Snow: Flow of illegals not an 'invasion'

WorldNetDaily ^ | June 2, 2006 | Les Kinsolving

[AmericaOne]

Snow: Flow of illegals not an 'invasion'

Spokesman says Article 4 of Constitution doesn't apply to border issue

Saying Mexico is "not the enemy," presidential press secretary Tony Snow today rejected the characterization of the constant flow of illegal aliens over the U.S. border as an "invasion."

At today's White House press briefing, WND asked the spokesman: "Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution says, 'The United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them from foreign invasion.' My question is, does the president believe this foreign invasion means only armed invasion, or doesn't this also mean the invasion of millions of illegal immigrants?"

Responded Snow: "I think what you are doing is you're attaching a martial connotation to something that does not have martial consequences. …

"What the president has said – if you were talking about an invasion, he's made it clear that Mexico is not the enemy."

WND also asked Snow about a lawsuit by war veteran Sgt. Peter Damon, who lost both of his arms in Iraq. Damon has sued Michael Moore for using clips without his permission in "Fahrenheit 9/11" to give the false impression that he opposed the war.

"I didn't lose my arms over there to come back and be used as ammunition against my commander in chief," Damon was quoted as saying.

"If he is asked," queried WND, "will this commander in chief be willing to testify in court on behalf of this double amputee sergeant?"

Snow called it a "hypothetical question"

"Please don't put me in the position of trying to answer to a lawsuit between somebody who served his country and Michael Moore," Snow said. "We'll let them deal with it."

[Mr. Jeeves]

WTH is he smokin'????? Hey Tony, WAKE UP, it IS an INVASION, geez, drinking too much kool-aid Tony,,,,,

Well, it's his job now to reiterate the boss's position, so he even if he agrees with the FR consensus he can't answer such questions with his own opinion.

[Vision]

in·va·sion Audio pronunciation of "invasion" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-vzhn) n.

1. The act of invading, especially the entrance of an armed force into a territory to conquer.
2. A large-scale onset of something injurious or harmful, such as a disease.
3. An intrusion or encroachment.

Good job

[AmericaOne]

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50441

or

http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html#Illegals

Links to illegal alien sex offenders in our country study.

[old republic]

At today's White House press briefing, WND asked the spokesman: "Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution says, 'The United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them from foreign invasion.' My question is, does the president believe this foreign invasion means only armed invasion, or doesn't this also mean the invasion of millions of illegal immigrants?"

Responded Snow: "I think what you are doing is you're attaching a martial connotation to something that does not have martial consequences. …

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Snow dodged the question. The question that was asked is does the Constitution require the federal government to protect the US from an armed invasion or any invasion by foreigners. Snow does not give an interpretation but instead accuses the questioner of attaching martial connotations to something that does not have martial connotations. Snow still didn't say whether or not the Constitution means the federal government must protect the states from invasion or armed invasion alone.

[ladyinred]

This has gone on forever AmericaOne.

[Palladin]

Sorry to say this but Tony Snow has become a puppet and is fast losing his conservative credentials.

[no-to-illegals]

Our friends (heavy sarcasm) from south of the border kill more Americans each year than did 911. Yes our friends from south of the border mean America and Americans no harm. They are our friends, just killing the Americans no Americans will kill. It's wonderful having friends such as these.

[beaversmom]

MA: If Brown was just about letting Black people into a White school, well we don’t care about that anymore. We don’t necessarily want to go to White schools. What we want to do is teach ourselves, teach our children the way we have of teaching. We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don’t need a White water fountain. So the whole issue of segregation and the whole issue of the Civil Rights Movement is all within the box of White culture and White supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction. And so it isn’t about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it’s about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier.

Marcos Aguilar is the founder and principal of La Academia Semillas del Pueblo, a charter school in El Sereno

http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/equalterms/dialogue/2/aguilar.html

[cripplecreek]

Marcos Aguilar is the animal who ordered an assult on the WABC reporter.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"If we go by your definition, I say it becomes an invasion when the invitees become hostile, as millions of them have."

It all came home to roost. The problem was ignored by democrats and republicans for decades. Now people are mad enough to do something? Why does this nation have to wait until crisis everytime? I hope the guard makes a difference. At this point border enforcement is all I care about.

[VOA]

Good manners will restrain me from saying anything about Tony Snow
and Kool-Aid.

[fantom]

Mara Salvatrucha---Ms13

[AmericaOne]

Thanks for the info.

[HonestConservative]

You are correct re his job description. However, to my great chagrin, Tony believes what he is saying and what he says today is consistent with what he said before he left radio.

Love the guy, but don't get this at all. Sort of reminds me of the feeling one must get when their son or daughter is married to an ass. Just does not compute.

[rockabyebaby]

I've had it up to HERE with this administration!

[Hildy]

You're an idiot. If you ever listened to Tony, he has always, always said this. He is pro-Amnesty. He doesn't believe this is a big problem. Agree or disagree, but he didn't sell out.

[FReepaholic]

...WTH is he smokin'????? Hey Tony, WAKE UP, it IS an INVASION, geez, drinking too much kool-aid Tony,,,,,...

Ease up on him. He can't make policy. He's only the press secretary. He's duty bound to communicate the Bush administration's policy.

Yell at Bush.

[puppypusher]

Maybe to people in Washington D.C. the criminal aliens are not considered an Invasion but they are by the people who live in and pay the bills in the rest of the country and we want this stopped Now.

I like Tony Snow but I didn't like his stand on immigration anymore then President Bush's and that was while he still had his radio program on Fox News Radio.

Needles to say I can't say that I'm not disappointed in Tony.

[jocko12]

Tony is just trying to give us a WH Snow Job.