Tea Party activists go out of their way to insist that they're not partisan, racist, or filled with hate; they're just patriots who want to stop a socialist government machine from controlling our lives....
SO... why aren't the teabaggers in Arizona protesting the immigration law?
Activists for Latino and immigrant rights — and supporters of sane governance — held weekend rallies denouncing the new law and vowing to do everything they can to overturn it. But where was the Tea Party crowd? Isn’t the whole premise of the Tea Party movement that overreaching government poses a grave threat to individual freedom? It seems to me that a law allowing individuals to be detained and interrogated on a whim — and requiring legal residents to carry identification documents, as in a police state — would send the Tea Partyers into apoplexy. Or is there some kind of exception if the people whose freedoms are being taken away happen to have brown skin and might speak Spanish?
Read more here at Think Progress...
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The TPs aren't in AZ protesting because they supported the bill and are in fact racist as hell.
I've thought this up and put it on my blog, under the title, and I ask all our Liberal/Progressive bloggers to do the same:
ARIZONA: The Show-Me-Your-Papers State!
Isn’t the whole premise of the Tea Party movement that overreaching government poses a grave threat to individual freedom? It seems to me that a law allowing individuals to be detained and interrogated on a whim — and requiring legal residents to carry identification documents, as in a police state — would send the Tea Partyers into apoplexy. Or is there some kind of exception if the people whose freedoms are being taken away happen to have brown skin and might speak Spanish?
Add to that cynical and outrageous lack of concern on the TPs, the idiotic statement by Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) who has publicly stated that children who are born in this country of Mexican illegals should not be citizens--because they're not Americans in their souls.
Apparently Hunter, like the two-faced Tea Partiers, believe in the Constitution ONLY when it agrees with their ideas of what America should be--in other cases, they ignore it when their fellow travelers defile it, as in this Arizona travesty and in Hunter's unConstitutional statement.
We now know what the Tea Party is really about--hatred and fear of our bi-racial president and the fact that a political party they do not belong to won the last election.
It's apparently so Leslie, but you won't hear it from any of them.
I like that Shaw, I'll add it to my blog. Teabaggers=White Supremacy
The whole "show me your papers" trope is crap. I can't even rent a dvd at blockbusters without showing them my papers. I had to "show my papers" to get a job.
It's an unfortunate and absurd state of affairs we've arrived at when the federal government won't even enforce its own laws.
I have out of work construction worker friends displace by illegal immigrants. If they had come from another state we'd call them strike breaking scabs.
But anyhoo, there's an easy solution. The Democratically controlled congress can repeal the US immigration laws that the Arizona law refers to.
End of story. If Americans are really overwhelmingly against this "racist" law, the Dems would win big in November.
this post is really about the teabaggers and lack of protesting, BUT.. SF, I think we all want immigration reform, I'm in the Garden State and we get alot of migrant workers in the summer. Are they illegals? I don't know. Do they take jobs from NJ unemployed? I don't know. It's a huge problem and all I know is this Arizona law is gonna hurt Republicans if it's allowed to stand. Is that a good thing?
This is on Citizen K's today:
"For 11 years through two presidential administrations, McCain kept his mouth shut until 2005 , when he co-sponsored (with the late Edward Kennedy) the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act, which never made it out of committee. The bill, which combined amnesty, guest worker, and border security programs, served as a template for similar bipartisan legislation attempts in 2006 and 2007, none of which succeeded after coming under pressure from all sides of the immigration debate. In other words, after 14 years of opportunity on this issue (longer, if you consider that McCain was first elected to the Senate in 1982), by his own standards McCain's record on this issue is one of silence and failure."
But he's blaming it on the president.
"Equally brazen are Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and notably execrable Saxby Chambliss (R-GA). McConnell says "I just don't think the time is right" for immigration reform."
To read the whoe post, go to:
http://killiansaid.blogspot.com/2010/04/breaking-news-republicans-are.html
silverfiddle,
you expect us to believe you have to show proof of citizenship in order to rent a movie?
I've been employed all my life, and I've never had to show proof of citizenship to get one.
Nice try.
PS. The unsecured borders is another failure from the Bush administration that was dumped on this president along with two unfinished wars and a financial disaster.
And people expect it all to be remedied in 15 months?
The issue is illegal immigration and the cost both economically and societal to this nation.
Has anybody actually read Arizona Senate Bill 1070? If you have you realize it is not raciast and it in fact helps a border satte with huge illegal problems control the issue.
http://rationalnationusa.blogspot.com has a link to the full bill.
It shall be interesting to see the results of the demonstrations planned for May Day.
My guess is these will be where you might seesome violence. Unlike the Tea Party demostrations.
If the emotionalism is kept out of this issue,and the focus is where it should be, which is ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION perhaps one can see the Arizona law ia a retional response to a prblem that must be resolved.
We are indeed a nation of immigrants. At one time individuals coming to America did so leagally, supported our system, defended our republic... and many still do. They should be welcomed as they are one of us.
The Illegals are here... well illegally. This trend must be stopped and 70% of the people in Arizona support SB 1070. I must assume since Ar. has a high percentage of Mexicans a lot of the legal immigrants must be included in that number.
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