Posted on 08/02/2006 6:02:13 AM PDT by PDR
We teach our children that, if they tell the truth, they won't get into trouble.
It didn't work out that way for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who, during a series of town hall meetings last week, put his finger on an unpleasant -- but undeniable -- facet of the immigration debate and got pummeled for it by right-wing talk radio hosts and bloggers who can't accept the truth.
Schwarzenegger warns that we are entering "a dangerous area.'' He thinks we shouldn't blame those who want to come to America but rather the federal government, which is "not securing our borders.'' In an interview with the editorial board of The San Diego Union-Tribune before the town hall meetings, he called illegal immigration "a self-inflicted wound.'' Along with 70 percent of California voters in a recent Field Poll, he supports comprehensive reform that includes secure borders, guest workers and legalization of undocumented immigrants.
Schwarzenegger told the newspaper that he believes in redemption and thinks the American people do as well. They "like to see that you have done things (to make up) for the mistake you made -- because we all make mistakes,'' he said. Above all, the governor wants to elevate the tenor of what has become a nasty public debate and see it conducted "in a civil way without prejudice and without hatred.''
Later, after meeting with angry constituents who yelled slogans such as "stop the invasion,'' Schwarzenegger told reporters the encounter was "pretty much the first time I had seen the intensity of prejudice.''
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Just more race baiting.
Arnold did the same thing when he took old news about death threats to Bustamante and decided to make it a new headline calling law abiding citizens racists. Pander, pander, pander.
What is it about "ILLEGAL" that some folks just don't get?
Navarette is just another token race-baiting panderer.
You know, the guy is correct. Except intrinsic is probably not the right word to use with the current Latino wave of illegals. I would even agree with a "an important part of."
Sure, the country is loaded with racists, bigots, xenophobes, Jew-Baiters, Anti-Papists, and every other unfashionable sort you wouldn't want mouthing off at the country club bar. But that's no reason not to enforce the law.
I personally believe the "Great Illegal Immigration Debate," is a fraud and a distraction. Why? Well for one thing, it definitely brings PDR's racists, bigots, and xenophobes out in public, where they are effectively used to cancel the debate.
But mainly, it has become a fraud and a distraction because there is no need for debate. Folks, it's over. The demographic shift is here. Done deal. 110 years from now, this will be a majority-Latino country. Stop illegal immigration tonight at midnite. OK, it will take 115 years. BFD.
Will our country's people look like Guatemala, or Chile? Now that's a good question.(A racist question to be sure, but nonetheless a good one.) Depends on how fast we intermarry. But when you bring in hordes in a tidal wave of illegal immigration, such as we have done, they mostly will marry each other! (IMHO)
I think I can prove my theory: the fact that politicians are now talking about illegal immigration defitely proves it's over. Those of us who warned of illegal immigration in the 70's will have the luxury of having been proven correct. Our new Latino neighbors couldn't possibly care less.
Sorry gang. Isee all the popular sound and fury over this issue, but I see no collective, official will to correct it. This is still (temporarily, anyway) America. If we 'don't 'git'er done," it's because we really don't want to, where it counts.
Arnold is a carbon copy of Gray Doofus on the issues. Thanks to those issues now being promoted by the top Republican in the state, all of California has shifted leftward. What was considered center-left under Doofus is now seen as the "conservative" position. Since the CA RATs have to move far-left just to disagree with Arnie, wacky socialists like Gavin Newsom and Antonio Villagosia are now being proclaimed as moderate, consesus-builders by the media. During Doofus' tenure they were unelectable marxist nuts.
Thanks, Arnie!
I was saddened to see the PDR account attempt to inject that red herring onto this forum. I was glad to see Freepers quickly call the account on the transparent stunt.
One thing is statistically significant in this matter. Trolls usually haven't developed an About page. Like mice, they scurry around in the shadows on the fringe.
The whole debate is rife with racism... if you all would do a better job of running off the racists instead of making common cause with them you might find more political support among the elected class than you have.
I think that Freepers are doing a pretty good job of running off the racists
The PDR account attempted to introduce racism into a discussion of geopolitics and was promptly told, by a chorus of Freepers, to get lost.
This alone shows the guy needs a ticket for the clue bus.
For me, it boils down to the FACT that the invaders are deteriorating my standard of living. Higher; crime, disease, taxes.... No one has the right to force the burden of this people on me so they can increase their income or power.
If I wanted to live in a third world country I'd move to Mexico. LEGALLY.
you can dress it up and put lipstick on it, but a pig is still a pig... your high-minded allusion to geopolitics not withstanding.
We run off the racists. The Minutemen run off the racists.
But you don't care about those details, do you? Race card poker players seldom do.
Jaysus, imagine that! Double Bushmills, please.
BTW, how could any rational person be surprised that this massive tidal wave of illegal immigration would awaken a certain nativistic, not to mention atavistic, strain lurking below the surface of even the most mild-mannered and tolerant among us?
Some of the older population stocks of the United States are being swept into minority status ... of course there's going to be a bit of resentment, especially since so many illegals are coming so quickly, that any expectation of assimilation or integration seems mighty far-fetched.
PDR, you have mastered modern-think. Congratulations. But logically it means that a bigot would not be allowed to prevent OJ from murdering his wife.
LOL. La Raza ain't on my side of the debate. Why don't you 'run them off' instead?
You make some interesting points - but would a bigot's bigotry cause him to try and prevent the example you cited?
Ask him if the sacraments are valid if the minister is in sin. And stop wanking about.
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