Sanctuary Counties

State of Confusion

Sanctuary Counties

Description by suffix … -less

By Stephen L. Wilmeth

            Luke sent me a general assessment of our growing -less culture.

            Among the array of suffix driven generalities was that the food police are assuring us that our food must be fatless (thus tasteless), our youth are increasingly jobless, our education valueless, and our relationships meaningless. The problem is there are a bunch of us out here in the hinterlands that don’t agree with the full-scale blitz of seemingly every standard we were ever taught.

            This two-party system that has replaced our constitutional republic is not what we agree with nor is it the form of government that releases us from the growing discontent we witness from our shameless, careless, rudderless, and gutless leadership. We don’t agree with a world order borderless frontier. We don’t agree with stepwise removal of our Second Amendment rights, either. We reject mannerless youth indoctrinated by agenda driven education, and we don’t want our babies fatherless.

            We don’t want them butchered, either. We want them alive!

            State of Confusion

            New Mexico’s legislative session is in full swing.

            If you have been sleeping under a rock, you should be waking up realizing that the leftist/progressive front is jamming gears and running at the summit of standards and mores that seemingly kept us in a civilized world. At least when New Mexico made the newest or updated national comparison, we stood together at the bottom of the list. Maybe we weren’t proud, but there wasn’t a line drawn in the bottom of San Vicente Draw with them on one side and us on the other.

            We darn sure weren’t intent on returning our lonely world to the conditions of a thousand years ago, either. If the subject was broached, there would have been elation in the halls of the science building on the campus of WNMU, but the working folks of our society would have reacted with incredulity. They lived in the real world. They knew what it was like to provide a basic living for themselves and their children in towns that still had dirt streets and extended families within walking distances.

            New Mexico of today is a different place. Aside from the fact it depends on the federal treasury for upwards of a third of its yearly budget, it is doubling down on every progressive idea.

            The progressive leadership now at the helm is intent on changing everything this very month. They have fully disrobed from any pretense of moderation and are embracing every conceivable societal change as set forth in some form from an orchestrated central planning network.

Orders from unseen headquarters are pouring in.

 Witness to that is the deluge of legislative updates that are sent out daily for the purpose of heading off the next assault on some basic tenet. War has been declared on oil and gas. There are tweets coming out of the State Land Office degrading farting cows. There is even legislative intent to shut down the mines in Grant County that provide 4,000 jobs! This isn’t the State of New Mexico.

This is the state of confusion.

Sanctuary Counties

If there is an ultimate county in the entire United States that demonstrates what the suppression of private property rights manifests, it arguably applies to Grant County, New Mexico. Rich in minerals, rich in potential forest products, rich in scenic values, rich in one of the best climates of the entire continent, rich in cultural heritage, and rich in pure D old potential Grant County fits the bill.

Instead of human successes, though, it is ruled with the grand regulatory demands of can’t and no.

While the dominion of government ownership to the horizons dictates the can’t and no doctrine, the precious metals going out the back door have never been part of the resident permanent wealth. That has been reserved by faceless absentee owners.

Certainly, the latter has provided jobs and that is supremely important, but the promise of private property that was suggested by Jefferson in his version of unalienable rights, that among them are Life, Liberty, and Private Property was never offered to the paisano or gringo alike. The real wealth was packed out of the county on mules, then by rail, and now trucks.

That is why it was so interesting to hear that Grant County has joined the border counties of Hidalgo and Luna in resolutions against any more suppressive Second Amendment demands by the newly elected governor and progressive legislature of the State of New Mexico.

Ha!

Maybe those miners and what is left of the shooters who have been indoctrinated by the can’t and no regimes have had their fill of government that has little semblance of originality.

Sanctuary counties they are being called! Sanctuaries for folks who don’t go around shooting each other and who understand what the real threat to the Second Amendment implies. As an aside, their sheriff, like his counterparts in aforementioned Luna and Hidalgo Counties, counties that don’t have cartel dictates to stand against border security, has added his name to all but four county sheriffs of New Mexico that reject the threat of more antigun legislation.

Good for him and good for the fortitude of the head law enforcement officials and their county commissioners in three of the four critical border counties in this state, counties that have huge implications for not just border security, but national security to these, the United States of America.

Today, though, we need to celebrate local leadership of these border counties that face the reality of a progressive state of affairs and a very dangerous international border. By their own volition, they have signaled enough is enough, we can’t trust our government in this set of circumstances, and we are taking a stand.

Dang, I’m proud of ‘em!

Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern New Mexico. “Yessiree, these three sheriffs and their county commissions have demonstrated unblemished originality not dictated by political mobsters.”