Once again, the concept of a “Federation of States” has
meaning in internal affairs. Originally, it related to protecting one state’s
territory from the other state but quickly took on a connotation related to
commerce. Those issues are all behind us for the most part. Now things have
changed to human rights. . At a time when many people are trying to disassemble
the United States Government for their purpose, they remind us of the dangers
they are imposing on our “inalienable rights”. When the cry goes up for states
rights, we should immediately put up our guard. Those who call for states
rights are usually if not always, acting on nefarious impulses. It is never to
add to individual protections but rather they want to take away one or another
right. They often hide behind the façade of the Federal Government is there to
protect us from foreign invaders. The truth is the government has a bigger role
in protecting us from other states, which is an extension of protecting us from
ourselves.
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Many people in the Plantation South have never gotten over
the Civil War; as ugly as it sounds to most of us, they want slavery in a new
form. They know that they cannot own people, so they change it to complete
dominance of people. In addition, they the desire to dominate other people has
spread from black people and Native Americans to Latino, to immigrants of all
kinds, and to various religious groups. We can add gay and transgender people
to the list of those they want to dominate. Most surprising is the recent surge
of suppression of women through limiting civil rights in health care. Most of
us thought we agreed on all of these things, if not centuries ago, were decided
years ago. Women suffrage became national only in 1920. However, some new
issues such as those related to the recognition that homosexuality is genetic
and not learned.
A recent statement rings true; all of these issues are human
rights issues and not state issues. The meaning is clear; in a Federation of
States, what is a human right in one state is a human right in all states.
Events in Colorado, New York City, Ferguson Missouri are all headlines with a
common theme; in each case it has gone to the Federal Government for
intervention through the District Courts but also in most cases they have gone
on to the Department Of Justice. We need no more evidence than this. The point
is that local and state governments are unable to control locally held
prejudices; they needed Federal intervention to do it properly. It is not
realistic to argue otherwise. Of course, the word “properly’ needs definition,
which in a democracy it is whatever the majority decides is proper. The message
is clear; a call for states right in current vernacular colloquial speech is a
call to discriminate
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