Practicing no borders
The tyranny of defying the Constitution
It is spelled I-M-P-E-A-C-H
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.
_________________________
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 entrée 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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