God Bless America

Eighteen months into his term of office, President Barack Obama is faced with an unusual, even ironic, situation.  It would seem that several US States, Arizona topping the list, have indicated a desire to abrogate the Constitution of the United States.  It the intention of Arizona et. al. to simply decide that the powers granted the the Federal Government by that wonderful Constitution, are better served by the individual States.  I speak of course of Arizona et. al. deciding that they will now begin to control immigration into their separate State.  The next step, of course, would be issuing Arizona Passports, Arizona International Customs Procedures, issuance of visitor visas, international banking rules, interstate trade and transport requirements and the list goes on probably ending somewhere around the time Arizona begins issuing its own currency and stamps.  The founding fathers recognized the inherent problems and road to failure that would be paved if the separate States were given powers that overlapped into the interest of the other States or worse, ignored or trumped the national laws.  Arizona wants to deny the right of teachers to teach the English language if they have any sort of accents.  This presumes that anyone in Arizona or any other States can actually presume to speak anything resembling true English. I find it curious that the citizen's of Arizona want us to believe that their porous borders are something that occurred last Wednesday or something.  Of course the relative free access across the Arizona borders has been a reality since Arizona was a Territory awaiting Statehood.  What they are not telling us is that the "problem" did not become a problem until the numbers began revealing a creeping parity between the numbers of Latinos in Arizona and the number of "whites."  Before the fifties and sixties, along the various Southwestern States, there were no Spanish surnames holding political office.  Now it is common to see Govenors, Mayors, Police Chiefs and all points in between doing great jobs and bearing those wonderfully melodious Latino names.  This not only indicates more awareness on the part of the Latino community but it also indicates a growing legal voting block and now "Whitey" seems to be getting scared.  If we listen to the people of Arizona going through their daily whine sessions, we are suppose to believe that the Federal Government is not doing enough to stem the tide of illegal immigration.  We are suppose to make another 6,000 trained border patrol agents materialize out of thin air.  Failing this we are suppose to give Arizona 6,000 armed military personnel to carry out their secessionist aims and goals.  Imagine 6,000 young soldiers walking the streets of Arizona's major cities stopping anyone who "looks suspicious" and demanding proof of citizenship.  "Arizona uber alles".  Fortunately the US Government has a doctrine of Posse Comitatus which forbids the military from conducting routine police activities except in times of declared national emergencies.  As for coming up with another 6,000 border agents - not likely!   Even though Arizona believes they are the most important piece of real estate in the known world, the Federal Government has thousands of miles of other border areas to protect. Let's see what happen when a black President now interposes himself in a State's attempt to secede  from the Union.  I personally think Arizona should shut their pie holes since the Latino community will very soon have a voting majority and then we'll see how well "whitey" likes being profiled and questioned about their right to walk the streets of Arizona.