The issues in Texas have much greater consequence than a mere state’s rights issue. It is a question of national legitimacy. Is the Constitution the legal and rightful expression of American government or is America now simply a mass of lawless land? Is the president a dictator who can ignore the laws passed by congress, invite thousands of terrorists and foreign armies in without consequence, or is he bound by the laws as much as the states and the people? When will the people punish him for this lawlessness?

The Constitution, for all of its flaws, shields the people from the government and serves as a limitation on the powers of the government. It stands in the way of the power of government and as such has been attacked by government officials from the day it was presented to the people. It describes what form the government will take, but it is not perfect, nothing is. Those who revere it seek to impose its limitations on the government and those in government seek to free itself of those limitations.

This is the battle that rages every day, from sunup to sundown, year in and year out, decades and centuries of struggle. Those sent by the people to ensure that their rights and laws be honored are routinely corrupted and coerced into the Washington DC system of subversion; their purpose abandoned. The dance, the balancing act of behaving one way and professing another, is the show they put on to retain support of the people while betraying them.

The words, the promises of the government to the people, remain. The founders wrote these promises down so that the people would know of them firsthand. But there were no provisions for enforcement, except by the force of arms. That was the purpose of the Second Amendment, to ensure that the people would always be able to resist a government that had turned violently against them, as it has today.

With that as a backdrop, here are Governor Abbott’s words:

“The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States. The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now.”

The important thing to understand about this statement is that it comes from a Bush-trained politician, a Bush-supported politician and the Bushes are globalists who want open borders. Politicians that come to this issue come to it out of necessity. The Border Invasion is now either number one or number two on the list of most important issues nationwide, in every state. The blue cities see it as a means of grabbing more federal dollars, but they have to admit that it is a crisis in order to get those dollars.

The traitors have commandeered the treasury and used our funds to pay for this invasion, cycling pay for the non-profits through the UN. Now they ask for more money to pay for concierge border patrol agents to efficiently funnel these illegals into our land to unleash terrorist attacks upon us. This is a violation of the compact between the United States and the states of the union as well. The problem we have is that the cowards in the House, namely Mike Johnson, want to rush through continuing resolution after continuing resolution and avoid this issue all together. The need to shut down the border or shut down the government is palpable, but cowards turn away from duty and pursue acceptance. That is exactly how the nation arrived at this terrible moment.

These are the charges:

• President Biden has violated his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by Congress. Instead of prosecuting immigrants for the federal crime of illegal entry, President Biden has sent his lawyers into federal courts to sue Texas for taking action to secure the border.

• President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants. The effect is to illegally allow their en masse parole into the United States.

• By wasting taxpayer dollars to tear open Texas’s border security infrastructure, President Biden has enticed illegal immigrants away from the 28 legal entry points along this State’s southern border— bridges where nobody drowns—and into the dangerous waters of the Rio Grande.

“The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary. The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border”

The issues are simple. Does the executive branch have the right to ignore laws passed by the congress? That would violate the separation of powers. Does the executive branch have the right to forfeit national security simply because it is charged with maintaining it? That would seem to violate national security, a crime, a felony. If the executive branch can, and indeed has, violated the laws and endangered the nation, particularly damaging the border states, is it not within the power of those states and the people to defend themselves?

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.

That is a promise made to the states to inspire agreement with the original charter and now ignored by the executive branch alone to the detriment of Texas in particular. But it’s all just words with varying and often opposite definitions thrown about to allow politicians to get what they want.

“Shall” is a very important word in legal terms, one that patriots are counting on to save the day. It does not allow for convenience or deliberation, it requires the United States to secure each state from invasion. There would be no invasion if the entire government were not directed to allow it, from funding it, to opening the borders, to tearing down any restrictions to entry, to paying, through the UN, the NGOs that provide guidance and training in how to request asylum.

If you want the words of the Constitution to mean something, you are going to have to put the cost of their violation at the top of your priority list.

Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 and indeed Article IV, Section 4, hinges on the definition of “invasion.” In previous immigration law it would not apply and if all immigration laws were being honored, it would not apply, but that is not the current situation. The immigration laws are not being enforced, they are not even being recognized. The executive branch has ignored Supreme Court rulings that would enforce the “stay in Mexico” policy that had restrained illegal immigration. The executive is acting in illegal ways to encourage and accommodate illegal immigration, not legal and codified immigration. Organized mobs overwhelming the border patrol, overwhelming the ability of ICE to track and deport is the very definition of “invasion.” It is an invasion and it is treason to allow it.

Taking advantage of this illegality, this open door to the southern border, enemies have entered and dispersed throughout the land. This is known, and they are being paid upwards of $3000 a month to stay, provided with shelter and food. This is “aid and comfort” and exposes the executive to charges of treason as defined in the Constitution. When these enemies unleash their acts of terrorism on the United States, this treason will be justification to prosecute and execute those in the executive branch who have enabled it.

Governor Abbott, by means of now challenging the federal government to enforce the laws and secure the border, is demonstrating to the rest of the nation that the duty of the states is to restrain the illegal actions of the federal government, a principle that has long since been lost, a principle that is integral to the functioning of the system as written.

This is being framed as Texas violating the law to keep illegal aliens out of the country. They have no problem with the illogical conclusion that they’ve come to. In fact, being illogical is part of the vetting process for reporters these days, because that’s a necessary ingredient in the acceptance of communism. Only in the delusions of communist reporters can exerting the law be construed as defying the law.

Don’t heap too much praise on Governor Abbott, though, for he is a politician and did not come around to this position until it became one of the hottest political issues of the decade. Still, he plays around the edges of it, doing what he can and still with the idea of doing nothing. But we can force his hand by standing behind him, by making his position too irresistible. Watch the interaction between Abbott and Paxton. Paxton wants to be governor and they both know it. Paxton can use this issue to show how weak Abbott is on the border, vaulting himself into favor in a couple of years.

Right now, though, Texas is not in rebellion, the federal government is, Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas are in rebellion, but not Texas.

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