Our Constitution Matters: The Case for Federal Troops in California

San
Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob declared that California has turned
into a rogue state. The main issue of contention rests on California’s
“Sanctuary State” law. Also known as SB 54, the law prohibits local and state
law enforcement from communicating with ICE. Cities are prevented from acting
on ICE detainers. California’s Attorney General has threatened private firms
with prosecution if they cooperate with ICE and comply with federal law. Legislation
has granted state executives broad power to investigate federal ICE detention
centers.

Incredible, and incredibly arrogant, but California has gone rogue, and
gone wrong, in other ways. Despite federal prohibitions, the state offered up
an initiative to legalize recreational marijuana, which passed with 55% of the
vote in 2016. I favor decriminalization, since there is nothing in Article I,
Section 8 which grants the federal government authority to regulate this or
other substances. The process that brought California to its current outlaw
status is flawed, however, because federal law is pre-empting pot shops and
hemp growers from banking their profits and expanding their businesses.
California needed to file a lawsuit, along with Colorado and Washington state,
to get the feds out of the drug control business.

Sacramento’s proposed crackdown on freedom of speech is appalling. One
proposed anti-liberty bill would require news websites to pass all information
through a “fact-checker” before going public. This censorship at it worst, and
a direct assault on the First Amendment. They have allowed Silicon Valley Big
Tech to construct a new countryside for communication, but they throwing up toll
roads, blockades, and unfair limitations on the words one can use. They also allow
limit who speak and share: total tyranny.

Let’s not forget the unconscionable gun control laws imposed by the
state legislature. Gun rights face one limitation after another, sadly with the
approval of federal district and circuit courts. Even the Supreme Court of the
United States has offered tacit approval for the limitation on the number of
bullets, the shape and design of firearms, the limit on concealed carry.
Counties throughout the state have taken the “may issue” provision in the CCW
process to mean “may not ever.” This lawless blockade to the Second Amendment
is patently unconstitutional. While the state has attempted to declare
sanctuary from immigration laws, perhaps cities and counties should declare
themselves sanctuaries for gun owners and permit unhampered constitutional
carry. How about havens for avoiding the high taxes and fees?

Sacramento Democrats have become so arrogant, that they admit passing whatever
legislation they want, even if it’s unconstitutional. This cannot stand.

Should the federal government send in the national guard to restore law
and order? Congressman Steve King thinks so, and so do I.

Is there constitutional authority to do so?

Yes. Article IV, Section 4 states:

The United States shall
guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and
shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the
Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened)
against domestic Violence.

Now, “Republican” in the context of the passage does not mean the Grand
Old Party of Lincoln, Reagan, and Trump, but rather the following:

1.                  
a state in which
supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and
which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

2.                  
a group with a certain
equality between its members

The United States Government has a mandate to
ensure republican (not a GOP government, necessarily) form of governance in
every state, including California, stateship in which the people rule through
representatives.

In the state of California, we the people are
not enjoying any kind of guarantee. Here are five reasons why:

As for equality under the law, citizens are
not enjoying this franchise either. Elected officials make sweetheart deals and
avoid prosecution. Illegal aliens get away with crimes, including human
trafficking. Illegal aliens openly flout our nation's immigration and
naturalization laws, but California citizens get prosecuted for trespassing on
private property or recording events in a federal building within California’s
boundaries. Kate Steinle’s murderer walked off Scot

We must make the case to every court and city
council, and state representative that the current government in Sacramento has
forfeited its authority and must be replaced. Notice also that Art. IV,
Sect. 4 declares that the United States is a guarantor to protect states from
invasion, which includes illegal immigration. California has been Ground Zero
for this anti-nationalist perversion since the 1980s, and it’s only gotten
worse as congressional inaction and judicial overreach have permitted illegal
aliens not only to break into the country, but push Americans out of jobs and
endanger their lives and livelihood.

There is no time to lose. President Trump, you have a constitutional
right and duty to ensure true representative government in California, which is
not happening now. Send in the National Guard, but not just along our borders.
Station all federal authorities until a proper, republican form of government
has been reinstated.