As soon as your countrymen respect our laws, until then, we could care less what you think...
Posted on 01/17/2011 7:11:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The inflammatory language in U.S. politics has surpassed acceptable limits. The warning lights lit up this weekend with the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, at a community event at a supermarket in Tucson where an individual arrived, drew a gun, and opened fire.
He killed five people including a little girl, a federal judge and at the time of this writing, Giffords is in critical condition, struggling between life and death.
Giffords has been a lawmaker in the liberal-wing of the Democratic Party who has repudiated her state's controversial law SB 1070. She is an advocate of realistic immigration rules that would allow a path to legalization, with the goal of bringing some order to a broken immigration system.
And so the politicians of the Tea Party, led by Sarah Palin, have focused their attention on her and any politician that doesn't cling to their ideas and discourse of anger and violence.
As recently as last November’s elections, Palin posted a map of the United States showing states with congressmen who were targets of her attacks in the crosshairs of a rifle. Twenty lawmakers were on this list. Giffords was one of them.
What was a metaphor for Palin, was a reality for the individual who showed up Saturday at a Safeway supermarket. He arrived with his gun in hand and opened fire on Giffords and those around her.
The rhetoric of intolerance in the U.S. is worrying. That was the message we heard from Obama, Palin, as well as politicians on the left and right, all alarmed by what happened in Tucson.
In Mexico, this intolerance affects us directly, because unfortunately, the brunt of it is aimed at immigrants - and not only illegal ones. Even if the primary suspect in the Giffords shooting isn't of Hispanic origin.
Besides repudiating politicians who disagree with laws like SB 1070, almost anything having to do with Hispanics, Latinos or Mexico is rejected in Arizona.
The New York Times published an article this weekend that recounted the unhappy fate of Mexican-American studies programs in Arizona schools. They have been declared illegal.
Branded as a propagandistic subject that brainwashes students into believing that Latinos are an oppressed class in the U.S., prohibition of the subject has now been passed into law, and as a result, current school curricula must now be dismantled.
You can understand the shock. Nobody in Mexico has ever attacked a public official.
?Que???
Pure Mexican Merde.
poco loco!!
insulting the intelligence of the American people, just like their president, who came here & told us what we should make our immigration laws even more liberal, when his are much more conservative.
They know most American’s aren’t paying close attention - is why they pull crap like this. You get the same kind of thing from CAIR - in fact any group that wants to take what America has.
Oh yeah Ana.
Mexico is a bastion of civility.
Get over your feigned outrage.
More whinyass rhetoric from Mexico because we won’t allow all Mexican Nationals to become U.S. citizens. Something weird is going on here.
A rather poorly written rehash of the same libtard talking points that have been repeated ad-nauseum for nine straight days. FAIL!
You should win an FR prize that post. Right on the nose.
Billions are sent illegally to Mexico every year. Money that goes untaxed. We need to tax all that money at the top income tax rate.
As far as murder what about all the Mexican nationals that have killed American citizens? Including police officers.
I would imagine the stories of piles of headless bodies kind of moved this Arizona stuff right out of the news down there.
As soon as your countrymen respect our laws, until then, we could care less what you think...
You know, if somebody had shot Jared on the spot the leftwingtards would be parading him around as a martyr to their cause.
I’m not sure which is worse...this tripe or all of the tweets I’ve seen claiming that if Loughner had been a Muslim everyone would be calling him a terrorist.
Man you gotta love the writer’s last name Or-dorco.
What a flippin moron.
Her grasp of reality is as tenuous as grabbing water by the tail.
La chica no sabe una mierda
Rifles do NOT have cross-hairs; rifle SCOPES do.
But since these servants of the New World Order
have their Satanic marching orders to destroy any
figure of boldness & Godly-integrity in U.S. government,
the Truth is not crucial to them.
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