Apr. 11, 2006 - 19:26 MDT

RAGE IS NOT EFFECTIVE

Thomas Sowell of Creators Syndicate is a man that I sometimes disagree with, but most of the time see eye to eye with him. His column in today's Rocky Mountain News I think is apropos, herewith it is, quoted in full:

AMERICANS WON'T BE BEGUILED BY PROTESTS

"Activists who are organizing mass marches and demonstrations in cities across America may well be congratulating themselves on the huge numbers of people they can get to turn out to protest efforts in Congress to reduce illegal immigration."

"No doubt this will impress many in the media and intimidate many politicians. But how these marches will be seen by millions of other Americans is another question entirely.."

"The Mexican flags and the strident assertions of a right to violate American laws are a danger signal to this society, as they would be to any society."

"Both liberals and free-market libertarians often see this as an abstract issue about poor people being hindered from moving to jobs by an arbitrary border drawn across the Southwest desert."

"Some free-market advocates argue that the same principle that justifies free international trade in commodities should justify the free movement of people as well."

"But this ignores the fact that people have consequences that go far beyond the consequences of commodities."

"Commodities are used up and vanish. People generate more people, who become a permanent and expanding part of the country's population and electorate."

"Unlike commodities, people in a welfare state have legal claims on other people's tax dollars and expensive services in schools and hospitals, not to mention the high cost of imprisoning many of them who commit crimes."

"Immigrants in past centuries came here to become Americans, not to remain foreigners."

"Today, immigrant spokesmen promote grievances, not gratitude, much less patriotism. Moreover many native-born Americans also promote a sense of separatism and grievance and through "multi-culturalism," strive to keep immigrants foreign and disaffected."

"This is not to say that all or most of the illegal immigrants themselves share this anti-establishment or anti-American bias of many of their spokesmen or supporters."

"Most are probably here to make a buck and have little time for ideology."

"Hispanic activists themselves recognize that many of the immigrants from Mexico -- legal or illegal -- would assimilate into American society in the absence of these ativists' efforts to keep them a separate constituency. But these efforts are widespeard and unrelenting, a fact that cannot be ignored."

"Whatever is said or done in the immigration debate, no one should insult the American people's intelligence by talking or acting as if this is a question about abstract people across an abstract line."

"What is likely to be done ? A pretense of reducing illegal immigration and a reality of amnesty under some other name."

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As I see it there activists of many different philosophies, all trying to convert the public to their way of thinking and few of them considering the fairness of what they espouse.

What we need, and I sincerely doubt we have a chance in hell of seeing is a group of geniuses who have the welfare of our country as their number one priority, but will see that all immigrants are treated with dignity and courtesy, even if they are being shipped back across the border.

Mr. Sowell's last sentences are frightening to the max because that is probably will be how things will be done this time, once again. Quote:

What is likely to be done ? A pretense of reducing illegal immigration and a reality of amnesty under some other name."

And from my point of view, he is right as the big money will be highly devoted to keeping our southern border wide open.

One thing that really irks me is the Mexican flag being shoved in my face, that is insulting to the max the way I see it. So it is a time for all concerned to back off, take a deep breath, consider all aspects and come to a calm conclusion that is fair to the citizens of the United States. And in the long or short run I feel that the way things are going now, RAGE IS NOT EFFECTIVE . . . . . . . . .

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