There is nothing more disgusting to Americans than to have the government refuse to help its own citizens and then to add insult to injury, decry or denigrate their efforts at unarmed self-help.
Glenn Spencer and some folks who know a bit about flying craft have designed unarmed drones with a wingspan of approximately 5.5 feet, to fly at an altitude below the FAA-regulated 500 feet for registered aircraft. These drones are unarmed, and are meant to fill in the gaps in a wide-open border where the US cannot possibly have Border Patrol agents every 20 to 30 feet to stem the waves of illegal immigrants crossing the border. Generally, the liberal/neocon “never offend anyone” excuse is that we cannot defend ourselves or our property against folks who are only illegally crossing because they want to work.
Balderdash. Hogwash. Political Cowpies.
Before America had oodles of giveaway programs for everyone but its own people, hardly anyone from Mexico wanted to come here. For eight months, when I was a kid, my dad, mom and I lived in Yuma before returning to the Hollywood area. My dad found out that owning a small cafe wasn’t exactly a retirement program. But while we were down there, our cafe had “the” townfolk as patrons, as well as travelers. We had far more locals than tourists. Perhaps that’s because hardly anyone came through Yuma in those days. It was agricultural land on the road to nowhere.
Among our patrons were some Border Patrol agents who now and then caught a “wetback” (that was the ordinary term then) crossing into the US without a permit to come as an agricultural worker in the various lettuce and other produce fields. Those Mexicans (we had no Hispanics then) actually did come to try and get work, they just did not want to bother with the process of getting whatever served as a Green Card in 1949. Nearly everyone who came wanted to go back with the Gringo Dollar and forget the USA until the following harvest season. No one seemed that dissatisfied with Mexico, probably because there wasn’t all that much to be excited about in the US unless you were an American.
When a maximum of a few thousand Mexicans a year tried to cross illegally into the then border-protected US, all 1500 or so miles of it, there wasn’t really any problem. Some got through, others didn’t and probably no one knew how many died in the desert. Illegal immigration just was not a big problem.
Neither was our government. They believed in immigration policies and enforcement. Politicians and other elected public servants somehow had been brainwashed into believing that the US had good reason for its immigration policies, they supported them, and the American people felt safe. They were even allowed to protect their lives and their property against people who were regarded as criminals, guilty of breaking the laws this nation had for proper immigrant status.
Whether coincidence or no, all these zillions of folks who now wish to cross illegally into this country didn’t begin to feel the US was the most desirable place on earth until the drug traffic became billion dollar business. They weren’t welcome unless they came in legally, and there were no wild-eyed liberal whiners and moaners crying that everyone should be allowed into America, especially across the Mexican border. As long as they merely wanted to work and earn a decent living, our laws made no sense so they should not be enforced. News of robberies, murders, rapes and other crimes against American citizens (both of European and Mexican origin) has not affected the do-gooder attitude of the sobbing liberals. They still maintain that the low-rider crowd that prowls at night, even when they shoot our police and our ordinary citizens, are just here to find work. Sure, right. And steal cars, trucks and anything else around including beer from the nearest Circle K.
Now the US has let so many in, and given so many amnesties, that these folk are a voting bloc and that’s what politicians fear most … voters with a sense of purpose. It’s easy in a border state to see that the Mexicans and their kin, here legally or not, form a political force, and it’s easier to allow our borders to remain wide open than it is to take a constitutional stand, uphold our laws, and protect our citizens because being lawful might mean losing votes.
With louses like that in public office, is it any wonder the Mexicans can now talk of secession to form a State of Aztlan, a nation-state carved out of what they feel is still “their” land in spite of treaties and purchases that contradict such claims?
Meanwhile the landowners on the border are trying to do for themselves what their own government will not do: protect their lives and property and perform constant surveillance via the drone planes to track the waves of illegals (not all of whom are Mexican, we don’t know until they’re caught and examined by the authorities, who would rather not be bothered with the issue).
Perhaps, since President Bush, the face in the Oval Office, is so friendly with Mexico, it is time for American citizens to present their petitions to Mr. Bush’s strategic and political brain, one Mr. Karl Rove.
After all, it is Mr. Rove who is far into the Election 2004 planning, with one heckuva rough economy facing the Bush II administration, a couple of expensive incursions (or wars, words don’t seem to mean a thing now) to pay for out of a sagging economic base, and a lot of angry Americans who are furious at the government’s refusal to protect our borders.
Mr. Rove, will you please address this issue? Mr. Ari Fleischer seems to have problems communicating anything intelligible on any issue.
Or is it possible that Mr. Rove, rather than addressing this issue, is backing the cultural dilution of the USA by having our agencies either criticize these homeowners as “vigilantes” (implying dangerous villains rather than rightful landowners) or interfere with their efforts at self-protection?
Only Mr. Rove can say.
However, if Mr. Rove knows, then Mr. Bush II also knows, since he follows his master’s directions.
The problem can be stated thusly: While the Mexican population will cohere as a bloc of voters, promoters and instigators of further immigration, our own American citizenry is either ignorant of the problem or since it isn’t their land, families and lives, they don’t give a whit. Now that’s a good way to invite terrorists, encourage crooked politicians who need only minimal incentive, and further increase our joblessness and economic woes.
As an Arizonan, all I can say about the drones is “fly, baby, fly.”
You don’t want me to say what I think of our government stinkards.
As far as our lettuce and other crops, there are plenty of excess teenagers cruising the streets who need to learn to work. They might not be able to spell it by ninth grade but by golly, they know sweat when they feel it.
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