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Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man’s life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I saw Arthur’s retweet of this declaration of self-defense for Texas against the dereliction of the federal government’s duty to keep illegal aliens out. It’s interesting. Governor Abbott sounds like he’s found his backbone. Here’s the conclusion:
“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
Sounds like he means business. I hope he does.
Here’s the image of the document and below it is the text.
STATE OF TEXAS
GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT
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.
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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
So, yesterday’s post was probably as pessimistic as I’ve ever felt. The Supreme Court’s siding with the Biden border policy is so maddening that I could feel nothing but anger and hopelessness. But there is a flip-side to such blatant harm being perpetrated against our sovereignty. It could trigger an enormous groundswell of anger and support for Trump completely out of all proportion to his popularity with the other half of the country. If the cities continue to fill up with illegal aliens who use up all the resources of these poor urban areas and contribute to crime and increase the misery of the inhabitants then maybe beyond all possibility of fraud the country could reject Biden and the Democrats so convincingly that even the oligarchs will be forced to relinquish the keys to the government.
Now granted this is a hard premise to sell. When Trump won in 2016 the Left began a systematic campaign of sabotage against his administration that is still ongoing. It seems unlikely that a bottom-up movement would have the organization to challenge the veritable tidal wave of voter fraud that the Left will unleash next November. Poll watchers and lawyers will be needed to witness and accuse the cheaters while it is actually going down. I don’t think that program is being built up. I don’t think Trump knows how to organize an effective defense of his election. And yet.
And yet, there is such an anger and frustration growing in this country that maybe January 6th was just a very early rumble in advance of an earthquake of unprecedented size. Let’s say an 11.0 on the ten-point Richter scale. If angry reactions sweep over a country that sees another fabricated Biden “victory” it might be enough to scare the Deep State into backing down. And if it doesn’t it just might trigger the real insurrection that they stage-managed on January 6th.
Honestly, I have no certainty at all about what is most likely to happen. We’re in completely uncharted territory. But they’ve been goading the majority of people in this country going all the way back to when that creepy weirdo Obama got elected. And every new incitement has been a magnitude larger than the last one. It feels like they are intentionally pushing this thing toward an explosion of anger. It’s entirely possible that they have a plan that depends on this explosion to allow them to sweep away the vestiges of popular government. But as I’ve been intimating who’s to say they haven’t underestimated just how large the reaction will be to their goading. If they do underestimate the reaction, what follows could be something like the reception that Louis XVI faced after the fall of the Bastille. There might be a reckoning for the people who have set themselves over us and made our lives a chaotic misery.
So that’s “the other hand.” If it turns out the master minds of the Deep State have underestimated the depth of anger and hatred, they’ve generated we may see the upending of their whole regime. Just something to think about. No guarantees given.
I think it was Newt Gingrich (I think) who today published an article stating that he would have also voted that way. Wondering about the rational, I meant to go back to read it but got side tracked.
The thought of this devastating invasion purposefully brought on by the Federal Gov in defiance of law, reality and logic is bizarre. And the thought that efforts to lessen the invasion are being defeated by the very agency tasked with defending the border is—–it is so far beyond the bounds that I literally don’t have the words to express my dismay.
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Texas installed razor-wire to stop illegals from entering Texas. The Appeals Court ruled that Texas could use the barrier to protect its border. When the feds brought the case to the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh voted to stop the federal government helping illegal aliens enter the country. Of course, John Roberts voted with the Democrats but surprisingly Amy Coney Barrett also did.
So, the supposedly conservative Supreme Court allows the Biden administration to continue to flood Texas with illegal aliens by siding against the Republican Texas governor. Now does Texas have the stones to just say no to the Supreme Court? I bet they don’t. And after what the Justice Department has done to Trump maybe Abbott is right to back down. Who is to say whether they might kidnap him right out of his home and drag him away into a Washington DC gulag.
If I were Abbott I would definitely continue to bus as many illegal aliens to the Northeast as I could. But I think that instead of sending them to New York he should send them to Massachusetts. Their homeless program is already overextended by millions of dollars and if that could be stretched even more it would go a long way toward immiserating the most liberal state in the East. I follow the news in New England and I sense that a lot of anger is already directed against the costs associated with large increases in illegal aliens. Maybe a whole year of financial and social pain might make them reconsider the wisdom of another Joe Biden term.
Watching the destruction caused by Biden’s insane border policy makes it crystal clear that if despite all this he still gets reelected then there is absolutely no hope for this country. A ruinous invasion is harming blue and red states alike and if all the failed policies of the Biden administration do not force his rejection at the ballot box, then nothing can.
This will be the final straw that breaks the camel’s back. If Joe Biden is reelected then I will have to agree with the Dissident Right that the United States of America is irrevocably a Leftist country. Whether it is still the best place to live for you or me is a different question. What will be incontrovertible is that questions of constitutional freedoms will be irrelevant philosophic games. No rights or freedoms will survive exposure to ideologues that will control all three branches of government. Eventually a new progressive Supreme court will discover that the Second Amendment only applies to the FBI and that whatever is declared hate speech will trump free speech once and for all.
So, enjoy the primaries and the November election. Have a blowout party. If Trump wins, we live to fight another day. If he loses then eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die. We’ll be in that brave new world where the government decides everything for you; how you heat or cool (or don’t heat or cool) your home, what kind of car you drive, even what kind of food (or bugs) you’re allowed to eat. One thing’s for sure. It’ll be double plus good.
Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
