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Monday, May 17, 2010

This article is pasted directly from another site:

Jewish World Review May 17, 2010/ 4 Sivan 5770

‘Los’ Suns: Stuck on Stupido

By Arnold Ahlert



http://www.jewishworldreview.com/ "What if the owners of the Suns discovered that hordes of people were sneaking into Suns' games without paying? What if the owners had a good idea as to who the gate-crashers are, but the ushers and security personnel were not allowed to ask these folks to produce their ticket stubs, thus non-paying attendees couldn't be ejected. Furthermore, what if Suns' ownership was expected to provide those who sneaked in with complimentary eats and drink? And what if, on those days when a gate-crasher became ill or injured, the Suns had to provide free medical care and shelter?"--Phil Mushnik, NY Post, May 16th, 2010

Nothing illuminates the bankruptcy of liberalism better than liberalism itself. The above quote was a composite of fan responses to Phoenix Sun owner Robert Sarver's idea that his team wear "Los Suns" jerseys to protest the new Arizona immigration law. Is there any doubt how Mr. Sarver would react if what he claims to believe in were directly applied to his interests? How about his players? How many of them would take a salary cut so that "undocumented attendees" whose "only crime" was a desire to see an NBA basketball game could attend one?

There is a reason the expression "limousine liberal" came into being. It aptly describes those who fervently believe in the theory of liberalism--as long as they remain largely immune from its practical application. It is the cabal of self-righteous souls who are positive that Arizonans are racist, xenophobic bigots--but would never stand for illegal aliens sneaking across their property in the middle of the night. It is the same people who encourage family-destroying, welfare dependency--as long as the socially dysfunctional stay in their own neighborhoods. It is those who support all manner of alternative energy--as long as it doesn't despoil their ocean view.

It is those who bemoan the deplorable condition of public schools--even as they send their own children to private ones. It is those who champion financial "reform"--because they already have their wealth, and they don't want any competition. It is those who applaud government-run health care--because they have lifetime access to the best hospitals and doctors in the world, and will never spend a minute in any emergency room rubbing elbows with the great unwashed. It is those who wax poetic about the innumerable shortcomings of the country--from the tenured safety of a college campus.

There are none so enlightened as those for whom "do as I say, not as I do" underlies the totality of their worldview. Unabashed hypocrisy is the foundation of modern-day liberalism. It is the ideology of people who consciences are completely assuaged by the idea of "throwing money" at every problem they encounter--as long as it's other people's money, and someone else is doing the heavy lifting.

How about it, Mr. Sarver? How about allowing free admission to one of your remaining playoff games? How about serving free refreshments? Certainly such a magnanimous gesture is doable. Perhaps you could persuade your players, concessionaires, parking lot attendants, etc., to take a one game pay cut as well--or you could simply pay them and take the hit personally. And since you're apparently comfortable with illegals remaining a permanent part of the Arizona landscape, perhaps the occasional "Free Game and Refreshment Night" could become an equally permanent part of the Phoenix Suns schedule.

And why stop there? Maybe it's time to start replacing some of our mainstream media personnel with undocumented workers. After all, who would be more effective blasting Arizonans and other Americans for their "racist" attitudes than those who have had personal experience with them? Who would make a more effective advocate for "comprehensive immigration reform" than someone who would directly benefit from it?

That is not to say working in the media is one of those jobs "Americans refuse to do," but why should illegals be limited to such work? If we're going to make millions of border-busters part of America, shouldn't some upper-echelon jobs be included in the mix? Isn't that what liberals mean when they talk about "fairness" or "social justice?" Doesn't "spreading the wealth around" apply to everyone? Shouldn't all neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, businesses, etc., experience the "richness of unassimilated multiculturalism" that liberals demand of Arizonans?

Shouldn't everyone walk a mile in someone else's shoes?

Talk is cheap. And no one makes it cheaper than the American left, for whom "feeling good" is all about them feeling good at someone else's expense. There isn't a scintilla of doubt in my mind what the reaction of most liberals would be if millions of stock brokers, journalists, celebrities, college professors, et al, were sneaking across the border and demanding that America "accommodate" their needs and desires.

