Have any of the critics of the Arizona law actually read it?
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Arizona immigration law versus Honk Kong immigration law. Yeah, let’s just keep apologizing.
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Have any of the critics of the Arizona law actually read it?
[Early afternoon update]
Arizona immigration law versus Honk Kong immigration law. Yeah, let’s just keep apologizing.
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They’re idea men Rand… they don’t have time to read.
Questioning duckspeak is wrongthink.
Why should they read? They have staff to tell them what it all means.
Rand, you seem to be assuming, absent much evidence to the contrary, that those vacuous loudmouths are actually capable of reading. I say that the evidence clearly shows that they lack the intellectual ability… one would have as much chance of getting a housecat to read the bill, though the cat might well have a better chance of comprehending it.
Napolitano was our governor not so long ago, and she had a reputation for needing things to be put in simple terms. This is why so many of us Arizonans were aghast when she was given Homeland Security. It is also why so few here were surprised when, in response to a terrorist boarding a plane with a bomb and trying to detonate it in flight over a US city, she declared: “The system worked!”
As for raising this issue with the Chinese, I’m glad they did. Little could make them look more foolish than bringing this up to the killers of Tienanmen Square and millions of others. Perhaps they’ll apologize to Hitler next? I think this entire issue is a golden opportunity for the left to shoot themselves in the foot, and from the look of it, they’re endeavoring to do precisely that.
I think we ended up with the better Jan.
This is all I heard from Mr. State Dude:
“We’re too busy vigorously debating the laws that we haven’t read to actually take the time to sit down and read them. I mean we could actually read the Arizona immigration law and come to an understanding as to what it accomplishes. However, then we wouldn’t have much left to debate in terms of what we do and don’t understand. All I know is that debating, no vigorously debating is fundamental to a functioning democracy. After all, a democracy is about majority rule on popular ideas, not necessarily effective ones.”
Josh,
if the left really believed,
“…a democracy is about majority rule on popular ideas, not necessarily effective ones.”
they’d be applauding the AZ law and Obamacare wouldn’t be law.
What they are actually saying, as with all small minds and small children, while puffing out there cheeks and chests, is this, “…look at me mommy, I can be SOOO big!!! I’m very scary, powerful and important, just like you!!!”
This particular time, “mommy” is the Chinese. Whom I’m sure know the differences in illegals being shot, sent home or abused. At least they looked like they knew when I was looking into China from the border of northern Hong Kong in 1979.
One bad thing about the “Arizona Issue” it that it has given our governor, Jan Brewer, a lot of support and thus a lot of clout. Why is that bad? Because she, though a Republican, has been pushing for a sales tax increase. To that end, Arizona has a ballot initiative, Prop 100, being decided in a special election. My guess is that Brewer’s surge in popularity in the state due to the immigration issue will translate into support for this ballot initiative, which she is strongly identified with.
The special election is today, and I’m on my way out the door to drive 20 miles to go vote against it, but my hunch is it will pass. I sure hope I’m wrong.
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CJ
Some people in Arizona are fighting back at the boycotters, as seen in this Hot Air article.
There are also reports that people from Arizona are canceling travel plans to places like San Diego, LA, and San Francisco as a reverse boycott.
Good for them.
There is indeed a reverse boycott going on; a real grass roots one.
My sincere apologies to those who live in California who do not support the idiots on the LA and San Diego city councils, but Arizona won’t sit by while a bunch of blowhards hurt us economically. We’ll hit back, even if it’s just citizens changing their travel plans.
One interesting option I’ve heard discussed (though not by government officials, yet, though it has been hinted at) is an excise tax on the electricity Los Angeles gets from Arizona.. about 25% of their total. The Los Angles city council is finding out that it cleverly committed the classic error of showing up with a knife for a gunfight.
Immigration law in Japan is much more strict. All “gaijin” must carry a “gaijin card” at all times and present it to police on request. Since gaijin are highly visible in a crowd of Japanese people, there are some cases of racial profiling, especially in Tokyo and at airports, and occasional “random” stops of people “riding a bicycle while white/black”. Those who do not carry the card are subject to a 200,000 yen (about $2000US) fine and up to 1 year in jail. Japanese citizens are NOT requied to carry ID, which yields cases of J police arresting naturalized citizens (and even native Japanese!) because they “look” foreign but aren’t carrying a gaijin card. Illegals when caught are held at detention facilities and treated worse than common criminals. Japan approves nearly zero requests for asylum, sending people back to repressive Asian regimes to be killed. A recent case of forced deportation ended up with the gagged and bound Abubakar Suraj dead on arrival in Cairo, killed by Immigration officials.
Expecting them to read it is assuming that their attack is based on principle. It isn’t. It’s all about scoring points with Latino voters.
It reminds me of that scene in “The Fugitive” where Harrison Ford pleads to Tommy Lee Jones, “I didn’t kill my wife.” And, TJ replies, “I don’t care.” It wasn’t his job to care, just to bring the fugitive in. The pols don’t believe it is their job to care, either, just to bring in the votes.