Posted on 03/24/2005 6:33:06 PM PST by Marine Inspector
Yar! If there's an issue that will hurt us in 2006 it's immigration, and Bush is totally fumbling it.
:-)
Here's what I have to say about Bush's "vigilante" comment...
When the President of the United States calls American Patriots "vigilantes" before the fact, and in front of a head of state and the world, it is a green light to kill them.
This issue will not go away, and I predict government-initiated violence which will be the beginning of the Second American Revolution (predict Revolution, not advocate, for all you baiters and thread assassins).
(ONE) of the biggest lies of the Bush administration.
I won't send any more donations to the RNC or any open borders Republican politician, I'll give it to the Constitution Party instead. I'm sick of paying the bills for illegal aliens.
To make sure that the illegals have free run of the country he put La Raza in charge of the Justice Dept!
The transparency for me is that there are people who are here with the sole purpose of killing a thread. Every time a thread like that gets some wheels they jump in and start a stupid fight or change the subject on some emotional point that is irrelevant. Some take the bait and WHAM !
Most of use can see it right from the start. There was some self moderation but it was not enough.
As this article mentions, they (the Minutemen) are already under direct physical threats from the Mexican gangs, La Voz de Aztlan (but I repeat myself) and other pro-illegal alien industry types, and have received the typical bureaucratic condescension from the Border Patrol.
Now Bush has fanned the flames even more with his 'vigilante' comment. I seriously hope he is considering a retraction and clarification.
On the now removed thread, ScudBud had mentioned that he heard the leader of the project, a decorated veteran, on the radio responding to Bush's comment and he was near tears at the betrayal.
I am praying for all those people. They have more guts than the rest of us. If they get in trouble down there, and it looks like they are being squeezed between the lawless southern interests and the non-law enforcing government interests, they will be getting reinforcements, and this thing could get out of hand in a hurry.
That thread appears to be back on the forum.
It is indeed, less a few comments from the flamethrowers and a new home in the 'bloggers and personal' section. A nice surprise. Plus, I had sent a link to that thread to several party reps here in GA, in NC, and in DC, and now I won't have to explain why I sent them a dead link.
Sanity prevails. Thanks mods and JR. I believe we are all trying to keep it civil, even if a few darts get thrown here and there, including mine in post 6 above. Sorry about that.
Amen.
Yep, that thread is back, and CJ is gone again. I hope that race-baiting flame inciter gets longer than a one week timeout this time.
Actually, it looks like CJ is still here ... at least the profile page comes up.
I would miss CJ is he (she?) was permanently gone ... weird but true. I often find myself reading thru a thread merrily absorbing the comments and then there is one comment that stands out and makes me reach for the psychic daggers ... then I see that it's just CJ.
My checkbook is already poised...
I concur with your thoughts.
A-firm.
Agree. They've come a *long* way.
Sure they have. That it why the issue of illegal immigration has barely been a footnote in most elections for the last 10 years. The voters keep voting in primaries and general elections for politicians who ignore the issue altogether...because it is so important to the voters. Hmmm...
Maybe most the voters don't care so much as Jeff Adams' thinks they care.
They take the jobs AND the welfare? How greedy. If we deport the illegals we will have good jobs and safe neighborhoods. Health care will be affordable and people will be responsible and get car insurance. And there will be lots and lots of welfare to go around. Boy it's hard to pass up such a convenient scapegoat.
The key word being "if".
Lawmakers pressuring Bush for more Border Patrol agents
March 10, 2005
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of lawmakers... is pressing for money to hire thousands of new border guards that were approved by President Bush but then left out of the 2006 budget.
The letter [written by Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin] was signed by 44 representatives, including 16 Texans.
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At issue is the disparity between the border security provisions in the intelligence reform bill Bush signed in mid-December and the 2006 budget that he released in February.
The reform package called for 10,000 more border patrol agents to be hired over the next five years, 800 additional interior investigators and 8,000 more detention beds.
The president's budget requested enough money for 210 border agents, 143 investigators and 1,920 beds.
The White House had promised that these "important steps would be fully funded in order to protect the nations borders, apprehend potential terrorists and detain them pending deportation," according to the letter.
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