I have some concerns with the National Guard being placed on our Southern Border. Not, mind you, with them being placed there, but with what may turn out to be the rules of engagement… and a really big concern of mine is how, exactly, will the Guard treat the Minutemen already on location and building the fence.
Last week, I heard a newscast in which it was stated plainly the Guard WOPULD NOT BE ARMED. The news went on to say that the Guard would replace Border Patrolmen now in jobs other than patrolling the border to allow those “freed-up” Border Patrolmen to actually work on the border. Again, don't misunderstand me. I WANT the Guard "armed to the teeth" and given orders to open fire when necessary.
Now, comes word that the Guard will, indeed, be armed with live ammo and will have authority to fire… but on whom and, under what circumstances? I need to know that. My level of comfort is not what it ought to be. Maybe my own paranoia is getting in the way. But, hey, when everybody IS trying to get you paranoia is just damned good thinking!
I’m concerned too, that when the Minutemen and Guard come face to face, and the Guard follows orders to demand that the Minutemen “cease and desist” building their fence… what happens then? Now, let me make it clear… I have NO INFORMATION that the Guard will do that. But, remember, we are dealing with a federal government here which DOES NOT WANT THE FLOW OF ILLEGAL ALIENS, ACROSS THAT SOUTHERN BORDER, SLOWED NOR STOPPED!
Then, if the government is serious, which I mightily doubt, and the Guard fires on, and injures or kills, an illegal crossing that border, on which side will the US Government come down… on the side of the Mexico, or on the side of our soldiers? Plus, I expect the Mainstream Media is salivating in hopes of just such an incident so they can sink their teeth into it and RREALLY "screw-up" the efforts to secure that border.
At some point it is almost assured the Guard will be forced to fire upon Mexican illegals. Mexico is sure to raise hell. Then we will have an international incident. Again, as flaky as our current government is, just whom will the US government support?
And finally, how long before the ACLU steps into the picture and files a suit to have the courts rule that the US must enforce the Posse Comitatus Act and remove the Guard from the border. You KNOW they can, sure as hell, find a judge who will sign off on that in a New York minute!
So, I have lots of questions about the next few weeks along our Southern Border. It would behoove those of us, so infiltrated by the illegals, to stay on the alert… for at any moment we may be called upon to reinforce what little metal our governing officials have in the spines.
Just some thoughts for you to, ponder.
Longstreet
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I wouldn't go near the border, at all! I don't think you are paranoid, it is justified..... You got a bunch of trigger happy misfit yahoos (the National Guard). Look few people in the military now any honor, most are there just to "Keell stuffs". If I was in the minutemen, I would be armed to defend myself from those clowns.
I'm not questioning the ability of the Guard to do the job. What I AM questioning is the commitment of our Federal Government to back them up and ALLOW them to do the job.
See, I think this is a sham! I just do not believe this is meant to work! I think this whole thing is a facade to pacify those of us who want the border secured. It is to keep us occupied with the left hand while the right hand does something else entirely.
I hope I'm wrong... but I believe I'm right.
EVERYTHING the government does is "smoke and mirrors" old friend.... Look how far the government has intruded into our private lives, and they keep kicking the same political footballs around, stuff like prayer in schools, outlawing abortion, gay rights, same old crap while the real issues are unattended. That is why I believe in a 3rd party, one that really does what it is supposed to do. protect and defend it's citizens and our way of life including our standard of living..... To be American, above all others and to expand the freedoms and rights of the individual over the power of the government and oppression of the masses.
"To the victor go the spoils".
One of the spoils of war is writing the History of That War.
In April of 1865, when Lee surrendered the Confederate troops at Appomatox Courthouse in Virginia, all 50 states of of this nation lost more than they even know.
When the Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the Revolutionary War between America and Great Britian, it was understood that each of the states would be sovereign. Many of the states would not have signed on, otherwise.
The Federal Government was CREATED by the several states as a management tool. The states, themselves, made up the government. It was also understood that at anytime a state, or states, disagreed with the direction the other states, (the federal Government) were going, that state, or those states, had the right to resign membership in the Federal Government. Nothing would happen to them, they would simply be as they were before the Federal Government was created.
