Stand Up for Arizona
Major demonstrations are to be held in 70 cities on May 1 to protest the new Arizona law to cope with an army of half a million illegal aliens now living there.
Since Gov. Jan Brewer signed that law a week ago, Arizona has been subjected to savage attack as the modern embodiment of Jim Crow, apartheid and Nazism. Few have risen in her defense.
In San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., moves are afoot to boycott Arizona and cancel conventions to break the state, as it was broken when Arizona declined to set aside a holiday for Martin Luther King.
Republican leaders like Jeb Bush, Karl Rove and even the rising Marco Rubio of Florida have declared themselves "troubled" or "concerned" and washed their hands of Arizona, which suggests they have not read the law—or the party remains captive to country-club political correctness.
In a particularly offensive smear, Mexican President Felipe Calderon charged Arizona with opening the door "to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement."
And what was the reaction of the Great Apologist to this slander of an American state by the leader of a neighboring nation?
None. One wonders if Barack Obama will ever stand up to foreign leaders' abusing the nation that awarded him its highest honor. Or has he been marinated since birth in the "Blame America First" mindset of the San Francisco Democrats who sneer at the real America?
As columnist Michelle Malkin writes, there is no shortage of ammunition our president could have used to fire back at the hypocrites of Mexico City.
For where Arizona has made it a misdemeanor to be in the country illegally, in Calderon's country it is a felony that can get you years in prison. Where illegal aliens in America regularly protest under Mexican flags, no foreign resident of Mexico may demonstrate against the regime.
Where immigration is changing the ethnic balance of this country, in Mexico immigrants are not allowed in who could upset "the equilibrium of the national demographics." Where Americans demand we treat illegal aliens firmly but fairly, Guatemalans caught in Mexico are often treated with a brutality bordering on sadism.
We really do not need any lectures on morality or human rights from Mexico. But what is the matter with our leader that he will not defend his country?
As for the supposedly neo-Nazi Arizona law, what does it really say and do?
First, it brings Arizona law into conformity with federal law. As it has long been a federal crime to be in the country illegally, it is now a crime in Arizona.
Second, just as U.S. law since 1940 has required legal aliens—immigrants and guest workers—to carry their green cards or work visas at all times, Arizona law now says the same thing.
Is there something inhumane about this? If so, where have the protests been these last 70 years? Many of us in the 1950s had to carry not only driver's licenses, but draft cards.
No U.S. citizen in Arizona, however, has to carry an identity card. As for racial profiling, the new law forbids it. A police officer, it reads, "may not solely consider race, color or national origin" in stopping anyone or in determining an immigrant's status.
Before there can be a "reasonable suspicion" an individual is here illegally, there must first be a "lawful contact." This means no cop can halt and challenge a man on the street, or sitting in a restaurant or bar, or driving a car.
If an individual is caught running a traffic light, the police must first ask for his license. Only if the individual lacks a valid ID or driver's license, or his behavior causes "reasonable suspicion" he is an illegal, can he be brought in. Then, a call must be made to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to determine his status.
Where is the neo-Nazism here?
Is this too much to ask on behalf of the police in a state whose first city, Phoenix, in the words of Kris Kobach, co-author of the new law, has become the "kidnapping capital of North America and the hub of human smuggling into the United States"?
When one looks closely at what the Arizona law says, the hysteria it has generated seems so excessive one wonders if it is fear the Arizona law will work—as well as hatred—that is behind the over-the-top reaction.
Whatever the motivation of the left, defense of this law by conservatives is imperative. For without tools like this, the Southwestern states cannot stop the invasion from Mexico—given the U.S. government's dereliction of its duty to defend America's borders.
Conservatives must stand up for Arizona. And this is winnable. For by backing away from "immigration reform," both Harry Reid and Obama are admitting, de facto, that America is with us, not with them.
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I hope the Arizona legislators have the will to stand up against the internationalistas
Thanks to Pat for, as always, his unwillingness to go wobble-kneed into the night at the first sight of hissy-fit liberalism's response to someone with guts - in this case Governor Brewer.
I was so moved by the issue that I sent a the governor a congratulatory note for having the courage to ENFORCE THE LAW! I realize my letter and 99 cents will get you a mediocre coffee at your local gas station (especially coming from an Ohioan) but perhaps if millions did so it would help.
I love how so many pundits have rushed to accuse the governor of trying to score cheap political points with this move; gee, can you imagine our sainted president and Congress ever making a move with political motives? It has often been stated but bears repeating, "hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue."
Pat Buchanan again hits the nail on the head. Three cheers for Arizona!
Consider how various government attacks on individuals liberties, such as asset forfeiture, the Lautenberg Bill or the PATRIOT ACT, did not bring about this wave of protest. Or how we can have Orwellian surveillance cameras all over the Airstrip. But when it comes to the rights of illegal aliens, then we suddenly have the liberal elite in an uproar (and joined in this by the country club Republican elite).
