Do America's Laws Mean Anything Any More?
Going back in time, I can remember the great debate, or shades of it in 1986 when Reagan convinced America that granting Amnesty was the right thing to do...as a part of that Amnesty, as a part of convincing us it was the right thing to do, certain promises were made to the workers of America. Key among them was work place enforcement, and putting an end to the stream of illegal aliens finding their way here, primarily via our Southern Border with Mexico. In short, 20 years ago we were where we are now, and history seems to be repeating itself as our elected officials failed to learn from history, and the mistakes of granting that first massive Amnesty. As the 110th Congress prepares to convene, we see the democratically controlled House and Senate ready to kowtow to the mutual interests of Big Business and the Pro Illegal movement spearheaded by such racist groups as La Raza. The at risk community in this fools folly of granting Amnesty to some 12-20 million illegal aliens raises the question for most of us in America's lower and middle class,
"Do America's laws mean anything any more?"
Leave no doubt, anyone working here in America illegally is guilty of no less than four of our laws, and potentially many more. If I as an American citizen were to use a fake ID to secure a bank account, a loan, perhaps credit cards, as well as to get a job, I would be in some very significant trouble, would be looking at some very serious time behind bars. If I were to be caught working for cash under the table, found to be guilty of avoiding paying my federal taxes, I would again be in serious trouble, and even if I avoided prison, the fines, penalties and interest on my outstanding unpaid taxes would have me in debt for years, if not for the rest of my life. Yet, let someone enter America illegally, steal a job from an American, as a group depress our wages by over $200 Billion dollars a year, and our federally elected officials wish to grant them Amnesty. American companies with flimsy excuses hire illegal aliens, most times with a wink and a nod from such officials as Mayor Bloomberg, and our President George Bush, and that is fine, as it increases their bottom line profits while the poor get poorer, and many in our middle class slide ever closer to the poverty line. Adding insult to injury, through programs like George W. Bush's faith based initiatives we have groups like Catholic Charities aiding and abetting illegal aliens in being here, and using our tax dollars to operate Day Labor Centers which only exist to help illegals in stealing our jobs, depressing our wages.
Faced with this reality, what incentive is there for most Americans to follow the laws of the United States of America? If the laws have become selective in nature and scope when it comes to their enforcement, should we ourselves, as a group should we not begin ignoring any and all laws we no longer like, or that we find inconvenient? The McCain/Kennedy Senate bill on immigration (which is supposed to be the model in the 110th Congress) gives every illegal alien a two year tax Amnesty, and further waves all penalties and fines for taxes not paid. So, they break our laws in coming in, steal our jobs, depress our wages and the penalty is a two year tax vacation? How about if all of us in the lower and middleclass simply stop paying our taxes for two years...after all, should be not be entitled to THE SAME RIGHTS being afforded these criminals? Where is our incentive to OBEY THE LAWS when those who break them are getting ahead at our expense...is there not a serous message there that CRIME DOES PAY, that you can break laws, and if enough of you do it, it's OK, becomes if you will a societal norm.
A recent report states that 2 percent of the world's population controls over 50 percent of the world's wealth, with a great deal of that wealth still concentrated here in America. These rich and elite of our society buy our politicians, and then through such antics as the proposed AMNESTY for ILLEGALS steal from us in the lower and middle class with no fear of repercussion, no fear of being held accountable for their crimes. If this robbing from the poor to give even more to the rich is legal, then why should we in the lower and middle class not turn the tables and begin stealing from the rich? The refusal of law enforcement at local, state and the federal level have shown us that enforcement at best is selective, capricious and arbitrary at best, that the real reason for Law Enforcement is not to protect ALL CITIZENS, but instead exists to PROTECT THE RICH AND ELITE.
That being so, if the police are not actually there to protect us, why should we afford them any respect? If say two hundred people walked into a Walmart as a group, and loading up with the goods they wanted, then walked out in mass, what could the Police really do, what could store management do? Sure, they might track down a few folks, but if those people all lived in an ARMED COMMUNITY, would the police really want to go in and attempt to bring someone out? Is this really any different that what ILLEGAL ALIENS are doing? Do they not look at our government and say, "We are 12-20 million strong, and if you try to stop us, try to deport us, we will FIGHT FOR WHAT WE WANT, WHAT WE HAVE TAKEN?" If illegals can simply take what they want, why shouldn't we?
Illegals drive without license or insurance in many cases, justifying their actions by claiming it's our fault, because our laws preclude them from getting a license. In other cases, they have their cars registered in states other than where they are illegally residing, again against the law, and driving up the insurance rates of law abiding citizens. So, how about if everyone in the lower and middle class simply STOPS licensing their vehicles, stops paying huge fees out to the insurance companies...after all, if we get in a crash, and have no ID we can most times simply run away, and steal a new car the very next day...no plates on the car, how are they going to track us down? If America's laws do not apply to all, then they should not, and do not apply to any of us, there is not incentive to obey them, as the concept of a lawful society is meaningless and false.