Beginning back in 1827 the Federal Government began levying heavy taxes and tariffs on exported goods from the US mostly to Great Britain and the other European Nations. Those taxes and tariffs hit the Southern states the hardest because they did the most trade with Europe. In fact, at the time the Civil War broke out, in 1860, the gross national product of the Southern states was three times that of the northern states. THAT is where the disagreemnet began, which would eventually lead to the Southern states seceding from the Union.
The South tried time, and time again, to get those tariffs lifted. Congress would not. Finally the Southern states told the Congress they would be forced to leave the Union, if for no other reason, than to protect their economy. Those tariffs were breaking them. The Congress simply did not believe the South would leave. By the time they came around to believeing the South was serious about leaving... they realized that if the South really did go, they, the US, would be broke! Their economy would collapse. But, rather than sitting down, and talking, and working it out so the South could have relief from the tariffs and not leave, the US decided to force the South to stay in the union by force of arms... even though the constituion ALLOWED states to secede!
The Confederate States drew up their own constituion and the Confederacy was set up almost exactly as the US had been, originally. There would be No Strong Central Government. The Confedeate government would be answeranble to the states! The President would serve one 6 year term and be gone. That same constituion made the import of slaves illegal, and the transporting of slaves across Confederate state lines, for purposes of sale, illegal! The government would be run by the states and the states would be run by their people. The intent was to revert to the orignal constituion the forefathers wrote. The grandfathers of the men of the South had fought the British to secure those rights. Now the grandsons were going to make an effort to re-secure those rights. they failed.
When Lee surrendered, all the people of the United States of America LOST. Not just the South. We lost so much of the freedoms our forefathers had fought, bled, and died to secure for us. Most importantly we lost our original constituion. As soon as the Congress could do it, right after right was stripped from the American people for the publicly stated reason of making it impossible for another secession to have a chance. The stronger the federal government became the more it grew. The more it grew the stronger it became. Til we arrive at what, and where, we are today. In a MESS!
America didn't start out this way. But you'd not know it if you didn't do independent study and learn for yourself.
At the begiining of this comment I repeated the quote: "To the Victor go the Spoils". One of the spoils of war is the official record of a nation's history. The vistor gets to write the history books. Do not think for one moment the victor is going to write anything into the official history of any period which will reflect badly upon the victor.
So, the bad guys, the South, has taken all the blame for all those problems the US has had since the Civil War and even before that.
You will notice I said nothing above about slavery. Slavery was never a contributing reason for the start of that war. It was brought into the war long after hostilities broke out, by the US, in an effort to keep the European nations from coming in on the side of the South.
Sometime, when you have a chance, pull up the Emacipation Procalmation. Read it carefully. You will find that it did not free a single slave in the US, North or South. Sounds crazy, right? Look at it carefully. It freed slaves ONLY in TERRITORY CONTROLLED BY THE CONFEDERACY! (As if it could actually DO THAT!) Not in any territory controlled by the US nor any states of the US. Yet it is the single document to get all the credit for freeing the slaves. Slavery was protected by the US Constitution! It was legal thru-out the entire country, North, South, East, and West.
You will note the South had ALREADY decided TO END SLAVERY BEFORE THE WAR BEGAN! The first steps are in the Confederate Constitution.
The question of slavery has been used to beat the South, unmercifully, over the years, when, all the time, it was a LEGAL institution.
I'm terribly afraid we have seen the erosion of American freedom pass the point of no return. And to think, the one part of this coutry willing to fight to maintain those freedoms was beaten, subdued, and made the butt of all sorts of derogatory jokes while that Federal Governemt, we warned about, continued to grow strong, and powerful, and erode, little by little, the rights of ALL Americans.
Our youngsters are not taught this and they have no inkling of what this country used to be. They think all this is NORMAL. This is the way it has always been... as they see it.
For those of us who yearn to taste the freedom of our ancestors, we feel the loss every bit as much as a yoke of oppression around our necks.
Once long ago, we didn't just set the standards for the world. We WERE the Standard for the world.
I didn't mean to climb on my soap box, but I do feel strongly about the loss of our freedom and I have reached the age at which there is not much I can do about it but watch the generations of new Americans so utterly at a loss as to who they used to be... as opposed to who Americans are today. It's enough to make an old man weep!
Longstreet
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