She doesn't even understand the language and she's a lawmaker. A lawmaker who is fighting for the rights of felons; to not be insulted as they break our laws.
Posted on 02/28/2007 8:27:58 AM PST by verum ago
Hardbeatnews, MIAMI, FL, Weds. Feb. 28, 2007: Miami State Senator Frederica Wilson, whose Miami/Dade district is home to dozens of Caribbean migrants, is pushing for a moratorium on the term "illegal alien."
Wilson has introduced a bill in the Tallahassee Senate to prohibit a state agency or official from using the term in any official document.
"I personally find the word 'alien' offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children," Wilson was quoted by the News Press as saying."An alien to me is someone from out of space. We don't say 'alien,' we say 'immigrant.'"
"'Illegal,' I can live with, but I like 'undocumented' better," she added. Her bill comes as the US Congress and Senate are being pushed to introduce legislation that would put millions living in the country without legal working papers on a path to earned legalization. – Hardbeatnews.com
Actually, these aliens are NOT undocumented. They have documents up the wazoo. It's just that they're all fake.
That picture looks familiar.
Isn't she the voodoo villian in one of those old James Bond movies?
Ahhh, South Florida. Remove the Cubans and you have NYC Lite.
Lets just go with "wetbacks."
I thought we had free speech. Now he is offended by what we say. Illegal aliens.
ALIENS ALIENS ALIENS.
I could care less if he was offended.
I want that address. She is a nitwit. Thankfully, Pubs still control the Legl and Crist will not give into that PC nomenclature.
Only problem with this is that it's a media flare story just to stir up contention. I think that the chances of this bill passing hover just above nil.
Ah, such contempt for our Constitution, such eagerness to promote censorship and mind control. What a loser this senator.
How about "illegal basturds"?
Wilson said her bill was inspired by a bill offered by another Florida senator, Horace P. Bedfellow, who served from 1844 to 1862. Bedfellow introduced a bill in 1857 which banned the use of the words "slave" and "slavery" in the state. Senate historian Roberto Martinez said Bedfellow was concerned that plantation owners and their children were being oppressed by references to slavery whenever agriculture or national politics were discussed, something Bedfellow described as "the injury to their pride when they hear the rest of us talk like those moralizing, judgmental Yankees." Bedfellow proposed that all Floridians be required to describe plantation field workers as "capital acquisition employees," "permanent African guest workers" or "automatic cotton-pickers of foreign origin.""Though he was on the wrong side of the slavery debate, Senator Bedfellow was an inspiration to me, because he understood that just because something is true doesn't mean anyone has a right to say it," Wilson said.
OK, I'm just kidding, but it can't be too far from the truth, can it? These people are aliens who came here illegally, so describing them as illegal aliens should only be off-limits if we change it to something like "foreigners who broke our laws to come here and use our welfare system as an ATM."
Funny. She's objecting to "alien," not "illegal". Probably has watched too much science fiction.
That's pretty funny.
Bump
How about Criminal Invader?
That's the best one.
Have any of these clowns heard of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
Can we use the word interloper? Can we? Can we? What I really want to know is how this alluring creature got elected? Will somebody please tell me how this happened?
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