UPDATE IV: Open-Borders Obama Vs. America (The ‘Eff-You-America’ President)

Federalism, IMMIGRATION, Labor, Law, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, States' Rights

The United States of America (Plaintiff) V. The State of Arizona and Janice K. Brewer (Defendants): From the president’s vividly described fears of being asked by Sheriff Joe Arpaio for his birth certificate while out and about in Arizona buying fat-free ice cream for the first daughters—I got the impression that the purpose of bringing the might of the federal government down on the state of Arizona was to forestall foreseeable racial profiling. Yet not a words does the filed Complaint say of that stated objective. Clearly the fear was without legal foundation.

And if the preservation of the long-since sundered constitutional scheme is the goal of the suit, as stated, why have the federales not pursued sanctuary cities which have taken it upon themselves to defy federal immigration authority, and are thus “preempt[ing] federal law and therefore [in] violation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution”?

An undeterred Michelle Malkin (read the hate mail) has dug up the explanatory DOJ dirt.

UPDATE I (July 9): “The DOJ suit is obviously designed to frighten other budget strapped states into not proceeding with similar legislation,” writes VDARE’s Donald A. Collins, a Democrat.

The “‘preemption’ argument” is being used “to quash rational consideration of [the federal government’s] own errant conduct. Folks, we are in a desperate place when the monopoly of government power can turn us into serfs on the Federal estate! [That’s been accomplished already.]

Some 50 million immigrants since the ill fated 1965 immigration legislation have come here with the powerful encouragement of the cheap labor, ethnic, and religious lobbies. They can now, with the recent Citizens United decision, overwhelm our elective process with unlimited campaign spending.

Peter Brimelow, as always, cuts to the chase:

“An American state is forced to defend itself against a federal government that will not honor its constitutional obligation to defend the states against invasion—which must ultimately raise the secessionist question: what good is the American Union at all?

And a elemental political question is being punted to the judiciary—which must ultimately draw the judiciary into politics and waken the sleeping dragon of the constitutional check/balance, the impeachment of judges.

I’ve said before that all this is beginning to remind me of the last years before the outbreak of the Civil War.

What William H. Seward called an ‘irrepressible conflict’ is shaping up—between the historic American nation and the radicals who must overwhelm it if they are to maintain power.”

UPDATE II (July 10): AID TO ARIZONA. We can all help the freedom fighters of Arizona in their secessionist fight against the federales. Donation options are at the KeepAZSafe website. I will be opting for the cheque option. In this way, the data one needs to attach to the payment will appear on a sheet of paper. This is less likely to be committed to a database than data you enter online. Just a personal preference.

I would like to see the law defended by Kris W. Kobach, a University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law professor, and an author of the Arizona law. Kobach has a first-rate mind to match his patriotism:

Kobach has determined that “state police, exercising state law authority only” may make arrests for violations of federal law”—a right Kobach anchors in a state’s status as a sovereign entity.
States are sovereign governments possessing all residual powers not abridged or superseded by the U.S. Constitution. The source of the state governments’ power is entirely independent of the U.S. Constitution. … the states possess what are known as ‘police powers,’ which need not be specifically enumerated. Police powers are ‘an exercise of the sovereign right of the government to protect the lives, health, morals, comfort, and general welfare of the people.
Arizona’s is not an exercise of “delegated federal power.” “Rather, such arrest authority inheres in the States’ status as sovereign entities.”

UPDATE III: “No Concern For U.S. Unemployed In President’s Big Amnesty Speech.” An excellent analysis of the elites’ “eff-you” attitude from NumbersUSA:

“His renewed call for massive numbers of work permits for foreign workers is an incredible slap in the face to the 25 million Americans who want a full-time job but cannot find one. …

“PRES. OBAMA DOESN’T KNOW THAT AMERICAN COLLEGE GRADS ARE HAVING ONE OF WORST YEARS EVER FOR FINDING A JOB.”

“Everywhere I turn this summer I talk to college students, recent college grads and their parents who lament the difficulty — sometimes the impossibility — of finding a job in their professions. …

“JOBLESS AMERICANS ARE A SPECIAL INTEREST WHO MUST BE OPPOSED, ACCORDING TO SPEECH”

“Folks, just who are the ‘special interests’ who are blocking ‘comprehensive immigration reform?'”

“It looked like nearly every special interest in the nation was in that university auditorium applauding the President’s appeal for more work permits for foreign workers. You had Big Business, Big Labor, Big Academe, Big Religion, Big Ethnic Grievance Groups, Big City Mayors, Big City Police Chiefs.” …

“PROF. OBAMA DOES NOT UNDERSTAND IMMIGRATION HISTORY”

Obama conveniently left out that in the past, America greatly reduced immigration during times of “economic upheaval.” Instead during this time of massive unemployment, he stood there and made a speech for increases in foreign workers.
He further unscored [sic] his lack of historical knowledge by using the Statue of Liberty as if it were dedicated to immigration. In fact, “Liberty Enlightening the World” was intended to celebrate the U.S. as a model for the rule of law and individual freedom for other nations to emulate so their own citizens wouldn’t need to think about moving somewhere else.

