It's all just 
Posted on 04/07/2018 11:21:14 AM PDT by Steely Tom
The Golden State is losing its glitter, rapidly. California has the nation's highest poverty rate. homelessness is rampant. State officials are focused on protecting illegal immigrants from deportation rather than reversing the flight of the state's middle class. Actor and model Fabio, an immigrant, weighs in on California's decline.
Regarding California's dysfunctional government, patriots are reminded that all roads of corruption in federal and state governments lead to Congress imo.
More specifically, constitutional lawmakers were concerned that an unstable state like California would weaken the Union and gave Congress the express constitutional authority to remedy problems in such states.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions [emphasis added];"
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
"14th Amendment, Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
H O W E V E R …
Patriots are also reminded that regardless that the states have given Congress the specific power to deal with unstable, activist states, we still have the following major problem.
We’re still stuck with a corrupt, post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration, a Congress that not only has a track record for wrongly remaining silent concerning troubled states, but will predictably continue to ignore such states, wrongly compromising national security by doing so imo.
The remedy for corrupt Congress …
It is entirely up to us patriots to finish the job that we started when we elected Trump president.
More specifically, patriots now need to be making sure the there are plenty of Trump-supporting patriot candidates on the 2018 primary ballots, candidates who will be willing to intervene in troubled states, and pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day.
And until the states wake up and repeal 17A, as evidenced by concerns about the integrity of the outcome of Alabama's and Pennsylvania's special elections, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for possible deep state ballot box fraud and associated MSM scare tactics.
Hacking Democracy - The Hack
2/3rds of the state would secede from California and remain with the union.
See new California.
Now that he's older, Fabio reminds me of the Italian guy who owned the produce distributor up in Watertown. I used go there every other week to get supplies for the summer camp I worked at in Redwood, NY.
Now that he's older, Fabio looks just like him.
No, “they” meaning the “sane” citizens of CA, do NOT want to secede and they don’t want the state to be a sanctuary HELL HOLE, nor do they want illegals crossing the border or roaming their neighborhoods. Don’t confuse the people of CA with the Liberal hacks in office and their cohorts, e.g., Hollyweird, felons, illegals, and those who support electing them via “voter fraud.”
When Jerry Brown’s name and other Liberal politicians, e.g., Pelosi, Feinstein, Harris, Becerra, Newsome, et al. are mentioned, sane Californians make derogatory comments about these politicians. Many say they’re looking into getting out of CA at the first opportunity. Practically no one admits to voting for these amoral, bottom feeders.
Not all counties in CA are inhabited by lunatic Liberals. The same goes for Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, and even parts of Texas. The infectious disease called Liberals is creeping into every state. BEWARE AND BE VIGILANT for this infection is coming to your neighborhood along with the illegals being supported by these Liberal loons.
Tucker also had the useless Martin O’Malley on the other night and debated him about the DemonRats not wanting to protect the border. It was a good exchange but I sure wish someone would clue Tucker in when a guest suggests that “Obama deported and interned more immigrants than president before him.”
See excerpts from Dr. Kenneth Ryker's great "Freedom in a Nutshell below:
Freedom in a Nutshell
by
Kenneth W. Ryker
Received Freedoms Foundation
Valley Forge Honor
Certificate Award — 1978
Requests for reprint permission invited.
Copyright, 1977
by
Kenneth W. Ryker
Fort Worth, Texas
Introduction
People act in response to what they believe. If their convictions are based on false ideas, their actions will be improper, against their own best interests.
Any rational person consciously acts in such a way as to leave himself better off after his action than before. This is a universal principle of human action. Yet every day millions of our citizens do act contrary to their own best interests and demand acts of their governments which have this effect. Why?
Because they are acting in response to convictions based on false ideas and myths. As a consequence their acts and those of the various levels of government cause their condition to become less satisfactory — to deteriorate.
What then must be done to correct this situation? Obviously, it is to strive to replace false ideas with truth! But what is the truth?
Truth is that which is — the self-evident and that which proceeds logically out of the self-evident.
Truth is rightness; it is correct, genuine, based on right principles. Truth corresponds to fact or reality; it is natural, and most important of all, truth is its own witness!
Some truths are known; others are still being sought as the ultimate end and purpose of knowledge.
The purpose of this booklet is to present known truths about freedom and government in the hope that it may help replace some false ideas and myths. A sincere effort has been made to distill the essence of the philosophy of freedom.
* * *
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek city state down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the office-holders.(1)Freedom is of the greatest importance to us for we have found through the great American experiment that freedom provides the best means through which to achieve whatever goals we set for ourselves.
We Americans have a tendency to believe that cur freedoms are protected by our Constitution and its Bill of Rights. This is dangerous thinking for it dulls our sense of vigilance. Note the following words of Judge Learned Hand:
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court even can do much to help it.Over a period of many years we have observed liberty slowly dying in the hearts of our people. The inevitable consequence has been the loss of countless freedoms,(2) our constitution notwithstanding. Mr. Ed Hiles of Atlanta once wrote:
Freedom is not free and it must not be taken for granted. It was won through sacrifice and will be maintained only through sacrifice. It can be lost — just as surely, just as completely, and just as permanently — tax by tax, subsidy by subsidy, and regulation by regulation, as it can be lost bullet by bullet, bomb by bomb, or missile by missile.If we are to preserve the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, it is absolutely essential that there be a new birth of freedom in the hearts and minds of our people.
There is no way of knowing how this might be achieved. It might take the form of a great "Crusade for Freedom" led by a dynamic new libertarian leader, as yet unknown. Or perhaps as a result of the philosophy of freedom being presented in a new, concise, easily understood form.