Many in the lower and middle class have little, and have worked hard for the few pleasures and riches we do possess. City zoning laws dictate what we can do on our property, and various statures force us to spend huge fees for building permits and site visits. Yet, let 20-40 illegals move into the house next to yours, begin the process of driving down your property values, and suddenly the RULES DO NOT APPLY. You call the city, file complaints and they sweep them under the carpet, afraid or unwilling to cause a seen that could see them portrayed as being racist, bigoted against illegals, most of them members of that all important eventual Latino Voting block, can't have that now can we. So, our one true thing of wealth begins to deflate in value, our equity vanishing as the house next door slides rapidly into tenement status, and the crime rate in your once quiet neighborhood begins to rise. If the police, local, state and federal law enforcement and governmental agencies will not help us, why should be not take the law into our own hands, form our own community enforcement groups? Does not the constitution give us the right to protect LIFE AND PROPERTY? If 20-40 illegal aliens living in one house next to yours is ruining your property value, should you not have the right to bear arms and take whatever steps are needed to rectify the situation...especially if law enforcement and city officials ignore the situation, and your calls to Homeland Security and ICE fall on deaf ears, or worse they laugh at you!
Ask yourselves, "Do America's laws mean anything any more?" Sadly, the impending Amnesty indicates that they do not. If they do not, why should we continue to abide by them? If laws are meant to oppress us, and steal away what little of the wealth it is that we have, should we not fight to keep it? If our government feels it fine for 12-20 million illegals to depress our wages, and steal our jobs, then isn't it OK for us to fight back, use force if necessary to take back that which was rightfully and legally ours? If our wages have been depressed by 13 percent as a result of illegals in the work place, why should we then paying our Federal taxes, would not simply keeping them make it a WASH? We either are a lawful society, or we are not...if government will not fairly, justly and equally enforce our laws across the board, then those laws are meaningless. Each and every American needs to ask themselves the question, and if Amnesty means the rule of law means nothing, then we need to let Congress know that any legislation which gives Amnesty to illegals, any legislation that creates earned citizenship, any legislation that FORGIVES COMPANIES for the crimes they have committed against humanity and the lower and middle class will be met with Anarchy.
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Comments: 12
I see the push towards allowing amnesty arising from a misguided liberal sense of American generosity. I don't see this as benefiting the country or the citizens and I would hope that people would, eventually, recognize that we have many unmet needs within our own country that need to be dealt with before we try to fix the woes of the other countries that are so generous in supplying us with illegal immigrants.
My point is simple...if the law does not apply to 12-20 million people, then why should it apply to the rest of us...if these 12-20 million illegal aliens, and those who hire them do not have to follow the law, why should we? If the governments refusal to enforce our laws costs me $50,000 in equity in my home, causes me to lose work, why shouldn't I and every American like me not take things into our own hands?
Rita....the 12-20 Million illegals, and those illegally hiring them are already living within their own world of Anarchy where their desires, their wants supercede the rules of a lawful society...if it is good for the goose, why not the gander?
I may be too tired to process what your argument is but I see them benefiting from continuing the status quo.
I do, on the other hand, get the point you are making about the law and I have some sympathy for the argument. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. While the government may direct non-enforcement of immigration laws from on high you can bet your bottom dollar that you fall into a category they are more than happy to toss in prison. Who ever said life was fair?
You hit the nail right on the head! The problem is that too many people in this country are apathetic and unwilling to take a firm stand with their legislators. They're always thinking "Well, let the OTHER guy do it". Or, they have just quit trying to make changes through the ballot box.
The Senate's path to citizenship for illegal aliens will result in even more illegal aliens. The only lesson those who want to migrate to the U.S. will learn from the proposed legalization is that they should get into the U.S. any way they can, because eventually the U.S. will make them legal. Unfortunately, we have historic validation of this. We tried amnesty before with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. That reform legalized nearly 4 million illegals. That policy has proven to be an abominable failure, resulting in 12 million illegal aliens seeking to be legalized like those who came before them. Why can't our leaders see that if amnesty is given now to these 12 million, then in another 20 years, there will be 36 million illegal aliens demanding to be legalized?
The illegals wouldn't come -- and might leave -- if they couldn't get a job because those that employed them went to jail, if they couldn't obtain government services, or if they actually thought they might be detained for coming here illegally.
Just how stupid do the senators who voted for the Senate's so-called immigration reform think we are? Twenty years ago, we were told we should grant amnesty to four million illegal aliens in order to stop the illegal migration. The Senate is telling us exactly the same thing now. As they say, fool me once, shame on you ....
Many law abiding citizens have taken the right to bear arms. Home invasions are already on the increase all they need is a blackout.