The Arizona Minutemen IV: The Governator.
Don’t say it, Madam Senator, just don’t say it.
The Democrats are making Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger more Republican every day. And this might be a good time for me to make an observation on a very, very sensitive subject, but let’s go through it together, shall we?
As the Dems self-destruct in hyperbole on the public record in every venue – such as confirmation hearings – many of them don’t seem to care what they’re saying, and it’s entirely possible one particular overstatement of the near future can be anticipated, predicted. They’re so angry and so out of control, I can see this one coming.
The Dems are also known decades now for confusing their own anxieties with what they name in their foes, the Republicans. The word Projection is mentioned with more and more cause, and you get the idea. I have my own theory of Liberal anxiety.
The week of April 29th, 2005, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reported by The Los Angeles Times spoke out on the newsmaking Arizona Minuteman Project, and praised the volunteers there for demonstrable positive effects which reinforce the values of the People, namely their involvement in doing what needs to be done, securing our borders. The dems obviously need to be reminded that officials are hired to act in the interests of the People so that the People can go about their business, and when officials fail, or argue, or seem deaf, the People have the rightful authority to pick up where the executives left off.
The fear among Dems is that this truth can apply to every official failure, from volunteers cleaning up the streets and freeways to volunteers cleaning up the borders.
As I’ve said, in this civilian involvement, the volunteers are not taking the law into their own hands; the People are the ultimate authority that grants specific authority to law enforcement (and to Senators, for that matter) and to say that volunteers are taking the law into their own hands is an intentional mischaracterization of the losing side to inflame other angry persons for support.
. . or it’s a poor understanding of our system and its people. Perhaps both.
When asked for comment, Senator Dianne Feinstein through that same edition of The Los Angeles Times reportedly answered that the Governor would be “..praising efforts by untrained volunteers to patrol the borders. The best course..would be to add an additional 2,000 border patrol agents.”
As if.
This is called lip-service. Sounds good at first, but they don’t really hold themselves to it. Of course, this Senator forgets or ignores that the Feds have had decades in which to comply with the wishes of the People, so that we no longer believe in Democrat solutions when we are telegraphed official true feelings of contempt by characterizing the volunteers as Vigilante. [Even the White House announced that it was a poor choice of words.]
Of course it is.
For those who prefer to stand by statements calling civilians Vigilantes, it reflects a poor understanding of our American values. This is not a question of training or no training, but of rightful authority. But they don’t care about things like that.
Which brings me to my observation:
For all the unkind words in reception to the new Governor’s election (not to mention personal defamation of other Republicans in the politics of destruction) one of them has been an attack on his family background (the normal intrusion routine of the Left), questions of his philosophy (diversity for everyone but conservatives, right?), walking that thin line between innuendo and outright namecalling, and you know precisely what I’m talking about.
And when we remember how the media investigate the background of the new Pope, Benedict XVI and attribute similar suspicions, you know what I mean there, too.
But when it comes to tactics of coercion, embellishment, and plain hostility in going against the will of the People – the kind the Dems are accusing Governor Schwarzenegger and others of – it is not the Governor nor his background – but the Democrats, the party of interference, who put the K in Kalifornia, and long before 2005.
Liberal predictions as justification for their interference never seem to materialize. But Liberal coercion prevails in the name of those predictions, nevertheless. When a ten year gun ban failed to impact shootings (because that rifle isn’t the weapon of choice for the bad guys) and when the ban’s sunset failed to realize dire forecasts (again, because that rifle wasn’t the weapon of choice to begin with) the Dems were wrong again. For forty years they’ve been wrong.
Why do liberals seem to do things. . . backwards?
For all their pronouncements about inclusion, diversity and tolerance, the Left this year, as every year, has been the classlessly most intolerant of all, utilizing the uncivil psycho-tactics of you-know-who in heated rhetoric and hyperbole, mischaracterization, and blatant disrespect for others who differ. It’s not dialogue; it’s a defamation policy, the politics of destruction.
In lying, in misframing the issues, in parsing, in ignoring the People and in coercion of the People for forty years, the K in Kalifornia has come from the Left. The K was in Kalifornia long before Governor Arnold even had his hat in the ring. But sometime, and under this heated, hysterical rhetoric from the Left, some Dem was going to let it slip out, and soon.
And, as usual, not apologize for it nor take it back.
This refusal to respect the authority of the People is typical of the Dems everywhere – not only in Kalifornia – who belittle their sovereigns and forget who they work for. Initiative is great, but elected officials are executives, not royalty, and they are engaged to work on our behalf, not their own feelings.
The Liberals will resent this, but they earned it. And they’re working to keep it!
The Governor was welcome here from Day One. As an emigre, he arrived, worked hard and has become a shining example of self-confidence, ability, shrewd choice and perseverence. Many emigres who come to America have courage and make it. He can discern the legal from the illegal. I’d love to meet him and shake his hand.
Along with perhaps tens of millions of other Americans, I am very pleased to see Governor Schwarzenegger speaking out. He is living proof that if one can do it, another can too, so that people can drop the victim mentality, and succeed by going by the rules of fair play. That kind of values system would naturally appreciate trust and right-mindedness of others such as the Minuteman Project. He has nothing to fear in this. Only the Dems, of course, have something to fear from self-reliance, because with widespread self-reliance, the Liberal has no sense of purpose.
Without crisis, without victims, the predatory Democrats have nothing to say.
Governor Schwarzenegger spells California with a C. And we believe he can do the job of putting back the C in California for all of us. That is why we affectionately refer to him as The Governator.
Until the Democrats can conduct themselves with self-restraint, until they can speak to the majority party with respect, and until they can stay on topic. . . they have nothing to say.
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John Longenecker’s book The Battle We Fight – Battling Potomac Fever To Recapture Our Homes And Communities is available from online booksellers and from his website, www.thebattlewefight.com
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