What can Washington do if states and regions simply go their own way? --- we've seen the results of a federal government's power before. and look what it has done to America ... turned it into a mercenary, gun-running, warmongering country touting American exceptionalism all over the planet.
imo ... everything between NYC and Washington DC needs a cleaning. On Monday, March 30, 2015 at 3:25:17 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > http://fredoneverything.net/Secession.shtml > > > > *How Long America?* > > *In Which the Unthinkable is Thunk* > > *March 29, 2015* > > For a different take on Moslems from my good (Jewish, actually) friend and > former jittebug partner Judith Podell, try Yemen Blues > <http://memphisearlene.com/>. > > . > > Is it possible for the United States to break up, either de facto or > formally? > > I wonder. The country is not a happy place. Today it is more consciously > and resentfully divided, politically, regionally, racially and by sex and > class than perhaps ever before. The rich prosper and the middle class sink. > Three major racial blocs eye each other with fear and hostility. The hard > left controls the media and government against the desires of much of the > country, enforcing social engineering that is deeply disliked. Feminists > make war on men, and destroy the schools and universities. Washington is > widely loathed. Rules, laws, and regulations never voted on grow ever more > burdensome and intrusive. Many quietly want out. The question is how to get > there. > > A breakup will not come by armed secession. We tried that, with poor > results. It will come, if it does, by gradual degrees, by inadvertence, by > quietly ignoring the central government, by incremental defiance. This has > begun. Whether it will continue remains to be seen. > > It is not clear that the feds could prevent it. How powerful, really, is > Washington? Consider. Marijuana is illegal under federal law, yet Colorado > and Washington state made it legal, and got away with it. The feds did not > arrest the governors or send troops. Since then, Alaska and Washington DC > have legalized weed. Other states seem poised to follow. Unless Washington > does something dramatic and soon, the states will learn that they can > simply ignore the feds. > > Who might like to secede? Most conspicuously, Latinos. In four > states—California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico—Latinos either have or > will soon have a demographic majority, which means that eventually they > will have a voting majority. > > This doesn´t mean that white and brown will be locked in mortal political > combat. In much of the country Latinos and whites get along reasonably > well. It means that Hispanic influence, already potent, will become more > so. It may (or may not) mean that Latinos, like blacks, will clump together > in such numbers and concentrations that they will have little contact with > whites and little incentive to assimilate. Why would they? They like their > civilization, food, music, and culture. What they want in America is > prosperity. > > To generalize but not, I think, excessively, Hispanics have more in common > with Mexico that with Washington. Whites in many Western states have little > in common with Washington and the Northeast. > > Now, here things become interesting. Illegal immigration is, clearly, > illegal—yet a black President and attorney general, probably from racial > hostility to whites, are doing all they can to increase the Hispanic > population of the US. But how could any President stop it? Too many > interests have a stake in continuing it. Building a fence along the border > is fantasy, as is revoking birthright citizenship. The influx will > continue, and new children will not be deportable. They will eventually > vote. > > The consequence, now inevitable, is that the Southwest will become more > Mexican than American. The larger a minority population, the harder to make > it do things it doesn’t want to do. > > California now issues > <http://news.yahoo.com/california-issues-driver-licenses-illegal-immigrants-233045061.html> > > driver’s licenses to illegals. The police are not allowed to ask about > status of immigration. There is talk of allowing illegals to vote in > municipal elections, which will speed Mexicanization. These and similar > measures come close to making them citizens of California, while not of > America. > > The drip-by-drip empowerment of Latinos advances apace. *The New York > Times > <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/us/california-leads-in-expanding-noncitizens-rights.html?_r=0>*: > > “LOS ANGELES — California is challenging the historic status of American > citizenship with measures to permit noncitizens to sit on juries...and to > open the practice of law even to those here illegally. It is the leading > edge of a national trend that includes granting drivers’ licenses and > in-state tuition to illegal immigrants in some states ….” > > Yep. > > New York ponders a similar law. > <http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/16/us-usa-new-york-votingrights-idUSKBN0ER2KU20140616> > > Defiance of federal law grows common. For example, > <http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/eric-scheiner/gutierrez-chicago-we-no-longer-cooperate-immigration-authorities> > > “Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) says Chicago is the friendliest immigrant > city in the nation since they, “made sure that we no longer cooperate with > immigration authorities when it comes to the deportation or separation of > our families.” > > A US congressman, and a US president, defy federal law. This is an > ungluing of note. > > What can Washington do if states and regions simply go their own way? If > large numbsr of people stop paying income taxes, say? One tax evader can be > arrested. Fifty thousand cannot. A problem for the feds is that if a > state’s police decline to enforce federal laws, the feds have to do it > themselves, and they don’t have the manpower. Passive resistance is hard to > prosecute, gradualism offers scant pretext, rising generations seem less > concerned about immigration than their elders, and a forcible response from > Washington would entail frightful political risks. > > So as the Fatal Four southwestern states become ever more Latino, what if > they de facto eliminate the border with Mexico? They wouldn’t describe it > that way. They probably wouldn’t describe it at all. They would just ignore > sovereignty. In a globalizing world, the very idea of sovereignty seems > less important that it once did. I will guess that the young, who will one > day be older, care less than their elders about national identity. > > How then would Washington enforce its will? Send the Army? Bomb Los > Angeles? Them as has the numbers gets their way. And are getting it. > > The result could easily be a de facto integration with Mexico—businesses > operating on both sides of the border as if there were no border, a > completely free flow of people, and the like. > > In the past the rock-solid unity of the United States existed because > people wanted it. The foundation was a largely uniform white, Christian, > European culture which no one thought about because there was no reason to > think about it. Minorities were minor enough that they had to conform to > the dominant culture. People shared ideas of morality, education, crime, > music, religion, dress, manners, and patriotism. > > That unity is gone forever. The old, functioning system has been replaced, > not by another functioning system, such as that of Japan, China, or Korea, > but by civilizational chaos. A law of human behavior is that people want to > live among people like themselves. Another is that they do not like being > ruled from afar by people they detest. Who likes Washington today? > > Another possibility of secession lies in the South. Mississippi, the > darkest state, is thirty-seven percent black. Although we are not permitted > to say it, the racial hostility of blacks toward whites is intense. While > whites will (now, anyway) vote for a black candidate over a white—which is > how we got Obama—blacks vote as a bloc for black candidates. (If memory > serves, Obama got 93% of the black vote.) > > Should the black percentage in Mississippi grow to a tipping point, then, > when whites bail out (which is usually what happens though we are not > supposed to say this either), the state would become a self-governing > country within a country—dependent on federal subsidies, yes, but having no > loyalty to or culture in common with white society. It would not, methinks, > feel an urgent need to obey federal laws. > > Tell me I’m crazy. But wait twenty years. > > Anyone interested in what Mexico is and is not would do well to read Manana > Forever > <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004G8PIYU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004G8PIYU&linkCode=as2&tag=freoneve-20&linkId=5PAKFHHU73P4PHLH> > > by Jorge Castañeda. Not a puff book, just accurate.[image: > http://fredoneverything.net/Secession.shtml] > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmNGwwaXZoBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0Mjc3NDU0MTc-> > > > - New Members > > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/members/all;_ylc=X3oDMTJnMG9sZ3JzBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2bWJycwRzdGltZQMxNDI3NzQ1NDE3> > > 1 > > [image: Yahoo! 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