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Thank you for your military service.
I don’t know of anyone calling you a racist (although you may well be one). You’re just a whiner, like most liberals. I rather suspect that you—like the Public-Embarrassment-In-Chief, his farce of an attorney general, and his Homeland Security ho—have never read the Arizona law. So, for your convenience and the other interested readers out there, here’s a link to the full text of the statute:
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070h.pdf
Now, I’m not a veteran like you. (Where was it that you served, by the way? Were you actually in harm’s way? I do not mean in any way to diminish the value of your service to our county. I only ask because you cite your service for the apparent purpose of establishing bona fides for your remaining comments. Therefore, it only seems fair to give us a more complete understanding of your credentials as we weigh the merits of your remarks.)
I only spent 15 years in higher education, working on 4 degrees, including a law degree, and have only practiced constitutional law for the past 22 years, so I’m at somewhat of a disadvantage in this discussion. I’ve read the statute and, for the life of me, I can’t find anything that authorizes, condones, promotes or even suggests with a wink that any person can be harassed because he/she is brown, brownish, red, yellow, green or purple. I know I’m not as bright or educated as you are, but I’ve tried to find that language and just haven’t been able to do so.
So, perhaps you can help me out here. Could you … would you … actually READ the statute and identify for me (and the rest of your audience here) any passage which you think authorizes harassment of persons on the basis of skin pigmentation, or in any way otherwise violates any individual right secured by the U.S. Constitution? (You remember the Constitution … it’s that thing that you swore to support and defend, against all enemies, foreign and domestic, when you put on the uniform?) Don’t generalize, now. Don’t irrationally emotionalize. Please tell us what specific provision of the statute violates the Constitution and what article or amendment is offended thereby. I really look forward to reading your educated, informed explanation.
Oh, and while you are at it, could you also explain for us how El Presidente de Mexico has the temerity to come here as a guest of state, and accuse the USA and the Great State of Arizona of being wrongfully discriminatory toward his countrymen, when his government deports more persons who illegally immigrate to Mexico than does the USA, and physically abuses them while they are there? (
http://www.vdare.com/awall/060518_memo.htm) I really look forward to your enlightening remarks on that issue.
In the meantime, may I also point out that I'm a legal American citizen of pale dermal hue, and I must show my ID or supply my drivers license number:
1. When pulled over by the police for any traffic violation (try driving through mostly-Anglo Spring Valley with a non-workin license plate light or while going 34 in a 30 mph zone);
2. When running a tab at the Ship or the Jimmy on a credit card,
3. When I show up for a doctor's appointment,
4. When filling out a credit card or loan application,
5. When applying for or renewing my auto registration, drivers license or passport,
6. When applying for any job,
7. When filling out college applications,
8. When donating blood,
9. When obtaining certain prescription drugs,
10. When making some debit purchases, especially if I'm out of state, or
11. When collecting a boarding pass for airline or train travel.
I could list dozens of other instances, but the point is that non-brown, legal citizens of the USA are required to prove who they are every day. Why should people who enter this country illegally, regardless of color, be exempt?
For that matter, perhaps the liberals can answer this question: Why shouldn't we guard our borders as closely as Mexico and every other country in the world does?
GO ARIZONA!!!
