Sunday, October 19, 2014

The tyranny of defying the Constitution

Practicing no borders
The tyranny of defying the Constitution
It is spelled I-M-P-E-A-C-H
By Stephen L. Wilmeth


Constitution Pledge

I, as one of “We, the People of the United States,” affirm that I have read our U.S. Constitution and pledge to maintain and promote its standard of liberty for myself and for our posterity and do hereby attest to that by my signature.

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Pledger
George Washington, Witness

            How many of us have signed that pledge?
            Of course, the answer is likely none, and … we can also be assured that not a single elected official has signed such a pledge either. They have pledged allegiance and they have stood for swearing in ceremonies upon entering their respective offices, but the process has long been ceremonial. There is no consequence for the breach of oath in dispensing with any adherence to the words of the pledge.
            It’s a token and meaningless practice, and … the historical impact is fully revealed.
            Fenceless borders
            The news conference announcing the second ebola case involving the health worker in Dallas was as discomforting as it was underwhelming. There stood the mayor, a judge, and the chief clinical officer from the Texas Presbyterian Hospital. Each took a turn at the mike attempting to select words that were meaningful and inclusive. They failed miserably.
            What was noticeably absent was any sign of the Executive branch of the United States.
There was not a hint of an official from DHS, CDC, OSHA, HHS, or a spokesperson representing the fellow who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Teetering on the verge of the greatest disease threat since American troops came home from Europe with catastrophic influenza in 1918, the Executive branch is missing in action.
It is AWOL.
While the president is discovering someone to blame, the crisis that could hasten our demise is loitering at our doorstep. Politically correctness is about to take us to the woodshed, and, this time, it may not be explained away.
Fences are prudent instruments of security.
I am not inferring all fences have to be physical structures, but I am inferring that fences of all forms serve many functions, and security to our Union is a most important example. Fences in this context necessarily equate to all borders and all border crossings which include access into our country through ports of entry that are land, water, and air based.
This president’s natural inclination to jettison our security elevates him to the most derelict among his peers in managing our borders in general and the southern border in particular. Perhaps a requirement of future presidential candidates should include spending a year in its shadow to realize the actual risks to our nation. Those of us who have fought so tirelessly to avoid another restricted access federal wonderland on that border know the implications of limiting American access while deferring to the demands of the environmental cartels for the outright expansion of opportunities for smuggling and entrĂ©e corridors.
His is blatant and hugely feckless leadership.
The ebola crisis must now be categorized in the same mindless quagmire of the litany of mismanagement debacles our country has endured over the past six years. In this case, it wasn’t the southern border initially, but it will grow to include that border. What can be characterized is the no borders crowd, through their chief executive, has opened the floodgates of outright threat to our nation through their demagoguery, political correctness, and inchoate criminality.
We find ourselves in dire straights. Just wait for the progressive news organizations to realize their lives might be in jeopardy as a result of their own complicit participation in this nonsense.
They will certainly dance to a different jingle.
Constitutional implications
Article II of the Constitution sets forth the executive Power of the President of the United States.
Since the implicit assumption the President would be a prudent man dedicated to the health, welfare, and perpetuation of our union, there was no clause specifically admonishing the office holder to follow the law. Certainly, there was an implied demand and that was set forth in the Oath of office in Section 1. It reads:
I solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Since his duties defer to the Constitution, it must be that document we seek understanding of how this president should act based upon his sworn oath.
In Article I, Section 8 powers delegated to Congress, Congress shall “provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the Unites States.” As Commander in Chief as well as the executive officer of our nation directing the agencies charged with matters of defense and welfare, this president not only failed to make ready to receive the ebola threat, he failed to take appropriate actions to limit any risk of exposure to the citizenry.
Continuing in the same Section, Congress is required to “execute the Laws of the Union … and repel Invasions.” Regardless what this president and his secretary of Homeland Security have represented, his actions on our border have attenuated and impaired the security of this country. Those of us who live and work on the border know exactly what it means to be put at risk through the invasion of those parties who seek to do us harm. This president has not only failed to demand those security measures be enforced, he has placed us at higher risk in the matter of our ranch lands now under the footprint of elevated access restrictions through his executive order recently designating the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument.
This president has further placed us in harms way in his legal action against the State of Arizona when that state sought to curb the flow of illegal human and drug trafficking across its international borderlands. Certainly, there is acceptance of the limitation of State rights regarding border protection, but when an invasion is underway, and multinational forces by the hundreds and thousands have now crossed our borders, Section 10 of the same article outlines the recourse. It disallows State defense until and “unless actually invaded …
    The fact is invasion of our southern border has been ongoing for years. A recapitulation of that matter appears in Article IV Section 4. “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion …”
We are witness to that failure.
It isn’t just the community of our border ranchers. Every one of us has now been placed in outright jeopardy on the basis of singular defiance and willful neglect of the Constitutional oath by this president. It is time this president and this Congress assume the roll of elected citizens who have sworn allegiance and oath of office to the sanctity of the United States of America.
 If each of you wishes to follow a scripted path contrary to the Constitution and disregard the matter of management of our borders, you have the ability to seek such a change through a prescribed amendment process. Until that time, it is incumbent on you to follow your oath.
As for the matter of recourse made more unappealing because of outright and ultimate political correctness, Article II, Section 4 defines the process for the Senate to follow. It is simplistic. “The President, Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
The word is spelled I-M-P-E-A-C-H, and … it is pronounced impeach.

Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern New Mexico. “America survives only through leadership that inherently believes in …us.”

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