Soccer Mom: Unplugged

(thanks Dugg for the fun link)

"This amendment is racist. I think it's directed basically to people who speak Spanish".  Nope, those words didn't come from Cynthia McKinney, they were the utterance of Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid on the floor of the Senate yesterday.  The "amendment" in question declares English the official language of the American nation. Reid quickly realized he'd crossed a line and amended his own statements to clarify that he was not suggesting anyone was racist - but that some people might conceivably, under some circumstances, possibly come to the conclusion that perhaps the wording was a teensy tiny bit, um, over the top... (that's a paraphrase)

The whole point of Reid's idiocy is moot anyway since this largely symbolic bone is being thrown to flag-waving Americans, we can surmise, in a vain attempt to calm the furor over illegal immigration.  Apparently,  folks on the hill failed to get the memo that conservative Americans weren't impressed on Monday night with President Bush's 'dust off the welcome mat' speech.

With respect to Reid's charge that demanding liguistic assimliation is racist well, here's what I think:

(Una mensaje para mis amigos que hablan Espanol)  Los Democrats creen que Uds. son tan idiota que no pueden aprender el ingles.  Ellos saben que continuar a no poder comunicar en el idioma de este pais les mantendran como ciudadanos de clase segundo.  Los Democrats no quieren que Uds. progresan dentro del sistema Americano porque si Uds. se educan y ganan mas dinero ya no van a ser "victimas" sino que una gente exitosa.  Los Democrats necesitan victimas para mantener su poder politico. 

(A message for my friends who only speak Spanish:  The Democrats believe that you are too stupid to learn English.  They know that to continue to be unable to communicate in the language of this nation will keep you second class citizens.  The Democrats don't want you to progress within the American system because if you educate yourselves and earn more money you will no longer be victims but instead a successful people.  The Democrats need victims to maintain their political power.)

Some of the President's ideas on the border issue were:

1.  Put up fences and barriers, stand up technological impediments to border crossing and send in the National Guard

2.  Stop catch and release by expanding detention centers so that no one is left loose on American soil awaiting a court date for deportation

3.  Increased funding for local law enforcement who participate in targeted border missions

4.  Guest worker program to allow workers in and keep track of them - criminal background checks and biometric ID cards

5.  Financial penalty for illegals already in country and the opportunity to get in line for citizenship - stiff penalities for employers who hire illegals

Okay here's the question I have.  How do you compel the 12 to 20 million illegals already here to come forward?   They're already here and reaping the benefits of the US economy without getting caught.  Why would they come forward and volunteer to pay a fine and start paying taxes?  Sure, many would because they want citizenship but what about the others?  You've got to turn off the tax-payer funded tap by requiring paperwork for school enrollment and for eligibility for ANY kind of government benefit.  There has to be a tangible and painful consequence for not coming "out of the shadows".  Incentives to stay illegal must go in order to push people toward legitimacy.  

There need to be harsh disincentives for hiding out in America - not as a punishment - but as a driving force toward assimilation.

Build a brick wall instead.  Go to send-a-brick.com and send a brick and a message to the representative or Senator of your choice. 

The young people behind this fun idea were on Fox and Friends during the 45 seconds I got to watch before my son found the remote and switched to SpongeBob.  They are basically following in the footsteps of those who began the fingernail drive at Harvard.  To do this on the cheap - you can send the brick yourself and if you can get it to fit into the flat-rate box, it'll cost you less than $5.00.

To see some of the bricks that have already been sent, click the brick below!

Michelle Malkin has great photos posted from yesterday's marches and virtually every one makes clear who the real supporters of amnesty are.  After perusing the pictures for a few minutes, it becomes vividly clear that Mexicans want their land back. A compelling counter argument to this deranged thinking does exist.  Here are some of my thoughts:

(1)  They already have Mexico and they still can't get that country right.

(2)  If they want to roll the clock back and demand their land then I say we offer it only in the condition in which it was taken initially.  We return it completely undeveloped, without modern technology, without any government or economic progress.  What do you bet that deal isn't satisfactory?  They don't want their land.  They want OUR economy.  What they want is freedom, social mobility and money - but those didn't come with the land when we got it.  Those are U.S. added amenities. 

Frankly, I think this whole issue is getting out of hand.  I can see room here for compromise.  Why don't we give them San Francisco?  San Fran is systematically cutting ties with the rest of America anyway.  They've booted the military and the Catholics.  They're probably very open to the idea.

Anyway, hop on over to www.michellemalkin.com and check out all of the protestors in their anti-American and pro-socialist glory.  It's actually quite entertaining.

In keeping with the May Day movement,  it seems fitting to point out exactly who some of the mobilizing forces have been behind the amnesty at any cost movement.

One of the main groups backing the movement is A.N.S.W.E.R..  This is a group that was founded on September 14th, 2001 in direct reaction to the September 11th attacks.  A group whose creation and name (Act now to stop war & end racism) preemptively struck at any American response to terrorism before a response had even been formulated or announced.  Consider that for a minute.

On the 14th, we didn't even know if the number of dead was 4,000 or 14,000.  The buildings were still burning and giving off enough heat and smoke for the environment around the financial district to be noxious.  New Yorkers and New Jerseyans were wandering the streets posting pictures of loved ones they hadn't yet found.  And yet, this group of people jumped the gun and immediately responded to the heartwrenching wailing and weeping of the numberless who waited in anxious and pained desperation for any news of loved ones, by demanding that we were ultimately responsible for this attack because our "international racism".  Remind me if I get this wrong, but when some outspoken religious leaders said the same thing they were publicly excoriated and ostracized from any reasonable discourse about courses of action against the perpetrators.

So here we have, ANSWER, whose answer was to blame America. 

It's not surprising to find that the leading supporters of this group are communist and socialist affiliates who have worked to fight against democracy in other countries.  Nor is it surprising that they are supporting amnesty.  This is a group that takes any position that is unhealthy for democracy because ultimately, the goal in their minds, is a to create a communal style world where people are either left to flounder in the insecurity of chaos or governed by a small body of extremely powerful paternalistic Marxists. 

It is also not surprising that among its supporters is found the name of one Kent State University professor.  This group is American liberalism at its most natural extreme: Marxist nihilism.

For more information, may I suggest you follow the money....

Who Funds Pro-Amnesty ANSWER Group?