Great idea!! As we’ve seen the potential for the Fed’s to attempt to exert their might over the state, I thought about the option for states to deploy their National Guards and state police to both implement state policies and to protect state leaders while arresting any federal “agent” that attempts to thwart the will of the state. A perfect initial exercise could have been in California over the water for farming issue. The Gov could have ordered the National Guard to seize the pumping stations, open the valves and dare the EPA, et. al. to do anything. Now, the opportunity shifts to Louisiana.
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It’s PAST time the States start FORCEFULLY exerting themselves and their rights under the Tenth Amendment. BUT, we all know that currently the Federal Courts are a STACKED deck against the States, period. There would NEVER be a fair hearing of the Constitutionality of States Rights under the Tenth Amendment under the CURRENT circumstances. Given THAT reality — it’stime to CHANGE the current reality. That means the States must CHANGE the current reality. Louisiana clearly sees that the Feds have NO intention of saving their coastline, NOR their oil, tourism nor fishing industries. Time for them to act. If the Feds refuse to get out of their way, the State Police and National Gaurdsmen should act to REMOVE them from the are so that THEY may save their means of economic well being.
Indeed, California ought to have done the same. Texas recently should have done the same when the Feds took over regulation and oversight of refineries in their state — something the State has ALWAYS done. The Feds simply walked in a couple of weeks ago and told the Texas officials to take a hike. Within hours, Governor Perry should have had several hundred Texas Rangers swarming that refinery arresting every federal offical and EPA hack and carting them to the airport for a flight nonstop to DC. And Governor Brewer in Arizona has an open and shut case for mobilizing the Arizona National Gaurd to her border to protect her state from illegals — but she’d have to deploy some to the airports and other borders for fear of the Federals trying to seize the state!
It’s RIDICULOUS that it’s gone this far — but WASHINGTON IS TOO POWERFUL AND THEY MUST BE STOPPED! States have to stand up. Sometimes, that means creating a situation that MAKES Washington take notice — THEN going before the Courts, or the Legislatures, or before the highest tribunal, We The People of this nation, and saying “no more will WE allow would be tyrants in a far away capital dictate to the People of our state how WE will govern ALL our affairs! We will abide by the Constitution — and SO WILL WASHINGTON. It’s the Tenth Amendment. Get used to it, or count us OUT!”