Posted on 05/14/2006 5:29:23 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy
I grew up in south Texas, before moving to Upstate NY as a teenager. I learned to dance the "Cotton-Eyed Joe" long before I learned that it had ethnic roots in the mountains of eastern Europe. (That's where my grandparents came from — as legal immigrants.) And, one doesn't need to grow up in Texas to learn how to dance the "Texas two-step."
But, this coming Monday (15 May 2006), y'all better get ready for a new political dance: the "Texas side-step." (How I wish that I could take credit for that concept. But, for those that aren't old enough to remember, it comes from the Broadway musical, and later movie, "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." Charles Durning's version of the side-step was absolutely side-splitting.)
My campaign for Congress is based upon many conservative principles. I have never been a single-issue voter, and am not a single-issue candidate. But, there is one issue that has voters totally focused right now. To condense the argument down to a sound bite that might actually make it into the broadcast news, I've learned to simply say, "No border equals no country."
Illegal immigration is the number-one hot-button issue in American politics today. News reports that our own government has leaked the locations of Minuteman volunteers to the Mexican government has made the situation far worse for President Bush than he seems to realize. Now, he plans to address the nation with his "plans" to deal with this issue. Get ready for the Texas side-step! And, this time, there's nothing funny about it.
In an apparent trial balloon, the Bush administration has recently "leaked" the idea that perhaps the president would consider putting the military along our borders. Oddly, both the news media and even members of Congress have echoed the mantra that it is "currently illegal" to put the military along the borders. Thus, these "experts" claim, new legislation would be necessary to "allow" troops to be stationed along the borders. Hello?! Doesn't anyone read the Constitution anymore?
Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 14 of the Constitution empowers the Congress for "calling forth the Militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions." Only an idiot can convert that into "currently illegal" to put troops along our borders! And, the term "idiot" would also apply to anyone that doesn't view 15 to 20 million people sneaking into our country as an "invasion." Minuteman co-founder Jim Gilchrist refers to it as a "stealth invasion."
As I've written before, if invoked in its purest sense, "calling forth the Militia" would mean that our Congress would actually provide money to the states to pay the Minutemen that currently volunteer "to do the jobs that our government won't do." Although the purest sense would also be the best sense, I'll settle for active duty troops from our Regular branches of the Armed Forces, supplemented by Guard and Reserve forces, stationed full-time along the entire length of our borders. And, let's put some troops at all of our ports of entry, including international airports, while we're at it.
Would such a program be expensive? Yes. Would it be cheaper than another "9-11"? Definitely. And, if we can afford to secure the border between South Korea and North Korea, then why can't we seem to afford to secure our own borders? If we can afford to send troops into the Balkans to defend the Muslims in a religious war (so that they can attack us), then why can't we seem to afford to secure our own borders? If we can afford to send troops into Haiti, to install and support a Leftist madman, then why can't we seem to afford to secure our own borders? If we can send our Special Operations Forces to train with those of Communist China (a nation that wants to destroy America), then why can't we seem to afford to secure our own borders? If we can send our troops for recurring training exercises with the Egyptian military, which then bombs and burns ancient churches, then why can't we seem to afford to secure our own borders? So, if anyone says that we don't have enough troops to do the job, then I can quickly suggest some locations where we can find some. (Of the above, the only location where keeping our troops might be justified is the Korean Peninsula. The DMZ between the North and the South is the most heavily guarded border in the world. Doesn't it make sense to train our troops for foreign border service by first guarding our own borders?)
I try to take my task of writing very seriously. And, I'm regularly disappointed with the coarseness of discussions in modern America. Thus, I know that we (and I) should avoid using naughty words. In several years of published columns, I think that I've only done it once before. But, if any elected official — especially the President of the United States — comes before the public to tell us that it is "illegal" to station troops on our borders, or that waves of invaders are our "guests," then there is only one proper reply left. "Don't piss on my shoes and then tell me it's raining!"
Our military is half the size that it was at the end of Desert Storm in 1991. At the start of Desert Storm, it was half the size that it was at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. And, at that time, it was half the size that it was in 1961, when our own US State Department published a little pamphlet called "Freedom From War."
That pamphlet contained the concept of a plan, which has been followed by both Democrats and Republicans, to shrink our American military, while expanding the power and "authority" of the United Nations. Too many of our citizens have sat idly by and let it happen. But, now that our very security — perhaps even our existence as a nation — is being threatened, perhaps more people will wake up. Globalism is a real threat to American sovereignty and security. And, many of our elected officials are globalists. The issue of border security is a watershed issue. Any elected official that will not strongly support border security, and put the "boots on the ground" to enforce it, is someone that has sold out America to a globalist agenda. The agenda has been around a long time. But, it has never been so close to success as it is right now. What will we do about it?
If the answer is "nothing," then enjoy watching, and dancing, the side-step ... all the way to the sheep pen. And, if you don't have a dance partner, then there are tens of millions of illegal aliens that will be happy to escort you.
