We are watching the beginning of the end

Jan 27, 2024

This is the beginning of the end of the USA as we know it.

https://www.rga.org/republican-governors-ban-together-issue-joint-statement-supporting-texas-constitutional-right-self-defense/

We as a country are far too divided to continue with the current situation as a country. We are now seeing states do what they should have done long ago, exercise their power under the US Constitution. Few realize just how much power was given to states vs federal government.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Amendment X US Constitution

So the Constitution delgated powers to the Federal government and those not delegated are reserved for the states and the people.

Congressional Powers

Article 1 Section 8 lists all the powers Congress was delegated. If that power is not listed Congress was not delegated that power.

What are Delegated Powers

The term delegated powers refers to the authorities granted to the United States Congress in of the U.S. Constitution. An important thing to note regarding how enumerated powers are established is that the Constitution does not outline what the government cannot do, but what it can do. Anything not specifically outlined in the Constitution as a power that is bestowed upon Congress, is not something Congress has the authority to do. These are also frequently called “enumerated powers,” because they specifically itemize Congress’ authority.

Presidential Powers

Article 2 Section 3 lists the powers of the President.

Power to make treaties, however that is not a lone power. The President must have the advice and consent of the Senate.
Power to appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court. Again he must have consent of the Senate.
Power to fill vacancies when Congress is not in session. The appointees terms expires at the end of Congresses next session.
Power to adjourn Congress. This power has never been used, but it is available when Congress becomes deadlocked. This clause however does not give the President carte’ blanc to make law, ignore law etcetera.
Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

Well that’s all the Presidential powers listed. I’m not seeing one on student loans, forced vaccination, interpeting the Bill of Rights, or much of anything else pertaining to the citizens of the US. Again powers not granted are powers that do not exist except in feeble minds or those hungery for power.

The President is given duties, duties as we all know are not power. He has the duty to meet foreign dignitaries, enforce and faithfully execute the laws of the US, give an update on the state of the Union.

So the Presient is actually the 2nd weakest branch of government.

Supreme Court Powers

Art. III, Section 2 lists the Supreme Courts power

restricts the judiciary's power to actual cases and controversies
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more States;—between a State and Citizens of another State;—between Citizens of different States;—between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

The Supreme Court is the only court establsihed in the Consitution, all other courts are established by Congress. The number of members of the Supreme Court are established by Congress, the court nor the President have any power to change this.

So what is the enforcement mechanism, what agency was established to enforce these powers? NONE! The founders were very weary of a national police force therefore they established none. In all the powers listed above did they grant the power to establish a national police force? No they did not. Their was no need as the powers granted are very specific and very few.

All these agencies, powers used and not listed are phatoms, delusions of grandeur, illegal under the powers granted by the Constitution.

Delusional disorder is a serious mental illness where you can’t tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not. Delusions, or false beliefs, comes in several types. Delusions of grandeur are one of the more common ones. It’s when you believe that you have more power, wealth, smarts, or other grand traits than is true.

Seems we have a problem Houston, we have a large city out east that is full of these delusional people. They are trying to run our lives, ordering us around when then have not been granted such power.

So the Supreme Court is actually the weakest, they have ZERO power to raise and army, fund an army - words is all they have and Congress controls how many Supreme Court members their are so their could be fewer members throwing their legal weighty words around.

High noon at the Texas border

I realize this is getting some what out in the weeds but a base must be establsihed from which to look at what is happening today - specifically witht he current crisis at the border.

We now have a Constitutional crisis that has been brewing for a long time, as the states have let themselves be pushed around by delusional people. This was bound to happen, you can only push so far before a breaking point is reached.

One of the duties of a President is to enforce the laws of the USA. Nowhere does the Constitution say as he chooses or the ones or parts of one he chooses

Article I, Section 8, Clause 18:

[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Long-standing Supreme Court precedent recognizes Congress as having plenary power over immigration, giving it almost complete authority to decide whether foreign nationals (aliens, under governing statutes and case law) may enter or remain in the United States.¹ But while Congress’s power over immigration is well established, defining its constitutional underpinnings is more difficult. The Constitution does not mention immigration, but parts of the Constitution address related subjects. The Supreme Court has sometimes relied upon Congress’s powers over naturalization (the term and conditions in which an alien becomes a U.S. citizen),² foreign commerce,³ and, to a lesser extent, upon the Executive Branch’s implied Article II foreign affairs power,⁴ as sources of federal immigration power.⁵ While these powers continue to be cited as supporting the immigration power, since the late nineteenth century, the Supreme Court has described the power as flowing from the Constitution’s establishment of a federal government.⁶ The United States government possesses all the powers incident to a sovereign, including unqualified authority over the Nation’s borders and the ability to determine whether foreign nationals may come within its territory.⁷ The Supreme Court has generally assigned the constitutional power to regulate immigration to Congress, with executive authority mainly derived from congressional delegations of authority.⁸

So Congress makes the laws and the President is relegated to carrying those laws out. Congress has not delegated any immigration law making ability to the President. His duty is to enforce/implement what Congress has passed.

