Well, these smash and grabs are no doubt encouraged by California's code. That makes anyone entering an open business with the intent to steal less than $950 worth of property just a petty misdemeanor and to a criminal, that looks like an invitation and it's an invitation than a lot of criminals are accepting. We are looking at some studies showing violent crime is up 56% since the pandemic. And there doesn't seem to be an end in sight or even a willingness to end it. When this crime phenomenon started, it was mostly isolated to boutique shops with high-end merchandise, like Louis Vuitton and Rolex. But lately. We've heard announcements from target and Walmart, that certain locations will be closing due to the uncontrollable theft.
According to the United nations refugee agency. More than 7 million Venezuelans or about a quarter of the Venezuelan population have fled their country due to ongoing economic and political turmoil. China, Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine obviously have the same problem and no doubt Israel and Palestine will eventually contribute to the massive 15 million displaced souls already in our country seeking refuge.
As Americans...as human beings that are fortunate enough to already call ourselves American citizens, we should be proud that we have made a place in the world that people feel they can escape to, But do you think everyone crossing our borders today have the American dream in their heart? I'd like to think we all came here for a better life just at different times. My family came here in 1611 maybe yours came in 2011, but do you think there may be some truth in the reports that fentanyl the most dangerous drug the world has ever seen is being trafficked through our overwhelmed borders? How about human trafficking? Nearly all of the families coming from south America are under some indentured servitude contract. That contract does include sweatshops, internet scam shops and the illegal sex industry. And according to Forbes, human trafficking is $150 billion a year business and growing. 50% of the victims are children and 80% are women and girls. After Jeffrey Epstein, can anyone help themselves from thinking the worst?
On a global economic or military stage, we couldn't be in a worse position. Ukraine has been horribly defeated even after the Biden administration has spent over 75 billion of hard earned American tax dollars that most of us wouldn't even have spent a dime on. Everyone knows or Ukraine has always been corrupt and still is as evidenced by the show that Zelenski put on by firing his recruitment heads right at the time he is conveniently about to appear in front of Congress to ask for yet more money from the American people.
And it's not over. Palestine has declared war on Israel and Israel is our ally. Some may even say Israel is an extension of the United States, but no matter how you look at it, the United States is poised to defend Israel. And we'll most likely do just that should the conflict escalate and it would appear that escalation is inevitable, which means that we are in for more war that nobody wanted, or even sees the need for.
Nevermind that if you pull back enough layers you will find the United States government and NATO at the very core of every single conflict on the planet today. But does it matter how it all started anymore. All the finger pointing in the world won't change the looming fact that our government simply does not have our best interests in mind anymore. Whether it's bailing out banks for fraudulent activity in 2008 that you would be spending years in prison for, or starting regime change wars that the public was lied to about, killing millions of people, costing trillions of dollars with no foreseeable end and to add insult to injury, it would appear that these piss poor global decisions have left the defense of our country itself at a compromise.
You know, the rumors that ammunition is running low are most likely true otherwise we wouldn't be sending cluster bombs to Ukraine Cluster bombs have already been agreed to by all civilized nations to be a war crime. If our elected government refuses to protect the rights of its citizens, gives away the arsenal we need to protect ourselves and uses the national guard as deployable combat units instead of protecting the domestic homeland as they were intended, then how in the world do we protect ourselves? Our constitutional Republic? And most important our way of life?
Many people think that the second amendment is just the right to bear arms and it stops right there but that's not the truth. There's more to the story and it's not a complicated one. What it actually says is simply this:
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
You see, it's only one single sentence and you'd have to try really, really hard to complicate it.
Over the years, the question of the legitimacy and the need of the citizen militia has come to rise and well, not only does the constitution specifically allow for the formation of a federal army, it also recognizes the inherent right and a need of the people to form militias. Further it recognizes that the citizen and his personal armament are the foundation of the militia. The arming of the militia is not left to the state, but to the citizen. However, should the state choose to arm its citizen militia, it is free to do so bearing in mind that the constitution is not a document limiting citizen, but rather a document limiting the power of government. Now should the state fail to arm it's citizen militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms becomes the source of the guarantee that the state will not be found defenseless in the presence of a threat to its security. It makes no sense whatsoever to look to the constitution of the United States or that of any state for permission to form a citizen militia or to arm itself Since logically the power to permit is also at the power to deny. If brought to the logical conclusion, government may deny the citizen the right to form a militia. If this were to happen, the state would assert itself as the principal making the people the agents. Liberty then would depend on the state's grant of Liberty. Such a concept is foreign to American thought and repugnant to the constitution.
While the second amendment to the United States constitution recognizes the existence of the state militia and recognize it's necessity for securing of a free state, and while it also recognizes that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, the second amendment is not the source of the right to form a militia nor the right to keep and bear arms. Those rights existed in the states prior to the formation of the federal union. In fact, the right to form a militia to keep and bear arms exist from antiquity. The enumeration of those rights in the constitution only underscores their natural occurrence and importance. According to the 10th amendment ultimate power over the militia is not delegated to the federal government and is the sole responsibility of the people. Consequently the power of the militia remains in the hands of the people. Again, the fundamental function of the militia in society remains with the people. Therefore the second amendment recognizes that the militia's existence and the security of the state rests ultimately in the people who volunteer their persons to constitute the militia and their arms to supply its fire power.
The primary defense of the state rest with the citizen militia bearing its own arms. Fundamentally it is not the state that defends the people, but the people who defend the state. The second line of defense of the state consist of a statutory organization known as the national guard whereas the national guard is solely the creation of statutory law, the militia derives its existence from the inherent unalienable rights which existed before the constitution. And whose importance are as such that they merit specific recognition in that document. While the national guard came into existence as a result of legislative activity, the militia existed before there was a nation or a constitutional form of government. The militia consisting of people owning and bearing personal weapons is the very authority out of which the United States constitution arose from.
This point must be emphasized; neither the citizens militia nor the citizens' private arsenal can be appropriate subject of state or federal regulation. It was the armed militia of the American colonies whose own efforts ultimately led to the establishment of the United States of America. Well, some may say that the right to keep and bear arms is granted to Americans by the constitution, just the opposite is true. The federal government itself is the child of the armed citizen. We, the people are the parent of the children we call government. Every part of the government, including these rogue governors are part of the children that we, the people give life to.
The increasing amount of federal and state corruption and their encroachment into our lives violating our protected civil liberties and spending beyond anyone's means to repay, all indicate the need for a swift and decisive parental correction. In short, the federal government needs a damn good spanking to make it behave.
One other important point needs to be made. Since the Constitution is the limiting document upon the government, the government cannot become greater than the granting power. That is to say the servant cannot become greater than the master. Therefore should the chief executive or other branch of government or all the branches together act to suspend the constitution under a rule of martial law or the appearance of martial law, all power granted to the government would be canceled, revoked and deferred back to the granting power and that granting power is the people and the second amendment of the constitution of the United States of America makes sure the people have the firepower to back it up.
My brothers and sisters. Never ever forget the government gets its power from the consent, the consent of those governed. That's the people. Us and the last I checked, none of us consented to suspending the constitution, tanking the economy or endless warfare. I'd say enough is enough. How about you?
Aloha.