IMO to deploy National Guard to a state which is not their chartering authority is dead wrong. Only if the destination state had formally withdrawn from the union (making them a foriegn power within US territorial borders) would such a move have a constitutional leg to stand on.
That said, that reasoning is drawn from the realms of “conventional” warfare. This is Covert Cultural Warfare which is a beast of a totally different nature. In the Portland deployment the FACT that the eastern counties of Oregon have by a super majority voted to secede from Oregon to form Western or Greater Idaho (effectively a new state) sets the existing Oregon State Government a political entity in total limbo and possibly not even Constitutionally valid to be a state in the first place! Just a minor factoid no one is talking about.
But Texas in Illinois? Nope. That… smacks of Stalinist pograms (forcable relocations) or worse, the Chinese post WW2 “cultural revolution!
Step carefully, Mr. President. Prove the extreme cultural shift that fragmented to destruction a state of the union was the work of a foriegn incursion and you’re righteous. But if it wasn’t then you are not, and history will not be gentle in its’ judgements.
October 9, 2025 @ 11:17 am
IMO to deploy National Guard to a state which is not their chartering authority is dead wrong. Only if the destination state had formally withdrawn from the union (making them a foriegn power within US territorial borders) would such a move have a constitutional leg to stand on.
That said, that reasoning is drawn from the realms of “conventional” warfare. This is Covert Cultural Warfare which is a beast of a totally different nature. In the Portland deployment the FACT that the eastern counties of Oregon have by a super majority voted to secede from Oregon to form Western or Greater Idaho (effectively a new state) sets the existing Oregon State Government a political entity in total limbo and possibly not even Constitutionally valid to be a state in the first place! Just a minor factoid no one is talking about.
But Texas in Illinois? Nope. That… smacks of Stalinist pograms (forcable relocations) or worse, the Chinese post WW2 “cultural revolution!
Step carefully, Mr. President. Prove the extreme cultural shift that fragmented to destruction a state of the union was the work of a foriegn incursion and you’re righteous. But if it wasn’t then you are not, and history will not be gentle in its’ judgements.