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'Illegal' is misunderstood by many [All law is narrative, illegality is arbitrary]
Capital Times ^ | 5-22-06 | Roberto Rodriguez

Posted on 05/22/2006 4:01:24 PM PDT by SJackson

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To: SJackson

We also need to get rid of the wheel, the printed word and fire. Then we can rename the country "Me Tarzan - You Jane."


21 posted on 05/22/2006 4:37:07 PM PDT by sergeantdave (And though getting up in the world attracts attention, it does not establish solid worth.)
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To: SJackson

You notice that, in this piece, the US is on trial here, because we only allow a million immigrants per year, instead of who knows how many this guy thinks would be the magic number.

Not on trial is Mexico, which bleeds people at the rate of 3/4 million a year, who walk, run, or crawl across some of the worst terrain in the world to get away from it, despite the fact that it is one of the biggest oil producers in the world, and an important manufacturing country in its own right. By rights it should be a net importer of manpower, and it will be if it ever gets its corruption and endemic criminality under control. Until then wave after wave of its people will be forced out, and this writer fails to find that noteworthy.

No, its just us under his magnifying glass. We open our doors to a million people a year, legally. All we ask is for the others to wait their turn. That makes us anti-immigrant racists, in this guy's universe.


22 posted on 05/22/2006 4:37:54 PM PDT by marron
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To: marron

Yup. It would be cheaper and less disruptive to just send every Mexican citizen a check for staying home.


23 posted on 05/22/2006 4:42:02 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: Grampa Dave
When the rats and the MSM stopped using the term illegal aliens and went first to undocumented immigrants and then to just immigrants, we lost the language war.

You are absolutely right, which is why I'm removing the words "taxes, income tax, W2, SSI#, withholding, Internal Revenue Service, license(of any sort) and law(s) from my vocabulary.

FMCDH(BITS)

24 posted on 05/22/2006 4:53:11 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: SJackson
Americans like to collectively forget/deny that Europeans never had the legal right to seize lands or peoples (as slaves or subjects).

Wrong.

America WAS a European colony. Who d'ya think brought the slaves here in the first place? Oh yeah, and that Indian thing, same deal. The United States of America didn't get going until 1789.

All small points, I know, but this guy is a total wiener head and just peddling the usual lies to advance illegal immigration.
25 posted on 05/22/2006 4:54:46 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Di'ver'si'ty (adj.): A compound word derived from the root words: division; perversion; adversity.)
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To: SJackson
Here's a question that should help clarify the meaning of "illegal":

I'm glad this came up.

Ever since that, "that depends on what the definition of "is" is.." episode, I have looked at our dictionary with a suspect eye.

I truly am glad that more and more, "that is not really what that word means..." folks are coming out of the closet.

Whew......

26 posted on 05/22/2006 4:56:45 PM PDT by LasVegasMac (Islam........not fit for human consumption.)
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To: SJackson
All workers from member nations are eligible to work in each others' countries, without losing their rights, citizenship or humanity.

If they post a surety bond and promise not to use any of our services, conduct all affairs in English and leave their families at home, I might be pursuaded.

27 posted on 05/22/2006 4:58:09 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (I LIKE you! When I am Ruler of Earth, yours will be a quick and painless death </Stewie>)
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To: 45Auto
I suppose if I applied a baseball bat to Mr. Rodriguez (heaven forbid) then I wouldn't be arrested, since I would only be exercising my human right to dissent?

That's correct, since we all know the lefties' favorite Thomas Jefferson quote is "Dissent is the greatest form of patriotism"...except that it's not really a T.J. quote

Mark Steyn: Liberal fabrications about Thomas Jefferson

28 posted on 05/22/2006 5:12:45 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Twenty years in the Navy. Never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty)
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To: SJackson

It is beyond me why some people agree with those who can't even present a rational argument.


29 posted on 05/22/2006 6:15:13 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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To: SJackson

Time to call the Waaaahmbulance - another Libroid is having an anxiety attack.


30 posted on 05/22/2006 6:51:12 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principles, - -)
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To: Grampa Dave

"When the rats and the MSM stopped using the term illegal aliens and went first to undocumented immigrants and then to just immigrants, we lost the language war."

But the good news is this - the media have continued to lose their audience because of just the behavior you mentioned.

As the Hippy said, "KEWL, Man - their dogma ran over their karma".


31 posted on 05/22/2006 6:56:54 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principles, - -)
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To: SJackson

Before you get flamed, are you a proponent of that tripe or are you, (as a conservative) merely bringing this trash to our collective attention?


32 posted on 05/22/2006 7:00:38 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: 45Auto

Indeed. I wish Mr. Rodriquez would name that country so we can see if they'd be willing to train our Border Patrol.


33 posted on 05/22/2006 7:13:10 PM PDT by MarcusTulliusCicero
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To: SJackson
Euro-Americans have never established a recognized international legal claim to any land in the Americas.

Pretty rich coming from a guy with the surname of "Rodriguez." Last I heard Spain was a part of Europe.

This entire "law is only a narrative" argument is one of the tenets of the cryptomarxist "Critical Law" fashion and leads inescapably to the idea that law is only a reflection of oppressive power structures. The difficulty with that is that so is remediation. Rodriguez is trying an old leftist flimflam - he is quoting laws that do not even presently exist to judge a time when they couldn't have by standards he would like to apply to the present. Silliness.

34 posted on 05/22/2006 7:21:13 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SJackson

(1) Where is the Barf Alert????

(2) Roberto Rodriguez of Madison, E-mail: XColumn@gmail.com writes: "There actually is an alternative, by way of the policies of the European Union, that would solve this crisis overnight. All workers from member nations are eligible to work in each others' countries, without losing their rights, citizenship or humanity."

Roberto Rodriguez is a lunatic, right up there with the other "It takes a Village" lunatics. Calling Rodney King... why can't we all get along???


--- No Borders mean no Country


35 posted on 05/22/2006 7:24:17 PM PDT by bwteim (First-time reader, long time poster - posting since Oct 5, 2001)
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To: SJackson

Reduce Crime - Make more things legal.


36 posted on 05/22/2006 7:31:02 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
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To: SJackson

Donde esta el Barf Alert?


37 posted on 05/22/2006 7:32:23 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (Don't fall for the soft bigotry of assuming all Hispanics are pro-amnesty. www.dontspeakforme.org)
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To: nothingnew

Good Luck and write if you can!:)


38 posted on 05/22/2006 10:04:06 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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