You know, paragraphs are my friend! Look gentlemen, you want to accuse me of dropping out "illegal" from my complaints that your being, if not racist, then insulting towards illegal immigrants thats fine. I feel the same way if you say illegal, because I do not believe stereotyping an entire group is right or just whether they are here legally or not. Secondly, you go ahead and show me the credible facts that ALL illegals are criminals and theives. 2nd Amendment didn't say "some" or "a disproportionate number" of illegals are like that, he implied that all of them were, and thats pure BS. Further, I notice that in responding to my argument, not a single one of my critics said anything whatsoever about my desire to have what I called a "Reasonable, sensible and most importantly, enforceable" immigration policy. Further, the implication that I am from the 'left" is just plain laughable. Maybe I am not Rush Limbaugh, but I am a registered Republican with conservative leanings, for gods sake.
Hey, a paragraph! Look fellows, my only point that I am trying to make is that it is ridiculous to say that all prisons are full of illegals, that they all are uninsured thieves, and that it is, in fact, insulting, if not overtly rascist, to refer to these people as cockroaches and to say that we should kill them in a variety of ways. Whatever happened to compassion in this country? Whatever happened to this being a melting pot? Sure, these people are here illegally, and yes, that is a real problem. But extremism in action and/or opinion never solved a thing, and, might I add, none of you, including me, could tell the difference between an illegal immigrant and a legal immigrant by looking at them anyway. You wanna go be a Minuteman on the border? Great! From what I have seen, those folks have done nothing but be polite and gracious to the illegals. They are turning them away at the border, but with a smile and some water to drink and food to eat, not a swift kick to the ass. Here is a good example of the consequences that might result from an extreme viewpoint. Here in Colorado, not 15 miles from my house is a little town named Ault. I have seen pictures in the Weld County Historical archives of signs hanging in Ault that say "No Mexicans or Dogs". Ault now has a sizable Mexican population, and in fact, the first Mexican-American winner of the Medal of Honor (Joe P. Martinez) is from there. He was not allowed to be buried at the town church cemetary by the largely German population of the town, entirely because he was Mexican. Instead, his family was forced to bury him in a craptacular little potters field type cemetary, and it is there that he rests to this day. Mr. Martinez's parents were here illegally. Now, in 19-whatever when they came here, the laws were vastly different than what they are now, and this is just one particular guy out of however many million (billion) mexicans that have come here. The point that I am trying to illustrate is that by the time Mr. Martinez was awarded this honor, the "No Mexicans or Dogs" sign was long gone, but the residual distrust and dislike of Mexicans kept this man, an American Hero, from being buried in his hometown cemetary. To carry on with that point, it was only 7 years ago that the town even erected a monument to the man, and he died during World War II!. Look fellows, you wanna dislike/hate/distrust illegals, go ahead, but at what point does it stop? You don't think a legal immigrant, or a immigrant who eventually becomes a citizen is hurt and offended by hearing his or her people or relatives being referred to as cockroaches? anyway....
Timbo...
P. S. i am still laughing that someone implied that I come from the "left"....
