Posted on 06/28/2007 8:38:38 AM PDT by H8LIBERALS
"Immigration is certainly a difficult issue. When we first tried to fix the system last year, it was a time when hundreds of thousands of immigrants were protesting in the streets, while self-proclaimed vigilantes known as the Minutemen were rushing to defend our Southern border. In Congress, a good-faith attempt at reform that I helped construct passed the Senate but ultimately failed in the heat of election-year politics..."
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Main Entry: vig·i·lan·tePronunciation: "vi-j&-'lan-tE
Function: noun
Etymology: Spanish, watchman, guard, from vigilante vigilant, from Latin vigilant-, vigilans
: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice
Unless I am unaware of a law-enforcement or judicial (i.e., punishment) function that any of the Minutemen have executed, a certain college professor needs an English lesson.
The Minutemen have prolly rescued more Mexicans recently from the desert and heat than any American or Mexican govt. agency.
And without tax funding.
A DIFFICULT ISSUE?
No, MORON, it’s QUITE SIMPLE (not as simple as you, but simple enough):
1. ROUND THEM UP
2. SHIP THEM BACK
3. CLOSE THE BORDER SO THEY STAY OUT
4. IF THEY WANT TO COME HERE, LET THEM STAND IN THE SAME LINE MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS DID, GET DELOUSED, GET CHECKED FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, GET A FEW SHOTS, ANSWER LOTS OF QUESTIONS — IN ENGLISH! — GET A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK, ETC.
Questions, Obama??
Then there was the soldier who was talking to Chelsea Clinton.
She asked him how he felt about fear.
He told her there were only 3 things he was afraid of.........
1) Osama
2) Obama
3) and Yo Mama
If the government of the people, by the people, and for the people will NOT enforce the laws of the land, the people MUST
Old concepts for the young who wish to be in power. Let them repeat History. Some day the public will get it.
We really are Living in 1984, the end times..ect.
Many times in our History In the absence of law Vigilantes have defended the innocent. But of course they have the power to rewrite, reinterpret, and redefine.
I think Joe Biden is gonna hafta take it back. He is clearly not articulate.
LOL!!!
Yo Mama, ,Obama-Jama, and his happenin’ Mama, Michelle Obama-Jama.
The historical vigilantes brought law enforcement to areas and situations where the government failed or was not present. The Hollywood “vigilantes” on the other hand were portrayed as a lynch mob. Typical leftist distortion.: “Let the elites run things.”
Ahhhh, someone who understands.
: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice
Ahhhhh more truth.
Darn it. So when I stalked out that rapist, shot him, buried him in my backyard...that was unofficial?
:-)
Barack Hussein Obama. Hard to believe he’s a serious presidential contender.
If you can prove that you’ve been doing it continuously since Jan 1 of this year you can be ‘regularized.’
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