Read this simply superb, patriotic analysis.

UPDATE IV: Here kOBACH points out that pending are five lawsuits against Arizona based on the supremacy clause. There is no need for the government to launch its own suit. The pile-on makes plain that the government’s is a politically motivated law-suit; the aim is to send a message to the errant state.

Moreover, Arizona-style immigration laws are extant in Missouri and Rhode Island, yet no action has been taken against these states. This treacherous government (Bush’s was no different) is targeting the state through which half of all the illegal aliens entering the US pass because they want to make sure these stellar trespassers keep coming.

TREASON.

‘D’oh!’ Is Not Always For Democrat

Free Markets, Islam, Republicans, Science, Socialism, Technology, The State

Oh the contradictions of being a Republican! Republicans, the ostensible party for market forces, were furious when BHO and his posse, who work against such forces, indicated that they were keen on privatizing aspects in the operation of NASA, the National Aeronautic Space Administration.

How do Repbulicans reconcile their desire to retain NASA as a state entity, in the face of new revelations about the main mission with which the Democrat-run state has charged NASA?

According to a top NASA official, speaking to Al Jazira, President Obama has charged him with “reaching out to the Muslim world and engaging much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science.”

Do Repbulicans think that a privately-run, for-profit space agency would set Muslim outreach as one of its goals?

‘D’oh!’ is not always for Democrat.

The Afrikaner Shanty Towns Of South Africa

Africa, Democracy, Race, Racism, South-Africa

Finbarr O’reilly of Reuters reports: “At least 450,000 white South Africans, 10 percent of the total white population, live below the poverty line and 100,000 are struggling just to survive, according to civil organisations and largely white trade union Solidarity. South Africa’s population is about 50 million. …”

“South Africa’s unskilled whites find themselves on the wrong side of history, gaining little sympathy from those who perceive them as having profited unfairly during the brutal apartheid years.

Trade union Solidarity says there are around 430,000 whites who live in squatter camps. Around the capital Pretoria alone there are 80 squatter settlements. There are over 2,000 much larger black squatter camps across South Africa.

Formerly comfortable Afrikaners recently forced to live on the fringes of society see themselves as victims of ‘reverse-apartheid’ that they say puts them at an even greater disadvantage than the millions of poor black South Africans.

This feeling of victimisation and abandonment by the state has forged at the camp a collective sense of fatalism, isolation and firm reliance on their Calvinist religion. Each of the camp’s ramshackle huts and tents is adorned with religious paraphernalia and an Afrikaans language bible.” …

Finbarr O’reilly’s photojournalistic effort was featured in the New York Times too where one reader wrote correctly as follows:

Lower middle class people living close to the line have been discarded by the governments Black Economic Empowerment policy which forces companies to hire people with black skin.
After the 1994 elections a lot of white people lost their jobs and have clearly never recovered. The BEE policy has resulted in poor performance across the board especially from a governmental service delivery perspective, as highly skilled and qualified people with years of experience were replaced by people who were black but lacked the necessary qualifications or experience.

As usual, Adriana Stuijt, a pro-Afrikaner activist living in the Netherlands, posted the most poignant post at the NYT:

“The important point completely missed by the photographer and by the journalist is the fact that these aren’t ‘whites’- these are Afrikaners, a 3-million-strong minority. There are two kinds of ‘whites’ – the wealthier mercantile English-speakers who can flee the country with their British passports when times get rough; and the Afrikaner artisan-working class, which have no familial ties to their Northern-European roots and have a very difficult time emigrating to other countries. I am also appalled at the fact that the photographer took pictures of these very young and vulnerable children: Afrikaner children are being widely targeted by kidnapping gangs in South Africa. Basically these Afrikaners, being poor, have clearly lost all their privacy-rights as far as this photographer was concerned. Did the man at least make a donation to the only private charity which is allowed to help these Afrikaner people by law, namely Helping Hand of the Solidarity trade union movement? The ANC-regime denies these Afrikaners all food-aid, and many also are denied the right to medical care in public hospitals. Many of these Afrikaner women give birth inside their own shacks without any medical help. And according to a recent documentary by Dutch investigative journalist Saskia Vredeveld, they are so chronically underfed now that the newborns are beginning to die of malnutrition.

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My book is timely. Last week, I completed Into The Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South Africa. It’ll soon be off to the publisher.