The Hand doesn't Bite Back

This morning I read an article in FOX News titled in part, “ICE ‘testing our defenses,’ San Francisco sheriff.” The article highlights the internal discord among deputies in the San Francisco sheriff’s department who failed to follow San Francisco police policy and the State of California’s sanctuary city policies and the sheriff herself who is “taking the blame” in failing to lead. In case you didn’t catch that, I’ll spell it out for you. The sheriff’s department in California, the regional law enforcement agency in a state in these United States of America, likened action by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to Sappers during the Vietnam conflict, Al Qaeda operatives carrying knives and sharp objects onto planes, and Chinese hackers plunging into maintenance IT systems to jump security protocols on nuclear energy facilities. That’s right.

They called it war.

Against their own country.

Against their own Federal Government.

Against you.

Those of us not from California joke that liberal California is so far left they’ve left their right minds. But for a law enforcement agency to liken federal activity in defense of all people to warlike action – probing their defenses? Come on, California. It’s like you have already declared civil war.

First your legislators make your state’s policies in open defiance of federal law. Then your appointed justices pass judgment on a lethargic and unsuspecting nation by disallowing federal control over who can and who cannot enter the country. One of your mayors takes sensitive investigation information and broadcasts it, placing special interests and criminals above the rights of citizens and law abiding Californians. Now a law enforcement leader in one of your largest municipalities likens legal federal action to war?

Haven’t you ever been told not to bite the hand that feeds you?

I’m not going to even try to use reason with you on this one, because we’re well past that. Reason left the conversation when a state in the Union chose to place the interests of people from another country illegally in the US above their own citizens, and those citizens supported it. We left reason behind when an illegal immigrant was acquitted after killing a citizen – accident or not, he should not have been in the country to kill her in the first place.

So, California, beware. When you bite the hand that feeds you, know that hand doesn’t need to strike back to be felt, right? All the hand must do is stop feeding you.

Maybe I should categorize this blog entry as "Tales from the Front"