Before I get into the Arizona law, I must say to you people on the far left that call me racist, that you need to look deep inside your heart. Martin Luther King’s speeches were about equality in the rule of law and opportunity, and not about disregarding the law for your own selfish interests.
As a LEGAL immigrant to this country who has been here for over 30 years, I will tell you that one of the best things about the United States is that is has been a country that has put the rule of law above that of personality and polls. That means that no one is above the law and the law is what drives official behavior. It means that, unlike most of the countries where immigrants come from, it values the law above anything else. If the population does not like a law, it has the RIGHT to change it to either get rid of it or strengthen it. In a nutshell, it’s what makes the United States a great society and provides for equality and it makes MLK’s dream a reality.
Legal immigrants like myself have enjoyed the benefits of this rule of law. This is a country where anyone can succeed with education and hard work. This is a country that has benefited and continues to benefit from contributions from legal immigrants, and those contributions are too many to count. However, when the rule of law is not followed to the political benefit of the left, then we are loosing our foundation.
Arizonans voted overwhelmingly to take control of their rule of law by ensuring that ALL laws are followed, and not ignored as they have been in the past. The idea of a sanctuary city, like we have here in Houston, is not only non-sensical, but it is also dangerous and fundamentally wrong. It is not a discriminatory law, as the police are not looking to bust anyone with a Hispanic last name. All the law says is that the people whom we pay to enforce our laws and maintain our rule of law must now do so. It’s as simple as that.
The reaction from the left has been nothing short of amazing. They are calling for boycotts of everything Arizona. LULAC, which has never advanced Hispanic causes, just leftist political causes, is calling for the boycott of Arizona teams in Houston. That, in itself, is not only wrong, but dangerous. What they are really saying is that because they feel that their power in the Democratic party would be diminished if another million illegals come in this year, that they are willing to destroy our rule of law to continue building their fiefdoms.
Let me say this as clearly as possible. There is nothing wrong with a law designed to enforce our existing laws. There is nothing wrong with transparency in the process and with asking law enforcement to enforce the law. I have not doubt that many illegal immigrants that have come to this country have made great contributions, and that there will always be outcasts on either side that will provide a question to the general law. However, if you turn the table, you will find that even Mexico’s rule of law on illegal Americans in their country is considerably stronger than what we currently have being enforced today.
There are existing programs today in which the very poor can come in to work from places like Mexico in a legal manner. The reason that those programs are not popular is because of all of the protection, outside of the law, that illegal aliens receive. The left and the mainstream media have even gone as far as not calling an illegal alien by that moniker. They are now calling them undocumented workers. That new moniker is easier in the ears and makes them sound like victims.
On the racial profiling question, I have to call BS. I have been here 30+ years and my English, just like the rest of my family is pretty good, if not perfect. There are very few US citizens that do not speak the language. The tools that Arizona is providing it’s law enforcement folks is meant to be able address the issue with people who are OBVIOUSLY illegal and that are typically not contributing to society. It is not discriminatory or predatory. It simply asks law enforcement to do its job.
So why is the left so upset? Because of the loss of potential Democrat voters in the future. Just like illegal Mexicans voted for the PRI in their country overwhelmingly, they hope that they will become a voting block here for them. If your citizens don’t like the messages you are spewing, then add others that will. It’s about the dismantling of all that is good in America by dismantling the basic fabric of what holds us together: the rule of law.
I remember that Miami was boycotted for several years by the NAACP and other black organizations because they chose to enforce their criminal laws and stepped up enforcement in areas of high crimes, which in that city happened to be black areas. They went as far as limiting access to those neighborhoods, and to the dismay of the radical left, crime in Miami dropped significantly. They didn’t see the fact that most of that crime was black on black, and at the end, the people that most benefited from that enforcement policy was the African Americans, with the great majority not being criminals, that were able to lower crime in their neighborhoods. After crime was controlled, they went back to the normal enforcement policies of the past, and everyone lifted their boycotts. It is simple, the rule of law is good for EVERYONE who lives within the law. Let’s learn from Miami’s efforts.
