May 1: Illegal Immigration
Day
May Day or They Day?
On May 1, immigrants, both legal and illegal, took
to the streets to:
*Call for --- which is just the politically correct way of saying
“demand” --- amnesty for the unknown millions within
the United States, and…
*Demand that the U.S. government pass no legislation that even
hints at real law and order at the border, or consequences for
those who would upset that law and order.
Protest organizers threatened to “shut-down” the
economy, and some of America’s largest and most populous
cities to a grinding halt.
(http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060427/2006-04-27T205226Z_01_N26224260_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-USA-IMMIGRATION-DC.html)
This approach would seem to attempt to catch more bees with vinegar
as opposed to honey. See what happens when you don’t assimilate,
my illegal friends? You get all those great old adages all backwards,
and look, in this case, threatening as well.
Organizers and the mainstream media have come to call the protest
scheduled for May 1, or “May Day.” But in the big
town --- Manhattan, New York --- it is more like “They Day.”
Unfortunately for our illegal friends, the cumulative effect
of the “spontaneous” protests of a few weeks past
coupled with the impending and well-planned civil disobedience
of May 1 have created a sea of resentment across America, numbering
many more millions than those who will protest on May 1.
When the topic is illegal immigration or even immigration in
general now, people are talking, and they are just full of pronouns,
adjectives, and plurals.
Sitting at a downtown bar with stockbrokers, fireman, plumbers,
and short-order cooks, one is apt to hear the conversation turn,
well, somewhat protective:
“Who do these people think they are?”
“That kind of disrespectful behavior should not
be allowed to happen.”
“They behave as if they own this country”
“This is the kind of behavior that I’m used
to seeing in third-world countries.”
“There is a real feeling in some parts of the country that
it is “us against them.”
“If they are so bold as to fly their country’s flag
over that of America’s, maybe they should go back there,
and in haste.
Why? Listen to union official Jorge Rodriguez who helped organize
earlier rallies aimed at intimidating Congress as it debates the
issue of immigration. “There will be 2 to 3 million people
hitting the streets in Los Angeles alone. We're going to close
down Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tucson, Phoenix, Fresno.
We want full amnesty, full legalization for anybody who is here
(illegally)," Rodriguez said. "That is the message that
is going to be played out across the country on May 1.”
So Mr. Rodriguez wants “full amnesty, full legalization
for anybody who is here (illegally).” And Mr. Rodriguez
further states that his is the “message” that will
be echoed across the fruited plains.
Mr. Rodriguez, I think, may be surprised and dismayed to hear
another type of message, a message that he and the many others
like Mr. Rodriguez helped to create—possibly unknown to
themselves.
The American gallery has toughened up, and that will not bode
well for the protesters. Nor will it bode well for that mass of
self-serving flesh up in Washington that calls itself the Congress.
Even the mainstream media, who have serially labeled these demonstrations
as “Immigration Rights,” will find out that the coming
backlash will be visited upon them as well. People are sick and
tired of having the news made-up by those who should be reporting
it.
Further, the people are also fed-up with Congress, which actually
has a lower approval rating than even President Bush, who, when
last polled, had poll numbers that failed to break the 40 % mark.
If Congress were to craft a solid and effective border security
bill, then it may be possible for all of these illegal aliens
calling for amnesty to at least get it in another form, namely
President Bush’s “guest-worker program.”
Although it isn’t defined as amnesty, it is for all practical
purposes, paid-for or earned amnesty. But anyway you cut it, it
is reward for law breaking, and Congress is willfully abetting
it.
The American people, the legal ones of all colors, heritage,
and culture, see this.
Hopefully, members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats,
who insist on trying to apply a political fix for votes come November
will pay a heavy political price and get tossed out of office
But this is America! Land of opportunity! So it is only in America
that, besides millions of law breakers crowding the streets, there
will be a song to herald their arrival. (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/27/D8H8LGDO0.html)
Thanks to British music producer Adam Kidron, illegal immigrants
can now break the law under the soothing and “patriotic”
backdrop of the Spanish “Star Spangled Banner,” or
otherwise known as “Nuestro Himno,” or “Our
Anthem.”
Indeed. Only in America.
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