MEXICANS ON THE MARCH

There were 500,000 in Dallas yesterday, as well as New Mexico, Michigan, Alabama, Oregon and California. Today there will be marches for "immigrant rights" across the country.   Those who oppose the rule of law will be marching in New York City, Atlanta, Southern California ... .you name it, they'll be out there protesting.  Spanish language radio disc jockeys and the rest of the Spanish media will get them into the streets ... guaranteed.

I can hear the arguments now.  "Those who oppose the rule of law?  What are you talking about, Boortz?  These people are just marching for their rights." 

Rights?  What rights?  Tell me, please, just what rights these demonstrators are marching for today? The right to cross our borders illegally?  The right to remain in this country illegally?  The right to work here illegally?  The right to stay here illegally?  They have the right to none of these things, though you wouldn't know it from the chanting you'll hear today.

Let's address some of the language being used here.  First of all, these aren't "immigrants."  They're invaders. This is not immigration.  This is an invasion.  In Mexican magazines they talk about "re-conquering" cities like Dallas and New York.  They are, as Michelle Malkin calls them, "reconquistadors." They write that "With all due respect, Los Angeles is ours."  They carry Mexican flags in their protests, and shirts emblazoned with the word "Mexico."  Many, if not most, of these people have no desire to really become Americans.  They want to take advantage of living in America without assimilating into our society. 

The marchers are protesting for legalization of the 11 to 12 million illegal aliens currently in this country and against some of the legislative proposals in Congress.  One of the protesters was someone named Reverend Lawton Higgins.  He actually said "We've got to get back in touch with the Statue of Liberty.  We've got to get back in touch with the civil rights movement, because that's what this is about."   Yeah, right.  Let's remember that the Statue of Liberty actually welcomes legal immigrants into this country.  What we're talking about is the 11 million illegal aliens that jumped the border down South.  Just a small difference, don't you think?  As for his comments about the civil rights movement...that's an insult.  Just when is a criminal protesting the enforcement of the law considered a civil rights struggle?  People in this country don't have a "civil right" to stay here.

Today these people will be marching to tell us "Your laws mean nothing to us.  We have numbers.  Our numbers trump your laws."  We don't care about your rule of law.  We care about working in your plants, your restaurants, your offices, your fields and on your construction projects so that we can send money back home to our families in Mexico.  As soon as we can, we'll bring those families up here, regardless of what your laws say."

What is fueling these protests?  One thing:  A fear that the laws of this country might actually be enforced.  A fear that people might actually be prevented from crossing our borders illegally, and a fear that those who break the law every single day of their lives by just being here might actually have to face the consequences for their illegal actions.

They say that they are not criminals.  Sorry, if they're here illegally, they are criminals.  They broke the law --- they're criminals.  They say they just want to follow the American dream.  Fine.  There's a way to do that.  First, obey the law.  Apply for immigration status.

This morning CNN featured one particular story about the Sanchez family in New York City.  They're all here illegally, but they've been here for many years.  When CNN interviewed Sr. Sanchez he spoke in Spanish.  Here for more than five years, and still can't handle the language.  Why not? Because it's not about becoming an American.  It's about bring Mexico TO America. 

The Republicans will do nothing because of the power of the business interests who profit from the cheap(er) labor.  The Democrats will do nothing because they see millions of Hispanic votes on the horizon.  There's a movement in NYC right now to allow illegal aliens to vote in local elections.

This is an invasion, and it's serious.  Mexicans talk about conquering American cities, Americans talk about "undocumented workers."  In the meantime, we can't even get our government to control our borders.  You can rest assured that the signal sent by our congress last week --- the signal that they're going to do nothing about illegal crossings of our border --- has resonated in Mexico.  My guess is that the borders are in full flow right now ... popular crossings look like the entrance to Disney World. 

Just keep ignoring this.  Maybe you'll start paying attention when these illegal aliens start rioting for political and economic advantage.

By the way .... news today that Saudi Arabia is planning to build a 500+ mile fence along the entire Iraqi border.  We could learn something from the Saudis.

A QUESTION FOR PARENTS

Why do so many of you go out of your way to make sure that your precious children irritate every other adult within 25 yards?  Surely you don't believe that we think they're as cute and amusing as you think they are, do you?

FRENCH WEASELS CAVE IN

In the past several weeks, young people in France have been protesting a new law.  This law would make it legal for employers in France to fire people under 26 in their first few years of employment.  Isn't it saying something about a country when you have to pass a law to actually be able to fire somebody?  Well anyway, this didn't go over too well in the socialist welfare utopia that is France.