Sunday morning news is apparently reporting that the "compromise" immigration (AMNESTY!) plan calls for national guard along the border BUT NO FENCE!
The no fence system has not worked.
All border protection proposal between USA and Mexico is BS unless it includes a high tech wall.
Don't get me wrong, come Monday night/Tuesday morning, if the President thinks that his base is stupid/gullible enough to swallow another re-packaged amnesty scheme with a stronger border enforcement thin coat of paint on it, I'm going to be all over him. Until then, I'm taking a somewhat skeptical, wait and see attitude. Skeptical? Yes. This isn't the first time he's "heard the people" and "changed his tune" on immigration reform and border security. In fact, yesterday as I was unloading my car's trunk from another father/son campout I saw an old newspaper from about a year ago and it's headline story was from the AP and it was all about President Bush "hearing the people" on border security and him trying to re-sell the Kennedy designed amnesty scheme as a border security package.
That's just the compromise bill in the Senate though. Although it's possible I'm wrong I see very little of what the liberals and their RINO coconspirators want getting through conference committee. I'm betting we'll ultimately see most of the proposed fence go up.
Just HAD to replat that one!
I don't know what that means but I got a feelin' it ain't good...
I would predict that George is going to hit us with the same old, time worn promise....amnesty in some form for the 12 million illegal immigrants already here in exchange for a promise of finally securing our border in a real fashion (it's the same bad deal we got some years ago). None of us will like it and it is going to cause a great upheaval in the Republican party. My support for the President and the Republican party will be sorely tested by this debacle. If our President can't protect our country and its borders(his fundamental obligation under his oath of office)many of us will lose hope and retreat from participating in the national political process. There are some issues some of us are not willing to compromise on and this is one of them.
Do these people ever get tired of whining about the border. Over 50% of the posts are about the border for crying out loud. Do they think GW can just snap his fingers and it is solved? It's not like they haven't said the same thing 500 times.
Pray for W and Our Troops
We've been watching Bush for over 5 years...His position of The New World Order, globalism, wide open borders and illegal guests is clear and established...He has leaned on Congress to pass some meaningful (to his rich globalist buddies) immigration reform that does not include protecting the border from invaders...
I don't think anyone's jumping the gun by expecting nothing from the President...
Just the latest DNC "Virtual Campaigner" blast from DNC Ferdie. Sorry Ferdie, this is a Conservative Website. You want Democrat Underground for your Whine about the GOP always postings.
Hey Troll! Which point that this man makes do you disagree with! And please stop your incoherent blathering.
How long should we wait?
Tell us.
Finally. I've found something you've written that I agree with.
That doesn't detract from the main issue here, however.
You're still a twit!
MNJohnnie writes just a like a former poster ArneFufkin. Their posts are rude in exactly the same way and coincidentally I'm sure are both from Minnesota.
Well MNJohnnie in the worlds of the gipper "There you go again". Your posting consistancy of anal insults, spin and avoiding the importance of issues like immigration that Ferdie so well elaborated on tell me you need some medication for your OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Its amazing you participate in a conservative forum where people are suppossed to be rational, objective and take a hard look at the issues.
But all you can do is the same old tired vitriol that makes you look so mentally ill.
You strike me as the ultimate liberal shrieky, illogical and in a deep seated "Denial" of the issues. People in Denial like you exhibit these behavioral traits
Will put in a prayer for you that you reach out get some professional help and start to recover from the toxic mental condition that you are in.
Surprise us, be FOR something once instead of mindlessly vomiting Hate GOP talking points 100% of the time. Anyone with any brain at all understands why Conservatives want Republicans in charge. Judges, Judges, Judges.
Anyone, such as yourself, who spends all their time screaming to replace a glass 60% full of Conservative Values with a glass 100% full of Leftist political poison is either a spoiled brat child throwing a temper tantrum because they do not get 100% of only what THEY want or a DNC activist pretending to be a "Betrayed Conservative" in the hopes it will give their talking points credibility.
NO ONE ever gets 100% of what they want out of politics. Spending all your time screaming for it, as you do, is either the behavior of a petulant child totally without a clue about how Politics actually works in a Constitutional Republic or the behavior of an activist lying about their real political agenda.
So which is it, political fool or political fraud?
LOL!! Good job! and thanks again for posting that thread.. have a great day.. DN
Get a clue. The illegal aliens are taking over the country state by state. In 20 years the only judges that'll be getting appointed are the ones they choose. For that reason alone open borders is the number one problem, everything else is secondary there Arne.
You all seem to think bitching excuses you from getting off your butts and DOING things. It doesn't you know.
I'm way past tired of seeing hot-headed defenders of the illegal alien status quo insult conservative patriots,
then act mightily offended when they are called one thing: "mindless, knee-jerk automatons"--or Robots.
Morde manubriam meum, hiator!
Look that up in your latin Funk & Wagnell.
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