Organizations like LULAC prey on the vulnerabilities of those inside the law by presenting them with far-fetched horror scenarios that are IMPOSSIBLE under the rule of law, in order to provide itself with more power by including those outside of the law. LULAC does not represent me, a Hispanic, and never will. It does not represent most of us LEGAL immigrants or Hispanic citizens who have worked hard, contributed to make this country great, and have benefited from the rule of law.
So, my response to LULAC will be quite simple: I’m going to the Astros game when Arizona plays here next week. If I have a reason, I will patronize Arizona, and will support the right of its citizens to maintain and reclaim their rule of law. I hope that you join me in supporting these folks as they are under heavy attack by the radical left.
On this site, I predicted the decline in the price of oil when everyone was freaking about $140/boe. Here is yet another prediction:
- Oil will be at around $95 by the beginning of the Summer
- There will be a fairly major market correction coming within the next month.
So let’s talk about the first: The DOE says that there is 2x more likelihood to see lower prices vs. higher. So why would I go against what all of those very highly paid economists in the gov. are saying? Well, you see, although Gasoline production is just a part of what we use oil for, it is an indicator of activity in the economy. There is a lot of activity prior and during a recovery that you might not have during normal times. March 2010 set a record in both gasoline demand and gasoline production. If that trend continues, when the summer gas utilization kicks up in its normal cycle, you will see a counter-reaction in the price of oil. I can easily see it at $95, hitting $100 during the summer. I was right when I predicted the drop in the price a while back and I think I will be correct now. The beneficiaries of this will be the oil producers. Go ahead and buy their stocks.
Now for the second. The stock market is growing at a fantasy clip, not matched in any way by the economic indicators. With 1 in 10 of us unemployed and not hopeful, and with talk of a double dipper based on our unsustainable debt, the market at some point has to look at itself and correct. I don’t think that the correction is going to extensive, but I do think it will be painful. And I think it’s coming in the next four weeks.
Peace!!! (thru Strength).
Before I can make my argument that we are moving to a Fascist type of government, we need to redefine the misunderstanding of Fascism being right wing form of government. I am not going to go into a detailed break down, but if you look at the tenets of Fascism, it is Socialism without internationalism like Marxism is. It is control of production thru government ownership and controls, much like the takeover of GM, AIG, and others. It is control of the political spectrum, much like it has happened in Congress, and it is control outside of the scope of laws by bypassing lawmakers in favor of bureaucratic agencies, much like the Obama administration announced they were going to do around cap and trade and carbon output management thru the EPA, as well as focus from an SEC perspective of carbon obligations.
I subscribe to the view of Fascism in being a modified type of socialism, much like Zeev Sternhell. Our government has shown, over the last year, that they believe that government ideals are more important than those of the individuals, and that free markets will no longer exist. Over the last year, they have nationalized the largest auto maker, even removing the CEO on the order of the POTUS. That’s a first in American history. They are in the process of nationalizing an additional 13% in health care, have taken over college loan programs, have strong control over the Financial Services industries (complete with control of AIG), and are letting institutions that are controlled by leftists run amock.
After all, the name of the Nazi party was “The National Socialists”.
The latest mandate, which has not received much plan in the mainstream media, is the “forced favoritism” of unionized companies over free market companies for government contracts. This is a huge mandate that stinks of corruption and paybacks, yet the mainstream media does not care. This could be the beginning of having to “show your card”, NAZI style.
It is going take more than just a shovel to undo the major damage done to our democracy and our free market by this administration. It’s going to take decades to just disassemble the new bureaucracy, the new mandates, and the incredible deficits.
It is now that we have to make sure that we take back Congress by getting rid of those fascists/socialists in Congress and replace them with people that believe in free markets, in our constitution, in limited government, and the strong will of the American people.