Rick Perry is free to militarize his state's border with Mexico
Bryan Fischer - Guest Columnist
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
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Bryan FischerThe specific goal of the Second Amendment was to make it abundantly clear that every state has the right to organize a militarized force to protect the sovereign inviolability of its own borders – and that's exactly what Texas Governor Rick Perry is doing.
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An often overlooked phrase in the Second Amendment protects Gov. Rick Perry's right to militarize his southern border with National Guard troops.
Here's the complete text of the Second Amendment (emphasis mine):
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
In other words, this amendment was enacted to ensure the right of the individual states to protect their sovereign liberty and their sovereign borders with their own armed forces.
When compared to the Obama administration's attitude about border security, what's the biggest difference you see in Gov. Rick Perry's style?
He is protecting his citizens first and foremost
He isn't worried about being politically correct
He is putting action behind his words
He is upholding the Constitution
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It is historically significant that the Second Amendment was enacted two years after the ratification of the original Constitution, in which "We the People" granted to the central government the authority to form a standing military.
The Founders recognized that a standing army under the control of the central government was not sufficient to ensure the protection of the safety and security of the individual states, and in fact could easily pose a threat to their liberty.
Based on their recent experience with the Crown, the grave concern of the Founders was a disarmed people and a military exclusively under the control of an all-powerful central government. The Second Amendment was written in to provide an additional check on tyranny by protecting the right of every citizen in every state in America to keep - that is, to own - and to bear - that is, to carry around - weapons for their own defense.
The reason every citizen was to be armed was not just for self-protection but so that each individual state could form a "well-regulated militia" for its own defense. Because every citizen in a state possessed firearms, they could be brought together to form military units which were designed to protect the liberty of their own individual states.
In other words, the purpose of the Second Amendment was to enable each sovereign state, each one of the individual but united States, to protect itself from threats to its borders.
This included possible threats from our own central government - the Founders were all too aware of the tyrannical threat that could in time come from the government they themselves had created - and possible threats from neighboring states and neighboring powers.
The point here is that the specific goal of the Second Amendment was to make it abundantly clear that every state has the right to organize a militarized force to protect the sovereign inviolability of its own borders.
It is true that the southern border of Texas, its border with Mexico, is an international border. But it is also a state border. It's not only the southern border of the United States, it is the southern border of the state of Texas.
That border is currently being overrun by illegal aliens who have no right whatsoever to be in this country. The state of Texas is being invaded by hundreds of thousands of criminal trespassers, and our central government is now aiding and abetting this mass infiltration rather than stemming the tide.
These criminal trespassers include murder-minded drug cartel thugs and human traffickers. They pose a constant threat to the public safety of the state of Texas.
In other words, they pose a clear and present danger to the "security of a free State." What can a governor do about it under our Constitution? He can deploy his "well-regulated militia" to neutralize the threat to the "security of (his) free State."
Constitutionally, Gov. Perry is perfectly free to militarize the southern border of his state with his armed and ready National Guard troops. In fact, that's what they are there for. You could look it up.
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I think that would be a GREAT start. Maybe other would wake up!! I think this should be done with all the states that border DC
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Yep, I have said this all along. Not only Texas but other states where the state,and local police forces are over whelmed by this illegal immigration can mobilize their national guard. I have heard about profiling and the problems Arizona had over it. Arizona can also call up it`s national guard.National guard militia will not be concerned about profiling. I find it appalling though that Federal troops and Federal bases are being used to transport and care for these illegal while State Militia are being used to to protest citizens. Will it come to State Militia facing off against Federal troops over a bunch of illegal immigrants? Will sanity be returned to our Federal Government? Stay tuned...
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Good points....caretaker wrote:Yep, I have said this all along. Not only Texas but other states where the state,and local police forces are over whelmed by this illegal immigration can mobilize their national guard. I have heard about profiling and the problems Arizona had over it. Arizona can also call up it`s national guard.National guard militia will not be concerned about profiling. I find it appalling though that Federal troops and Federal bases are being used to transport and care for these illegal while State Militia are being used to to protest citizens. Will it come to State Militia facing off against Federal troops over a bunch of illegal immigrants? Will sanity be returned to our Federal Government? Stay tuned...
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The really scary part is that around the time of ww2 congress passed measures that allowed the president to Federalize state militia (NG) troops. Thus taking them out of state control. Let us hope O doesn`t figure out how to do this.
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It amazes me the crap he gets away with. Unlike any other president in our history. There has to be more people behind all this than just obummer
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"What country can preserve its liberties, if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." --Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Stephens Smith, 1787
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I don`t know who is pullin his strings. I don`t think he is smart enough to cause all this chaos on his own. About the time I have it narrowed down he does something that messes up the trail. Who ever it is know how to stay a couple of arm reaches out of sight.
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