Posted on 05/21/2007 12:57:29 AM PDT by goldstategop
The gaggle of senators announced the immigration compromise with glee.
I feel I've been punched in the gut and that my country is being stolen from me by elected government officials.
They say it will solve the "immigration" problem but it's amnesty, no matter how they sugarcoat it. If this abomination passes, the country as we know it is lost.
It grants instant legal status to the 12 to 20 MILLION illegals in this country now; no one knows how many, and they're not all from Mexico. We have illegals here from more than one hundred countries, including Communist China and Middle Eastern countries considered enemy states.
What happened to the war on terror that threatens our survival? Oh, that's right, Sen. Harry Reid said we "lost" it.
That picture on the Drudge Report of Sen. Mel Martinez, Sen, Lindsey Graham and Sen. Ted Kennedy laughing and backslapping as they celebrated their approval of the immigration bill was disgusting.
If you ever wanted a glimpse into the ways of real back-room, stick-it-to-'em politics, that was it. The only problem is, they're sticking it to us!
Instant legality for illegals makes them immediately eligible for all welfare, social services and privileges of citizenship, as well as special work visas.
Ah yes, privileges of citizenship, but they won't be citizens. There's no mention of these people wanting to become American – just that they want to be here for the better life our citizens have worked 200 plus years to create.
So do the rest of the world's poor people. Why are we expected to give it away? Where do we draw the line? I draw it at the border – a very secure border.
The plan gives them a way to bring their families here, so multiply that 20 million by four or six. It's called chain migration.
Most of these people are school dropouts, don't speak English and are illiterate in their own languages. Why would we create a permanent and dependent (and expensive to support) underclass?
The plan makes it easier for them to become citizens than it is for people who are doing it legally!
That's not only wrong, it's insulting, and so is the fact that the discussion of the bill was in private – except that militant and separatist Latino groups, among them La Raza ("The Race") and Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, took part and had veto power.
Where were the usual committee hearings? Where was public discussion? Where was media analysis and public reaction? Why was Kennedy so determined to get this done before Memorial Day? Why is it being shoved down our throats, and why have questioning citizens been labeled racist?
No doubt the champagne flowed that night as the senators celebrated their "agreement" on what is duplicitously called immigration reform. But apparently, Kennedy, ever the panderer, had some politicking to do before his real celebration. The Boston Globe reported that Kennedy met with several families of illegals after the announcement. He told the paper, "They're still reeling from that."
I guess when the gods from on high deign to meet with the little people, it does send them "reeling."
The paper quotes Kennedy as saying, "When I told them the bill would make them safe and secure, you should have seen the look in their eyes. They knew they didn't have to be scared."
I'll bet he even said that with a straight face. He's been at it a long time. You get good at such nonsense. That kind of bull would certainly drive me to drink, but I suspect any imbibing Teddy did that night had nothing to do with his blatant exploitation of law-breaking, poor people to burnish his legacy of selling out this country (his country!) on the issue of illegal aliens. He's celebrating the proposed legislation, which, he says will fix the nation's "broken borders."
Apparently, Sen. Teddy forgot we already have immigration and border laws that he was instrumental in passing. Even worse, we tolerate state and local officials who declare their cities as sanctuaries for illegals and forbid immigration law enforcement. Churches are blatantly, and with impunity, declaring they'll give sanctuary and shelter to illegals.
We just don't enforce existing laws. I guess that's too easy and wouldn't get the headlines those pompous air bags in Washington crave, especially as we approach an election year. It also wouldn't get them the new voters they hope this abomination will get them.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein chimed-in on ABC radio Friday, with her plea to all of us little people out here, "I'd like to say to the American people. Please, please, please don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
If she means what I think she means – Di Fi ought to get off of her throne and onto her knees to apologize to the American people for insulting our intelligence. That bill has nothing to do with mending borders or solving the problem of millions of illegal aliens pouring into this country. It has everything to do with a complete sellout of this country.
It betrays the whole of the American people.
It betrays those who came before us, worked and fought to make this country what it is – or perhaps I should say was.
It betrays the people of today who continue to work, build, support and ultimately defend this country to preserve our heritage.
It betrays our infants and young children who, in their innocence, trust us to leave them a country that reflects the freedoms and rights guaranteed in our Constitution.
What's particularly appalling is President Bush's support of the plan. In his seemingly unending support for all things Mexican and his goal of blurring the borders to create a North American version of the European Union, this man, elected as a supposedly Conservative Republican President of this country, is part of what I consider to be a coup from the top, never seen in a democracy. He and all the officials involved are playing with treason – the betrayal of one's country.
In the process of this betrayal, they're involved in destruction of the Republican Party. Any definition of republican or conservatism is lost.
It's all a blatant play for political power; Democrats want the votes and power, and Republicans, in their stupid naiveté and their own power play, set themselves up for destruction.
Are they crazy?
