Read it again... try retaining what you read.
1. Congress does not need to declare war for the states to defend themselves.
That's not the same as war.
2. That was me that mentioned updating on the fly... if you were truly paying attention, you would know that, and I doubt anyone can "update" a locked PDF on my SD card.
That was said tongue-in-cheek.
3. We are in the midst of a full scale ground invasion from multiple enemies.
A ridiculous assertion. Not just wrong, ridiculous. You see tanks on the evening news, uniformed troops, jet fighters? I'm not talking about a stray APC there because a drug lord bribed a general. But there's no full-scale ground invasion. If there were, Congress would declare war and send the marines.
State authorities are well within their rights to stop people near border areas and inquire as to just exactly what they are doing, who else is in the vehicle, etc.
No, they're not. They cannot stop anybody absent reasonable, articulable, particularized suspicion. And that's not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of fact.
Federal authorities must be granted the rights to do so on behalf of the state.
That's your opinion, but one based on your feelings, not law. What do you say we stick with the Founding Fathers on this?
To those who would argue this, I too would ask what you have to hide.
Ah, someone's been Hannitized. I recognize it anywhere. But you're proving my point.
4. Exemptions... take a look at the 9th amendment, you brought it up yourself. For the mere fact that a perceived right is not specifically enumerated within the constitution or bill of rights, doesn't mean it doesn't exist... that much is true. HOWEVER these are exceptional times with gravely extenuating circumstances, and concessions must be made for the overall good of everyone concerned.
You concede all of
your rights that you want to concede. Leave mine alone. None of the amendments end with "unless we decide otherwise at the time."
The 9th amendment is very deliberately a two way street.
No, actually, it's not, and as an assertion, that doesn't even make sense in any context within this thread. Maybe you have it confused with another amendment.
Best of luck to you. Maybe we will see you on YouTube getting beaten for standing up for your principles at a border checkpoint.
So far, I haven't objected much to the checkpoints I've been through. So far, they've all been just a matter of hearing me speak English, and once they wanted to look in the back. Being against illegal immigration and drug smuggling, I allowed it. All of them took a matter of seconds. But if they really wanted to jack me up or do a thorough search, I'd object unless they could articulate some serious reasonable suspicion. Constitutionally, they'd have to get a warrant and couldn't detain me any longer than it takes to write a traffic citation. They wouldn't see it that way, of course, and then the fight would be on. So you certainly could see me getting tased or otherwise illegally brutalized.
Again, where do you find the principle of border exclusion zones in the Constitution?
For two years straight I did a nightly run from Escondido California to Yuma Arizona... I went into the bathroom at a rest area at the top of the pass one morning about 3am and found approximately 25 migrants huddled inside.... men, women and children who stared at me like deer caught in the headlights. I backed out of there with my hand on my pistol, got back in my truck, and hauled arse away from there as fast as my truck could move...
Sounds like a reasonable reaction, except maybe for the last part. Driving away at a normal speed would have done it, I'm sure.
Those people were huddling for warmth as it was mid december and it gets severely windy in that pass. Every single one of them represents a threat to my life, liberty, happiness and the well being of my family.
Now you're being a but dramatic, aren't you? Think about it a little more calmly. Skip Hannity for a week, think about it again, and see if you feel a little calmer.
Yes we are at war. I don't care what you choose to call it. I call it the way I see it.
You're certainly entitled to your feeling, but you're using you're feeling to negate the Bill of Rights. If you can do it, then so can Barak, and Nancy, and all the other left wing loonies out there. So maybe we'd better stick to cold, hard facts. There's no war.
How about this, why don't you sneak into Mexico and see what happens when you get caught? They have some of the harshest immigration laws anywhere. Just ask any one of the many thousands of Guatemalan inmates in the prisons in the southern part of Mexico ....
So I've read, but it really doesn't have anything to do with this discussion.