The late Leona Helmsley once said that "only little people pay taxes." Liberalism has precisely the same price tag: only "little people" pay for the excesses of the self-anointed. Phoenix is the kidnap capital of the United States? I don't live there, but I'm sure Arizonans are racist. Arizona rancher Robert Krentz gets killed on his own property in an area officials already know is an illegal "smuggling corridor?" I didn't get killed and it's not my ranch, and Arizonans have no right to protect their lives and their property if it conflicts with my ideology.

Modern day liberalism is a cancer. It is fascism being sold as progressive thinking by elitists for whom all things counter-culture have become the traditional. It is a knee-jerk contempt for everything that makes this country the envy of the world. Only liberals could believe that importing millions of illegal, low-skill, under-educated people "enriches" America. Only liberals could conclude that "celebrating our differences"--differences which precisely separate Third World nations from First World nations--are "no better or worse" than expecting immigrants to adopt our culture and our values.

Only liberals can lump illegal and legal immigrants into one philosophical package in order to brand those who make the crucial distinction between the two xenophobic bigots.

And only a contemptible media would be such a willing accomplice to such obvious mischaracterizations, misinformation and outright lying perpetrated by the American left. And that's by commission. Here's a statement by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaking to the House Judiciary Committee that's been virtually ignored by the MSM:

"I have not had a chance to, I've glanced at it. I have not read it. .. I have not really, I have not been briefed yet. I've only made, made the comments that I've made on the basis of things that I've been able to glean by reading newspaper accounts, obviously, looking at television, talking to people who are on the review panel, on the review team that are looking at the law. "

To what was Holder referring? The Arizona immigration bill, which is all of ten pages long.

Think Holder's the only one? Of course not. Liberal outrage isn't about informed opinion. It's all about uninformed emotion whipped up by those with an agenda--including an Attorney General who ought to be thoroughly ashamed and embarrassed by his ineptitude and his bias, but most assuredly isn't. The Arizona law feels wrong? That's good enough for liberals.

We'll see how good liberals feel in November.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

We're Sending Our Illegals to You

Dear Chicago,

It has been five years since I last visited you, one of several dozen visits through the years. I’m writing to tell you that I am deeply offended by your demonstrations and calls for boycott of things Arizona. I think I have a solution to both your concerns and those of the vast majority of citizens of the state of Arizona. Instead of having ICE and other law enforcement agencies send illegals back to their homeland, we will agree to ship all (600,000) to Chicago. There, since you are so concerned about something for which you have no knowledge, you can assure that the civil rights and dignity of these lawbreakers are protected.

I have worked near the Arizona/Mexico border and have witnessed this indignity first hand. Day after day Border Patrolmen in the Wellton Valley area would “arrest” dozens of these people. It wasn’t the way you normally visualize an arrest, with drawn guns and orders to surrender. No these arrests normally involve giving water to badly dehydrated people being separated from those who have already died. They transported them to medical attention as soon as possible and often hospitalization before they could be processed for repatriation back to their country, all at the expense of the United States. These people were treated with humanity and kindness, and many, many lives have been saved by our Border Patrol and drug enforcement officers. The same was true for the county deputies, highway patrolmen, and local police; they were concerned and kind to the plight of these people. The police here are not racists or “profilers” as the radical fools supposedly representing Hispanic American Citizens would have you believe; in fact many of them are themselves Hispanic.

Once you have received these people in Chicago, I hope you will be as humane as we have been. Be prepared for some surprises though. Very many of these people are as most of us think of them, simply desperately poor and only seeking work to feed their families. However, these are not the educated middle class of Mexico. Over two thirds of adult illegals have not graduated from high school. 57% of them have a pre-existing criminal record in either Mexico or the United States. Many if not most have never driven a car, but will drive without a license, in an unregistered, uninsured car. They cannot read the traffic signs and do not understand our rules of the road. They come from a culture unlike any in our country, where adult men date and marry very young girls; here they are considered child molesters. They also are much inclined to drinking, DUI, and being publicly drunk. Sixty percent of all hit and runs (that are resolved) are by illegal immigrants.

Arizona has one of the very highest levels of car theft, thanks to criminals who come from Mexico and return with a stolen vehicle. We are known as the kidnapping capital of America because human smugglers so often hold their clients in “drop houses” demanding ransom from relatives. Illegals make up an estimated 11% of the Arizona population, but nearly 30% of all crimes are committed by Illegals. Mexican gangs in the United States now control large areas of our Hispanic communities, and are major workers in the drug, human, stolen car, and arms smuggling business. While many of the Illegals simply want to do manual labor for much better pay than they could ever get at home, the large number of illegals masks the criminals and allows them to move easily through our communities.

Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (SB1070) copies the US immigration Law verbatim for much of its verbiage. It prohibits racial profiling, and provides needed funds to local law enforcement to house illegals until they can be turned over to federal officers. It is not racist, it does not allow profiling, and it will in the end protect Hispanic American Citizens as much if not more than any other. However, since you will believe any sound bite you hear, I suppose there will be no convincing you on this.

Anyway, please take these poor folks, care for them, educate them, provide them with police and emergency services, and feel free to ignore that they either have no social security number, or have a stolen or forged number. They will fill a vital role in Chicago of doing your construction work, gardening, landscaping, maid service, cooking, dishwashing, and general labor; having over half-million additional illegals competing for these jobs at minimum or lower wages, no benefits, and no protection from abuse should be of no concern to those citizens already doing those jobs. They will just have to adapt and work under similar conditions.

Meanwhile, maybe we can organize a boycott of Chicago for disrespecting their fellow citizens in Arizona.

Have a nice life,

Virgil Alexander

Tempe, AZ

Saturday, April 17, 2010

The Cost of Illegal Aliens

Most of you have probably heard about the murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz. Krentz operated a cattle ranch near the international boundary with Mexico. In the middle of the night he heard strange noises and went to investigate, he was ambushed and murdered along with his dog. Border Patrol trackers traced the steps of the murderer to a point where he crossed into Mexico. This terrible event has again elevated the issue of border security and illegal aliens in the minds of the public.

If it does nothing else it should provide evidence that terrorists and assassins can cross our porous border, commit acts of violence, then reenter Mexico with little chance of being detected or apprehended.

If I were a citizen of Mexico, I would probably try to get work in the US, because conditions in that country are so difficult for the poor; I have sympathy for their plight. However, we can’t continue to stand by as these millions of people break our laws by entering and working here illegally. The cost is simply too high.

Recall the events of May 1, 2006, the time of the big nationwide demonstrations called “A Day Without Immigrants,” thousands of these people publicly demonstrated, calling a general strike for that day. The actual impact on business was minimal and for the most part the demonstration back-fired in large part due to the presence of so many Mexican flags – the public had been unaware of how large the problem was before the demonstration.

Representative Steve King of Iowa’s Fifth Congressional District sent a letter to his constituents in which he said the problem wasn’t with immigrants, but with ILLEGAL immigrants and listed what a day without Illegal immigrants would do:
• There are twelve murders by illegals each day, so twelve people would still be alive.
• There are thirteen auto fatalities caused by illegals each day, so thirteen more people saved.
• There are eight children sexually molested by illegals each day, so eight children protected.
• There are hundreds of hit and run auto incidents committed by illegals each day
• In the border states, it’s estimated that 60 percent of all auto theft is by illegals
• Virtually all drug smuggling across the southern border is by illegals
• The National Park Service reports extreme negative environmental impact caused by illegals crossing parks
• Ranchers and homeowners near the border report continual theft, vandalism, and littering by illegals
• Emergency rooms on the day with no illegals would be able to handle actual emergencies
• Traffic congestion would be reduced, commute times would decrease, fuel use reduced, and pollution reduced.

One other cost that isn’t mentioned, but is very real and for me personal, it the cost of driving without insurance and running from the scene of accidents. I was hit by a driver who suddenly changed lanes hitting the front of my vehicle and doing severe damage to the front end and steering, and damaging the left side and rear of the other car. The driver, a man of about thirty who looked to me to be Hispanic or Native American, didn’t even slow down – he sped away and entered the freeway. Two drivers who witnessed the accident pursued the car, getting the license number and a description of the driver.

It turned out he was an illegal driving a car he had registered in the name of his American girl friend, but by the time the police tracked her down and identified him, he was gone. My truck was totaled, there was no insurance, and he got away, so it cost my insurance company about $8,000 dollars and me about $3,000 to replace my truck, plus the cost and increased workload for the police investigation. The officer told me that most of their hit and runs are eventually identified as being illegals, at least in Arizona.

The cost of allowing the status quo with illegal immigration and the potential for crime and terrorism on a large scale are simply too much to ignore; we must get control of our borders and allow only honest workers to gain entry to our country.