There is only one way out from here.
Posted on 08/29/2011 12:27:09 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of Alabama's new law cracking down on illegal immigration, ruling Monday that she needed more time to decide whether the law opposed by the Obama administration, church leaders and immigrant-rights groups is constitutional.
The brief order by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Blackburn means the law won't take effect as scheduled on Thursday. The ruling was cheered by opponents who have compared the law to old Jim Crow-era statutes against racial integration.
But Blackburn didn't address whether the law is constitutional, and she could still let all or parts of the law take effect later. The judge said she will issue a longer ruling by Sept. 28.
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Fixed it.
You are not a conservative.
Virginia is with you. (At last the part below the Rappahannock River)
There is only one way out from here.
Well, I think it will actually be the revolution and civil war combined because this time there is a multitude of fighting age dependents willing to fight for the king as well as some of the kings regiments. But the regiments will turn towards the good people, if it comes to that.
I'm thinking we've been here before regarding States Rights.
If Uncle Sugar won't protect American citizens, States should take it upon themselves and bill the feds.
Then pass state laws that inhibit U.S. Marshals from interfering.
I was talking with a War Between the States rein-actor not long ago, and this individual told me he could never understand why a nation would go to war with itself, then he paused and said, "now I understand".
War amongst ourselves is the last thing this nation needs, to be honest. Our enemies are waiting for the right opportunity to take America away from Americans. The battle for America has begun with only a few shots fired to this point, thanks be to God, yet Our rulers have planned well and our rulers plans are well underway to take America away from America's Citizens. What will be and where the match will be lit to the explosions is anyone's guess. Good Luck everyone. I will pop some popcorn and wait for the call.
Yep. The nomination of David Souter was another shining Bush 41 moment. There's much to admire about Bush 41, but I didn't care much for his presidency.
Sadly try as we might we ain’t strong enough to throw em out. We got to be clever and opportunistic cause we ain’t got the bruit force to keep em out.
In this particular case Alabama should demonstrate its contempt for the illegitimate Federal Employee in a black robe and enforce its law anyway.
Warn that Federal employee that obstruction of justice and wanted aid to criminals is indeed itself a crime! That if they attempt to turn their words into unlawful actions they will be hunted down and prosecuted to the full extent of southern law.
Hell I’d like to see the Southern Militia called up as a gesture of southern resolve and a warring against invasion of our State, either from south of the border or from Washington D.C.. But that ain’t going to happen, and to be frank it may end up just string up the imperialist passion of our Yankee masters. We got to be smart, and recognize that politics is the art of the possible.
If we are going to win this fight we are going to have to be clever and opportunistic. We must only engage em when the odds are overwhelmingly in our favor and otherwise uses what influence we have to maneuver them to where to where they will be most vulnerable.
“Those are opinions which won’t be sufficient for removal. Like it or not the Constitution defines these judgeships as lifetime appointments to be held during “good behavior”. As long as a judge complies with that standard they are safe from impeachment.”
Generally when a man says standards he means some substantive limit to their behavior. As far as I can tell their ain’t no substantive limit defining “Good Behavior” for Federal judges.
“There have been several opinions over the course of our history which were unconstitutional in my opinion but that is only an opinion.”
If their own opinion of the limits of their own and their masters authority is all that matters then they ain’t got no constitution of any kind just as they ain’t got no limits of any kind.
If this is the “American system” as some contend, then the “American system” ain’t got nothing to do with any kind of written Constitution and is entirely defined by it’s arbitrary federal Government.
“I can only say that while I have considered the preservation of the constitutional power of the General Government to be the foundation of our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it. I need not refer one so well acquainted as you are with American history, to the State papers of Washington and Jefferson, the representatives of the federal and democratic parties, denouncing consolidation and centralization of power, as tending to the subversion of State Governments, and to despotism.“
- Robert E. Lee, 1866
Let’s try them.
