Inter-Galactic Memo
To: All Personnel
Fr: W. Leavitt
Re: Illegal Immigration
4/29/10
First of all, I’m writing this on my daughters Apple and it sucks. I can’t find anything, the fonts I use for memos aren’t available and the mouse has a tendency to fall apart at inopportune moments. At least spell check works . . . .
Today we’re talking about Illegal Immigration, which for those of us who might be confused, is defined as anyone entering the United States illegally, having no citizenship and therefore no standing. As you might have heard Arizona recently took the admittedly extreme step to enact its own law concerning this problem. Their reasoning is pretty straightforward; despite it’s own perfectly good laws, and decades in which to enforce them, the federal government has done nothing to alleviate, control, or in anyway take seriously the wholesale influx of people who are not Americans--most of whom are using Arizona like a superhighway.
Latino’s are protesting with marches and bus trips. As if only Hispanic people enter this country illegally. Right, mostly they do, but not all.
It is an interesting phenomenon. Personally, I am of two minds on the subject. On the one hand I empathize completely with anyone who has a desire to leave a bad situation and find a better one. If I lived south of the border and had a family, I would be trying to get here too. This is not intended to be a slur against the governments of Central America, but one can’t help but notice a certain lack of opportunity as well as a nearly complete economic vacuum down there.
On the other hand, they are breaking our law. It is a real law, not just a guideline, and it is causing serious problems. I won’t go into the statistics because the people who are outraged by Arizona’s recent limb-climbing have never paid attention to facts before, so why should we expect them to start now?
I live close enough to the border to have seen a little of the mayhem and violence going on. Some of the people coming across our border are very bad hombres, intent on living lives of criminal excess and causing untold damage to our society. How is it unacceptable to have some laws in place (and enforce them) to keep that element out? Granted,most of them are good, decent people looking for work but they are being rude. They are trespassing; coming in uninvited. We need to stop them and tell them to get in line like everybody else and wait their turn and fill out all the forms.
Several cities in California, starting with that cesspool that is San Francisco, are calling for boycotts. Gavin Newsom is threatening to not allow any “official travel” from his city to Arizona. Go get ‘em tiger! Others are climbing on that band wagon, full of righteous indignation and bereft of anything resembling intelligence.
Seriously, what is Arizona supposed to do? Turn off the lights and hand the keys over to the hordes clawing their ways across the border? Should they allow the drug cartels to win? Give them free reign to kidnapping and murder, and let them supply drugs to our youth? (and not so youthful). Before we go spouting off about how evil Arizona is, maybe we should visit a few emergency rooms in Tucson or Phoenix. Or visit a welfare office in that state. Arizona is being destroyed by the crushing weight of it’s illegals and the fed’s unwillingness--or inability--to do anything about it.
So here’s what I’m going to do. I am announcing my own boycott of any city or other entity that boycotts Arizona. I have no plans to visit California anyway because of the rampant ignorance, stupidity, and smugness infesting that worthy state, but I feel like taking a stand on principle. So Gavin, you moron, I will not be visiting San Francisco while you are mayor. (The upside to that is that I won’t be accosted by the hordes of panhandlers which have become the city’s official mascot.)
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I saw Jay Leno at Correspondent Dinner his best line was; “That was my favorite story (this year) Republicans and a Lesbian bondage club. It’s ironic, Republicans don’t want lesbian getting married but they do like watching them “tie the knot”. So I thought that was interesting.”
You can say the same about Tea Party, they say they respect the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence but they do not mind passing laws, through weak Governors who only care about getting reelected on the backs of undocumented workers, that will not pass Constitution muster, just like Arizona’s House Bill 2779 from two years ago, keep passing them Arizona and the rest of us will continue to challenged them and you will fail in a court of law (and yes we will boycott you). Their phony patriotism is sickening, they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions). The Birthers and the Tea party crowd think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. The world is complicated and people like Hamilton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt believed that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now it’s about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. For a party that gave us Abraham Lincoln, it is tragic that the ranks are filled with too many empty suits and the crazy Birthers who have not learned that the way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked internet lies, then, and only then, do you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called “facts”. Let’s face it no one will take the Birthers seriously until they win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. I heard that Orly Taitz now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC), she wants to re-establish a family values party, that’s like saying that the Catholic Church cares about the welling being of children in their care, too late for that.
You will never know how wrong you are.
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