States have right and obligation to defend thmseves

Considering that the U.S. Constitution mandates that the “United States shall” protect EACH state from invasion, I would seriously like to know what YOUR plans are to EFFECT that outcome, Mr. Tester, Mr. Daines and Mr. Zinke.

The power to repel invaders belongs SOLELY to the States (or the people) when the “general government” [“the United States”] fails to protect them from invasions.

Article 1, Section 10, paragraph 3: “No State shall... engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.”

Article 4, Section 4: “The United States shall... protect each of them [states] against Invasion;...”

Second Amendment: “... Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State... shall not be infringed.”

Ninth Amendment: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

10th Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Do you legislators plan to give the usurper in the executive branch everything he, and his predecessor advisers and mentors, want? A Socialist “utopia” — with THEM in charge of our lives and thoughts and progeny?

A “civilian army” as large and as powerful as our “military”? So large that no state can defend against it? His amnesty, 20 years from now, WILL effect that outcome, as all his little serfs will bow to his wishes!

How about “swarms of officers sent hither to harass our people, and eat out their substance”? (Declaration of Independence).

You all keep sending missives about how you “care” about our issues, and “for Montana.” Then, impeach, convict, and have arrested the criminal elements in the executive branch — top to bottom. —Jim Greaves, Thompson Falls