Clause 3 Acts Requiring Consent of Congress

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

Article 1 Section 10 Clause 3

Texas has declared - and properly so an invasion is taking place. We have had a mass of people actively engaged in illegal border crossing. This has gone on for decades and is now reaching a breaking point. Thus, we now have states forming compacts to stop the invasion. All perfectly Consitutional under Article1 Section 10 Clause 3 .

As we can clearly see States are allowed to protect themselves from invasion.

The Supreme Court , not to be left out has now stepped in with their .02.
We now hear the chatter class and others saying Abbott is ignoring the Supreme Court - he is not as the court said NOTHING to Texas, they merely said the feds can remove the wire, nothing saying the state cannot put it back up or take any down. The only force the feds have is military force and using them is going to expose a horrific underbelly of just how weak the feds are and how desperate they are to hold onto power they took and were never granted. Its going to pit military units state and federal against each other further dividing us. When we reading leagl opions we must read what they said and understand what they said. Abbott and the states are doing just that.

( I’ll have another stack on the history of Supreme Court rulings that were properly ignored. )

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Governor Abbott Issues Statement On Texas’ Constitutional Right To Self-Defense

January 24, 2024 | Austin, Texas | Press Release

Governor Greg Abbott today issued a statement on Texas’ constitutional right to defend and protect itself as President Joe Biden continues to attack Texas and refuse to perform his duties to secure the border.

"The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now," reads the statement. "President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants. The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary."

G O V E R N O R G R E G A B B O T T

January 24, 2024

The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States. The Executive

Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including

immigration laws on the books right now. President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even

violated them. The result is that he has smashed records for illegal immigration.

Despite having been put on notice in a series of letters—one of which I delivered to him by hand—President

Biden has ignored Texas’s demand that he perform his constitutional duties.

• President Biden has violated his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by Congress.

Instead of prosecuting immigrants for the federal crime of illegal entry, President Biden has sent his

lawyers into federal courts to sue Texas for taking action to secure the border.

• President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of

illegal immigrants. The effect is to illegally allow their en masse parole into the United States.

• By wasting taxpayer dollars to tear open Texas’s border security infrastructure, President Biden has

enticed illegal immigrants away from the 28 legal entry points along this State’s southern border—

bridges where nobody drowns—and into the dangerous waters of the Rio Grande.

Under President Biden’s lawless border policies, more than 6 million illegal immigrants have crossed our

southern border in just 3 years. That is more than the population of 33 different States in this country. This

illegal refusal to protect the States has inflicted unprecedented harm on the People all across the United

States.

James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other visionaries who wrote the U.S. Constitution foresaw that

States should not be left to the mercy of a lawless president who does nothing to stop external threats like

cartels smuggling millions of illegal immigrants across the border. That is why the Framers included both

Article IV, § 4, which promises that the federal government “shall protect each [State] against invasion,” and

Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which acknowledges “the States’ sovereign interest in protecting their borders.”

Arizona v. United States , 567 U.S. 387, 419 (2012) (Scalia, J., dissenting).

The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I,

§ 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already

declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and

protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the

contrary. The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are

acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border.

Greg Abbott

Governor of Texas

How will this all turn out? In this instance someone is going to blink. If its the states then their will be another crisis and eventual split. The only hope and its a extremely small hope - to keep the USA together is for the states to win and exercise their power under the Consitution. Even this will change the landscape where states are even more strident and independent, but the union coud survive. If the feds win the die will be cast for balkanization as they will continue their iron fist rule and become even more bleigerant and sooner or later someone is going to say enough.

All this has been simmering for decades, the delusional people we elect to federal offices have been pushing and pushing and now we are at the point everything will be a point of contention. Its like a couple that has been simmering over various issues for decades and now merely being in each others presence turns into a fight. These delusional people in federal offices have no real world basis. They go there, and stay. Even when we kick them out of office they stay in DC getting a job as a lobbyist not wanting to go back home and rub elbows with the lessers - ie us.

We are now at the point the USA will balkanize into 6 or 7 regions. The coasts, inter mountain west, great plains, midwest- separated by the Missouri River, mason dixon line. Each of these regions has become entities unto themselves. We see this on a micro level in some states, Nebraska the eastern 2/3rds vs the panhande, Parts of Oregon are now wanting split off and join Idaho. Recently a federal judge threw out a petion on Texas seceding from the union. The ruling class no longer respects the citizenry, they have been pushing the citizens around for decades, slowly, insidiously but now its full on in your face.

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