Posted on 05/29/2007 3:12:23 PM PDT by Zakeet
Judging by what took place in the first hours of the Senate immigration debate last week, critics are deluding themselves if they expect lawmakers to improve the bill when debate resumes after the Memorial Day recess. Most of the organized political pressure on the immigration issue is coming from open-borders advocates intent on enabling more illegals to obtain amnesty and bring their relatives to the United States, and from Washington elites on the left and the right who think anyone who doesn't share their permissive philosophy is backward and xenophobic. Unless the American people rise up en masse and tell their senators in no uncertain terms that they cannot accept amnesty, the Senate bill will easily pass and no one should be surprised if it passes with amendments making it even more harmful to taxpayers and detrimental to hometown safety and homeland security.
Two votes in particular that occurred on Thursday illustrate the problem. Sen. Norm Coleman a moderate Minnesota Republican who cannot possibly be termed "anti-immigrant" or a "bomb thrower" introduced an amendment aimed at closing the notorious "sanctuary city" loophole that cities and states are using to avoid compliance with federal immigration law. Section 642 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 was supposed to guarantee that local law-enforcement officials can communicate with with federal law-enforcement agencies regarding suspected immigration violations. But to get around federal immigration law, localities have instituted ordinances barring local law enforcement from even asking whether someone is lawfully in the United States. Mr. Coleman's amendment would permit law-enforcement officers to ask about a person's immigration status during routine investigations. "In a post 9-11 world, it is simply unacceptable for communities to ignore federal laws requiring them to share this type of information with federal authorities," Mr. Coleman said.
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“Once this is passed the damage will be done, voting them out later is not the solution.
“It has to be stopped now, this is not the time wring our hands, and say the fix is in, it is the time to STOP it!”
You are absolutely correct. These are my exact beliefs.
“A Million Minute Man March?”
That is one possibility. We need much more though.
To arms! To arms! The U.S. Government is coming!
“The Greeks said, “Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
How very fitting. Thank you.
I voted for and liked GW for the most part. But if I was a armed Secret Service Agent guarding the President and I knew that Cheney opposed the bill and Bush supported it and it was waiting for the President to either sign it or veto it.
Kind of like Sowell is saying about a coup. It is coming time to think about the unthinkable.
wow. do you have a link to the transcript?
Sorry to butt in, but that was a good question. I thought I would look into it.
I found this link where he said the same thing but was an op-ed piece on national review online where he used the same line.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmU0NGQ0ZTQzZTU4Zjk4MjdjZWMzYTM4Nzk2MzQ0MGI=
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...A reader sent the following message, quoting his nephew: “Calling an illegal alien an ‘undocumented worker’ is like calling a drug dealer an ‘unlicensed pharmacist.’“...
...When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup....
I sincerely hope that you are right. At the very least it will have ceased to be a major political force. The acrimony that certain GOP senators have created will last on and on.
I, for one, will never vote for a GOP candidate again. I'm waiting for the institution of a new, truly conservative party. And if one doesn't come? Well, I'm reaching the point age-wise that I may not care.
If this bill passes, that will be it for me as well.
I agree! the revolution should take place at the voting booth on all levels of government from the 2008 election and beyond. It will all come home when they are forced to admit defeat in front of thier lemmings. LETS CLEAN HOUSE AND ELECT THE REPRESENTATIVES THAT REPRESENT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THIS IS OUR COUNTRY AND NO ONE ELSES! AMERICA FIRST, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!
I will have to go look. Since it was Memorial Day, it was a "best of" with interviews with Fred Thompson and Sowell. The Sowell interview must have been a while ago. There was no direct reference to this immigration bill resulting in a coup. But the conditions he spoke about, civil unrest being one, could apply in the possible aftermath of this immigration fiasco.
“”Can you say watta figgin mess?”
Amen, ma dear!!
Of course the bill is revocable.
What is NOT revocable is 12 to 25 million people living here.
We will not strip them of citizenship.
Of course the bill is revocable.
What is NOT revocable is 12 to 25 million people living here.
We will not strip them of citizenship.
Excellent. So true. Thank you...(moronic Bush.)
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 Paleologus
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