Tammy Bruce: Poor California -- Democrats are turning the state into a major nightmare
A great poster story about just how bad Democratic rule can be when political parties pick their special interest groups and hose everyone else, the revolt is spreading. Nice legacy fro you Moonbeam.....that and 100 billion in debt for a frigging railroad that will never be built.....
Given the increasing danger to the lives and well being of American residents of the state, the President may issue a cease and desist order to California, demanding the state government follow federal laws. If the governor refuses, the Insurrection act gives the President the power to declare California insurrectionist and institute martial law. The state government is then disbanded, and may in fact be arrested, charged with willfully endangering the lives of the state's residents. A military governor would then be installed, with the intent to stage new elections after order is restored.
There may be some unwelcome consequences if the President is given no other choice. First, the action is dictatorial in nature, although a constitutionally granted power. Congress has no authority to stop the action once the President proceeds, and the action is not challengeable in any American court, as spelled out in the law. Second, it may well trigger an ill fated "revolution" by some delusional leftists who think most of the American people will rise in rebellion with them (mainly because the left wing press has fed them fake statistics that tell them so). Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail, and all that will happen is some protests and quickly stopped riots.
If President Trump is forced into this action, he may face criticism from our "friends," but others, like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea will sit up and take notice. A leader with the strength and confidence to take unpopular but necessary action projects an image of power, and becomes someone not to be toyed with. As strange as it may sound, slapping California into line may well be the greatest trigger to widespread global peace measures yet.
The Insurrection Act for Federal intervention is for "domestic violence ... to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order" under "insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy" or "natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition" .
It was never intended to control a state operating under a growing and widespread acceptance of a false ideology over time and could not possibly be a solution to that. An attempt to invoke the Insurrection Act for that would be another outright civil war. Dreaming about Federal dictatorship over "California" as a solution to growing progressivism is hopelessly anti-intellectual in its failure to understand the problem and what is required over time to solve it through the spread of proper ideas.
"Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State or Territory by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion."
Clearly Kalifornias "Sanctuary State" meets that test, making it clearly in rebellion against the Federal government.
If anything the scope of the act has been expanded under the G. W. Bush and Obama administrations to give the Executive absolute control over all national resources, both public and private in times of national crisis. That is a far more serious grant of power than the Patriot Act, but isn't well known to the public.
To date only Abraham Lincoln has exercised the dictatorial powers granted by the Insurrection Act. Woodrow Wilson came close to using those powers, declaring his right to nationalize railroads, and threatening to man the trains with National Guard troops. Wilson also put persons of Italian and German descent in holding camps, denying them the right of habeas corpus (meaning he didn't need to show proof that they posed a danger). FDR came close to exercising dictatorial powers, and was challenged in court because the overreach he attempted wasn't covered by the Insurrection Act.
Hopefully we won't see the invocation of the Insurrection Act, but if California tries to obstruct sending the state's National Guard to aid in border security that makes it a distinct possibility.
The Federal government did get away with nationalizing the railroads in WWI and some major programs of FDR were blocked as unconstitutional, but none of that was related to the Insurrection Act.
The modern changes to the act extended it to domestic violence associated with natural disaster, public health emergencies, and acts of terrorism when a state cannot control it.
The President has implied that increasing rates of homicide in California can be tied to the state's action to protect alien criminals under its declaration of sanctuary. The cause behind an increase in the numbers in criminal activity can always be questioned, so unless there is a significant act of violence that can be tied to an illegal alien (like a terrorist event causing significant loss of life) that accusation can be easily questioned.
So long as such significantly polarized figures, such as Governor Brown and President Trump are involved, there's an element of negative feedback that ratchets up the confrontation. However, short of a lethal confrontation between state law enforcement and ICE (highly unlikely, since most LEOs in the state personally object to the sanctuary law), or an attempt by the state to secede, there is little likelihood the Insurrection Act will be invoked. Brown will be out of the picture by term limits next year, so the hostility may be defused well short of perilous ground. My intent is only to make people aware the power to carry out such severe action is available if states carry the intent of nullification too far.
How can you see a threat coming at you while forced to constantly look down to dodge stepping into Moonbeam mounds of human waste?
Today me dino wants to go nowhere near either location.
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Maybe some people there would agree with the principle of gov't taxing people earnings and then letting politicians using their control over those funds to maintain power. They'd be eager for when the pendulum swings and they get the power to tax and reward their allies.
It reminds me of Peter Keating.
This schadenfreude may be the crux of how people went from "these policies are bad" to "these people are bad".
When they were debating where ATVs and sleds would be aloud in state parks, I didn't sense there was much effort put into how to maximize the parks' value for all citizens. They could have looked at which areas lend themselves to wildlife viewing and peaceful hikes and which areas lend themselves to ATV trails. Instead it was more like this:
ATVs Everywhere: Some hippie family from Madison who goes there to photograph birds is going to have to find a new hobby because I'm gonna be rev'ing up that two-stroke engine.
Ban ATVs Entirely: I'm laughing my head off at some poor family from Fond du Lac whose main vacation activity is to ride around like kids and now they'll be have one fewer place play.
I do not understand the fiendish enjoyment at creating problems for people and observing the theater.
It seems like it's minority of Peter Keatings of the world who step on the place where the housekeeper just cleaned for theater. He is bereft of any personal desires for himself. He tries to fill the emptiness by watching others react to him. He needs them to look up to him, to be nervous around him, to be sycophantic toward him, hate him, anything.
in the presidential vote. Unfortunately CA is a winner-takes-all state for that, so the sickeningly liberal cities trumped Trump. Keep an eye on us,
there might be a regime change--after all we're known for earth quqkes.