Senate Floor Vote 3-3-2020 (Read 18343 times)

n2kilo

Re: Senate Floor Vote 3-3-2020
« Reply #60 on: March 04, 2020, 10:05:39 PM »
Hawaii ignores supreme court decisions and the courts do not have any enforcement authority.  Remember segregation in schools?  The states that denied the supreme court had to have federal government bring in the national guard to escort kids to school.   There is no way the national guard is going to escort me to the gun store in Hawaii not matter what the supreme court says.

The federal government has the enforcement authority.

Regarding the desegregation of the schools in Little Rock in 1957 - the National Guard in Arkansas was part of the problem they assisted the local Police in barring access to the school.. until the president mobilized the 1/327th of the 101st Airborne to escort the black students in. Federal intervention. Then to remove the National Guard from play, Eisenhower federalized the entire Arkansas National Guard and assigned them the escort duty. Once under Title 10 orders - the game is different. Everybody is all gangsta until you face courts martial for disobeying orders. Is this likely in Hawaii? probably not. However, this President as a giant middle finger to the resisters to his agenda in Hawaii might very well do that (no surprise the lawsuits were filed here right?).

Its ironic that we might want or indeed rely on federal intervention in such a circumstance.. and its a sad commentary on the state of our civil society in Hawaii. That we have absolutely no voice. This is the conversation we are having and im sure you're having it privately with your friends offline. The Hawaii we grew up in is long, long dead. All we want is to be left alone - but we get branded the extremists and the dangerous ones. We are on the receiving end of what has been a one-sided cold civil war.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-10730-providing-assistance-for-the-removal-obstruction-justice-within-the

I just did a count of the membership of this forum. There are approximately 400 senior members of the forum (more than 100 posts). im not one of them. But 400 is the nucleus of a political movement or a party. We arent alone.