The hysteria continues around Arizona’s SB1070 and the latest seems to be the United Nations who cannot be expected to comprehend it and the Attorney General of these United States who should.
Six “Special Rapporteurs” of the UN’s Human Rights Council decided that the aforementioned legislation was probably in conflict with several international conventions. Of course they did not specify just what these were and it’s interesting to note that 3 of the 6 are from bastions of civil liberties such as Mexico, Kenya and Pakistan.
Last Sunday, Eric Holder opined that SB1070 “could or possibly could” involve racial profiling. Then yesterday, this same luminary was on the Hill being grilled by a Judiciary Committee and was forced to concede that he hadn’t read it but had “glanced at it”.
Or could it be that he hasn’t read it because he wouldn’t understand it? If this is the case, here is a modern fable that might help him to comprehend the problem and I am indebted to a friend from California for it.
“If you had tickets to a sports event, concert, Disneyland, or an airplane flight, and when you got to your assigned seat, and someone else was in that seat, what would you do? You would call for a person in charge of ticket checking and have the person in your seat removed. You would be properly asked to show your ticket, and you would gladly and proudly do so, for you have bought and paid for that seat. The person in your seat would also be asked for a ticket, and they would not be able to produce one. They would be called “gate crashers” and they would be properly removed.
Now in this huge stadium called the USA we have had millions of gate crashers. We have been asking security to check for tickets and remove the gate crashers. We have been asking security to have better controls in checking at the door. We have asked security to lock the back doors. Security has failed us. They are still looking the other way. They are afraid to ask to see the tickets. Many people say there is unlimited seating, and whether there is or not, no one should be allowed in for free while the rest of us pay full price!
In section AZ, of Stadium USA, we have had enough of the failures of Security. We have decided to do our own ticket checking, and properly remove those who do not have tickets. Now it seems very strange to me that so many people in the other 49 sections, and even many in our own section do not want tickets checked, or even be asked to show their ticket! Even the head of Security is chastising us, while not doing his own job which he has sworn to do.
My own ticket has been bought and paid for so I am going to proudly show it when asked to do so. I have a right to my seat, and I want the gate crashers to be asked to show their tickets too. The only reason that I can imagine anyone objecting to being asked for their ticket is that they are in favor of gate crashing, and all of the illegal activities that go with it such as drug smuggling, gang wars, murder, human smuggling for profit, and many more illegal and inhumane acts that we are trying to prevent with our new legislation.
Is that what I am hearing from all of the protestors such as Phoenix Mayor Gordon or US Rep. Grijalva? If you are not in favor of showing tickets, (proof of citizenship, passport, green card, or other legal document) when asked, as I would proudly do, then you are condoning those illegal activities.”
Now if you would like to read SB1070 for yourself you can go to the page linked below and there you will find the entire document. It’s not easy reading but, as a Texan reminded Holder yesterday, it’s a helluva lot shorter than the healthcare bill.
It wouldn’t be a bad idea to print out the text, carry it and produce it whenever a bleeding heart liberal unloads on you.
Also let us never forget that the porous border isn't just about Manuel and Rosa working hard to put rice and beans on the table for little Carlita and Carlos. It's about human smuggling. It's about "coyotes" who profit from that traffic. It's about kidnapping and ransom. It's about drug cartels and the attendant violence. It's about murder sometimes by horrific means. Imagine being stripped naked and bound frontally to a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran desert with spines penetrating your eyeballs and being left to die ... eventually.
And speaking of bleeding heart liberals, it’s funny to hear them bemoan the possible commercial impacts on Arizona from SB1070’s implementation.
Aren’t they the group which trumpets the merit of "Principle before Profit"?
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