You make some interesting points ...but still, I have little sympathy for Californians. (I lived in CA from 1965 to 1975 ..and don’t want to go back!).
Consider how the Indiana Supreme Court - under INTENSE pressure will reconsider its STUPID decision that is a clear violation of the 4th amendment (homeowners have no legal right to resist an improper or illegal home invasion of police storm troopers.) The public outcry awoke the justices that there was a tremendous over-reach.
Had the people of the state of CA “revolted” when the 9th Circus had ruled the Prop. 187 to be unconstitutional ...and when Governor Gray Davis decided to stop appeals to the Supreme Court ...basically letting him know he would be impeached/tarred and feathered for his decision - then maybe Prop. 187 would have been held constitutional. If enough taxpayers had done everything possible to “go on strike” such that state revenues dried up - then the message might have gotten out. If the taxpayers had gone “Alinksy” on the 9th Circus judges ...picketing the court, picketing their houses, threatening all sorts of legal civil disobedience ...maybe they would have gotten the message.
But - CA slept and allowed it to happen. The 9th Circus meets in SF, and the judges live in the area. Make it hurt them. The Governor should have been pressured too. So - CA lost the battle by not engaging in the battle. Makes it tough every where else too.
And it is still not too late for CA residents to “Go Galt” or “Go Alinsky” - leave the state, go “underground” as much as possible to starve the beast....to let it be known - “no business as usual” until they fix the F’d up system!
You’re saying Californians are suckers for not taking up arms against the state and illegally assuming the immigration enforcement duties of the Federal Government. Thanks for the great advice I’m sure you would have followed under similar circumstances!
You lived here. How do you not understand that the citizen electorate of California has no power. We can’t help ourselves. We. Are. Occupied. By. A. Foreign. Country.
“California lost the battle by not engaging?” Really? States are forbidden to wage war or conduct foreign policy — both of which are the only ways to repel a foreign invasion. “Picketing the court?” Do you have any idea how fatuous and lame that sounds?
I love that the very states who never acknowledge their complicity in the unchallenged annexation and colonization of an American state are always full of sage advice about what to do now. Go Galt. Just leave our state to the invaders. Smirk, shrug, screw California, you slept and did nothing, ha ha ha, etc.
Well, get this: it’s your fault. I don’t care what state you live in now. We made a deal, a compact, in 1776 and you and rest of the states have reneged. You’ve utterly betrayed California by not fulfilling your Constitutional mandate to repel foreign invasion and in short have each other’s back. Thanks! And thanks for the advice to picket judges and the governor’s office! That’ll get ‘er done!