Posted on 03/31/2006 4:59:37 PM PST by Conservative Firster
Arizona Spanish language radio station KMIA-AM (710) was knocked off the air this week when one or more undocumented welders used a blow torch to cut the steel support rods on four 197-foot tall radio towers, toppling them to the ground.
Damage is estimated in the millions of dollars and the station expects to be off the air for several weeks. Station manager Tom Duran said he was not sure if the unauthorized toppling of the radio towers was related to this week’s massive marches by illegal aliens and their supporters, which were organized in large part by Spanishlanguage radio stations.
Mr. Duran added, "It's disheartening to know that somebody would do damage like this to a federally licensed facility."
I agree with Mr. Duran, you can’t have people wandering the Arizona countryside in the dead of night violating federal laws. Unless, of course, those people are foreigners violating federal immigration, identification, tax, and employment laws by sneaking into our country, and working illegally, off the books, under fake names and Social Security numbers in the unregulated underground economy.
On the other hand, rebuilding the radio towers will contribute to the American economy and towers can be legally demolished by those with the proper paperwork. So perhaps the real problem here is simply that the aspiring welder did not have such documentation, which is often difficult for poor or uneducated people to come by.
Also of great concern was the fact that, because of his undocumented status, the so-called “illegal” welder was forced to work “in the shadows” in a dangerous desert environment.
No word on if “humanitarian” groups or church officials plan to begin providing water and acetylene near other radio towers in the area. But it is just a matter of time before some poor soul seeking a better life without unsightly radio towers is killed while journeying through the remote and hostile locations in which unauthorized tower demolition work can be found.
Clearly, the time is now for comprehensive radio tower demolition reform. We cannot just enforce existing laws against destruction of property and expect this problem to go away. Some provision must be made for the undocumented welders among us to come out of the shadows and receive full welding certification, at government expense.
Although the most enlightened thing would be to fully amnesty the undocumented steel cutters (many of whom are our neighbors, after all), middle America may not be sophisticated enough to understand this.
So I would like to suggest a Comprehensive Undocumented Torch Manipulator and Operator Reform bill (the CUTMOR bill) modeled on the McCain-Kennedy-Specter plan for reforming our immigration system.
Those who can prove they demolished radio towers prior to Jan. 1, 2007, will be able to pay a $500 fine and receive “temporary guest welder” status in our country. The fine means it is NOT an amnesty, and that should help sell it to the Weldo-phobic rubes that are not as smart as the proponents of full amnesty.
Those guest welders who stay employed and un-convicted of any crimes they commit for a period of three years, can have their status renewed and then be put on the path toward master welder certification.
Now, there are many who will say that the CUTMOR bill would simply reward lawbreakers and encourage others to violate laws in the future. But these people are not aware of how our modern economy truly operates or how outdated law “enforcement” is in the new global reality.
If we want fewer towers cut down tomorrow, we must amnesty those who cut down towers today. That is the only comprehensive solution. Welders built this country. It would be un-American not to let them tear it down.
For those of you slow to pick up on the joke, this satirical piece was written in the spirit of April Fool’s Day.
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"the unauthorized toppling of the radio towers"
Versus what, the authorized topplings?
Now, there is a job most Americans won't do.
Just Toppling The Spanish Language Radio Towers Americans Refuse to Topple
He should see what his audience has done to a federally authorized border patrol
"You can't make this up" ping.
"It's disheartening to know that somebody would do damage like this to a federally licensed facility," he said.
He said he was unable to say whether the damage may be linked to recent immigration unrest throughout the nation. He said the FBI will be asked to investigate.
So because these towers were "federally licensed" this becomes a federal crime?
How sad and despicable! People are forever trying to turn state crimes or local crimes into federal crimes.
Why don't we just give up the fiction of a republic of states and move on to a single state ... or better yet ... a single continent governed by a single set of simple rules that would merely fill the Library of Congress.
I wonder if he was hoping to see some blame shifted to the racist gringos trying to throw the illegals out of the country.
CUTMOR.....Now that's funny!
Has a suspect been arrested and positively identified as being an illeagal immigrant?
That would seem a little ironic to me.
If anyone might have been disgruntled about the Spanish radio stations organizing these demonstrations, I wouldn't assume it to be one of the people that these stations are apparently advocating for.
A little old - fashioned "Vigilanteism" would seem more likely to me.
But then again - I'm up heah in Maine, so what do I know?
Doing the welding American's won't do!
I think this is great!
Awe crap. Busted for posting without reading an entire article.
Isn't illegal immigrant the same violation of law as "unauthorized toppling (I love that term) of a federally licensed facility". We want to ignore one but not the other?
I can't wait for our upcoming "tax revolt" being worked out as "guest taxpayer legislation", leaving us years to volintarily become legal, with little consequence.
More irony- today is Cesar Chavez Day- illegal advocates marching around "honoring" him- marchers either too young and/or uneducated to know that Cesar and his minions, when not calling la migra on illegals, formed the "Wet Line"- where their idol and his ilk regularly beat the crap out of illegals. Hilarious!!!!!!
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