Posted on 05/28/2002 8:23:09 AM PDT by Registered
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:37:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Now, if 'all' the illegals can't be rounded up, how could 'all' the 18 year old who refuse to register be rounded up? Would not a refusal to register be "illegal"? Currently, not registering is a felony. Yep, being an "Undocumented potential draftee", that's illegal.
So, we'll sheepishy wring our hands (again) and just meeky say; "We can't round them all up". Dodging the draft coud be individually useful. An individual may want to be a governor one day. Or President even. Think that 15 year olds don't know this? Think again.
Oh woe to the New World Order when Americans prefer Kansas to Kabul and Brooklyn to the Balkans. We will be "powerless" as the talking heads enjoy spouting. Then we can all find "closure", their other favorite word.
Very true. It's all being spent to pay the federalized army of illiterate rent-a-cops strip searching toddlers and little old white ladies at airports.
Maybe, just maybe, if they stopped spending time, money and resources going after legal citizens for the possession and/or use of marijuana, they would be able to accomplish this goal.
Why do you keep repeating this lie?
I guess your from the camp that says repeat a lie often enough and everyone will eventually believe it's true. Well that might work on the sheeple, but it won't work on FreeRepublic.
President Bush can do plenty. Now as President of the US, the most powerful leader in the free world, if he cannot protect its borders and it citizens, then Heaven help us. He has the bully pulpit, he could do much just by talking and enforcing the laws we now have. I refuse to believe there are no laws on the books to be used.
But it is shameful for anyone, anyone to say, "Just do nothing."
President Bush has a wand and he is using it for misdirection. He is pretending our only danger lies on the other side of the world. Not so.
Someone mentioned no conservative would ever get elected again - well, soon it won't matter. Actually, it seems it doesn't matter now. What on God's green earth is more important than protecting American's soil, culture, and way of life. I thought that was his job.
"a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily."
I've not suggested involvement of a Volunteer Reserve in punishment, and nothing summary.
Therefore, the term "vigilante" would not apply by the definition you provided.
Further, the Volunteer Reserve would not be a "committee," and wouldn't be acting on its own, but under the direction of the Border Patrol in a support capacity, assisting the BP in their duly appointed and fully Constitutional functions.
Isn't coming into the US illegally breaking the law?
Pretty smart "kid." Let's see. Panders to Steelworkers by imposing tariffs. Panders to Cuban-Americans by denouncing free trade with Cuba (but okay to free trade with communist china). Panders to gun-control lobby by saying "no" to guns in the cockpit. Panders to teachers by nearly doubling education spending. Panders to farmers by making them ever dependent on the dole. Etc. Even if Karl Rove is the one recommending these panders, Bush is still responsible since he obviously is not saying "no" to Rove. I'm sure the strategy is to gain more new votes by pandering. The only thing they haven't figured out is whether the number of new voters will more than offset the number of votes lost due to the rampant whoring/pandering/expanding government.
Mmmmmmm... Lunchtime?
Nitpicker.
Well, not all citizens. Granting amnesty to illegals does accomplish two things. (1) Panders to Mexicans for their votes; and (2) Gets businesses more cheap labor.
It ISN'T practical to round up and deport all the illegal aliens. We don't have enough manpower or money to do it. I am not in shock...that seems to me to be an obvious statement of fact.
The unimaginative and the worshippers of the status quo are forever being surprised when someone else redefines for them what is and is not "practical". We have, in fact, more than enough manpower and money to do it. We could do it immediately, if we had the political will. Will is the only thing lacking.
I guarantee you that if we declared war on Mexico, all illegal migrants would be rounded up within a matter of months, if not weeks. Don't tell us what is and is not "practical": what you really mean to say is that is is not politically acceptable. Like most of the status quo worshippers and Bush-bots, you are content to let the Left define what is politically acceptable, and to play the political game by the Left's rules.
Where in the F*** is our leadership?
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