American Sovereignty

Of the Arizona border President Obama, defending his lack of action to protect America against Mexican drug cartels that are overrunning sovereign United States soil, said that a "nation is not defined by its borders." As he has so many other times, he proved once again his absolute ignorance with that statement. A culture may not be defined by physical borders, but a nation is. If you don't draw a line and say, "This is mine and that is yours," you no longer have sovereignty over any land. If there is no border anybody can claim it. That is exactly what is going on in Arizona right now.

Cultures can easily, and often do, cross borders. There is a large Filipino community in San Diego, California. They keep many of the same traditions, foods, and customs that they brought with them from the Philippines, but they are not a sovereign nation within the United States. Similarly, there is a large Dutch community in Denver, Colorado. Every year they hold a festival to celebrate Dutch products and traditions. They are a culture but not a sovereign nation. This is true in other parts of the world as well. The Kurds of northern Iraq have cultural and relational ties with the Kurds of eastern Turkey, but they are separated by a defined national border.

The same is true of the United States and Mexico. A defined physical border divides the sovereignty of the two nations. Illegal alien drug runners coming over the border and murdering US citizens amounts to an invasion of US sovereign territory. To do nothing about it is more than just dereliction of duty, it's criminal. The president promised to send 1200 National Guard troops to the border. Five months after the promise thirty (that's right 30) troops have received orders. Yet, the government has filed three lawsuits against Arizona to prevent the state from acting in the Federal government's absence.

To make matters worse, the president has now complained to China, to Cuba, and to the United Nations about American civil rights abuses. Let that sink in for a moment. He has complained to the world's worst human rights violators about America abusing civil rights. What does he expect them to do? Invade America? Put sanctions against us? This is nothing but a deplorable failure in leadership. If America is that bad it is the president's job to do something about it, not the United Nations or China or Cuba. He is the elected leader; it is his responsibility. But just as he has refused to take responsibility for all of his other failures, blaming them on George Bush, he now refuses to take responsibility for his country and goes crying to the UN.

It proves more than anything else that this president has absolutely no respect for the nation he is supposed to be governing. He has no respect for our national boundaries, and no concern for the safety of the American people. He has gone to war with Arizona, his Justice Department deliberately trying to prohibit Arizona from protecting its own citizens. He has not only ignored and bypassed the constitution, he has, by ignoring the Arizona border, begun to dismantle the country.

When he announced his campaign for presidency in 2007, Candidate Obama immediately played the race card. How ironic that the nation that fought a civil war to preserve the Union and ultimately end slavery, is now being driven into a new civil war by a black president who was elected by an overwhelmingly non-racist public. (How could anyone say otherwise? He would never have been elected without the white vote.)

If the polls are correct and a huge Republican victory is forthcoming in November, the new majority in Congress needs to investigate this president as vigorously as the Democrats and liberal press have covered for him for the last two years. This president needs to be impeached and the proof of his citizenship needs to be exposed. What the president is doing amounts to treason, unless of course he's not actually an American citizen. Then he needs to be arrested and put in Guantanamo.

The United States of America is a sovereign nation with definable borders. Those borders need to be enforced and protected. Illegal aliens need to be sent home, and so do illegal alien amnesty loving congressmen, no matter what party they belong to.