Posted on 05/11/2006 6:50:02 AM PDT by rattrap
OK ... working off the premise that I never have an original thought ... let me share something that occurred to me last night whilst I was listening to a few minutes of the Michael Savage show. It is truly perplexing to try to figure out just why our government won't respond to the Mexican invasion. Eight out of ten Americans want the border closed ... yet the politicians who are supposed to be listening to us do absolutely nothing.
Twenty-five million illegals have crossed the border from Mexico into the United States since 1990, and the only actions our elected officials have taken is to legitimize about 13 million of these criminals through various amnesty programs. Nothing else.
Just yesterday the House Judiciary Committee, which is under the control of Republicans by the way, rejected an effort to end the a requirement for bilingual ballots in many states. You're supposed to be a citizen to vote, and if you aren't a natural born citizen you must pass an English proficiency test to become one. So, why the need for bilingual ballots? Could it possibly be because these politicians know, and quietly support the fact, that people who speak Spanish and who are not citizens regularly vote in this country?
Also just yesterday we learned of reports that the U.S. Border Patrol, under the control of the Executive Branch of government, is informing the Mexican government as to the location of the Minutemen boarder watch group. Although our government says that the report is "inaccurate," the locations of those Minutemen activities do show up on a Mexican website maintained by the Mexican government. Minutemen leaders have charged that Mexican troop transports cross our borders with Mexico regularly carrying loads of illegals. How can we be surprised by this considering the fact that Mexican president Vicente Fox refers to these illegals as "heroes." The Mexican Army helping illegals by carrying them across the border? Now you tell me that this isn't an invasion.
So ... why absolutely nothing from our government? Why, in the name of all common sense, haven't the borders been shut down? Could it possibly be that the Mexican invasion is actually welcomed by our politicians?
How could that be? Well ... I'm not what you would call a conspiracy nut, but let me just drive something into the parking lot here to see if it dents any fenders. I'm going to connect our government's apparent support for the Mexican invasion with government education. A stretch? You figure that one out for yourself.
It is clear -- you can't argue with me on this one -- that our system of government education has produced a population that has limited, at best, knowledge of our country's history and of our system of government and how it is supposed to operate. The average male citizen of any state would be more likely to know the names of the head football coaches of the two largest colleges or universities in that state than he would the name of that state's two senators. Most people -- and we're talking 90% plus -- of the people in this country could not name their two senators, their congressman, and the person who represents them in both houses of their state legislature. Americans, thanks to state-controlled education and with no small amount of help from the media, actually believe that America is supposed to be a democracy, and don't understand the danger of that form of government. We're focused on sports and entertainment celebrities while we ignore the very people who can actually have a profound impact on how we live our lives. Is this by accident?
Allow me to propose to you that this is entirely by design. Politicians drunk on political power, prestige and perks are well-served by an ignorant electorate. They can buy their way into office election after election by offering the government as a replacement for personal responsibility and nifty little spending projects (pork) back at home. The more informed the people are, the greater their understanding of just what type of government we're supposed to have and how it is supposed to work, the more precarious the hold the politician has on power.
So ... accepting the premise that politicians actually benefit from an ignorant and ill-informed body politic, why would they not seek ways to further dilute the level of knowledge and awareness in the voters? And what better way than to enable a flood of millions upon millions of "immigrants" who know little about our form of government and show little inclination to learn? Oh, you say they can't vote? Tell that to Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez of Southern California. Ms. Sanchez was elected on the strength of votes from non-citizen Hispanics in Orange County in 1996. An attempt by the Republicans to investigate that election was denounced by Democrats as "racist" and the investigations stopped. Remember ... there are active movements in many areas heavily populated with non-citizen Latinos, most of which are here illegally, to allow them to vote in local elections.
Eight out of ten Americans want the borders closed. Nothing is being done. There has to be a reason.
For an "original thought", his explanation is something of a no brainer. Having an uneducated electorate is certainly a part of how the govt gets away with pulling the wool over our eyes. But there is a much more effective MO they use. They simply ignore us. They suffer no political ramifications from what they do and so they just keep on doing it. It is our (the citizenry)unwillingness to hold them accountable that is the top reason they get away with all the crap they pull.
That being said, we have little power against the money that is spent on presidential campaigns. We have little choice. It's the guy the RAT machine puts up, or the guy the FGOP puts up. a DINO or a RINO.
I love studying people. Bush isn't afraid to admit that he's for open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, why should they (and I've only found a few) not want to admit it, because I want to know WHY and I'm dying to ask one of them? Or, wait,...... are they only for open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens because HE is and therefore wouldn't be able to answer the question WHY?
We have been sold out by both sides.
Like I've said, time for a 3PC with some integrity and an awareness of the problem(s).
"Contact your member of Congress information:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602588/posts"
Been there and done that.......they don't listen.
It's going to take much more than emailing, writing and phoning for D.C. leadership to get the wakup call they need about now.
You got that right, writing about a emails and got one reply from a Rat, from a Rat if that don't take the cake.
Suppose to be a 100 before that emails.
The answer is right here!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1625438/posts
I think the founders had something like this in mind when they discussed...." all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC".
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There could be yet another reason, although the one suggested above is probably true. There has grown up an entire industry around the whole immigration process, from attorneys eager to generate business turnover, to fingerprinting services, to bail bondsmen, to all the other ancillary "services" and forms of profiteering from the invasion of illegal aliens. And that just covers the legal activities related to illegal aliens. Immigration, the official government domestic policy, is a jobs program for millions that survive like parasites off the ignorance and gullibility of illegal aliens. Like the tax industry, any effort at real reform usually hits a wall.
1. His long and apparently positive experience with the large hispanic population in Texas is largely responsible for his inaction on this alien invasion. And why wouldn't HIS experience with them be positive as he traveled in the highest, best-educated circles among them, not the M13 bangers and pine-straw spreaders...
2. His brother Jeb is married to a Central American (Bolivian, I THINK!) and his neices and nephews are mixed blood. And before you scream "ethnocentric bigot" at me, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. But that fact -- and the first item -- DOES predispose him to a warm and fuzzy feeling for folks from south of the Rio Grande.
And if -- in some strange and matasticizing American desire for a new royal family dynasty -- Jeb should win the White House, I'd bet that HIS activities toward this alien invasion will make W's behavior look like a warm-up exercise.
Any vestige of white European culture will be a distant memory.
Wher you're right, you're right.
Oh, ok, thanks. sorry I misunderstood. :-)
Which goes hand in hand with legalizing drugs in Mexico. If this wall is to be built, keeping mexican police off users's a$$ puts the distribution points safely right at the border.
I'm sad to have to believe our BP is in on the drug take.
Too bad coca won't grow in the Alaskan tundra.
There's always the chance something terrible is about to happen and our politicians know it and we'll need the mexicans to eat after it happens :)
Evidently
" I guess anyone concerned about the flood of illegals over the border and the fact that politicians on both sides refuse to do anything about it are now considered trolls. LOL"
I just received the following post on another thread " shut up, you troll....I'll be watching you"
I got that threat for having used the word "Jorge" in an amusing post : )
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