"Sanctuary Cities"

Now, I dunno' about you, but my feathers have become a bit ruffled over this whole "sanctuary city" thing.  Why?

If you've been living in a refrigerator box under a bridge in Cinnnncinnnannnaatti, you perhaps are unaware of this new and troubling development.  "Sanctuary cities," as they're called, are:

     "Cities, counties and states which have enacted laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that obstruct immigration enforcement and shield criminals from ICE, either by refusing to, or prohibiting agencies from, complying with ICE detainers, imposing unreasonable conditions on incarcerated aliens, or otherwise impeding communication or information exchanges between their personnel and Federal immigration officers."
                                                   
In short, for those who don't read "bureaucrat-eze," like the total horsesh*t above, states and counties and cities which declare themselves to be "sanctuaries" are deciding to give the Federal Government the finger.  Got it?

What that all that stuff above means is that the Feds' Immigration and Customs Enforcement guys and gals (and those of as-yet-to-be-determined gender) are charged with the responsibility of hunting down and arresting illegal aliens who have been charged with a crime, tried in a court of law, and then convicted.  And to do so they often need to issue legal "detainers" to local jails for them to hold convicted criminals in their grasp so they may later be snatched up by the Feds and either deported, or incarcerated in advance of a (much) later deportation.  

Makes sense, right?  

That's the way it's supposed to go.  That's NOT the way it's going in some 500 of our cities, counties and states.

500?  500!  Hmmmm...  

A "detainer" is the primary legal tool used by ICE to gain control of criminal aliens for deportation.  It is a legal notice to another law enforcement agency, like a jail or a detention center, that ICE intends to assume custody of an alien in their control upon release, and includes information on the alien's previous criminal history, immigration violations, and potential threat to public safety and security, especially if released.  

However, these 500+ scofflaw cities and counties and states have chosen to unilaterally defy the Federal immigration laws that make it incumbent upon their officials to hold convicted criminals for ICE arrest.  In other words, they shield these criminals from the Federal authorities, preventing detainer implementation.  In other, other words, they're defying Federal law.  All of them.  Today.  Right now...

So it's pretty obvious where these law breakers are located.  The states include CO, CT, IL, MA, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT and CA (for shame!), all owned and managed by Democrat political majorities.  And it gets worse.  California, for instance, now boasts that 22 of its 58 counties are sanctuaries for convicted criminal aliens.  (Of course, to me that means that 36, aren't!).  Boasts!  Colorado has just as many.  And Oregon.  And New York, of course.  The backward state of New York just started issuing illegals drivers' licenses and eliminating cash bail for illegals, the poor and the homeless (being the most friendly to illegal aliens, California did that years ago, of course).  That means, you can offend at 9:00 a.m., and be back on the streets by lunchtime.  

Just imagine how demoralizing that must be for law enforcement officers!  The perp is back on the street before their paperwork is done...  

But anyway, I was just thinking: these "sanctuary" entities are picking and choosing which Federal laws to honor.  This one's okay, that one's not.  Hmmmm.  I kind of like that idea.  We operate a Federalist Society here, one where the states give up some of their authority and autonomy to the Feds in exchange for certain considerations.  Except it now seems these same states and cities and counties that have ceded that authority and autonomy, now have chosen to unilaterally take it back.  How about we citizens of these same sanctuary states and cities and counties proceed to do the exact same thing?    

These states have declared themselves unfettered by Federal law.  How about we declare ourselves unfettered by state law?  How about we decide to declare our domiciles as sanctuaries from any jurisdiction?  It would be kind of a twist on that old "Sovereign Citizen" claim, but hey, we're the citizens here, and the governments, whichever they may be, are here to serve and support us, not the other way around!

Something tells me that the More Equal Than You have forgotten that little nicety...

And how about we just decide not to pay our taxes.  No Federal taxes, no State taxes, no local taxes.  Just stop paying taxes!  We declare ourselves "sanctuaries" from such unfair and unwanted "intrusion" into our "sovereign" lives, and proceed to use that money to buy ourselves and our families lots and lots of really nice things.  So how about that idea?

After all, we've been told for eons that paying our taxes was "voluntary," right?  Remember when then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told us that?  Well, if it's so voluntary, how about we volunteer to withhold it?

In summation, as I proceed to exit the digital door, my suggestion is that we turn the tables on those who have declared war upon us, the citizens.  Our houses are "sanctuaries," our persons are "sanctuaries."  We individuals are "sanctuaries."  So if California, and New York, and Oregon and Washington, and Delaware, and New Jersey, and, and, and, can simply decide which laws to obey and which ones to ignore, so can we.  

Agree? 

That good old 2nd Amendment is becoming more important in our lives just about now, isn't it?  It sure is in mine...