Sam Francis' concept of anarcho-tyranny describes the situation: criminalize American citizens while criminal classes (e.g., illegal aliens) have their rights protected. It is one more symptom of how far the USA has descended. Many of the elites in this country now openly support the invaders against the citizenry.
Time to take back the country.
Who woulda guessed it? Over at the website of The Weekly Standard, where up-to-the-minute coverage of issues is the thing, the five-day-old Arizona immigration controversy has received no attention whatsoever until a diffident blog entry appeared today. That tells you where their priorities are.
How many Weekly Standard editors does it take to change a lightbulb? Three--one to identify the failed lightbulb, one to make military preparations in advance of the removal and replacement of the lightbulb, and one to demand that the President order swift action in replacing it.
"Over at the website of The Weekly Standard, where up-to-the-minute coverage of issues is the thing, the five-day-old Arizona immigration controversy has received no attention whatsoever until a diffident blog entry appeared today."
They are just checking windage. They believe in "winning political positions of power and in handling situations" not in principles of existence or realities outside the traditions of sophistry. Did they say anything recently about those poor folks in New York who kept casually walking by that poor street urchin (out of fear I suppose) who lay bleeding to death after being stabbed by another street urchin who was in the process of robbing a woman? One would think if they are reluctant to defend law enforcement they would at least defend an example of the good samaritan. Evidently not!!
The federal courts have not yet weighed in, let's remember. We live in a system in which for decades now any two-penny federal judge can overthrow the will of the people and any State law with just the squiggle of his pen, on the excuse that it violates some "right" or other. I fear no real reform will be possible until that massive problem is corrected. A lot of the folks who are talking now about Nullification have not considered whether any State will have the will to really defy the feds. The judiciary is one of the two fundamental questions that any reactionary platform must attack. The other is the control of spending and debt, which Nixon, Reagan, and the Bushes all flunked miserably.
Thanks, again, Pat. We are going to need the support of the rest of the people throughout the US who support this law. According to the local Gannett paper, The Arizona Republic, yesterday, 51% (I'd love to know the demographics on the pole) support the law. And low-and-behold!-our Mayor is meeting with such stalwart statemen as loose hips Pop Star Shikira to discuss the issue and cheeky Linda Ronstadt-at least she is a resident!! I feel safe already! I'm sure he make room for U-2, Sean Penn, and a host of other guiding lights to save us from our wicked ways! Thanks so much Pat!
If San Francisco, L.A. and these other places don't like Arizona, they should just secede from the Union and elect Arnold Schwarzenegger their President.
Deo Vindice.
McCallum
Burke101's comment hits the nail on the head. Criminalize the right to peaceable assembly by law-abiding citizens, and use the DHS's hellish crowd control weaponry against them, but coddle raging Hispanics whose families already get $31,000 on average in benefits from those law-abiding citizens. It will be interesting to see what happens if there are counter-demonstrations and citizens are attacked by illegal aliens and their supporters.
I don't know what more evidence we need that we're an enslaved people, despite all the junk we comfort ourselves with. I think Spengler said something like a people who are more concerned with what they may die of, rather than preparing themselves for what is worth dying for, are unfit to prosper or even survive. We've been invaded, our government is collaborating and therefore illegitimate, so what's the next move?
Destroy it.
McCallum
I am shocked at Mr. Buchanan's naiveté. This law is simply AZ Republican window dressing for "get tough on illegals" rhetoric. So just what is going to happen after an AZ LEO detains a suspected illegal who cannot produce papers? AZ does not deport illegals - that is the Feds job, and the Fed has refused to do the job. The Feds unofficial official policy is to open our boarders. All parties concerned understand that illegals detained under this new law are, ultimately, not going to be deported. So the status quo is maintained, the AZ pols are lauded as morally courageous and the game goes on.
Mr. Kamka, I believe Pat said as much during his "In Depth" interview this weekend while explaining that the hysterical response to this law was completely unwarranted.
For any that missed the 3 hour show with Pat, it is worthwhile viewing:
http://www.booktv.org/Program/11468/In+Depth+Pat+Buchanan.aspx
When asked about his favorite magazines, Pat answered Chronicles and The American Conservative.
The show was quintessential PJB, which meant logical conservative reasoning explained in a straight-forward way combined with Pat's tremendous charm.
"quintessential PJB, which meant logical conservative reasoning explained in a straight-forward way combined with Pat’s tremendous charm."
Thank you Eagle for the heads up on the interview. Pat just keeps getting more and more delightful to regard. There is something significant in a man who has withstood so much for so long without bitterness or rancor effecting his poise and public demeanor. He will go down as one of the last gentleman to have lived his entire life in Washington D.C..