Bias_2012 wrote on Jan 27
th, 2024 at 11:03am:
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
It would very foolish to allow the "international" Democrats to carry on with any more of their "progressive" political shananigans
Each State must retain and maintain it's own sovereignty by protecting it's borders. Biden and the Democrats must back down and stop being so pig headed
That's krap, Bias. States don't enforce borders. There was a temporary alteration to this rule during covid - on public health grounds. This was allowed after a federal national emergency declaration.
The US is a federation of states - like Australia. Texas is free to secede, but this would require a vote. Unilateral succession was overturned as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1869, leading to the Civil War.
And for Texas - along with the states that joined in - that didn't work out too well.
This is another political stunt by Greg Abbott. It's designed solely to keep immigration in the minds of voters in the upcoming presidential election. Think on that, dear, a state governor is willing to deploy a state military and take a case to the Supreme Court for political theatre.
Imagine that happening in Australia. Imagine an LNP premier fencing off crown land, deploying troops and litigating unwinnable cases to stick it to Albo. You can't?
Me either. That's why, here in Australia, we're superior in every way. Apart from the odd rogue PM, people in power accept their limitations. They respect the rule of law. Most importantly, if they have any problems, they take them to the National Cabinet, or COAG. They work together, they don't use the law to try to score cheap political points.
Can you imagine the NT Chief Minister, for example, razor-wiring NT mangroves to stop the boats? Can you imagine them telling the federal Coast Guard and Border Security to get fu
cked? Can you imagine them taking it to the High Court, knowing full well they have no case, just to make a point in an election year?
Neither can I, Bias. If this happened here, it would be political suicide.
How about rounding up thousands of refugees from camps and detention centres, and bussing them down to Canberra, without alerting any ACT officials in advance, but ensuring the media were there to film their arrival?
Governors, like presidents and other elected officials, are tasked with running government services. They're caretakers, they're working for us. Aside from all the human cost, consider all the legal bills Greg Abbott's clocking up, the cost of transport, sending in the military and all the expense that comes from these kinds of stunts.
You couldn't run a corporation this way, shareholders wouldn't allow it. The only way politicians like Greg Abbott can get away with exploiting people and spending hundreds of millions on political PR is by doing it on the public dime.
Texas. Big cattle, big oil.
Ever get the feeling you've been
drilled?
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