As I write, I have my papers on me - and not just because I'm in Arizona. I'm an immigrant, and it is a condition of my admission to this great land that I carry documentary proof of my residency status with me at all times and be prepared to produce it to law enforcement officials, whether on a business trip to Tucson or taking a 20-minute stroll in the woods back at my pad in New Hampshire.Who would impose such an outrageous Nazi fascist discriminatory law?
Er, well, that would be Franklin D. Roosevelt.
But don't let the fine print of the New Deal prevent you from going into full-scale meltdown. "Boycott Arizona-stan!" urges MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, surely a trifle Islamophobically: What has some blameless Central Asian basket case done to deserve being compared with a hellhole like Phoenix?
Boycott Arizona Iced Tea, jests Travis Nichols of Chicago. It is "the drink of fascists." Just as regular tea is the drink of racists, according to Newsweek's in-depth and apparently nonsatirical poll analysis of anti-Obama protests. At San Francisco's City Hall, where bottled water is banned as the drink of climate denialists, Mayor Gavin Newsom is boycotting for real: All official visits to Arizona have been canceled indefinitely. You couldn't get sanctions like these imposed at the U.N. Security Council, but then, unlike Arizona, Iran is not a universally reviled pariah.
Will a full-scale economic embargo devastate the Copper State? Who knows? It's not clear to me what San Francisco imports from Arizona. Chaps? But, at any rate, like the bottled-water ban, it sends a strong signal that this kind of hate will not be tolerated.
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he same day that Mr. Newsom took his bold stand, I saw a phalanx of police officers doing the full Robocop - black body armor, helmets and visors - as they marched down the street. Goosestepping? No, it's actually quite hard to goosestep in those steel-reinforced kneepads. So just regular marching. Naturally, I assumed they were Arizona state troopers performing a routine traffic stop. In fact, they were the police department of Quincy, Ill., facing down a group of genial Tea Party grandmas in sun hats and American-flag T-shirts. They were acting at the behest of President Obama's Secret Service, which rightly recognized a polite knot of citizens singing "God Bless America" as a clear and present danger to the republic.If I were a member of the Quincy PD, I'd wear a full-face visor, too, because I wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror. It's a tough job making yourself a paramilitary laughingstock. Yet the coastal frothers denouncing Arizona as the Third Reich or, at best, apartheid South Africa, seem entirely relaxed about the ludicrous and embarrassing sight of peaceful protesters being menaced by camp storm troopers from either a dinner-theater space opera or uniforms night at Mr. Newsom's re-election campaign.
Meanwhile, in Britain, the flailing Prime Minister Gordon Brown was on the stump in northern England and met an actual voter, one Gillian Duffy. Alas, she made the mistake of expressing very mild misgivings about immigration. Not the black, brown and yellow kind, but only the faintly swarthy Balkan blokes from Eastern Europe. And actually all she said about immigrants was that "you can't say anything about the immigrants." The prime minister brushed it aside blandly, made some chitchat about her grandkids and got back in his limo, forgetting that he was still miked. "That was a disaster," he sighed. "Should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? ... She's just a sort of bigoted woman."
After the broadcast of his "gaffe" and the sight of Mr. Brown slumped with his head in his hands as a radio interviewer replayed the remarks to him, the prime minister found himself going round to Mrs. Duffy's home to abase himself before her. Most of the initial commentary focused on what the incident revealed about Mr. Brown's character, but the larger point is what it says about the governing elites and their own voters. Mrs. Duffy is a lifelong supporter of Mr. Brown's Labor Party, but she represents the old working class the party no longer has much time for. Travis Nichols may be joking about "the drink of fascists," but, in the same way as Gavin Newsom and Keith Olbermann, Gordon Brown genuinely believes Gillian Duffy has drunk deeply from the drink of bigots for so much as raising the subject of immigration. How dare she, ungrateful bigot!
Mrs. Duffy lives in the world Mr. Brown has created. He, on the other hand, gets into his chauffeured limo and is whisked far away from it.
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"The citizenry never voted for it, but they got it anyway. Because all the smart guys in the limos bemoaning the bigots knew what was best for them." (the last two sentences in the article)
We've lost representative government. American government by a power elite has NO regard for the people they govern. It's come to the point where states such as Arizona have decided to "create their own country" without secession, and to protect their borders when the nation refuses to do it.
The measures recently taken by Arizona as they pertain to firearms and immigration will become increasing familiar in the United States as THE PEOPLE take control of their own lives and destinies.
The Federal Government will continue to be "wise" and the progressives will continue to try and live our lives for us. At the same time, state by state, people will begin to exclude them through the rule of law.
Thanks Nickie, Mark Steyn always puts things in a very unique perspective.
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As if to underscore the point, drug smugglers took the offensive last night against law enforcement.
Nickie, you're in my backyard!!! Wish I could meet you! If you have time, email me!
LL - The Power Elite (old term but good enough) hasn't taken our government - they've always had it. If you want it back you need to be involved in selecting your candidates for office and getting them voted into office. Whether you agree or disagree with Obama, it is voter involvement at the grass roots level that got him into the presidency in spite of much more powerful members of the Power Elite opposing him every step of the way. Get involved.
I have been to Quincy on several occasions. The PD there does not impress me, one iota.
Down near the bottom of his article he included, "Sacrificing 0.0035 of your economy would be a pittance to pay for starting to get your country back." A dependence on mass immigration is not a gold mine nor an opportunity to flaunt your multicultural bona fides, but a structural weakness, and it should be addressed as such."
What is the cost of throwing away your cultural heritage? It cannot be measured in GDP. When you ignore your foundational beliefs in favor of multi-culturizm and the appearance to a world wide audience that you are tolerant of barbaric immorality, what you have left isn't worth having.
I enjoy Mark's in your face style of sarcasm, much more so when you can hear it from his mouth; but reading his column is worth the effort.
Loved this article, got really tickled about the white haired terrorists. LL's commentary regarding the fed losing the rule of law is in effect what is happening an I doubt the fed will be able to turn this around if it gets into full swing. The biggest problem I see to overcome lies in the illiteracy rate, out of 205 countries the United States falls in 27th place, which leads me to ask, what part of illegal do these people not understand
I'm sure Brown was quietly humming the old Labour Party anthem (actually called "The Red Flag") until his comments were made public. Some would say that the last verse should really be; "The working class can kiss my arse, I've got the foreman's job at last". Quite appropriate in his case.
Thanks for great stuff..
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