Posted on 04/12/2005 11:54:47 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
At this moment about five hundred volunteers for the Minuteman Project are in southern Arizona on a self-assigned, self-righteous, and utterly overwrought mission to protect the United States from impoverished Mexicans trying to enter this country on foot to perform hard tasks most Americans would never consider doing. Even the most ardent racists and racism, more than national security, is fueling this demonstration understand Mexicans would not come to the United States unless they were virtually assured of being hired by (usually white) employers seeking workers they can pay very little.
If the Minutemen really dont want illegal immigrants to pick fruit and vegetables, and take care of Anglo babies, and clean their houses, then they should themselves perform the aforementioned and other unpleasant duties. Or, if they arent prepared for that and evidently they are not then they should use their zeal for citizen law enforcement to confront countless employers across this nation and compel them to stop hiring those without proper documentation. Step into the farm fields and announce the police have been called. By doing so, the Minutemen would initiate the capture of more illegal immigrants in an hour than they will in a projected one-month in Arizona. But they arent going to do that, either, are they?
What the Minutemen want most is attention, and theyre getting some, but fate has dealt them a bad inaugural week to compete for headlines: the Pope died, baseball season opened, Saul Bellow passed away, and Peter Jennings was diagnosed with lung cancer. The volunteer sentinels, who are disrupting the real United States Border Patrol by setting off underground sensors and tramping more footprints in the sand, probably wont make much news unless someone one of them or the other guys is killed or wounded. The Minutemen swear that wont happen. Theyre actually a neighborhood watch group along our border that has no affiliation with separatists, racists, or supremacy groups. Theirs is not a call to arms but a call to voices seeking a peaceful and respectable resolve to the chaotic neglect by politicians at all levels in applying U.S. immigration law.
They want everyone to know this nation is governed by the rule of law, and theyre sacrificing the comforts of a cozy home so they can do something to prevent their homeland from being devoured and plundered by the menace of tens of millions of invading illegal aliens. If this isnt stopped, the Minutemen warn that future generations will inherit a tangle of rancorous, unassimilated, squabbling cultures with no common bond to hold them together which will lead to a certain guarantee of the death of this nation as a harmonious melting pot. Thus, people will write about how a lax America (sank) into a quagmire of mutual acrimony among various sub-nations that will comprise the new self-destructing America.
Exhale, and note that the Minutemen have many more warnings but those above should suffice to convince everyone they are genuinely concerned and almost writhing about the current and future condition of the United States. Sincere people deserve a serious response. And I hereby assure the Minutemen the vacationing vigilantes, not the Patriots who battled King Georges well-trained Red Coats that the apocalypse is not upon us. I am qualified to offer such a guarantee. For many years I have taught English as a Second Language for adults, ninety percent of whom are from Mexico. I know the people, and they are unequivocally not ruining this country; they are building it with their hands and their backs and their hearts, the way immigrants in this country always have. They are also infusing their new land with energy and optimism. Often, I ask students if they miss Mexico, and most say not much. No disrespect to their native land, they simply love the opportunities and way of life here.
The primary issue, then, is not security but the rule of law. Immigration standards are indeed being violated, but not because the United States is indifferent. Last year, in fact, twenty thousand Border Patrol agents arrested more than a million illegal entrants. Thats impressive intervention, but for every person seized two got through more than two million in 2004. Do the political and economic rulers of the United States consider that an invasion? Of course not. If they did, theyd put a lot more agents or soldiers along the two-thousand mile border with Mexico.
Lets further clarify matters by stating what leaders of the United States and Mexico have long known, and what anyone with access to a map should also understand: the American Southwest is destined to be inhabited by millions more people of Hispanic origin. This is a mandate of geopolitics and history; the wealthier nation, which won the Mexican-American War and most desirable territory, is an inexorable magnet for those desperate for economic betterment. Their hot and often dangerous journeys on foot are comparable to the perilous voyages long ago from Europe. And Mexican immigrants, like their European predecessors, will not cease coming in great numbers until opportunities improve at home.
Despite widespread and understandable concern about broken laws and large influxes of illegal residents, most people in the United States do not feel personally threatened and probably wont unless a major terrorist attack here is traced south of the border. That possibility must be acknowledged. Recent trends paint the picture. In 2003 about forty thousand people other-than-Mexicans OTM were arrested along the border. Many were from the Middle East and Asia. Last year the number jumped to sixty-five thousand. Almost all were doubtless coming for the same enterprising reasons as the Mexicans. But it would be naive and irresponsible to pretend Al-Qaeda and other criminal organizations arent trying to squeeze through a few deadly agents.
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DP
You said it nicely. You were very civil.
If my supporting the MMP makes me a derneck racist I guess I am one. And if this guy don´t like that he can kiss my rebel butt. Hows that for civility?
DP
Typical. This leftist elitist is outsourcing the publication of his book.
Or is the printing so small no domestic publisher is interested?
Keep the good work with your list. FReegards
-Boot
Then snakes are what kept the field rats and rabbits from eating up the whole dang field before it could be harvested. Don't be pickin on snakes just 'cause they make us jump like kangaroos. I take them over the rats anyday.
What utter, ignorant nonsense...
I rear by own babies,clean my own houses, and mow my own lawn. It is not like it is hard.
I mowed my lawn, helped raise my own children (I am a man), did my own damn laundry and paid way too much in goddamn taxes to help support the invading army that Mr Bush and his wealthy Republican cohorts want to have up here. Spread the damn word!!! The time has come to oust these prolific vermin. I have had enough!!! Let Mexico support it's own and don't dump Mexico's impoverished on me to support. I have always been loyal to the the GOP until now and still am pending what happens here!!! We can not absorb Mexicos over population problem without seriously hurting our middle class. The gauge of a nation is the well being of it's middle class. Mr Bush are you paying attention?
Please add "belly-brigade", courtesy of DP harrowup...
--Boot Hill
Outstanding notion this list. Kudos to you Boot Hill.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382557/posts?page=92#92
--Boot Hiil
LOL!!!!! You're bad! Hilarious, but bad!
Also, they are sending their criminals up here to continue their criminal activities. I understand that drug lords now control the mexican towns along the border.
Does this list contain slurs against the Minutemen SPECIFICALLY? Here are two others that I heard, months before Minutemen, with respect to opponents of open borders in general:
"knuckle draggers"
"Neanderthals"
Should we include them or not lol?
Better check with ClintonBeGone and Harrowup to make sure we haven't missed any others.
Although officials could not give a cause for the rejection, on a document at the time of his arrest Sunday night, deputies noted that he was "mentally disturbed.""
I ask you not to forget MightyMeesePoopers.
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