The American Freedom Network

Praising Arizona

Arizona has a new law allowing police to stop those suspected of being unlawful immigrants. While I might prefer Michigan to allow for secondary enforcement – checking the citizenship/legal immigrant status of those arrested for other crimes, for example – Arizona is on the front line in the immigration crisis, and they have chosen a more vigorous measure for dealing with the Federal Government’s willful dereliction of duty of its’ obligation to secure the border. One could argue that the Feds have declared all border states to be out of their protection, which is very similar to what Americans charged King George III with in the Bill of Particulars in the Declaration of Independence.
The usual suspects are hurling the usual epithets. The Race Card, the Slavery Card and the Hitler Card have been played. (Doing so means that the user has surrendered and acknowledges losing the argument, since they appeal to emotion and resort to name-calling.) The real question is seldom adressed in the mainstream press – why have Democrats and republicans virtually united to flout the law of the land and allow unlawful immigration to continue unckecked, regardless of how their fellow Americans, in border states especially, suffer, how much it costs them, or how much they petition for redress of their grievances. The likely answer is that Democrats want votes from those they hope to amnesty, and Republicans want cheap labor for their friends at the Chamber of Commerce. If that disenfranchises Americans by diluting the value of their votes, burdens them with paying for social welfare benefits for newly-arrived, unskilled aliens, and damages the livliehoods of the poor, who have to comptet with aliens for the low-end jobs in our economy, too bad!
This issue is part of a larger one: Our government does not represent us any more; it represents the rich and connected, what Ayn rand called “The Aristocracy of Pull,” those who can work the levers of government for their own benefit, the Devil take the rest of us. They are only our fellow Americans in name, as they do not view us as being part of their society. The contempt shown to us by them extends to the trash they spew at us from Hollywood and Madison Avenue to the social engineering they force on our families, since they know best, and it’s for our own good. They are a class apart, and will not listen.
The Tea Parties, the Minutemen, the Oath Keepers and the Campaign for Liberty, and the other manifestations of popular discontent are the evidence of the breadth and depth of the anger of Middle America. The ex-radicals and protesters who have marched through the institutions since the 1960s are less fond of protests than their GI Generation parents were, and much less tolerant. They will not listen to the message, they will smear the messengers with the usual epithets – racist, most prominently – and they will thus shut off debate.
A powder keg this place is. Where have all the adults gone?