Immigration

My favorite part of the new Arizona immigration law isn’t the fact that it gives police too much power, or the fact that it encourages stereotyping, but I amazed at the law’s supporters. Conservatives that have been getting the public riled up by calling the government socialist are now supporting a law that allows the police to ask any citizen for their papers. I am reminded of 1984 by George Orwell and more recently V for Vendetta by Alan Moore. The conservatives that I’m talking about are the clown conservatives. People like Glenn Beck, Erich Muller (the Mancow), and Cal Thomas. These are the kinds of conservatives that have been going around name calling, and complaining the government is too big. These are the same people who feel their lives are being invaded by the government. These are the same people that support a law that gives the government the ability to stop anyone just for looking illegal. I thought we were innocent until proven guilty. Of course these conservatives will hide behind the necessity for immigration reform, and I agree with them. Immigration is a mess. It’s too hard for the brilliant minds to come to the states. It’s too easy for criminals to traffic drugs, and the current laws encourage human trafficking. Once they have crossed the border, illegal immigrants create unfair job competition for all Americans. There is no reason to pay someone more to do a job that some one else will do for less, and someone who can’t complain about being mistreated. Everybody loses in the current system, but that doesn’t mean we need to turn around and create unconstitutional laws. We tried that with the Patriot Act, and remember all the 16-year-olds that were on watch lists because they looked up how to make a bomb on yahoo.

This is only the latest example of buffoonery by these conservatives. Clown conservatives have been hurting not just their cause, but the nation. They have pitted perfectly reasonable people against each other by running around and calling everyone a socialist, Nazi, and what ever other scandalous name they can think of. These people are in show business; they are in it for the money and have resorted to using a childish tactic of shock. I urge people to stop following the example of these clowns, but by all means hear them out, it’s important to hear both sides of the story, but don’t follow their example. You will know what is right and wrong, and you will know what is fair, but only if you realize that some people are trying to get you riled up because they can make money out of it.