BEWARE OF THE ANCHOR BABIES!

I had the pleasure this week to watch Jeff Sessions pontificate on the intent of the founding fathers when they passed the 14th Amendment and was shamed again by our leadership. Obviously this was a gaffe. Certainly the man has to know that the 14th Amendment was adopted by vote of the country in 1868. It was enacted in response to the some misguided southern States denying emancipated slaves citizenship. The portion relevant to the current discussion states:

"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

I assume that Sessions knows that this was about 100 years after the hallowed "founding fathers" did their handiwork. Yet he has joined other angry politicians decrying "Anchor Babies". Now I know we have had a hot, hot end of the summer. I know heat wave's make people act crazy but does crazy have to encompass mean and stupid. Anchor Babies? Who comes up with this type of evil bullshit? We don't want them having anchor babies? Would we be happier with Mexican mothers crossing the border and burdening our health care system with their abortions? What we mean is WE DON"T WANT THESE PEOPLE HERE! They are taking all of the good fruit picking jobs and jobs at chicken processing plants and we must SECURE OUR BORDERS!

I am told that a great country has secure borders. I guess that means, sadly that these people believe we have never been a great country. I am a really strong, pro-immigration American. My ancestors were immigrants. I assume they were legal but I don't know and if your honest you do not have any idea either. My ancestors could have snuck in, forged papers and identities and have established a total lie for our family in America. I do not know. I know we have the greatest country in the world because we are a nation of immigrants. I know that even if we seal off the border, right now we are likely to become a primarily Catholic, nation of primarily hispanic decent. This is not a bad thing. I know the best way to moderate that is to welcome people and figure out how to raise everyone's life style because as incomes and education go up (everywhere, every time through out all history) birthrates go down.

So seriously, we have the Missouri Sheriffs lining up with the citizens of Arizona once again proving that the further you are from the problem, the more you will take other people's problems to make them work for your own perceived, angry, political agenda.
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/08/11/update-missouri-sheriffs-back-states-immigration-efforts/
Brilliant stuff. This despite the efforts that the law enforcement that actually has to deal with has serious questions about how it will effect their efforts at enforcement.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63T5G220100430
Now we are supposed to feel sorry for the people on the border because there is so much lawlessness and mass kidnappings and violence on the U.S. side of the border. All the madness in mexico is bleeding over and we need these new laws to keep the people on the border safe. Arizona's Governor in support of her political efforts whips people into a frenzy with lies according to her own law enforcement:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070902342.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/03/us-mexico-border-safety-a_n_598825.html

The point is that we panic about anchor babies because of fear. Fear is the result of stupidity based on our crappy economy and so we line up behind Nazi phrases like "Anchor Baby" to whip people into fear and loathing.

Facts:

1. Immigration is not a problem in our State (Missouri).
2. Arizona's new law violates the constitution. if they tried to do this during the Bush administration everyone would have said they were psychos.
3. We need to a better job keeping people from coming in illegally. It has been this way for at least 40 years.
4. St Ronald Reagan understood that there is no way to enforce our laws and send illegals back when there were millions already here.
5. Reagan did NOTHING to further secure the border because our business interests needed the labor then.

Tell me any of those things are wrong. If we cannot send them back we need to secure the border AND we need to deal with the folks that are here. We literally do not have the resources to track them down, hold them and send them back. In the mean time we have tens of millions of legal American citizens of hispanic descent being treated like criminals because they look different. We should be ashamed and we should wake up and take control of our borders, our futures and our souls by acting like the greatest country on earth and cherishing our founding father's values and for some of us, our Christian heritage.

God that is preachy but this "anchor Baby" hate speak makes me sick.

Ground Zero Mosque And Our Love Of Being Angry Victims

Soooo.... THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE HAS PUBLISHED IT'S PLANS FOR LOWER MANHATTAN! It looks like the thing will take up about 20 square blocks with minarets extending up to the exact height of the downed World Trade Center. Residents will be forced to listen to the call for prayer 5 times a day and all women in lower Manhattan will be required to wear burqas. Liberal Democratic Progressive Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering making the area a Moslem Principality and installing Sharia as "the law of the land". Hand less small children (shoplifters) are expected to over run the unaffected portions of Manhattan and the other 5 boroughs and between beheading and stoning of adulterers in the area the local health care systems and morgues are projected to be totally overwhelmed. The HUGE facility will be used for the training and encouragement of terrorists and the planning of the killings of Americans. it is projected that there will be large diamond vision screens showing the towers falling repeatedly, mocking the 2000 American dead under a constant barrage of millions of united, angry voices screaming ALLUAH AKBAR!

"The Ground Zero Mosque" is not at ground zero, nor is it what must of us infidels would think of as a Mosque. According to Hendrik Herzbergh of The New Yorker (Main Stream media) the building will be on Park Place, about two blocks from the site of the tragedy. It will not be visible from the site of the World trade center. The development, known as Park-51 will include a large prayer room (I guess that qualifies as a mosque), classrooms, a swimming pool and an auditorium as well as (misguidedly in my mind) a 9-11 Memorial. It sounds kind of like a Y.M.C.A. and evidently Jews and Christians will be welcome. The developers are a husband and wife from Kuwait who have lived in our country for 30 years.

Evidently the further you are from this development (and logically less likely to deal with it, be confronted by it or have repercussions from the "sort of people" it might attract) the more you object to it. The local counsel for lower Manhattan voted for it 29-1. The New Yorker alleges that Manhattan is for the project, Staten Island against it but what is important is that we all listen to the opinions of Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin who oppose it vigorously. Our President felt obligated to weigh in on behalf of the Mosque saying all kinds of self righteous proclamations at a White House Feast celebrating the end of Ramadan. I was kind of shocked by that personally but I am told there is some past history of this. Still, Barack dropped the ball here by allowing this battle rise to a Presidential forum. Lets let the New Yorker's and their elected leaders take care of New York's hallowed ground. This is not a national referendum. this is people playing politics with the tragic, tragic memories of that national trauma known as 9-11.

I have an opinion on this, only because it has been elevated to a national conversation. At this point the building should not be built there because of the uninformed public outcry that has been whipped up. It has become another divisive issue so, if I were the developer I would use it as a platform to say, "I respect that some people view this building as an offense. I respectfully disagree and think you should consider whether these are the values of a great and free country". Then I might also ask, how far is far enough? 3 blocks? A Mile? Do we really want to bar mosques being built anywhere? Those are more interesting questions but please, think about this a little before you get righteous indignation up on wither side of the discussion (argument).

I live in the midwest. I believe it is the best part of the country with some of the best people in the world. BUT, the anger and stupidity of these arguments is a hateful comment on our ability to personalize every decision as one that effects AND offends us. When did it become so dishonorable to act with honor and courtesy towards others, and their ideas, and play nice. Didn't we learn that in kindergarten? If not why not...oh I know, we did not learn it because lazy, liberal teachers and their unions promote mediocrity and DUMB DOWN OUR KIDS! Ooops... did it again.

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