A weakened Washington is a boon to the States
Don Hank
On April 18, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune reported
that fifty political leaders from 9 Western states had just met in Salt Lake
City to discuss
".their joint
goal [of] wresting control of oil-, timber -and mineral-rich lands away from the
feds."
Pundits have recently pointed out that a constitutional convention is
useless in a country where the federal government refuses to comply with
the Constitution. They recommend nullification instead--essentially states
ignoring Washington's decrees.
By extension, the same principle applies to most federal land claims as
well. There is no way the feds will relinquish a smidgeon of power to anyone.
The states therefore need to abandon the idea of dialoguing with the feds
on this or any other issue. Instead they need to nullify
the land claims by the feds, boldly go in and take back the land and
place it under the aegis of State agencies, in coordination with counties and
also with militias or whoever else will help them. That is the only way we will
get the intrusive federal thugs out of our states. The states must
take back their land and let the chips fall where they
may.
So instead of asking the
feds to please let them have the land back, for instance, they must announce a date on which the transfer
will take place and require federal agents to vacate their posts.
Period.
Why do I think this will work?
Because the militias at the Bundy ranch have uncovered an irony that
most have probably missed.
This irony of our current situation is that, over the years, the feds
have deliberately steadily weakened their agencies, hoping that in so doing they
could strengthen their rule over conservatives and patriots who keep insisting
on law and order, which the Left instinctively opposes. For
example, Washington has weakened the border patrol and INS to the point
that illegal aliens, including, and especially, criminal
aliens, practically have the run of the place wherever they happen to
settle. Sanctuary cities are everywhere and the liberal left municipal
governments refuse to do their duty and turn criminal aliens over to ICE. The
feds do not object. Likewise, with their prissy rules of engagement, they have
weakened our troops' ability to deal with terror on the
battlefield.
What they forgot is that one can never get strong through
weakness.
Thus, the other side of this coin is that a weakened agency is less
able and committed to fight the states - who are chafing for law and order after
years of anarchy - in their demand for their Constitutional rights. In
other words, starting notably in Benghazi, the federal agencies have
developed a "stand down" attitude and stance regarding all of their
traditional functions. What they failed to reckon with was that by subtracting
power from the federal government in its various security functions, they
created a power vacuum which is now leading to a shift, rather than a
loss, in power. This shift in power from the feds to the states is
therefore a natural and spontaneous phenomenon, and I believe it can't be
stopped, particularly since the prevailing MO of liberal Western governments is
Fabian socialism, a soft tyranny that dare not raise its fist but rules through
what Italian communist Antonio Gramsci allegedly called the "psychic iron cage,"
currently abbreviated to political
correctness.
Going hand in hand with this is the old tried-and-failed idea of using
enemies to fight enemies, e.g., the Taliban, and later the Chechens, to fight
the Russians, only to have them turn on us with a vengeance.
Washington inadvertently cultivated a psychology of weakness in its
security agencies in an effort to usher in a federal authority with less and
less authority in terms of military and law enforcement - in keeping with
the liberal-left's idea that enforcement is inherently racist or classist (since
minorities are invariably the target groups against which enforcement is
directed, both in battle and on the streets). That deliberate weakening was in
turn supposed to give them power over conservatives,
libertarians and patriots who insist on individual rights, something these
centralists abhor. The minorities were doing their dirty work. But the overall
weakening has this other aspect, this spontaneous power
shift, that no one saw coming.
The states will be timid at first, but once one state takes the lead
and they see how easy it is, they will follow suit and demand their land, and
their other rights, back.
A weakened fed is indeed a blessing in disguise for the
States.
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