California Just Jumped the Shark.....

The State of California finally went and did it.

Yes, my friends, and you certainly are my friends, California has passed some doozie laws of late.  Laws like Saturday Night Live might have passed if given the chance.  Like, no longer arresting pre-pubescent prostitutes, or their pimps. Like outlawing dairy cows from farting (not kidding!).  Like citing those who light fires in their fireplaces below 3,000 feet of elevation.  Like threatening those who use the wrong pronoun when addressing others with fines and even jail terms.  Oh, and like forcing people to undergo a Federal background check every time they wish to buy some ammunition.  That last one could make a lowly $5 box of .22s cost you more than $50.00!  

I guess the gun-haters in California have finally discovered that making ammunition too expensive to buy turns expensive guns into expensive paperweights.  It's taken them awhile but they've finally figured it out.

But now California has "jumped the shark."  It has chosen to extricate itself from the United States of America.  Peacefully, not a shot fired.  It just up and gave the rest of America the proverbial finger.  How?  On October 4th our Civil Servant-for-Life, Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, a failed Jesuit priest who will retire a multi-millionaire after never having held a private-sector job, signed into law the absolute dumbest piece of legislation in the history of the galaxy.  Maybe even the universe!  CA declared itself a "sanctuary state."  That means our once-Golden-but-now-seriously-tarnished-State has made it unlawful for our law officers to obey the law.

Think about that for a minute.

This new law prohibits CA's law enforcement personnel from cooperating with Federal ICE or the FBI or Homeland Security or other immigration authorities who wish to snag their illegal aliens from their jails.  That means known criminal illegals who have been locked up will now be released to wander the streets once their State beefs have been settled. That means they won't be detained so the Feds can come in and grab them.  That also means they'll be right here and ready to vote for their preferred Democrat candidate once Election Day comes around.

That means California has chosen not to enforce Federal law.  That means that Brown and his cadre of sycophantic lefty loons has now decided to pick and choose which of our Federal laws to obey, and which ones to simply ignore.  It bans local and State authorities from using immigration resources to "investigate, interrogate, detain, detect, or arrest persons for immigration enforcement purposes."  It also bans them from asking about a person's immigration status.  Isn't that the definition of anarchy, I ask rhetorically?  Of course it is!  But then again, California has been sliding down that slippery slope toward out-and-out socialism for decades.

In response (retaliation?) Immigration and Customs Enforcement has just issued a statement letting CA know that "at large" arrests of illegals will now take place.  It lays down the gauntlet for all the CA weenies who have decided to involve themselves in Fed business that the Big Boys will now be wielding the "long arm of the law" to sidestep local enforcement efforts. In essence, the Feds will round up illegals without consideration for local or state participation. 

So we all learned in civics class that the 10th Amendment to the Constitution specified that the states only granted the Federal Government certain specified powers, and nothing more.  Those four were 1) minting our money, 2) managing our mail delivery, 3) refereeing disputes between the states and 4) securing our borders.  That last one includes controlling immigration and naturalization.  Now, it looks like the State of California is choosing to unilaterally and unconstitutionally take one of those powers back.

So here's my solution for the Federal 'Gummint (to be filed under "Payback's a Bitch!"):  Provide your border guards with a "Bienvenido to Alta California!" pamphlet to be given to "recent arrivals" once they've dried off from their arduous journey here.  In that pamphlet would be a "Map to the Stars," showing our newly-non-invited-but-welcomed-with-open-arms-by-some guests" with the directions to all their favorite movie-types' homes.  They have big houses, right? I'm sure they wouldn't mind sharing, right?  And these famous illegal-lovers have been quite vociferous in their support of "open borders," haven't they?  I'm recommending they get to experience "open borders" in a manner quite a bit more up close and personal then they had previously considered. And let's not forget to throw in some coupons good for freebie food and drinks and and phones and car rentals and stuff like that.  I mean, that's the very least California's glitterati can do, right?

I'm sure that the Weenies-in-Charge up there in that jerkwater town known as Sacraupyours won't mind a bit getting all this free advertising.  After all, they must reeeeeely want all lot more Undocumented Democrats to replace all those middle-class citizens who have been leaving in droves from Venezuela-North toward the Real America.  

The States and the Federal Gummint getting along together just gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over.  Doesn't it you?