I
Freedom and Government: Eternal DichotomyThe supreme issue of our time is whether government is to be the master or the servant of the people. We all know this question was supposedly settled nearly 200 years ago with the American Revolution. But here we are today concerned with the issue again.
At the heart of the matter are the different natures of man and government. The nature of man is to be free, or it might be said the nature of man is individualism. Whereas the nature of government is to govern — to regulate — to control, or we might say the nature of government is unity.
And there we have the eternal conflict: individualism versus unity — freedom versus regimentation. It is vitally important to understand that the natures of man and government are diametrically opposed!
What gets us into trouble is that we lose sight of these contrary natures of man and government — and we fail to see the fundamental principles involved. When we take our eyes off basic principles we are at sea without a rudder. Not having basic criteria by which to gauge issues, we soon find the sphere of individual liberty being compressed smaller and smaller as the governmental "cosmos" grows larger and larger — and before long tyranny looms on the horizon!
On the other hand, when we do have a firm foundation based on fundamental principles, apparently complicated issues are simplified — solutions become crystal clear — as we analyze them in the light of our basic criteria.
II
Individual RightsThe indispensable foundation of a free society is the principle of individual rights. The concept of rights is the basis of individual morality and is thus the foundation of a moral society, society being nothing more than a group of individuals.
A right is defined as "a just and proper claim," but it is more than that. A right implies not only freedom of action in the total absence of coercion, but it implies freedom of action even if coercion is present. Thus, a right isn't lost, even if coercion appears.
Additionally, a right is freedom of action morally without asking permission. If, to remain moral, the person must first ask permission from another, then he is in a state or condition of privilege. If he may morally act without permission, then he has a right.
The concept of Natural Rights was developed by John Locke in seventeenth century England and found its way into our eighteenth century political documents which enumerated our basic human rights. In order to document precisely what these rights are, let us examine some of the more important of these basic documents of American liberty in their order of development.
Declaration and Resolves of the
First Continental Congress,
October 14, 1774
. . . That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following RIGHTS:
Resolved, N.C.D. 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty and property: and they have never ceded to any foreign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Virginia Declaration of Rights,
June 12, 1776
. . . That all Men are by Nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent Rights, of which, when they enter into a State of Society, they cannot by any Compact, deprive or divest their Posterity; namely, the Enjoyment of Life and Liberty, with the Means of acquiring and possessing Property, and pursuing and obtaining Happiness and Safety.
Declaration of Independence,
July 4, 1776
. . . We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; ...
Massachusetts Declaration of Rights,
October 25, 1780
All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
Bill of Rights,
December 15, 1791
Article V. No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall property be taken for public use, without just compensation.As we have just observed, our basic American documents of liberty clearly define our rights. The common thread running through the above preambles has been summarized by Justice Sutherland of the Supreme Court as follows:
The individual has three rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference [from government]: the right to life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property. These three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life, but to deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes life worth living. To give him his liberty, but to take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.(3)Whether one attributes the source of these rights to the Creator or to Nature, the fact remains that man naturally, clearly, and demonstrably possesses the rights to life, liberty, and property — and these are his only rights!
Declarations, Constitutions, and Bills of Rights do not guarantee rights; they are merely codifications of ideals and principles. If the ideals are not truly believed and practiced by the people, the documents become mere scraps of paper. It is the practice of the principles that is the key to freedom!
It's all just
I watched that Anaheim video.
Miles of tents, and not one Sanikan in sight.
I am glad the video isn’t equipped with “Smellivision” !
hey, george... 
A right on photo!
California = S**thole
State officials are focused on protecting illegal immigrants from deportation rather than reversing the flight of the state’s middle class.
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The state officials are Democrats who want to make sure there is enough trash in the state to ignore their corruption and vote for them.
In this case pretty sure they would tell their husbands and sons to vote for him. Be fun watching the dims try to wrap their heads around that...
In this case pretty sure they would tell their husbands and sons to vote for him. Be fun watching the dims try to wrap their heads around that...
Glad to be proven wrong on this point and glad he’s one of us.
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I was shocked to find out Trump is one of us.
Democrat strategy: first turn Republic into Democracy, then hack Democracy by hacking demographics.
I can see the federal income tax money the rich pay to the federal government being paid to the state of California. In that case, they may pay more taxes when the write-offs will not be so generous. These tax-and-spend Lefties will turn California into a hell hole when all of the rich move out and all there is left is a welfare state.
“I just hope they don’t bring their beliefs and voting records with them, which will help transport the hellhole from CA. Like a cancer metastasizing.”
A city couple was driving in the country looking for a new home.
In a small town they saw an elderly man sitting on the porch of the local store and decided to talk to him.
Explaining they were looking for a new home they asked how things were there.
The old man looked at them and asked, “how are things where you come from.”
They replied that things were terrible. The schools were a waste of time, the law was useless, everything was too expensive, neighbors were rude and jobs were hard to find.
Nodding the old man said that was exactly the way it was here.
Shaking their heads the couple drove out of town.
The next day the scene was repeated with another city couple.
When the old man asked how things were where they came from they talked about how good the schools were, the law worked as well as it could, if one was careful everything a family needed was within their budget, if one really wanted to work jobs were plentiful and the neighbors were friendly.
Smiling the old man told them that was exactly how things were here.
He then walked them down the block to the realtors office.
Moral of the story is two fold.
People will find what they are looking for.
It’s up to the locals to let newcomers that they left their old home for reasons. Don’t bring that crap here with you.
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