I keep thinking about the Washington Post article I read last week regarding additional states considering or passing anti-immigration laws similar to the law passed in Arizona. According to the article, "Lawmakers in Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah, which have already taken steps against illegal immigration, say that Arizona-style measures have a realistic chance of passing when their legislatures reconvene in 2011." At least 17 other state are considering similar legislation also.
The article is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2010/07/07/GR2010070705388.html?sid=ST2010070703034
I am beginning to wonder if this is how our grand experiment starts to unravel. Bear with me for a second.
A. Depending on your viewpoint, our central government is or appears to be ineffective.
B. Groups begin to demonstrate against what they perceive as the ineffectiveness of the central government--think Tea Party.
C. Groups begin to talk about the need to do away with or make major changes in the central government--think Tea Party.
D. States begin to pass laws that contravene federal laws--think Arizon's SB1070.
E. The central government takes on the states in federal court to overturn the laws in D--think ongoing federal lawsuit against Arizona's SB1070, which is supposed to take effect on July 29, 2010.
F. There are more demonstrations by the groups in B above but now National Guard units are nationalized to put down the demonstrations–riots break out.
G. One or more states decide to withdraw from the union and requires that its citizens no longer obey federal laws or submit tax payments, etc. to the federal government and orders state National Guard units to stand down or not mobilize when order to by the federal government--think back to 1861 secessions.
H. Regular Army forces are brought in.
I. Groups begin to “man up” openly carrying weapons that our laws have permitted. Some hothead takes a potshot at a group of soldiers--think Fort Sumpter April 12-13,1861.
J. Civil War??????
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I wonder if this is how it felt in the former Soviet Union during its run-up to 1991 . . . Economy staggered. Armed forces mired in a foreign conflict that cannot be won and is increasingly unpopular at home. A national identity that is splintered by regionalism, religious extremism, and elitism fueled by access to wealth and political favoritism.
I suppose it could be Seeker. It would beinteresting if we could run the "tape" back and take a look.
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