Washington Times' Kuhner asks "Should Arizona secede?"
July 30, 2010 6:36 am ET by MMFA Staff
In a July 29 Washington Times column, Jeffrey Kuhner claimed the ruling "is unilaterally disarming the people of Arizona in the face of a dangerous enemy," and that "leftist judges - elitist activists in black robes - override democratic legitimacy." Kuhner warned that the United States is in danger of becoming a "socialist superstate," and claimed "The choice is becoming starkly apparent: devolution or dissolution." From the Washington Times:
Judicial activism is pushing America to the breaking point. This week, a federal judge blocked key provisions of Arizona's immigration law, thwarting the will of the people. The decision was ominous and will reverberate for years to come.
Judge Susan Bolton, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, is a liberal elitist who believes judicial imperialism trumps democracy. Her ruling states that local police cannot check the immigration status of people arrested or stopped for violations of the law. In her view, that would amount to an abuse of civil liberties and unduly burden the federal immigration system. She also stipulated that residents cannot be required to carry proof of legal status.
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The administration and congressional Democrats are making a strategic calculation. They think the Arizona law may be popular in the short term, not just in the state but across the country, but they are convinced that in the long term, the law will backfire on Republicans - especially with the surging Hispanic voting bloc. Mr. Obama thinks he can aggressively court the Latino vote by demonizing Arizona. This is classic Saul Alinsky-style radicalism: the politics of divide and conquer, pitting races and classes against one another in the service of state power.
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Arizona is where the old republic will stand or fall. It is showdown at high noon. Either America returns to its constitutional system based on real federalism, states' rights, individual liberty and decentralized power, or it continues to slide toward the darkness of a socialist superstate. Washington - with its swollen bureaucracy, imperial arrogance, rampant corruption and dangerous detachment from ordinary citizens - is despised and distrusted by many Americans. A secession of the heart is taking place - a profound alienation from the liberal ruling class.
In the future, many states - including Arizona - may decide they have no other option but to break away from the union. The choice is becoming starkly apparent: devolution or dissolution.
These people don't want a smooth functioning government. I don't know what they want anymore...they've all gone crazy. This is not a good situation for our country...
Meanwhile, you have Troglodytes like Mark Levin accusing the Democrats of trying to Balkanize the country. WTF?
It's madness.
Do they have a course in absurd exageration and distortion of reality in the school where this guy got his degree?
The court defended American and Constitutional values. Period. No one was "disarmed."
And only an abject racist could call Mexican migrant workers "dangerous" with a strait face.
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...And only another abject racist would accept that charectarization.
The old republic is extremely fragile and delicate
Thanks a lot, FOX, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck. You guys have amassed great fortunes dressing up entertainment as serious political commentary, and you've injected a fatal poison into the American Political System. I hope you're proud.
We're barreling down the road toward becoming a Third World Nation, and our politicians are too busy sniping at each other to get anything done. Yeah, yeah "both sides do it", but the Right Wing has made it their mission to cripple the Federal Government and turn Politics into a blood sport. Well, boys, you may get your wish.
The judge followed precedent, right down the line, and applied the law as it exists.
Look for the Supreme Court, ultimately to reverse a century of precedent and rule for Arizona however. The political, judicially activist, result-oriented conservative majority is out to redefine the Court and make in an overtly political source of conservative power.
One of the less pleasant features of America's politicizing every issue, is the way people define an "activist judge." If a judge issues a ruling that doesn't fit your political view, he or she is immediately branded "activist".
And if Kuhner is the "voice of reason" why would he suggest that a border state "break away from the union"?
My question: Then what?
It would seem that many modern Republicans are infected with that same delusional thinking. The ascendance of a Black Man to the Presidency has given them an excuse to dust off the old pig-headed bigotry that nearly destroyed the Country in 1860.
I shudder to think what will happen if these modern Secessionist nutbags get their wish.
Muslim terrorists would be the least of our problems.
They'd quickly see that being IN the United States and being part of their alleged thumb on the neck Federal Government wasn't so bad after all.
I'd love to see someone propose a bill, that for any state where an elected official, or someone who is running for an elected official position talks about seceding from the Union, all federal money is removed from said state. Immediately.
They'd come crawling back in a matter of days.