Long Waits, Ingrates, and Ahmonajihad

My Frustrated Brain ^ | 04/10/06 | AnnaZ

[AnnaZ]

Long Waits, Ingrates, and Ahmonajihad
April 10th, 2006

For a long time I have been very sympathetic towards immigrants, even the illegal ones, here in America. As an immigrant myself, and as the daughter of immigrants, suffice it to say, "I understand". Or at least I did. Today, I still just have two words for them, but now those words are, "SHUT UP!"

I have paid my dues and I have paid my fees. I have stood in lines, been fingerprinted and background-checked, answered questions and opened up and said "Ahhhh." Had the lines been longer, I would have still waited in them, had the fees been higher, I would have still paid them. My sentiment was always "I understand", because although I was born in a country that many people in the world consider a promised land, Canada, I was still as desperate as anyone could be to be an American.

Which is why I am out of my mind over the teeming, screaming, demanding masses taking to the streets. You're here and you're not daily kissing the ground? You're here and you're not doing everything you can to repay the gift? You're here and you're not weeping to the strains of the Star Spangled Banner? Good grief, are you really still hoisting a buzzard over your head? (My favorite protest sign has been the "We're not criminals!" one. Uh, well, yes, frankly, you are. Shut up. Go back to the job you've been blessed to be given. Be happy you're not back in some unpronounceable province grinding corn.)

And now, frankly, the situation is getting out of hand, as every two-bit, shade-of-red organization is hijacking the march. That's just fabulous. We have Senators tripping over themselves to harvest the illusion of potential voters and meanwhile the 'world worker parties' are already signing them up. This is because they are completely aware of the real battle they're trying to get us to lose, and the rest of us, and especially those we have elected, have got to remember what's really at stake. It's what I wish these immigrants would get a grip on. We are at war.

           [I]n the free world, the competition of ideas and parties flourishes, and allegiances are often based on a single common principle or purpose that struggles against a competing point of view.
            Though generally healthy for a society, this competition can be quite dangerous if we lose sight of the fact that there is a far greater divide between the world of freedom and the world of fear than there is between the competing factions within a free society. If we fail to realize this, we lose moral clarity. The legitimate differences among us, the shades of gray in a free society, will be wrongly perceived as black and white. Then, the real black-and-white line that divides free societies from fear societies, the real line that divides good from evil, will no longer be distinguishable.
          A lack of moral clarity is why... people living in free societies cannot distinguish between religious fundamentalists in democratic states and religious terrorists in fundamentalist states. It is why people living in free societies can come to see their fellow citizens as their enemies, and foreign dictators as their friends.
                    Natan Sharansky, The Case For Democracy

Why does this conjure up visions of Belafonte and Castro, Sheehan and Chavez, Penn and Hussein? And whose side in this illegal-immigration battle do you believe they will, by default, fall upon?

Because, meanwhile, there's a new psycho in town, name's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which, for easy enunciation and moral clarity purposes, we'll pronounce as Ahmonajihad. He's a playful guy, as has been witnessed by his schoolyard wipe-out-the-little-guy taunts and the displaying of all his new toys, like rockets, missiles, and flying boats. This may make some of us giggle (even I've posted the picture of the two guys in the desert with the missile strapped to the donkey), but it shouldn't.

I'm not that interested in whether all these newly loud immigrants think that they should pay for their healthcare or if the government should. I'm not that interested in whether they believe they should have proper working papers or be given their walking papers. I only care that they remember what it is that made them leave their native lands for this one, and upon what philosophy this great Republic was built. Clichéd or not, are they with us or against us? Are they going to follow those who wish to destroy us? Because if we don't win, if we don't survive, ain't nobody going to be buying their tacos, not unless they whip up the halal version.

[AnnaZ]

This is going to end with cities on fire.

I guess I love you because you're so positive.

=:-o

J/K... and but seriously... let's hope not, although the real American-based-leftist-menaces are attempting to hijack this one, and that's ugly enough for me.

