"Representatives" should push Personal Agenda?

In March 17th's "Hard to speak the truth", Leonard Pitts (frequent, Miami Herald "Drive-by contributor") once again has trouble separating reality from his rhetoric. He takes to task California State Legislator Roy Ashburn, who got himself arrested for drunk driving and turns out to be gay as well.

Beyond some unsupported bashing of conservatives and hetero males in general, Pitts' issue is that he believes Ashburn is a "Leader". As such, Pitts thinks Ashburn should "think for himself" and put his gay agenda first, rather than "following the wishes of the people he served". His examples include opposing the voters' repeatedly passed and court upheld Proposition 8 ("marriage" = 1 man + 1 woman); and creating a Holiday for San Francisco Mayor Harvey Milk for being gay, and despite his abysmal perfomance in office.

What Pitts forgot is that Ashburn is a "Senator" and (despite needing to be recalled: for actions, not orientation) he is thus a "REPRESENTATIVE" in our system. This means a person whose authority and agenda come entirely from his constituents. "Leader" is not a title under the American Constitution (though it is a status, such as "Majority Leader" like Pelosi). "Leader" translates to "Führer" and National Socialist Germany had one of those in the 1930's and 40's. Communist North Korea still has a "Dear Leader" (Kim, son of Kim) and the Great Socialist People's Libyan Jamahirya has their "Brother Leader" (Qaddafi), like other Communist countries. Our Republic does not.

Our elected officials only act within the Constitution, and then only for the wishes of their constituents. To do otherwise - - such as ignoring the clear and repeated will of We the People, or calling them names, or using volumes of complex and confusing language for special interests, or fabricating "crisis" after "crisis" to rush bills through, or using parliamentary tricks to pass them when there aren't enough votes - - is so crazy I cannot even imagine it.

Can you?

Thrity six states have passed or are considering...

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA:

WHEREAS the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”; and
WHEREAS the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and
WHEREAS some federal actions weaken states’ rights protected by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and
WHEREAS the Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal government may not usurp; and
WHEREAS art. IV, sec. 4, Constitution of the United States, reads, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,” and the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads, “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people”; and
WHEREAS the United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York v. United States, 112 S.Ct. 2408 (1992), that the United States Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the states; and
WHEREAS all states, including California, find themselves regularly facing proposals from the United States Congress that weaken states’ rights protected by the Tenth Amendment;
BE IT RESOLVED that the California State Legislature hereby claims sovereignty for the State under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution serves as Notice and Demand to the Federal Government to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.
COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Barack Obama, President of the United States; the Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Vice-President of the United States and President of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; the Honorable Diane Feinstein and the Honorable Barbara Boxer, U.S. Senators, all Honorable Representatives of the California delegation in Congress; all other members of the 111th United States Congress; the presiding officers of the legislatures of each of the other 49 states; and the governors of each of the other 49 states.

[...if only we had a majority of honest representatives...>sigh< ]

Sorry, no room for 6 billion unannounced guests.

“Burden on budget” (Stephen Wall, 2-21) reports on a Grand Jury investigation of a millstone hanging around the neck of the American economy and especially San Bernardino County. Preliminary observations indicate the obvious; that having tens of millions of unknown, underemployed, untaxed foreigners illegally siphoning resources from the system is ‘bad’.

The article goes on to say that many state and county agencies simply do not track the citizenship of their ‘clients’, so they have no idea how much is really being given to illegal foreign nationals that should be cared for in their own country. As a result, managers guess when questioned. They are employed to hand out services and their positions and advancement depend on high volumes of business. So, it is in their interest to provide maximum handouts and to underestimate the percentage of illegals receiving it.

Not all aliens are illegal, and not all illegal aliens are Mexican. A large number are Chinese, Russian, Central or South American, Canadian, European, etc. Whatever the source, having them living outside the law and absorbing far more in services than they pay in sales tax is damaging, and having no knowledge or control over who enters the country in today’s world is suicidal.