So what do people do when they disagree with a particular proposal?  They start rioting and go on strike.  They burn and destroy.  They attack police officers.  And, of course, that's exactly what the French tadpoles did.  Well, today we find out it worked.  The head French weasel, President Jacques Chirac has caved in.  It was announced today that the law will be "replaced," whatever that means.

So now unemployment will continue to run rampant in France among youth.  Why?  Because nobody can ever be fired -- not unless you want to jump through hoop after hoop, including providing about three years of severance pay.   If you had a business, would you hire some unproven young worker with no work experience if you couldn't fire him?  So this is what things are like in France...and make no mistake, the labor unions in the United States would love to make things here the same way.

The message is clear from the French leadership: riot and get your way.

THE UGLY BRIT

This past Saturday I made my annual excursion to Lakeland, Florida for Sun 'n Fun fly-in.  As the air show began around 2:00 on Saturday afternoon I was sitting atop the Passport Guests hospitality trailer in the area marked "media."  I had only been sitting there a few minutes when a man with an unmistakable British accent took the seat next to mine.  I don't know who he was, he never identified himself.  After just a few words out of his mouth I didn't care to initiate any introductions.  I do believe that he was there in some capacity involving ultralight aircraft.  He may have been a writer for a British publication featuring ultralights, and I came away with the believe that he might actually fly them himself.  Perhaps some alert reader or listener out there can identify this man. 

I was there to watch an air show, not to engage in conversation.  Sadly, after a few minutes he insisted on initiating a conversation that I won't soon forget.

I'll present the conversation here as accurately as possible from memory.  Personal thoughts are in italics.  The Brit goes first and is in green:

"You with the media?"
"Yup."
"Who do you work for?"
"Cox Radio."  I'm trying to sound dull and bored, and to deny him any information he may deem interesting.
"I can't stand to listen to radio over here.  I turn it off."
(Silence)
"There's too many adverts.  I don't know how people can stand it."
(No response)
"It's just constant adverts all the time."
"Well, Don't listen."
"I don't,"
"Fine."
A few more moments pass
"How can people stand to listen to all those commercials?"
"They get valuable information and the commercials pay for the radio shows they like to listen to."
"It's all commercials"
"No, it's not.  Only about 16 or 17 minutes an hour."
"Well I can't stand to listen."
"You don't need to."
By this time I'm looking for another seat.  There aren't any.
"We don't have commercials on BBC."
OK.  Now I've had it.  Time to engage this bloody Pommy jerk
"That's because your government forces you to pay for BBC.  Over here we don't have to pay for radio.  It's called free enterprise, something you're evidently not all that familiar with."
"I'm not forced to pay for BBC."
"How is BBC funded then."
"By the government."
"Where does the government get the money?"
"Taxes and charging us license fees."
"Oh.  So they're forcing you to pay for it."
"Well, it's better than spending our money in Iraq."
"That's money well spent."
"How can you say that?"
I turn in my chair, put my nose about three inches away from his ... and he can see some fire in my eyes.
"YOU, pal, weren't attacked."
A few moments of precious silence follows.  Maybe he's tired.
"Well your country doesn't have a friend in Europe."
"Yeah --- that's why so many Europeans are trying to move here."
"Well I don't want to move here."
That was  enough.  I stood up, gathered my stuff and turn to leave ... but one more word for the Ugly Brit.
"And for that, sir, my countrymen are eternally grateful."

I've traveled to many countries in Europe, including at least a half-dozen trips to Great Britain.  Never, in all my travels, have I met such an arrogant, supercilious footstool as this character. Hopefully he's back in his beloved England now, never to darken our doorsteps with his presence again. 

DETROIT IS A DISASTER

By now I'm sure you've heard this story.  A 911 operator in Detroit takes a call from a 5-year-old child.  The child says that his momma has passed out.  The operator refuses to send the police.  She wants to talk to an adult or to the child's mother.  In frustration, and in fear of getting in trouble, the child hangs up.  He calls again later seeking help from 911.  As luck would have it, he gets the same operator again.  This time she tells him to stop playing on the phone or she will send the police and he will be in trouble.  He hangs up again.  Finally, hours later, the police arrive.  The mother is dead. 

And just who would come to the defense of the 911 operator?  The unions, of course.  Who else?  The operator is, of course, a member of a government employee's union, and the president of the union says that the operator was just doing her job.  Yup.  You got it!  In union-speak, sitting there as a 911 operator browbeating a 5-year-old child and threatening him with the police when he calls to tell you that his mommy has passed out is "doing your job." Only in the wonderful world of unions would anyone believe that.

