Yes, it is total lunacy! But I think the emperor underestimated the people in the border states and elsewhere. They're getting ticked off and don't seem to want his bill of goods. Which is refreshing to say the least!

I believe I can answer 'why is this happening?'

Because the State has no use for even somewhat informed citizenry. The State has already determined YOU to be of no-use for them: it is much easier for the State to get away with (fill in the blank) by having an easily malleable, common-core indoctrinated, foreign population with which we (the State) can easily CONTROL via unemployment checks, housing, food & medical insurance (uh, not necessarily "care", but who's going to notice? ((evil grin)) )

With people like you & the legal citizens or Murrieta, getting away with stuff is much harder and we find you to be annoying & unnecessary.

Since we can't exactly replicate 1930's Germany at this time (foot stomp), we are sending in our version of Brown Shirts to bully, uh, clear a way for the new control subjects, uh, we mean, permanent democrat voters to get settled in & do nothing but wait for the checks to start arriving along with the voter registration cards, just in time for the 2016 election.

Oh yes, CA and TX will be full-on "Blue" states! We've socially engineered it that way. We won't discuss legality. Just like what Emperor Palpatine said in Stars Wars Episode I: "I will make it legal!".

SIGH.

Yes, it is total lunacy.

he's black.

I know and I have. Unfortunately, many MANY politicians see them instead as a political faction. Worse still Michelle O and hubby have spoken favorably at their events. Check the links and be shocked (just a google search on La Raza and White House).

https://www.google.com/search?client=ope...

Because if they do attempt impeachment, they will be called racists.

i hope you are right.

The disease of altruism.

it appears that ALL of the Washington elite do not care any more than the lackey in the white house.

Planning to set up a protest on 8/2 in front of the Wilshire Blvd Federal Building. Wish I could do it sooner... Hope it's not too late...

I hate to say it, but the trigger point is getting very VERY close and BO can't wait to walk to a microphone and declare that the next elections would be postponed due to his being forced to declare martial law in the south west. Complete with a 9pm curfew with "shoot to kill" orders - except for people crossing the border.

According George, yes. It is exactly what he is attempting. I do not have his exact quote but he did say it, around the time Obama was running for his first campaign bit.

I think the quote and reference may have been in one of Glenn Becks books but I cant recall which one.

Might as well give more details, then, since you said you liked that idea. It works like this:

The hero of this story is one of the last of the private teaching doctors--somebody well-enough-off to afford his own sailboat, say a 34-foot sloop. Something one man could handle himself, but large enough to go out into the ocean without getting swamped.

He has seen all the bad things happen to medicine. He knew when Thomas Hendrix, the famous neurosurgeon, abruptly vanished from The Johns Hopkins. (News like that would travel fast in the academic medical community.)

Early--very early--in Ragnar's career, Ragnar would start taking the first prizes. Now this doctor would read the accounts--for in those days the news organs would report everything; Ragnar Danneskjöld was the kind of Big Story that translates easily into newsstand bucks. So our doctor, who takes his sailing seriously, starts thinking that maybe--just maybe--he can anticipate Ragnar's next strike.

But now he's in a quandary. He's torn, the way Hank Rearden would be torn years later. Was he ever "a dirty rat"? Did he want to start being "a dirty rat" now? Especially for a government that took, and took and took, and maybe caused the deaths of a few patients from their mishandling of the new government hospitals?

Then one year the IRS makes the decision for him. He gets one of those nastygrams the IRS loves to send. You see, his number is up for a Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program audit. Where they look at e-v-e-r-y s-i-n-g-l-e t-h-i-n-g on your return. Only it never occurred to John Galt to sniff him out to see whether he was "ready," if you know what I mean. But he does not want to subject himself to a TCMP audit. Because he knows he has skated on a few deductions now and again. He would long since have wound up on the Poor Farm if he hadn't. (Didn't Floyd Ferris say when the government hasn't enough criminals to ride hard, it invents them?)

So he sets out on his boat, to the next projected position of Ragnar Danneskjöld. Only he has no idea what he wants to do. If he could catch up with Danneskjöld and rat him out to the Navy, maybe they could make his IRS troubles go away. But aside from whether he can trust the government, what did Ragnar Danneskjöld ever do to him? Has he the right to rat someone out just because the government wants him?

He's still wondering what he wants to do when Ragnar spots him first, then sends out a launch with a boarding party to intercept him, board him, and bring him in to the flagship of the rag-tag fleet he has at the time. (He wouldn't hijack an aircraft carrier until later.) Now Ragnar and the good doctor are in a quandary, and they both know it. Ragnar does the only thing he can do: presses his newfound prisoner into service in Sick Bay.

Not long after that, they hijack the aircraft carrier that will be Ragnar's flagship from then on. That's when Ragnar takes the one wound of his career. The doctor, of course, patches him up--the Hippocratic Oath, as he interprets it, requires that.

In the process, Ragnar shares his back story, and also the story of John Galt--right up to the Twentieth Century affair, that is. Eventually the doctor comes to sympathize fully with Ragnar. He will serve him for the rest of the great strike, as his chief medical officer.

Too many lackey suck up cronies in the cabinet and heads of departments. We are screwed like the proverbial pooch.

Don't even think that! I'm sure it's fluttering around in someone's head.. Ugh

Unfortunately, they cannot prevail, since the government has the upper hand when it comes to the use of force. Where they can prevail is in the arena of public opinion. While that is having less and less power in today's collectivist leaning societies, it is still a mighty force so far, in this country.

What is the end game? Venezuela style government?

the GOOD will suffer!

There are enemies surrounding us. Their leader is in the White House.

I like that! I always wanted a bit more of him and his story. :-)

This might be off-topic here, but I recently had an idea for a spinoff story of sorts, one telling the storyh of Ragnar Danneskjöld and his career at sea, from the POV of someone who sets out to find him--and then must decide whether he would better serve himself by joining him.

I see. Challenge the Feds to arrest the whole town, if they dare.

The problem is: they probably *would* dare. This is not going as Rand thought the endgame of the looters' state would go. They're doubling down and preparing to arrest everyone.