pelosi and the rest of these people could then wax on, while the rest of us move on and sail away from their Swamp.

If enough states with enough people jointly declare themselves "constitutional sanctuary states" and establish the right positions, policies and red lines - and articulate all of this, including the rationale, in a compelling way, preemptively - it just might be enough to get D.C. to back off and reconsider its past actions and future plans.

Sanctuary states could establish a manifestly superior moral position that would make it look downright ugly for Democrats to attack these constitutional sanctuaries, as well as alert more people to the threat facing America.

In the worst case scenario, D.C. continues its assault on America's constitutional order anyway, but "shoots itself in the foot." More Americans will see more clearly what we're dealing with here and what's at stake - and vote accordingly in the upcoming 2022 and 2024 elections.

But right now, millions of us are living in fear, confusion and uncertainty about the future. It's time to act. It's time to restore the United States.

It's time for state governors and state legislators to stop talking, stop expressing outrage and stop leaving many brave Americans, who've already stood up for all of us, to twist in the wind.

Come "Decision 2024," this is the only election issue that matters: which states, which governors, which people stepped up to present and execute a clear, comprehensive and compelling plan to save America and acted when it mattered most, when it could actually do some good?

Governors DeSantis, Noem and others are talked about as potential contenders for the presidency or vice-presidency. They've shown they can talk the talk, but we don't want talking heads anymore.

We don't want politicians anymore. We donât want platitudes anymore. We demand smart, forward-looking and courageous leaders, true to our heritage, who will clearly articulate and execute a course of action out of this abyss that the rest of us can more confidently and securely follow, coordinate upon and support.

Few people ever ask for their role in history at times of great challenges, but governors now face the responsibility of transcending their limitations: before they ask us for our votes in the next election cycle, they must demonstrate their capacity for leadership. Now. They must present a track record. This should be our litmus test.

No more come-and-go, go-along-to-get-along, Johnny-come-lately functionaries and opportunists who say all the right things at election time but at critical moments fumble, stab us in the back, bail or otherwise fail to accomplish anything meaningful or lasting, either due to lack of conviction or competence.

Today's status quo is unsustainable. It is a House of Cards. If you happen to be lucky enough to be comfortable where you are, it likely will not last. Given the current speed and trajectory of events, we will not make it to the end of next year without a whole new round of degradation unless a preemptive, assertive, affirmative and comprehensive defense is articulated and established right now.

Governors must become leaders and get ahead of events to preempt the disaster many of us can already see coming.

Stop labeling as D.C.'s incompetence and fecklessness what is looking more and more like intent, contempt and malice. Stop playing defense and go on offense. Stop being timid. Be bold.

Governors, please: Govern. Coordinate. Unite. Lead. Jointly declare your states "Constitutional Safe Havens."

Suggested photo: An upside down American flag representing an America in distress.

merica's governors need to wake up and smell the rot. They need to get together to do what they legally can to salvage what's left of America and establish a foundation from which to rebuild before the current regime becomes entrenched. They need to make abundantly clear, in unison, that future affronts to the Constitution will no longer go without challenge.

They need to officially recognize and publicly state the scope of the multi-faceted hydra we're dealing with here.

I don’t know who you are but you must of spent a long time preparing this position paper. Please be aware most freepers have a short attention span. I’m no exception.

Do the tired/poor stand up and fight oppression or do they escape to freer areas? Tx. and Fl. are havens for now. I think we should stand and fight.

Our goal is simple: to restore government’s proper role in safeguarding the lives, liberty and opportunities of all Americans.

That is exactly what the Left claim to be doing. The response to any bold offensive on our part at this point will be all out war because is who the left are. Intolerant. Utterly. And convinced of their own moral purity and superiority.

Maybe you should spend more time reading and less time criticizing.

Just a thought. I tried to keep it brief, just for you!

Good subject. I appreciate your effort.

I just hope the FBI SWAT team isn’t at your door!

Free states should collect IRS Money and only send DC money for a few things...and end all regulation form the federal government..we are not a free people...

My concern is after the Rs assume absolute power in 2024 will the Rs have the backbone to:
1) jail and possibly execute the members of the driving forces behind the Xiden regime
2) assemble the millions of invaders and repatriate them.

Number 2 is the easiest. Unless a new arrival is a naturalized citizen (not through amnesty) they may not vote nor receive any public assistance provided by tax paying USA citizens. Starving on the street will provide incentive to exit the USA for many of them.

Number 1 requires political will-power that only a few R’s currently in office have. Even if members of the Xiden regime are arrested and sent to trial, it will take years before they are disposed of. If it takes about a decade to execute a convicted murderer, expect that time frame for the Xiden cabal.

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