Posted on 04/10/2006 11:45:51 PM PDT by goldstategop
You've got to hand it to Americans.
If ever there was a group of people more patient, more willing to turn the other cheek, more forgiving and tolerant – I just don't know who it would be.
Every day now, it seems, hundreds of thousands of ungrateful human parasites rally in American cities condemning their host country's lack of hospitality.
Think about this.
Somewhere around 20 million foreigners have entered this country illegally and stayed here – taking advantage of America's health-care system, educational system, welfare system, taxing its criminal justice system and competing for jobs with those at the very lowest of the economic ladder.
They have taken advantage of loopholes in our laws by dropping babies in this country who automatically become U.S. citizens, despite the illegal entry and presence of the parents.
They have forced Americans to spend hours a year listening to voice-mail operators give them language options. They have forced Americans to pay the cost of bilingual ballots and for Spanish translators at thousands of government agencies. The very character of our once-cohesive English-speaking country is threatened.
These invaders have made it easy for drug dealers, criminals and terrorists to hide behind the skirts of ordinary civilians.
After all this – and after U.S. officials steadfastly refuse to enforce the immigration and border security laws already on the books – amazingly, it is not Americans out in the streets protesting, it is the illegal invaders.
What is it that they are protesting?
The mere threat of action by lawmakers who have been asleep at the switch for the last 25 years. That's what has prompted this uprising by the army of illegal aliens within our midst.
I would have thought by now that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans would be rising up angry, filling the streets and protesting the destruction of their country. But that is not the case. It is the people destroying the country who are showing their strength.
And while these protesters hurl mean-spirited verbal attacks at their hosts – calling them bigots and racists and intolerant – Americans sit back and watch.
I'm afraid most Americans have been successfully fattened up for slaughter. We're just not the same people our forebears were. We're not willing to make sacrifices to preserve our freedom and independence and system of self-government. Washington knows this and has decided you are irrelevant.
As wrong as the illegal invaders are, you've got to hand it to them. They know how to push their weight around, and they are willing to march in the streets to get their way. How many Americans are willing to do that any more? How many are willing to make any sacrifice for the way of life they were given by their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents?
Brave men gave their lives for over two centuries to defend our Constitution, our independence and the right of the people to govern themselves under the rule of law. For what? So that a slow invasion over 25 years could take away everything Americans had so gallantly fought to protect?
I'm sitting here astonished today – watching the latest demonstrations in Phoenix and Dallas and Pittsburgh and all over the country. Thousands of non-Americans with nothing better to do than show their strength, wave their flags, thumb their noses at our laws and dare us to do something about it.
They are darn lucky I am not running the country. I would order mass arrests at these events, forcing every single participant to prove their legal right to be in this country or face deportation.
I keep hearing about how expensive it would be to find all of the illegals and deport them. They are making it very easy for us with these rallies. The fact that no one is even suggesting roundups shows just how far gone our country is.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
How do you arrest and deport a column 2 miles long? Ah but that right DOGMA not rationality is the order of the day now
Bush has effectively relinquished his position as president. He has the power to control the border and will not. He might as well step down now.
Can't say I understand your tag line.
Not enough boats to ship them back on. Stem the tide at the border, then recognize reality and assimilate the rest.
Anyone else feel like a second class citizen to these non citizens?
The problem has now begun to change the outcome of the solution.
No. Have you seen what they make in a year? What sort of jobs they have? The fact that that is considered a step up says volumes about Mexico itself.
Going to deal with reality?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
With a 3-mile-long cordon of ICE cops, if that's what it takes. Jorge Bush Jr. doesn't have the principles or the balls to even consider it, and sits idly while Americans get really pissed off.
This is going to be an interesting summer indeed.
Cost/Benefit of arresting 7 million unskilled and semi-skilled laborers and deporting them doesn't compute. Secure the border, work on integrating those that are already here.
Now we know how the Romans disappeared - due to internal desuetude that sapped the will of an entire civilization to go on living.
Western Rome fell because she constantly hemorrhaged money using the legions to attempt to secure far-flung frontiers. This eventually led to Constantine splitting Rome into two empires that subsequently started competing with each other, leading to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The East hung on for the most part until 800 A.D. and only finally fell when the Turks sacked Constantinople.
If we can't even defend our country at the border, how are we going to defend it from our enemies abroad?
I'm more concerned about our failure to amend or eliminate the grotesque farm subsidies that we shell out every year. That, far more than anything else, speaks of a lack of political will to maintain ourselves as the preeminent nation.
The writing is on the wall.
Possibly, but things change. There are reasons to hope, yet.
The next test will be to see if the government caves to nativist pressure and builds some sort of wall on the Mexican border. If that happens, I have substantially reduced hopes for our future.
Joseph Farah for president!!!
Sadly, he's right. This country is as doomed as any in Europe.
It's like the Palestinians' demand for a "right of return". After the return, what will become of us? We will be awash in a sea of babel.
Reactionary boondoggle. Why throw away a resource when you can adapt it to your needs?
Do we also check them everywhere else? I wonder how many people expressing this sentiment were so vehemently against a national I.D. card. Now, they seem to think that it's just fine to card people who protest certain topics.
There are ways to deal with this problem--few in Washington have the guts to DO THEIR DUTY and pursue them. But carding people while they protest? Not in MY USA.
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