Whom do our representatives represent?

Two incidents in recent Congressional working days highlight a fresh concern: just whom do our elected representatives represent? Several Senators are crafting a “deal” that still does not enforce the law as the law requires. And in another, unrelated case, one representative does not even pretend to represent Americans anymore. This flaw in our Constitutional republic has been festering ever since the Parties started handing out “tickets” to voters to remind Party faithful for whom they must vote. Only the people can reform this system – by demanding a respect our representatives have clearly lost.

Representatives who don’t represent us anymore

Kristinn Taylor of The Gateway Pundit has the article on the most brazenly disrespectful declaration from any Representative. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) came to this country from Somalia as a “refugee.” Over the weekend she spoke to several Somalis – in Somalian. Several English translations revealed that she brazenly told that audience that she represents Somalia and Somalians as opposed to Americans. As if that weren’t egregious enough, she evidently wants America to support Somalia’s efforts to acquire territory by force!

Here are the various video and other social media assets Kristinn Taylor included in her article:

Excerpt, allegedly “lightly edited for formatting”:

A lot of people call me asking: Ilhan You should talk to the US gov. What will the US gov do? My answer was the US gov will do what we tell it to do. We should have that confidence as Somalis. We live in this country We pay its taxes. It is the country where your own daughter is a congresswoman. As long as I am in the congress, others will not take Somalia’s territorial waters. The US gov will not support others to take what’s ours. So don’t worry about that dear Minnesota. You got your lady in the congress. She is well aware and feel what you’re feeling. As for President Hassan Sheikh (of Somalia) I’m saying: we are very happy because of you. Because of the great work you did. You have showed Somalis and others that no matter how much problems we have as Somalis, we are capable people. We are people who know their country. People that never in their history….(inaudible) people that their country can never be put in danger. So want to congratulate the people of Minnesota and Somalis everywhere for sticking together (like my uncle said). And also how all of you stood by our President Because he needs all of us to stand by him.

Somalia is for Somali people. Somalia is one. We are all brothers and sisters. Our land cannot be divided. There are other lands that we are missing which we’ll seek insha allah one day. But for the land we got now it will not be divided. So thank you all for honoring me and welcoming me always.

This was the most alarming version of the speech:

This is an example of irredentism, an ideology that calls for the “redemption” of lands that co-ethnics happen to inhabit, outside of the nation-state normally associated with a given ethnic group. It takes its name from Italia irredenta, or “unredeemed Italy,” referring to, among other places:

• Portions of the ancient Roman province of Illyricum, and
• The island of Corsica.

The seeking of those territories in 1919 propelled Benito Mussolini to power. Ever since, “irredentism” refers to any movement to acquire another country’s territory on any pretext.

In any case, Rep. Omar’s pronouncement was so awful, even the Somali foreign ministry had to disavow it:

Several Americans reacted in outrage:

Both Libs of TikTok and Laura Loomer have called explicitly for her expulsion:

Trying to defend treason

A New Zealand climate and vegan activist tried to excuse her words:

Naturally, Rep. Omar seized on that, and expressed anger with the Somalis basically asking her WTF.

But in the process, Ilhan Omar just dug herself deeper into trouble. The House of Representatives recognizes her as a Representative from Minneapolis and several surrounding counties and parts of counties. But she is acting like a delegate from Somalia – or a dangerous tyrannical movement with territorial designs on other countries. As such she is trying to drag the American people into a war to support a movement that cannot possibly benefit the American people. That is tantamount to treason, and she deserves expulsion on that ground.

But the American people have a problem. The Democratic Party will not support the expulsion of any of its members on such a ground. Maybe they want to see Americans go to war to create a Greater Somalia. Or maybe no one in Democratic leadership has thought that matter through. Either way, they don’t care about representatives acting like delegates from foreign countries – and failing to register as foreign agents. They care about power, in support of a system that would increase their power. What that system would mean for Americans, doesn’t concern them. And evidently, if that means supporting military adventures on the side of hostile powers, that matters even less.

Not representatives only, but Senators also

Turn now to the infamous “border deal” now under negotiation in the United States Senate. Sen. Jim Lankford (R-Okla.) is part of that negotiation. This bill – which Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), Speaker of the House, already refuses to bring to a vote if it passes the Senate – would provide a false sense of security about the southern U.S. border.

Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit provided this quote that he sourced to Fox News Correspondent Bill Melugin:

— Mandatory detention of all single adults.

— Mandatory “shut down” of border once average daily migrant encounters hits 5,000. Importantly, this 5,000 number includes 1,400 CBP One app entries at ports of entry per day, and roughly 3,600 illegal crossings per day.

— How is that enforced? Once the 5,000 threshold is hit, a new authority is codified into law that requires Border Patrol to immediately remove illegal immigrants they catch without processing. They would not get to request asylum, they would immediately be removed. This includes removals back to Mexico, and deportations to home countries. This would be a *massive* change from current policy, which is that once an illegal immigrant reaches US soil, they must be processed via Title 8 and allowed to claim asylum. Under this new authority – they are not processed, and they are mandatorily immediately removed once the “shut down” threshold is reached.

— This “shut down” also takes effect is there are 8,500 migrant encounters in a single day.

— The “shut down” would not lift the next day. It wouldn’t lift until daily encounters are reduced to under 75% of the 5,000 threshold for at least two weeks. This means the “shut down” authority would not lift until two weeks of an average of less than 3,750 migrant encounters per day.

— Some family units will be released with ATD (Alternatives to Detention, ankle monitors etc).

— New removal authority to immediately remove all migrants who do not have valid asylum claims, which will be determined within 6 months rather than the years long process we have right now.

— Any migrant caught trying to cross twice during “shut down” phase would be banned from entering US for one year.

— US will need agreement with Mexico for MX to take back non-Mexican illegal immigrants. This hasn’t been ironed out yet.

It looks like an improvement. But Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) correctly observes that it would normalize a level of incursions of 5,000 per day. (Or to be precise, 4,999.) Fox News Sunday hostess Shannon Bream pressed him on the matter. The answers she got, should not satisfy any concerned American.

On Saturday, the Oklahoma Republican Party passed a resolution of censure against Lankford. Jack Davis of The Western Journal has the details. This post has the text of the resolution:

Saturday evening, Roger Stone suggested a possibility of blackmail:

The next morning he returned to that refrain:

But a former Oklahoma Republican Party chairman accused the present leadership of calling a censure vote without an official “call” to let people know the meeting was on.

Newsweek quoted the current Party Vice-Chairman as dismissing the now-former official as “a protector of the old guard of establishment Republicans.”

Worse examples

Even these two are not the worst examples of representatives who don’t want to represent Americans anymore. Recall Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) who famously answered someone’s call for resistance against gun confiscation with this dire retort:

Before the day was out he would protest that people were treating him unfairly:

A more modern example happened over the weekend. The account End Wokeness published a list of the ten States with the most gun ownership per capita.

On Saturday afternoon, Rep. Gene Wu (D-Houston, Texas) answered with a screencap of End Wokeness’ post – and a picture of a drone deploying air-to-ground missiles. That was only the start of a sarcastic thread.

Cullen Linebarger, who wrote about the anchor post in The Gateway Pundit, obviously missed the thread. That last post is worse, because it refers to a real-life bill of attainder.

But in reply to that anchor post, someone directly addressed that air-to-ground missile thread:

Someone else shared some news that might or might not be true:

Then he added more to the notion that the government monopoly on heavy weapons is no more:

Analysis

We have tales of three Representatives and a Senator who seem to believe that they do not represent those who elected them. One thinks she represents the people of a foreign country, people who happen to be her fellow ethnics and coreligionists. Another (the Senator) thinks he represents employers who want cheap labor, in the form of migrants of dubious loyalty. (He also hasn’t thought the matter through; these illegal migrants will likely vote for world socialism.) And two more have, each at a different time, threatened open war on their fellow Americans. Not since the Declaration of Independence has America seen such arrogance.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

If those Representatives (and that Senator) don’t represent us, whom do they represent? We have an answer from Rep. Omar, and we can guess the answer from Sen. Lankford. From the other two, the guess is much more difficult – perhaps they represent only themselves. In any case, their behavior is tantamount to treason.

Sadly, these are typical cases. The American people have brought this upon themselves, by giving in to irrational emotion in their choice of representatives. Some have voted out of complacency, some out of fear, some out of venal selfishness – others out of murderous spite. Behold the kinds of representatives for whom you have voted. Such representatives do not respect you, because you do not respect yourselves. Properly self-respecting voters must vote against any representatives who forget whom they are supposed to represent.