By the way:  The 911 operator?  What happened to her?  Why, she's still on the job.  Still taking calls.  Still dispatching (or not) the police and emergency personnel.  Remember; we're talking government here.  There is no need for competence.  No need to do the job well and effectively.  Being a government employee means never having to say "Damn, I really screwed that one up."

NO IRAN STRIKE

Seymour Hersh wrote in the New Yorker Magazine that the Bush administration was planning a nuclear strike against Iran, to keep it from acquiring nuclear weapons.  Good idea!  After all, the Islamic fanatics running that country are insane.  And they're pursuing, and may already have, nuclear warheads.

Well, sadly the back pedaling has begun in the Bush administration.  The White House is seeking to downplay the idea of a nuclear strike.  They've come out and said that the government is just doing normal defense planning.  No nuclear strikes on Iran in the immediate future.  Evidently they want to keep pursuing a diplomatic solution.

Why should we bother with that?  It's worked so well in the past.  While we're screwing around at the UN...which doesn't support any action against Iran anyway, the mullahs are building their nukes and running their underground reactors around the clock.  How long will we wait?

The Iranians have said they want to wipe Israel off the map and have vowed to destroy the United States.  I guess we aren't going to do anything until that happens.  Wouldn't a few well-placed air strikes do the trick right now?  Not if you ask people like John Kerry.  He accused the Bush administration on 'Meet The Press' yesterday of "cowboy diplomacy."

I guess The Poodle prefers French diplomacy.  The kind where you cave in to your enemy and do nothing.

By the way ... wouldn't it be misfeasance in office for the president NOT to formulate plans for a tactical nuclear strike against Iran's bomb-making facilities? Guess what?  We have plans for all sorts of nuclear strikes around the world.  Bottom line --- it isn't news.

Contrary to popular belief, the webwench was NOT in Cancun, but visiting ancient archeological sites in Mexico. Here, in front of the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

About 50% of you will find this hot dog cooker amusing, the other 50% will be disturbed by it. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Can you believe this?  There's a website out there detailing the security arrangements for Air Force One, including just where a sniper should shoot to cause an explosion! 

Who says Congressional moonbat Cynthia McKinney never does anything worthwhile in Congress?  After all, she did introduce "The Tupac Amaru Shakur Records Release Act of 2006."  Now here is a woman who knows what her constituents need. By the way, if you read this article you will see that McKinney's office believes that for young black men, Tupak Shakur is at least as recognizable, if not more so, as Martin Luther King Jr.

Here's a reporter from the Washington Post who has some mighty unpleasant things to say about Cynthia McKinney's hair.  I guess that makes her a racist.

Actor Ben Affleck was on Bill Maher Friday and said that George W. Bush could be hung for treason for leaking Valerie Plame's name.  Of course, somebody should have reminded him that no one has been charged with leaking her name.  Small detail.

Finally...people are warming up to the idea of nuclear power.  Several plants are planned around the country in the coming years.  The reason?  Power consumption is expected to go up 50% in the next two decades.  Gotta get it from somewhere.  Of course, there are a few environmental fascists that would rather we burn coal.

Is the bipartisan legislation granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens really a breakthrough?  Don Feder says Republicans are going to pay the ultimate political price for supporting the bill.

It seems the Muslim community in (of all places) Memphis, Tennessee got a bit uptight when they found out somebody who opposes radical Islam was going to speak at a university there.  Brigitte Gabriel explains.

Mark Steyn reminds us all that illegal aliens with driver's licenses obtained illegally flew an airplane into the Pentagon on 9/11.  And now Congress and the Bush administration wants to forgive millions of them.  Nice.

What do the American people think about illegal immigration?  In an overwhelming majority, a recent poll finds Americans want to build a 2,000 mile long border fence and deport the illegal aliens.  Why is that so hard for politicians to understand?

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says the federal government should control the border, but says deporting the 12 million illegal aliens already here is not realistic.  Just controlling the border would be an improvement.

As entitlement spending grows and grows over the coming years, Michael Barone says the United States is starting to look like another country: France.  At least when it comes to the welfare state.

Star Parker says it's time for Cynthia McKinney to resign and go home.  She says it's a bit of a stretch to call not being recognized by a Capitol Hill police officer "racism."

Speaking of racism, Professor Mike Adams says he was recently accused of being a racist.  As a result, in today's column, he looks at exactly what being a racist means.

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