09.13.13
Noticing Civil War 2 in SoCal
Today the LA Times editorial page took special notice of Missouri’s attempts at secession.
The Missouri state legislature, mentioned a few weeks ago for the attempt to nullify federal gun law and criminalize federal agents enforcing it as part of their job in the state, had entered into extremist radical government.
The legislation, initially vetoed by the state’s Democratic governor, was brought back for an override vote, one it was thought would be won. It failed — but by only one vote.
“It’s shocking to think that Missouri came so close to enacting a blatantly unconstitutional law,” wrote the LAT today.
Missouri isn’t the only state where pro-gun politicians have sought to nullify federal gun laws; similar proposals have been advanced in Ohio, Minnesota and Texas. The burgeoning nullification movement also has attracted opponents of the Affordable Care Act, who have called for states to declare Obamacare unconstitutional within their borders. And while federal courts can be trusted to strike down such bills if they become law, their approval by legislators endows them with an undeserved legitimacy.
Like judges, legislators take an oath to uphold the Constitution. They violate that oath when they attempt to nullify duly enacted federal laws.
Remarkably, the Los Angeles Times makes not one mention of the Republican Party and its extremist policies. The newspaper’s editorial writers, on the other hand, are very much aware that the GOP and its Tea Party base are the sole proprietors of the “burgeoning nullification movement.”
WhiteManistan doesn’t go gently into the night. There will be long-time need to push it steadily and always firmly out the door.
On the adjacent letters page, a reader from Alhambra, south of Pasadena, writes in a closely related matter: “We have strong Latino, black, Asian, educational and union groups in this country that should be organizing economic boycotts of those states that seek to deprive their minority residents of their rightful place in society.”
It is a hard-to-enforce-and-enact retaliation I recommended in June.
Seen today, in Pasadena: White man driving a Jeep “Patriot” with a Papas and Beer sticker and a license plate frame emblazoned, “Godspeed.”