Reply #13: 'Organized civil disobedience is in the works.' [View All]

[seafan]

This may be Chertoff's last stand.

By Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr.
Narco News

March 31, 2008

It has come to the attention of the Border Ambassadors network that Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff is once again planning to exercise his dictatorial powers under the Real ID Act. Such a waiver, if filed, would encompass the Continental U.S., specifically from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. That would encompass the entire US-Mexico border.

If such a waiver were filed this week and published in the Federal Registry, the waiver would immediately go into effect for already funded activities. Chertoff & Company would then be set to build the border wall any where along the US-Mexico border they choose. Recognizing that the public might get wind of this, the filing might get delayed or submitted in more than one filing.

What would that mean to all the efforts, litigation and court mandated negotiation in Texas? The Texas portion of the border, along the banks of the Rio Grande, would come under assault. While legally, Chertoff would be able to proceed, he will do cause something that this country has not ever experienced in the modern era. He will set in motion a galvanization of the border community all along the entire 1250 miles of the Rio Grande corridor. Such a galvanization will be welcomed and embraced by folks all along the New Mexico, Arizona and California border regions. That in turn will galvanize concerned citizens who believe in human dignity, who value liberty and justice, people of moral conscience all across America.

Here in Texas, environmentalists, economists, historians, tourism experts, Indigenous groups, immigration rights groups, veterans groups, the academic community, faith based groups, law enforcement officials, even Border Patrol, legal experts, the Farm Workers, city councils, mayors, county commissions, county judges, Texas legislators, Texas US Congressmen, the local media, the business community, wildlife refuges, local, county, state and national parks. There will be a solidifying of alliance and solidarity, the likes of which this the living generations of this country have rarely if ever seen. The Boston Tea Party would pale in contrast.

On the Dr. Eloisa Tamez case, and others like it, District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled that Chertoff was negligent in communicating let alone negotiating with property owners along the Rio Grande before he sued them to take their lands. The media has well documented that the wealthy property owners will not have a wall cut through their property, but the quiet communities that have existed for centuries will be victims of the rich and powerful as well as the racist supremacists. If the judicial voice of reason like that of Judge Hanen is not respected or honored by Chertoff, then it becomes apparent that courts cannot protect the people from such an imbalance and abuse of powers. The next legal recourse would be before the Supreme Court, a challenge that the Sierra Club and the Defenders of Wildlife has already filed.

Meanwhile, organized civil disobedience is in the works. The people all along the banks of the Rio Grand will become a far greater challenge for Chertoff and the ICE Company. Will he be prepared to arrest honest Americans? Will the State of Texas allow him to arrest honest Texans who do not want an “iron curtain” on Texas soil? Will the US Congress and the Bush Administration permit the world to witness the leader of the free world silence the voices of a free people on American soil? Chertoff, and those who pull his strings, do well to drop this flagrant abusive strategy. His “Mother of all Waivers” will only further galvanize “We the people” into a formidable solidarity against domestic tyranny and government sponsored terrorism. It will be a peaceful yet resolute solidarity. In a democracy, the people will prevail.