Posted on 05/24/2010 6:33:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Economic boycotts are an American tradition going back to the revolution. Frustrated colonists not only boycotted British goods but enforced their boycott using violence, not just against British merchants and royal tax collectors but against neighbors that didn't share their views. Shop windows were broken, homes were trashed, and tar and feathers were in the air.
Are we going to see this happen again between American cities and states?
The federalist system developed by the founders established each state as a laboratory for democracy, overseen by federal government whose powers were strictly limited and carefully enumerated. Among these federal powers were controlling the process whereby immigrants became citizens and proscribing state laws that would impede interstate commerce. The states were left the civil powers to police their jurisdictions as they saw fit, each meeting the particular needs of their people.
It's hard to find an example of where this system has broken down more thoroughly than immigration policy. Mired in irreconcilable partisanship, Congress has abdicated its responsibility to update our immigration laws to deal with current realities. Kowtowing to third world leaders, the administration has lost both the will and the ability to enforce laws already on the books. States have begun willy-nilly either granting many rights of citizenship to undocumented immigrants, passing laws that make it easier to identify them and kick them out. And most alarmingly, social activists are using the levers of democracy to punish citizens in other states whose laws they disagree with.
How much lower can democracy sink?
It's one thing when fruit loop communities like Berkeley pass laws theatrically proclaiming their towns nuclear free. But when major cities like Los Angeles begin abrogating contracts with private companies just because they are headquartered in Arizona the total breakdown of the federalist system becomes painfully obvious.
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Even before that Obama stooge stated they would not do anything to illegals reported to them by law enforcement in Arizona, the reality is they will not pick up anyone or take any referral for deportation unless they are a violent felon.
Go ahead, see for yourself. Call ICE and say “Hey, there’s this guy in my neighborhood and he’s bragging that he’s molesting dozens of kids and that even in Mexico he couldn’t get away with it, but he even admits he’s a convict down there and is here illegaly. When can you come pick him up?
Half past never will be the reply.
El Ay and CA need to remember the dirty thirties, when Oakies and Arkies, were scum. Oakies and Arkies were American Citizens who were generally treated like things are portrayed in “Grapes of Wrath”.
And now? Guess effin what? Illegals get more than Oakies and Arkies ever dreamed of. My how soon we forget.
The Feds say they don’t want to see each State come up with their own laws because the laws will be all over the place. The best way to do this and have the States have control is to get them to all adopt Arizona’s law. If this happens, the Feds won’t have a leg to stand on.
the california “educated” elites
have become their invaders,
and both hate america.
Realities are not a congress critters way of thinking.
Ping!
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