Our failing government...

From the SBSun.com website, published yesterday:

• Two Christian organizations Monday rebuked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for encouraging the Minuteman Project's volunteer policing of America's border with Mexico.

  The Minuteman Project, which launched its campaign against illegal immigration in Arizona last month, plans to move its efforts to California in August.

  "We are appalled that Governor Schwarzenegger, who as our state's chief magistrate is pledged to maintain the rule of law, has chosen instead to praise a group of vigilantes who operate outside the law, saying they've done a terrific job in patrolling the border with Mexico,' the California Council of Churches and Pomona-based Progressive Christians Uniting wrote in a strongly worded letter to the governor.

  "Such a statement is dangerous and unprecedented,' the letter continued. "No responsible or moral public official would encourage citizens to take the law into their own hands, particularly on an issue that is already so laden with division and hatred.'

Make sure you read carefully that last sentence.

I thought in America, the People elect representatives to work in government for us. Poll after poll show the desire of the American people to have our borders secured so that our hospitals, schools, roads, and culture are not destroyed beyond repair by illegal aliens who come here.

When our elected leaders fail us, it is not only our privelege, but further our right and obligation to do the necessary work, in this case working border patrol.

In the once famous, and apparently recently forgotten, words of Thomas Jefferson:

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.