If Obama sent troops into Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, in the same way that Eisenhower and Kennedy used troops in ‘57, ‘62, and ‘63, it would ignite a backlash against Washington so massive that it could topple the Lincoln system itself.
In the 1960s, the people who lived here had just went through WW2, it was a time of prosperity, the MSM had 100 percent power, and we had spent the better part of the last 100 years reconciling with Washington.
That is no longer the case. Let Obama ... cough, Gorbachev ... try to use the military against his own citizens for defending themselves from a foreign invasion.
He could run on this campaign theme in 2012 - tyranny!
You are a welcome voice on Free Republic. I will ping you often. I hope you can spend time here, we need more little ‘r’ republican voices. A lot of the neo Yankees that infest this website, we call them the Lincoln Coven, wouldn’t know a republic if it bit on the arse.
We have a constitution which must be interpreted from time to time and the Supreme Court is established to do that in the final analysis. We cannot have three or four or a million interpretations as to what it may mean.
Defining “Good Behavior” is problematic but can be interpreted by the standards of the Founders. I would say that history has shown that it is pretty much limited to not committing criminal acts. I don’t know of any ideological impeachments and convictions of federal judges but several for criminality such as Alsee Hastings.
No document speaks for itself not even the Ten Commandments.
Since the Constitution contains the means of correcting and modifying itself rulings of the Court can be overruled by amendment when we don’t like the results. I am not even sure that Congress does not have the ultimate authority under the “Exceptions Clause” to determine what cases the Court hears.
Oh, noooo central_va says I am not a conservative, what will I do?
Being attacked by a supporter of Treason and Traitors is a badge of honor for a patriotic American. A badge I proudly accept.
That sounds fine but the fact remains that Lee had just spent four years fighting for the greatest tyranny the nation had ever seen, the Slave Power. There was no fighting for freedom or states rights or any of the high-sounding rhetoric that has been raised to defend the RAT Rebellion. Slavers frankly stated that they were fighting for slavery. The right to hold slaves was their principal concern.
Mr. Houston,
arrogantsob is a prime example of kool aid drinking reconstructed idiot, Lincoln Coven card carrying member. He owns a life size anatomically correct Lincoln blow up doll.
Laughs.
Well, I for one don’t identify with Barack Hussein Obama and Eric “My People” Holder. You can be “loyal” to that government - loyal to tyranny.
How strange.
The Republican Party wanted to abolish slavery here. Is that a fact? Didn’t Fremont abolish slavery in Missouri? I was under the impression that Lincoln overruled him.
What about slavery in Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware? The “Emancipation Proclamation” didn’t apply there. Why didn’t ol’ Honest Abe campaign in 1860 on the abolition of slavery?
Oh wait ... that wasn’t in the platform of his own party. The only reason that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation was to (1) deter Britain and France from recognizing the CSA and (2) to incite a slave rebellion in the cotton states to sap the front lines of his enemy.
“Honest Abe” had such a problem with the “Slave Power” that he sat in the U.S. Congress with plenty of slaveowners. The so-called “Slave Power” must have included George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson too, right?
The Constitution of 1789 specifically ratified your “Slave Power.” So Daniel Webster and his Cotton Whig friends were complicit in the “slave power” right?
As for the Yankee myth that the South was only fighting for slavery, what did the South spend the next 12 years fighting against after slavery was abolished? What about the next 100 years?
What are we fighting about in the year 2011? Oh wait ... it was the centralized monstrosity that is the Union that Lincoln created, his tyranny Washington which Barack Hussein Obama has inherited, which lords over the states and makes all the decisions.
In the 1960s, there was another right over “states rights.” Slavery had been dead for 100 years when the Yankees came here again to mind our business.
Now the same people have put Barack Hussein Obama in the White House to centralize the government even more. Obama compares himself to Lincoln all the time.
It is an apt comparison: both of them are tyrants who have no respect for (1) the right of the people to make their own laws or (2) the federal compact between the states and the federal government.
If you have to ask, you probably don't really want to know.
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