Americans need to get a life ...or... Why immigration is a non-issue

[salvorhardin]

I was just hopping between the various participants' blogs in this bi-week's Carnival of the Liberals and happened to come across this amazing perspective on the immigration debate by J.R. Kinnard of Don't Floss With Tinsel.

Americans Need To Get A Life

Over the years, I've directed more than a little scorn towards my fellow Americans. In fact, I've been downright bellicose at times. It's not that I hate Americans. I don't--at least, not all the time. I think we have shown an amazing capacity for caring, compassion, and progressive ideals...when focused to those ends. Where Americans get into trouble, and where I start throwing words like 'hate' and 'ignorant asshole' around, is when their focus turns toward more mundane issues. As our culture grows lazier and more insulated, it becomes easier and easier to shift America's attention to these mundane issues.

Not long ago, I wrote an entry about Republicans using immigration as a wedge issue in the coming election. I stated that more and more Americans are becoming preoccupied with illegal immigration, despite the fact it has little to do with their daily lives.

Please hear me: For many Americans, illegal immigrants are a major concern. They jeopardize job availability and job security. If I saw 2 million union members take to the streets in Washington D.C demanding harsher immigration policies I would support their efforts 100%. Those aren't the people taking to the streets, however. So, who are these people that are so worried about illegal immigrants entering America?

More: http://jrkinnard.blogspot.com/2006/04/americans-need-to-get-life.html

[beam me up scottie]

1. She's going to help build a fence ???

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Lest you fret about me misrepresenting the growing illegal immigration cabal, here is the article from which the above picture was taken. A few highlights for you:

IRVINE, Calif. - Laurie Lisonbee worried about illegal immigration but figured it was somebody else’s issue — until she saw hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters marching across her TV screen.

Soon, Lisonbee had recruited several friends to attend a demonstration by the Minuteman Project, a volunteer group that patrols the border to keep out illegal immigrants. Now, the 51-year-old art professor checks the group’s Web site daily and plans a summer trip to the Mexican border to help build a fence.

How does Professor Lisonbee go from knowing an issue has nothing to do with her (and rightly so), to being so concerned she feels it necessary to affiliate with paranoid xenophobes like the Minuteman Project? Because she saw a bunch of immigrants marching on the TV? I suppose seeing so many "people" protecting their own interests inspired Professor Lisonbee.

Of course.

What else could you possibly do to help your fellow man/woman/child/earthling ?

Screw volunteering at a local homeless shelter, hammering some nails with H for H, mentoring an at risk child, raising funds for the local humane society.

Nope, not for me, I'm going to go build a fence.

[salvorhardin]

2. Yeah, can you believe it?

She's a middle-aged art professor attending a Minuteman rally and plans on going Mexico to build a fence. Come on, say it with me now, "One of these things is not like the other..."

[beam me up scottie]

3. I hope she gets to bunk with ...

Son of Hogzilla


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[Tsiyu]

4. Now don't you make fun of that BigMac-fed, fat-headed American Boy

He's only exercising his gawd-given right to breed among his kind.

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