I’ve often wondered how our government can be so neglectful of protecting its member states from invasion. I’ve also wondered which if any, of our Presidental candidates this year have any kind of a record on being anti-invasion, that is, of being protective of those of us who used to be called Citizens of the United States of America. I’ve wondered so much about whether the states have protection via the US Constitution that I actually decided to look it up online, and lo! It seems like our Constitution has a section which SHOULD guarantee that the invasion from South of the Border be stopped. That is, if our government agencies honor the Constitution at all. You can read what it says right here:

Article 4 Section 4
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.

Well, that does seem to cover it, doesn’t it? The border states are experiencing an invasion of epic proportions; it’s just not happening via guns and missiles (unless you are a Border Patrol Agent getting rocked at the TJ border). So I think this idea is where the Homeland Security honchos get themselves off the hook—the invasion is peaceful. Well, sort of. Ask the many people who have been victimized in various uncomfortable and often life-threatening ways by illegal aliens. I am not sure how any invasion could be looked at and deemed OK. An invasion is an invasion, and Article 4 Section 4 of the US Constitution guarantees the States protection against them, after all.

Of course, when you have powerful business lobbies that want the invasion because of the cheap and easily manipulated labor it brings, that adds another layer of complication to the situation. On one side of the scale, the Constitution; on the other, big business lobbies and the money they bring to Washington. Kind of like the ancient Egyptian concept of weighing your soul vs. a feather after y’all passed on. Makes me think a bunch of government folks have souls weighed down with obligation to business, not to the people they ostensibly serve or the feather’s weight of a Constitution.

I have to admit I cheer up some when I read articles in the local press about Mexicans self-deporting as times get harder. But how significant is this movement? I doubt that it is a large percentage of the invading force that’s giving up and going home. After all, we provide welfare, health care, education, and that useful human item called the anchor baby. They give us one of them, we give them lots of stuff. But I have heard of repatriating Mexicans requesting Mexican citizenship for their US-born children so they can go to Mexican schools, to which I say, good fortune to y’all, and farewell. Hasta la vista, and don’t look back.

But what does this all have to do with Presidental candidates? And why I am not going to vote for Mike Huckabee? Well, his record as Governor of Arkansas completely contradicts his current statements on immigration. Now he wants to close our borders; then he ran Arkansas as a sanctuary state. He arranged for a Mexican Consulate in Little Rock to pay the kind of rent the Boy Scouts used to get in the pre-ACLU lawsuit days. He condemns those who want to reduce or eliminate illegal immigration as “racists and bigots”, but makes sure that certain chicken-pickin’ corporations get their cheap chicken pickers. In a sensible times and places, those who give aid to the enemy during an invasion are treated as traitors; in this time and place, the man runs for president.

So what does Huckabee think about the future of Southern White folks? Admittedly, the following was said in jest. But sometimes the truest things are said in jest.

“Pretty soon, Southern white guys like me may be in the minority”

It’s smart to know where you stand with someone who despises his own kind; it’s stupid to vote for him.

He is also reported to say on his website (although a brief survey of it did not show this quote), “We need to create a process to allow people to come here to do the jobs—plucking chickens, tarring roofs, picking fruits—that are going unfilled by our citizens.”

Vote for Huckabee. If you want a chicken pluckin’, roof tarrin’, fruit pickin’ invasion.

Didn’t the Constitution have something to say about that?

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