Lento adiutorio opus est contra mala continua et fecunda non ut desinant sed ne vincant.
Steady assistance is needed in the struggle against constant fertile evilsnot that they may be eliminated but that they may not prevail." ~ Seneca
Ill cut to the chase without reprising all my reasons for addressing this topic. If you want a brief specific and fully convincing motive for regarding the future of our republic as in severe jeopardy consider Daniel Horowitzs recent discussions of judicial supremacy" on his Conservative Review podcast (e.g. on 1/10 and 1/16). The current game-plan of our societys best organized subversives is to seed red states forcibly one by one with welfare-dependent masses from parts of the world that have no probability of assimilating into mainstream culture. Soros-funded campaigns put the necessary judges in place to execute this political and cultural sabotage. When these black-robed change agents" over-reach by creating new law rather than adjudicating extant law or when they decree from the bench in cases where the plaintiff has no standing other branches of government are stricken with a deer in the headlights" paralysis rather than energized to apply a constitutionally required pushback. Case in point: a federal judge in Maryland has ex vacuo just declared illegal President Trumps initiative to give state governors a nay" over further resettlement of refugees". As Mr. Horowitz says judges in such instances might as well just turn on the courtroom lights and write up a stay of proceedings on a blank piece of paper. (Not that any such end-around play seems necessary as far as the governors are concerned; 19 of 26 Republican govs have already protested that they want more analphabetic non-Anglophones from crucibles of Sharia extremism.) So... whats a state to do? For at least the next couple of weeks I want to chase after some admittedly vague ideassuggested to me however by whats happening in real time throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Like many other constitutionalists I find oddly encouraging the rebellion of law-abiding Virginians against their renegade state legislatures rapacious assault upon Second Amendment rights. Its odd to be cheering for such a rebellion because Richmonds volley of imperious commands to surrender privately owned firearms is after all issued in superficially legal fashion. Yet the manner in which long-time Virginia residents had control of their state wrested from them (i.e. through massive transplantation of Third World populations and election" of Soros-bankrolled judges) is infuriating; and the laws taken as a cluster if not each of them individually violate the Second Amendment patently. In this case the subversion implicit judicial supremacy has been turned on its ear: legislators are clearly trespassing upon constitutionally guaranteed rights and judges can take a holiday instead of initiating the trespass as has become their wont. Of course when Virginians declare their counties Second Amendment sanctuaries" theyre following the lead of the approximately 600 cities throughout the U.S. whose subversive officials have declared them sanctuaries from the enforcement of immigration laws. The legal precedent of blatant illegality one might say has been set... an unbinding precedent to be sure. But the real lesson here is that obedience to the lawto the law of laws the Constitutionhas become optional. Even for the Left and even with the assistance of their propagandizing lackeys in the news media giving a free pass to one kind of sanctuary" while calling in the troops to torch another will prove a tough sell. And the Virginia Assembly has already manifested an eagerness to summon the National Guard and begin a gun-down of everyone who dares question the evil of owning a gun. Its members are already behaving like little Leninists. (As I write I have just heard vague accounts of the same band of Bolsheviks attempting to shut down protests: why not go back and shred the First Amendment while incinerating the Second?) As soon as shots are fired in the evolving confrontation and the blood of American citizens flows in American streets a Pandoras Box will open which the shoulders of Atlas will never again close. The nations eliteits Soros/Bloomberg/Steyer puppeteers with their Alyssas and Colins and Gretas dancing on stringswill have started a hot civil war. I am not recommending an angry wave of secessionist proclamations in response. The Union is necessary. Its so for the very reasons for which totalitarian one world" subversives seek to overthrow it: the vital functions it serves are the very ones explicitly spelled out in the Constitution and the very ones ignored persistently by our representatives and sabotaged by our justices". We need shared borders. We need to provide for a common defense. Especially as the Chinese oligarchys project of reducing humanity to servile automatons proceeds with alarming success (and one must presume that a piece of imperial pie is what motivates many of our puppet-masters) we must mount a united front against global dangers. Why the usually infallible tactician Vladimir Putin has thrown in with Beijings megalomaniacswho are far more certain than we to stick a knife in his backis something Ive never figured out. Yet the hard fact remains that even Putin with ravenous Han race-supremacists on one