Posted on 05/02/2006 8:10:53 AM PDT by Liz
The organizers of yesterday's "Day Without Immigrants," who are also responsible for other recent demonstrations demanding special treatment for illegal aliens, have betrayed not only the people they claim to be helping but everyone else who is trying to find a rational and civil answer to an incredibly complex issue.
With their psychotically provocative behavior, these radical lunatics of the Left are moving the ideological goalposts of this debate toward the restrictionist Right. Unless they wise up, by the time they're through every politician in this country outside the inner cities will be paying lip service at the very least to a serious crackdown on illegal immigration.
You can see it happening already. Even before yesterday's shameful frolics, Hillary Clinton had begun talking about building a border fence - where, back in March, she was taking a soft line, complaining about Republican legislation in shockingly grand terms and comparing illegal immigrants to Jesus Christ. With her finger stuck way high up in the air to feel the distant breezes of 2008, Hillary realized that the air currents were changing.
Maybe a few months ago it seemed like good politics to be courting Hispanic voters by offering words of support for illegals. But Americans in both parties are now paying far more attention to the issue, and polling shows they just don't like the idea that the laws of the United States are being violated with impunity.
Being soft on illegal immigration is beginning to look like the new millennium's version of being soft on crime.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
He said they'd be paying lip service---"at the very least."
Meaning even that is something you would not expect a puckered-up pol to do to a potential voting bloc.
where are all of the "I was fired" news stories today?
ping
The new generation of america-Haters!!
An excellent point.
These protests are doing no good whatsoever. Border security first...then we'll go from there.
My suspicion is that the fights here at FR have been over the closely divided first question. Beyond that, we probably all agree, which suggests there is an enormous amount of common ground on this issue.
Thanks for the info.
"naming the liberal states most hospitable to illegals and encouraging them to move there."
We want them out of United States.
(Videos--five in all--are lousy but convey the "mood" of the "peaceful march" in LaLa)
"Video posted on Buzznet shows Los Angeles police squaring off tonight with protesters who were not dispersing on Alvarado Street. Just before 9 pm, the video shooter writes, the police line charged; lots of screaming and cursing is heard, and in later videos protesters break glass on bus shelters and there may be gunshots. The 22-year-old video poster (he calls himself panasonicyouth) writes:
"Perhaps one of the most frightening things I've ever seen, the police storm the protestors again for the second time. Watch closely; you'll see one Hispanic male start to run, and then you'll see the LAPD pick one guy and begin to hail him with clubs and kicks. He falls to the ground, assumes the fetal position, and continues to get beat/kicked for another 10-15 seconds. Watch the LAPD and the sheriffs throw people out of the way who try to come to this guy's aid. He was bleeding quite a bit from his head, but I couldn't get close enough to film that. One of the sheriff's had a billy club pointed at me. The worst part of this video is when the group who are helping the wounded man out of the way. Watch closely and you can see an LAPD officer run in and hit an innocent good samaritan with his/her club. Disgusting."
"A few minutes later he posts a new video, with this commentary:
"Immediately after the last video, I begin to film the LAPD who come south on Alvarado on motorcycles. Their method of clearing the street is to drive head on with people, threatening to run them over. You can see them nearly hit a protestor on the right side of the street who is right next to the sidewalk. Immediately after this, the protestors begin to freak out. You can still hear the girl from the previous video screaming about the guy getting beat. Then someone smashes in the glass of a bus stop and all hell breaks loose. People start running, screaming, breaking glass, and causing general mayhem...
"His post at 10:43 pm:
"More glass/windows/bus stops are broken all around me, on all sides. And you can't see it, but you can see people running. You might be able to hear it a bit, but there are two gunshots towards the end and I turn off the video and we all start running."
We have to learn to tap dance and chew gum at the same time, fight the WOT, put an end to Iran's nuclear ambitions, and deal with this mess at home. All at the same time, with the MSM colluding with the enemy, any enemy, and lying like a rug.Excellent post.
Exactly right!
Gotta spread that message far and wide.....get it into the political language.
How do you say "The North Pole Needs Workers, Big Pay" in Spanish?
The Republican platform in either 1980 or 1984 (you can find it on PatriotPost) references 12 million illegal immigrants. If it was 12 million over 20 years ago it must be at least twice that now.
Or both numbers are totally picked out of a hat.
Tipping point is coming. Something is going to spark somewhere. It will not be pretty. Not sure which issue will cause it though.
I just ran across your reply to me - WOW, you have a way with words - well stated!
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