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What is it about illegal you don’t understand?
By L. J. Martin, Ventura 09/09/2010
Your editorial of 8/19 is so fundamentally wrong on so many levels, I hardly know where to begin.
First, the great majority of American people are not “reaching a heightened state of anger” because of any minority group. They are, in fact, made up of thousands of minority groups: racial, religious, ethnic, etc. Their anger is directed at the federal government and its refusal to respect and obey the law of the land. And any attempt to reassess the 14th Amendment is perfectly legal and acceptable under the articles of the Constitution, but not easy to accomplish, and rightfully so. Do you remember prohibition? Amendment created, amendment revoked. However, as forward-thinking as the forefathers were, they couldn’t foresee the 21st century ease with which our borders would be breached in order to establish citizenship, and the prevalence of anchor babies as the preferred method to attain citizenship for those neighbors south of the border.
No one disputes the right of Muslims to construct a mosque on private property, properly zoned and permitted, as a monument to anything, including their supposed victory at the 9/11 site. The wisdom of it is another thing. What is objected to is the “in your face” nature of a “Cordoba” at that particular location. And if you, as a weekly rag able to publish whatever you desire, haven’t noticed, objection is the first of our rights in the bill of rights: the right to vocally object to that site is as basic as can be. No one has attempted to burn down the proposed location; now that would be against our rights as granted.
And yes, Judge Walker’s gay marriage ruling did disregard the will of the people, and the forefathers foresaw that, with the establishment of three branches of federal government, with each one overseeing each of the other two. What you’re seeing is that brilliant foresight at work. On a personal level, I have no idea how gay marriage will work into our society, and care little, so long as it does not interfere with me, my children or my grandchildren; and I can’t really see how it might, other than having to watch a couple of “men” trade spit in a public place, which offends me no more than seeing a young woman with multiple piercings who looks as if she’s fallen face-first into her father’s tackle box. Both make me cringe. So what? There are a lot worse things out there by which to be offended, and life would be boring without many of them — obviously the young woman was bored with her lot or she wouldn’t feel the need to offend.
You go on espousing the state of illegal immigrants in several scenarios, and to your credit, in each instance, refer to them as such. While it’s interesting reading, it begs for one to go back to the first reference: “illegal” immigrants. What is it about “illegal” you don’t understand? If you want illegals to enjoy all those perceived rights you write about, how about utilizing the system as our forefathers planned: you change, or enforce, the law. That’s so simplistic it requires no further explanation.
And yes, extremists exist in every religion, but please note that you live, and enjoy the protection of the law, in 2010 United States of America, and a good number of those illegalities inherent in Islam have been overcome in our 200-plus years of existence. We no longer cut off the noses and ears of our women, nor do we require them to have four male witnesses to prove rape, nor do we condone jihads against other groups, particularly the vast majority of Americans (and I include all the Americas in that) whom the Muslims claim are infidels, and by that very fact have a jihad proclaimed against them … that’s you and me, dummy. And Sharia law is part and parcel of the Muslim faith, inseparable, and it would behoove you to study it and see what you’re inviting into the USA. As a Muslim, when there’s a separation of church and state, Sharia governs. You might want to ask your wife how she’d react to being buried up to her neck and stoned should she waiver in her fidelity, and all that’s required is for you to claim so and some elders of your village to agree, who already are suspicious of her because they’ve caught a glance of her ankle.
And Muslims, in this country, are already claiming Sharia Law prevails over local laws: the camel’s nose is under the tent.
What the vast majority of Americans are objecting to is the misinterpretation of the Constitution, the misunderstanding of its promise of various freedoms, and the failure to protect its promises. What our forefathers intended: common defense, safe borders, limited federal government, and generally abiding by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. That’s what the vast majority of Americans worry about, and why they are “reaching a heightened state of anger.” And I, for one, believe you ain’t seen nothing yet, and rightfully so.
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This writer is not as crazy as others of this ilk.
Nonetheless, it's a reach and a half, particularly relative to American Muslims and Sheria.
Already this country has a substantial Moslem citizenry, just as we have many Vietnamese and Hmongs, artifacts of benighted imperial overreach.
And who are these Moslems? They are your doctor, your 7 Eleven's clerk, the local librarian, the NY cabbie bashed by a frenzied mob near ground zero and other ordinary Americans.
Do you see them stoning their adulterous wives or cutting off the noses of disobedient wives and daughters?
They are like ordinary Christian and Jewish citizens who don't kill witches, even on the solstice at Stonehenge, regardless of how their nutsy holy books states they should. Or engage in other unscientific ways to cure leprosy by ritual washing.These texts indicate another time and another context here in this country.
If individual Moslems even know what the text requires, they likely would find it as weird and unsavory as you or I might find the stuff in Leviticus.
In many ways, Islamic culture today is a step backwards, but so is Mormonism, so is pious Catholicism under the last two reactionary popes, so is hardshell Baptists and so on.
The problem is fundamentalism. Whose is irrelevant.
On the other hand, two issues create a tribal loyalty and a push to terrorist activity regardless of superstitious belief--a. our uncritical partisanship to Israel vis-a-vis the Palestinians and our killing of Moslems in the Middle East.
Promoting abhorrence of Moslems generally is giving Osama his Holy War and creating hatred against our interest as Americans.