side volatile Islamism on another and the Orwellian E.U. (far more Soviet in many ways than the new Russia) on yet another appears willing to collaborate in our destruction though our survival is perhaps the one thing that keeps the Chinese battleship from swamping his gunboat. Since its usits U.S.against the world we must also share trading partners. One state or group of states cannot be rubbing feet under the table with Israel while another cuddles up to Iran. Likewise we must not allow fragmentation to license regional standing armies. If I were to joke that Gavin Newsom might extend certain perks to MS-13 if its generals would invade Arizona I wouldnt be able to smile very broadly. I can foresee a card like that being played. As noted above Virginias lawmakers" are already posed to give the open fire" order against their own electors. We cant have Kansas Jayhawkers sparring with Texas Rangers or Tennessee Volunteers. Barack Obama used to drool psychically over the prospect of a national police force. The kind of break-up I have in mind would proceed under strict prohibition of any armed force not organized either as a local constabulary or a guardian of the entire nation from external threat. Indeed I would be tempted to make abuse of security forces in the suppression of citizenry a capital crime. But a break-up... yes. Thats what I have in mind to some degree. Thats what is in fact happening in real time" as they say: open your eyes. In wrapping up todays discussion (which drains me emotionally to the point that I cant pursue it for long without exiting for fresh air) I would insist upon three distinct alterations. The first is that states must be allowed to determine the criteria for legal voting within their borders. Personally Im of the persuasion now (in the dark light which Mr. Soros has shed upon our vulnerabilities) that no one should be permitted to vote in a local or state election who hasnt been resident in the state for ten years. Just imagine how pleasant Austin and Denver would be today if such a law had existed in 1970! California and Oregon of course would be free to enfranchise eight-year-olds death-row inmates and homeless cats. National elections would proceed with each state having a single vote to cast: no popular consensus" garbage that allows box-stuffing with ballots that Democrat psychics have completed for the dead or Democrat translators for weekend visitors from Tijuana. The Peoples Party" of course will scream bloody murder at the prospect of seeing its plans to bloodily murder U.S. citizens thus short-circuited; but the new system wouldnt allow them such luxury even if a resuscitated Mao ran for and won the presidency (which come to think of it is essentially the choice were being offered in the forthcoming election). Thats because matters of common defense and coherence in trade policy would be the only ones where national uniformity could be enforced. (In other words... yes wed return to the spirit of late great Constitution.) There would be no body of nine unelected Dalai Lamas serving for life (and even afterward with the aid of medication) in the role of bedroom monitor head librarian and super-nanny. State judiciaries would have their own supreme courts. Individuals who didnt like the law of the local land could go find another state (and live there for ten years without voting... or vote three times instantly in California if they committed to the right party). Non-compliance with properly national concerns such as border enforcement or refusing trade to a rogue foreign nation would result in exclusion from the union and possible designation as a hostile alien power. No damn Supreme Court lording it over supreme courts. No more Nine Olympians. Finally (for today) all participating of foreign nationals in our political life through financing or influence-peddling of other varieties must be outlawed throughout the land as a security threat. Violators should be considered collaborators in treason it seems to me. I realize that influence" can be peddled in innumerable ways that impinge uponbut do not clearly intersectthe political. In fact I further realize that no institution of human design is proof against human corruption and folly over the long haul. For this historical moment however let us at least build a wall" (a phrase that has now lapsed into metaphor) and plug the tunnels later as they appear. No decent thoughtful adult wants to replicate the PRCs tactics of filtering the Internet or inviting dissent-minded editorialists to the police station for a cup of tea" (from which they stagger home in six months). We should anticipate dissent: we should accept it even as a healthy vital sign. But the cataracts of raw wealth poured into the entertainment industry the broadcast media and public service" NGOs by global enemies of freedom must be dammed up. Personallyand I write this as one who created a 501(c)3 and operated it for two decadesI should recommend the elimination of all tax exemptions. Every one of them that Ive ever seen can be played shamelessly by the savvy with a considerable net loss to the happiness and prosperity of the very people supposedly being served. But what you say of the squid-like reach (think deep-ocean Giant Squid) of vast federal bureaucracies such as the Department of Education? Ill post my response next time if it needs spelling out.