We are a band of brothers and native to the soil
Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil
And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights, hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star
Several things could happen
Razor wire is manufactured in China Hope not
Joe could ban Razor Wire
Razor Wire is the new diamonds in cost..
Razor Wire becomes a TikTok challenge
Concealed Carry Razor Wire
Yeah I know some of those are silly
Meanwhile Im off to WalMart to get some Razor Wire before they run out...
Razor Wire in every pot etc
If the analogy is Fort Sumpter, then I have to concede I will be a confederate.
The left is hell bent on provoking something bad.
That screed is hopeless, helpless.
Yes, people are dying, being murdered, women being raped, children being enslaved, etc.
Cutting the wire only promotes it.
Mexico is the primary enabler, not Abbott and his Confederate Southern plantation slaveholders, (I mean, if you read the article, that is what it says).
But aren’t we told that Biden is trying to secure the border.
Communist rag says what?
Most of the force is the Texas State Guard, which cannot be federalized.
I don’t think they know the difference between a State Guard and a National Guard.
FYI, The Texas National Guard (under federal jurisdiction) numbers 18K, whereas the Texas State Guard is 1,600, 1 tenth the size.
Would National Guard side with feds, or their state ? Many or all may want to side with Texas, but can they afford to do so ?
That will fail.
Twenty-five states support Gov. Abbott and Texas. Biden cannot arrest them all.
If we take James Madison's word in his Federalist essays, it's the federal government that's gone insurrectionist, not the states. It's the states that must band together to stop Biden's rogue administration.
James Madison, Federalist #46:
Were it admitted, however, that the Federal government may feel an equal disposition with the State governments to extend its power beyond the due limits, the latter would still have the advantage in the means of defeating such encroachments. If an act of a particular State, though unfriendly to the national government, be generally popular in that State and should not too grossly violate the oaths of the State officers, it is executed immediately and, of course, by means on the spot and depending on the State alone. The opposition of the federal government, or the interposition of federal officers, would but inflame the zeal of all parties on the side of the State, and the evil could not be prevented or repaired, if at all, without the employment of means which must always be resorted to with reluctance and difficulty.On the other hand, should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular States, which would seldom fail to be the case, or even a warrantable measure be so, which may sometimes be the case, the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand. The disquietude of the people; their repugnance and, perhaps, refusal to co-operate with the officers of the Union; the frowns of the executive magistracy of the State; the embarrassments created by legislative devices, which would often be added on such occasions, would oppose, in any State, difficulties not to be despised; would form, in a large State, very serious impediments; and where the sentiments of several adjoining States happened to be in unison, would present obstructions which the federal government would hardly be willing to encounter.
This next part is the reason why the Framers made the Senate appointed by the state legislatures and not by popular vote.
...the prepossessions of the people, on whom both will depend, will be more on the side of the State governments, than of the federal government. So far as the disposition of each towards the other may be influenced by these causes, the State governments must clearly have the advantage. But in a distinct and very important point of view, the advantage will lie on the same side. The prepossessions, which the members themselves will carry into the federal government, will generally be favorable to the States; whilst it will rarely happen, that the members of the State governments will carry into the public councils a bias in favor of the general government. A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress, than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular States...But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm. Every government would espouse the common cause. A correspondence would be opened. Plans of resistance would be concerted. One spirit would animate and conduct the whole...
The Senate made up of ambassadors of the states would have been instructed by their respective legislatures to resist a despotic President and work with their allied states to stop him.
A post-17th Amendment Senate would be useless today. In Madison's words, a post-17th Amendment Senate is the realization of Madison's rejection that "it will rarely happen, that the members of the State governments will carry into the public councils a bias in favor of the general government." That is exactly what happened after the 17th amendment was ratified.
This means that the Congress, the Judiciary, and the Executive have turned against the sovereignty of the states, making the federal government the insurrectionists. It is up to a coordinated resistance by the states to put the federal government back into its box, as Madison laid out in Federalist #46.
-PJ
Yes, I feel certain Texas would allow the guard to be federalized. 🙄
The left is hell bent on provoking something bad.
Why does the author think the we should have a wide open border?
I have had the Bonnie Blue flag in a small Stocker on the back of my pickup for years. People who know about it appreciate it.
MFO
The author is a liberal heart string tugger who is clueless to how the world works much less how our represenetive Republic works. Liberals run on emotions, not logic. They also strive for power so they can shove their ideas down the throats of others. Unless we take a stand against these morons we will go the way of the Roman Empire.
A stupid analogy when thinking it is only a symbol for the long gone Confederacy by yet another Lefty journalist who cannot understand history.
"....built after British forces captured and occupied Washington during the War of 1812 via a naval attack."
Biden is not Lincoln attacking the Confederacy, but King George attacking a people, who changed British colonies into a free nation, and who wrote:
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 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. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.This is why today's Democrats hate actual democracy and tear away at this Republic.And more....
Any USBP agents carrying out the regime’s border sabotage need to remove any U.S. flags from their uniforms. These slobs are loyal to a paycheck. Nothing else.
Eagle Pass is today’s Fort Sumter
So Mexico a secessionist state?
Fort Sumpter? Really? The author is clueless and divorced from reality. 🙄
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Abbott can use, maybe is using, the Texas State Guard, which can’t be federalized. This is a BS story, if so.