The only way to possibly stop this is for every American who cares about the future of our country to immediately inundate every elected official and the White House with calls and e-mail. Tell them their support of this will mean the end of their political career.
Elections do have consequences; look what the last one got us. I fear the results of the next one.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
You are 100% correct, Sir and so is the author of this article.
And the problem is, there is no place else to live if we don’t like it.
That’s not entirely true.
Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand offer alternatives.....
We must call all Senators their DC and home offices. The White House, the AG’s office, every day 0800 to 1800. Jam the lines, faxes and emails are no good, just trashed.
This is political war!!!
At this point, I could care less about the Republican Party. I do however care about my children’s future. When I think of this, my blood boils. Our kids and grandchildren will take the real hit on this legislation. We will be leaving them a country of poverty, crime and illiteracy. They will be working their butts off to pay for all of the social services required to sustain an enormous poverty class.
970 WFLA RADIO DIRECT QUOTE RNC CHAIR/FLA SENATOR MEL MARTINEZ... "We must... the deal is already done." MM
(a bloodless coup).
Opposition to the Kennedy Immigration Bill is growing, and rightfully
so. Here’s some good reading on the issue; stay informed, and spread
the word that this bill is bad for America.
“Don’t Be Fooled.”
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OWMwNDIyNjBmNDRjMTNjYWM3ODg5ZWU0OTZiMTMyZjg
Lots of good links and info
http://corner.nationalreview.com/
“No Matter What You Call It, It’s Amnesty.”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmViN2Y4NzYyMmVlNzE4OWNiN2M0YTIwMWQ2NDUxOTQ
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Fred Thompson: “Scrap it.”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjEzYTc5YjA2ZGNiZjlmZDJkMTllYmE4MjE3ZmY1OTY
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“Bipartisan Fantasy.”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWQxN2JiNTEwNzU4NDY1Y2EzZjQ3N2Y1OGNlMDk0ZTg
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All good things must come to an end......and my read on this is that the superrich who call the shots in the GOP Establishment -- the Yacht Club -- may be calling on their party to execute what the Japanese in World War II called a gokusai, "breaking the jewel," attack on U.S. wage costs. I think -- although it staggers the mind to think it, the boldness is beyond any play I would ever have expected them to call -- they've called on the GOP to sacrifice its existence to wreck U.S. wage scales and the middle class, breaking the middle class back to the proletariat forever.
This is about "no more sharing". This is for all the marbles. The Dems may get the votes, but the employers will own both the jobs and all the money, so they'll own the Dems, too (as David Horowitz has been warning us for some time, the two parties are just an illusion).
So it won't matter if the elites have to burn an asset to "get it done" (the motto of the Horatio Alger types like Bob Dole who've always worked happily for the oligarchs and taken their pay). They may have to burn their boats and their bridges, but with such a glittering prize in sight, they'd have to go for it -- and let the numbers tell them what to do, as they say in B-school.
Because once they break us to the wheel, they'll have us where they want us, and they'll know never to allow organized labor or anyone else to compete with them ever again. At least, that's the suspicion that begins to steal into my mind when I ask myself, "why is George Bush doing this -- doesn't he know what he's setting us up for, Hillary in '09 and possibly 'president for life' and quite possibly the end of the GOP?" Hell, it could even kill the Republic, if the manager class and their overlords break U.S. wages to Asian-hellhole levels and are seen to renege on the American Dream and start playing games with contract and indentured bond-labor. (By the way, there are significant reasons why U.S. wages are higher than wages in India and Mexico, but of course if you're CEO of Ford or Wal-Mart, you don't care -- all you care about is the numbers.)
Beyond that, I wonder sometimes if some of them think that there may just be too many people on the planet, lots more than are necessary to support their own comfort and pleasure. Now, there's a thought to make the hair stand up on your neck.
Amen. God help us!
Our children will be taxed 80% or more when all these illegals decide to draw their social security.
“I wonder sometimes if some of them think that there may just be too many people on the planet, lots more than are necessary to support their own comfort and pleasure.”
There are those at the UN who feel the world would better suited having only 500 million people. Up to 1 billion if the *proper* technology was in place.
....so I am gobsmacked that our borders are to remain porous to any & every illegal and/or terrorist to cross.
What am I missing?....do 'they' (administration, Democrats, RINO or garden variety Republicans)- think we're this stupid or what?
Here is a word picture...from the movie, Braveheart
..Right now I feel as defeated & sucker punched as William Wallace did on the battlefield the very moment it was apparent Robert the Bruce betrayed him.....
Did you see the look on 'Wallace's' face?....It was heartbreaking.
The nail is already in the coffin called the “anchor baby”. This will just make sure the rest of the nails go in snuggly.
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them.
This is about the destruction of the American MIDDLE CLASS and the Conservative wing of the Republican Party FOREVER. The Middle Class is the only thing that can stop the Elitist goal or total control! This is the fight to the end!
The country was lost a long time ago. We are just arguing about what comes next.
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