Once a state like Texas makes a stand, we can expect two developments, probably both rather than one or the other:
1) Other states will be emboldened, and do likewise.
2) Even though their view of reality is dominated by a close-up of their own lower bowel, Federal officials will sense that they have a brief interval to respond in any way that can maintain control.
Anyone who wonders what will be their most likely mode of response needs to remember three telling incidents:
Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the midnight abduction of Cuban refugee Elian Gonzales by Black-helmeted INS agents armed with submachine guns.
On the good side of the ledger, even the sprawling Federal government does not have the ability to impose an effective blockade on any but the smallest New England states, and nor can it depend on the loyalty and cooperation of all its own personnel in any such action.
There is absolutely no doubt that O and his backers are willing to use deadly force to impose their will. Look at the deaths of potentially damaging political witnesses in Chicagoland, and the enthusiastic embrace of the Predator drones firing missiles into the windows of suspected Al Qaeda Jihadis.
Consider also the famous assertion of O’s intimate friend – and admitted unregenerate terrorist – William Ayers that it will probably be necessary to put some 25 million Americans into concentration camps in order to accomplish his desired degree of control.
Don’t be lulled into dreamy over-confidence by Obama’s repeated craven candy-assity in foreign affairs. His obsequious kow-towing to the adversaries of the West is very much a manifestation of his approval of them and his contempt for the West that suckled him.
Toward his domestic adversaries, he has already shown his willingness to destroy their lives using any and all powers available to him, legitimate or no.
It is reasonable to expect the use of midnight thug visits (say, by deputized committees from S E I U or A C O R N) to the apartments of selected opponents. One has already shown it is happy to commit felony assault against “TeaBaggers” in behalf of glorious leader. (The other has shown it’ll do felonies just for the hell of it.) When that’s not enough, things will heat up, probably with great rapidity.
Arrests of people resisting abusive decrees by over-reaching Federal Agencies — rather than hashing the issues out in the courts or elections — should be understood as the Usurpers’ decision to abandon any pretense of rational process and just go for the jugular. Such arrests would likely follow the issue of some dictatorial court injunction or even a Presidential Executive Order to the general population, or to the officials of a refuse-nik state agency: “Do as we say or it’s your ass!” Once things reach that point, the question of Posse Comitatus is likely to come into play. If the FBI, BATF, or other such Federal law enforcement agency starts arresting citizens in response to a blatant POLITICAL directive rather than to long-standing laws, there will be hell to pay.
These scenarios popped into my mind as a whole, but it’s taken me over an hour to put’em into words. If that’s true for a third-rate mind like mine, I spect other folks have already delved deeper than I.
Hosea 8:1-14