The border needs to be guarded, criminals need to be deported, and foreigners need to be assimilated.

I do not understand why there are some who wish to turn our neighborhoods into mirrors of the ones they left. It's the idea of cultural equivalence that needs to burn.

[AnnaZ]

The public educrats are churning out PC little automatons, their heads filled with anti-American propaganda.

That's one of the sadder aspects of American life today, and one of the more important domestic battlefields we need to fight on.

Let's hope the gutless wonders in Congress do the right thing for once.

Well, that was a nice vacation, but back to reality.

LOL. Geez... not even long enough to get a tan.

[SoCalPol]

Thanks for the ping, OWF. Thumbs Up

[ohioWfan]

Indeed. TWO of them. :)

[GeekDejure]

So where's the AnnaZ pic ??? ;-))

[Alia]

Thanks, EveningStar, for the ping. I know when in CA raised Prop 187; the furor was palpable. It took real guts to stand up and do those debates, and collect signatures.

And people scoffed and laughed. Heck, people in the other states laughed at we in CA exclaiming: It's just CA. CA always has a problem. And we asked for help from the other states. The resounding answer and reply:

"It wouldn't... it couldn't happen in MY state. It just only happens in CA."

I've heard numerous pro-illegal protestors argue the "jobs" aspect and refuse to answer questions about being in the USA, illegally. Breaking the law. Yeah, it's the same rant the pro-illegals delivered in the early 90s over CA's Prop 187. That they weren't criminals. Uh-huh.

[lowbridge]

[JustPiper]

A most excellent Bump Anna!

[Travis McGee]

Somebody is going to get tired of lawbreakers waving the Mexican flags of reconquista, there will be shots fired, and the Rodney King riots will be remembered fondly as a quaint episode.

[EveningStar]

Alia, you're pretty bright. Please tell me how being against illegal immigration makes one a racist.

That's what this whole thing is all about. You say you're against illegal immigration. The other fellow responds, "No, you're not. You're lying. You just hate Mexicans. Admit it. You're a racist! You wouldn't want them here even if they were legal."

I get tired of that crap.

[nunya bidness]

Almost 50 replies and not one mention of the title:

Long Waits, Ingrates, and Ahmonajihad

Am I the only one that got it?

[EveningStar]

No. You're just the only one who mentioned it.

[AnnaZ]

Thanks, NB... I was starting to think the joke didn't work.

[AnnaZ]

We have totally screwed up what once was a migrant labor force that moved back and forth and transited the border when the work was done or there was a hiatus.

I understand your post, and your logically-placed intention... however, illegals are no longer "migrant workers". They are waiters and busboys and house framers and manicurists and delivery boys and shop clerks. They are absolutely doing jobs that Americans would do. I lived in Los Angeles for a decade and I can tell you that they are taking jobs that citizens want.

I don't know what the solution is. Well, except for my imperialistic desire to take over Mexico... we're paying the bills, but without the bonus of additional beachfront property.

[jla]

You're here and you're not doing everything you can to repay the gift?

Thomas J would very much appreciate that sentiment.
I remember your announcement here of you finally becoming an American citizen. You left no doubt to anyone who read your words how much you truly understand and appreciate the American ideal.
If more immigrants, and more than a few born here, would share your outlook we would indeed be a more perfect nation.

[AnnaZ]

Now there's an oldie for ya. LOL.

smooch!

[AnnaZ]

Hey there, beauty... don't know how I missed your post...

I love the fact that there's Korean in your heritage, it's how I manage to get invited to the world's greatest barbeques!

[HangFire]

Be happy you're not back in some unpronounceable province grinding corn.

ROTF

[AnnaZ]

Perhaps I got carried away...

0:-)

[AnnaZ]

Let's hope terrorists don't smuggle a WMD into town under protest cover ;-)

Or any town under any cover. Sadly, I don't feel that confident. Or maybe I've just been reading too much Dan Simmons...