Official records show that our government provides up to $30,000.00 per illegal alien family, per year. This is specified assistance, and does not account for costs of law enforcement, emergency room and free clinic treatment, crime losses, jobs denied to citizens, etc. Decency demands that taxpayers provide illegals 3 things: emergency medical treatment (if needed), a box lunch and a safe bus ride. Several countries have official programs to deal with their poor and uneducated by encouraging them to leave; go north. Mexico adds indoctrination about sending home U.S. dollars and reclaiming “stolen” land, despite treaties and purchases from Spain and Mexico (who subjugated the original settlers, the Indians).

Arguments on the economy often focus on the “burden” of government retirees. While we would be better off with fewer government service-distributing employees, it is unconscionable to lay blame on those soldiers, cops, firefighters and others that put in their 20 or 30 years of service obeying rules that they did not make. Elected “representatives” (mostly progressive Democrats) rarely mention the greater onus of so many that have no right to be here at all. Because intentional misinterpretation of I.N.A. section 301 creates “instant citizens”, they hope to gain votes from handing out the taxpayers’ money.

The Grand Jury is doing important work. We need a steady, controlled flow of honest, talented immigrants to keep the American Revolution strong and fresh. We do not need cynical abuse of foreign “slave labor” to support a few politicians and modern-day plantation owners at the taxpayers’ expense.

Overwhelmed yet?

Some people are trying to keep up, but life must go on. Many are confused and lots are, well, overwhelmed by all the political turmoil going on.
Obama promised over and over to have the most open, honest, bipartisan administration ever. What we got was self-proclaimed Marxist revolutionaries advising a duplicitous President. Also a congress that holds a few do-nothing hearings, then closed-door meetings with Reid (or Pelosi) deciding, with just a couple Democrats, on what would go forward despite the clear and stated will of the People. Then a “confidential” bill was introduced, some senators were bribed, and a vote was taken at midnight.

We had beaten back and beaten down Al Qaida and the rest, but now face multiple attacks within our own borders. Leaving aside the intelligence gathered about the underwear bomber, the guy appeared at the airport with insufficient I.D. and no luggage at all, paid cash, and was permitted to board without any searches. The only thing that kept burning airliner and human parts from raining down on Detroit was a bad fusing job and a single, heroic passenger that jumped tough. Where was the security? The White House had issued orders to stop calling it “terrorism” or “war”. CIA officers are being prosecuted for using safe-but-tough methods, after 9-11, to interrogate 6 Al Qaida leaders who all gave up active plot information that saved lives. Navy Seals are being prosecuted for punching a mass murderer in the stomach during his successful arrest. Enemy combatants are being brought into our cities (Google “Beslan” and watch your kids) for civilian trial, instead of the traditional, U.N. standard, military trial. The Al Qaida-instructed Ft Hood murderer was classified as a lone criminal instead of a terrorist. And now, valuable FBI assets are being reassigned from counter-terrorism to (wait for it…) GLOBAL WARMING.

That’s correct, federal cops will now investigate global warming, despite all the proof of fraud by the leftist climate “scientists”, in the face of the coldest winter in decades (people are dying), instead of going after criminals or enemy combatants. Think these guys have any time – or will – left to stick their necks out for our safety?

This leaves aside the suicidal spending spree, taxing everything in sight (“tax” is listed 187 times in just the “health care” bill and the I.R.S. is becoming an enforcement agency), ACORN/S.E.I.U., tax-cheats, unconstitutional takeover of private businesses and personal property, bowing and apologizing for D-Day, your cel-phone and your car, etc, etc, etc. Too much stuff.

You see, “using the enemy’s own laws against him” and “overwhelming the system” are both parts of the playbook of Marx. And Cloward & Piven. And Alinsky. And their friends. What’s irrelevant to them are the truth, and the welfare of the American People.