Monday, April 10, 2006
Protest THIS!
All I've heard about the past few days from the TV and radio talking heads is this stupid march in downtown Phoenix. They're saying there will be something like 100,000 people down there, protesting immigration policies. I've got work to do in that area that I'm postponing until tomorrow out of concern I'll get stuck in traffic all day. It's hard enough navigating down there when there aren't 100,000 airheads chanting and flying Mexican flags.
ZMan asked me this morning why INS doesn't just go down there with a bunch of buses and haul all their illegal asses back across the border. Not a bad idea, but they would probably just be back tomorrow anyway.
I'm all for dissent and protest. Hell, that's how we got where we are in the good ol' US of A, right? It's called "free speech," baby, and we 'Mericans love it. Our citizens have even fought and died for it. But if you aren't a citizen of this here beloved country of ours, and you want to protest our laws, and fly your flag above our own, then you also have the absolute right to just shut the fuck up and get your ass back across the border before somebody bitch-slaps you back into reality.
And no, I don't want to make illegal entry a felony, and I think it's stupid to try to build a wall from Tijuana to Matamoros. I don't think we need any new legislation, I just think we need to enforce the laws we already have. How about we bring our troops home, let those crazy bastards in the middle east keep killing each other instead of us, and put our troops on our own border for a change? Let's drill our own oil for a while and take a chance on pissing off a few reindeer or moose or whatever the hell it is up there that's got the tree-huggers in an uproar. Let's buy some oil from Canada and tell that jerk down in Venezuela to put his where the sun don't shine. Build a few more nuke plants, and cut back the demand even more. Hell, the way I understand it, more people have died in Ted Kennedy's car then in every nuclear accident in this country's history combined.
Oh well, what do I know? Maybe I'm just a simple ol' Crime Dog, but that seems to make sense to me.
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ZMan asked me this morning why INS doesn't just go down there with a bunch of buses and haul all their illegal asses back across the border. Not a bad idea, but they would probably just be back tomorrow anyway.
I'm all for dissent and protest. Hell, that's how we got where we are in the good ol' US of A, right? It's called "free speech," baby, and we 'Mericans love it. Our citizens have even fought and died for it. But if you aren't a citizen of this here beloved country of ours, and you want to protest our laws, and fly your flag above our own, then you also have the absolute right to just shut the fuck up and get your ass back across the border before somebody bitch-slaps you back into reality.
And no, I don't want to make illegal entry a felony, and I think it's stupid to try to build a wall from Tijuana to Matamoros. I don't think we need any new legislation, I just think we need to enforce the laws we already have. How about we bring our troops home, let those crazy bastards in the middle east keep killing each other instead of us, and put our troops on our own border for a change? Let's drill our own oil for a while and take a chance on pissing off a few reindeer or moose or whatever the hell it is up there that's got the tree-huggers in an uproar. Let's buy some oil from Canada and tell that jerk down in Venezuela to put his where the sun don't shine. Build a few more nuke plants, and cut back the demand even more. Hell, the way I understand it, more people have died in Ted Kennedy's car then in every nuclear accident in this country's history combined.
Oh well, what do I know? Maybe I'm just a simple ol' Crime Dog, but that seems to make sense to me.
