Immigration hardliners can put away the tinfoil hats.
By on Apr 13th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Immigration hardliners can put away the tinfoil hats.
The “shadowy networks” behind the recent massive immigration rallies revealed.
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I operate on an ultra high frequency, I don’t need tin foil to keep them from listening to my thoughts. The Reichwingers are too stupid to listen anyway, even when I broadcast my thoughts freely :)
April 13th, 2006 at 9:08 pmI sure envy the unity we could use to get the WH crooks OUT.
April 13th, 2006 at 9:10 pmHey, this IS the unity! Support the immigration protestors. Most of them are Americans, and do vote.
April 13th, 2006 at 9:34 pmAnd it’s high time that they started voting for their interests instead of vague fears about abortion and gay marriage as pushed by the Catholic church.
We may see that light at the end of the tunnel yet…
In the right’s mind (oxymoron, that), democratic action is scary, shadowy stuff. They prefer the modern method of politics, with hacks like Abramoff, and leaks and imtimiation and lies. It’s really much more efficient, you know.
They are running scared, take off your tin foil friends and put on your battle helmets, it’ll get worse and worse as November approaches!
Meantime, let’s just make fun of ‘em:
Bush on Bush: 37% is remarkable achievement for an underachiever.
EWM- (April 13, 2006) White House handlers are rethinking their strategy of putting the President in front of his critics at town hall meetings after he offered a stupefying rationale for his plummeting poll standings at today’s event. In response to an elderly Minnesota woman’s question regarding the paltry performance numbers Bush stunned the audience by declaring “37 percent is remarkable achievement for an underachiever.â€
The exchange took place at a Minnetonka event aimed at building support for his Medicare prescription drug plan. Things went bad when 82 year-old Claudette Kerfuffle approached the open mike…
April 13th, 2006 at 10:27 pmSince my post kept getting blocked, I responded on my site. Click my name to it, especially if you actually read the AP report and you believe TP’s and Klein’s downplaying the organizers. (Of course, if the Democratic Party wants to coozy up even more to Lopez, Navarro, and others who think the same way as they do, feel free).
April 13th, 2006 at 10:50 pmI sure wish the Peace protesters got this kind of coverage.
Even Jay Leno was making fun of the Peace protesters before the Iraq war. It was bizarre.
The only think with the immigration protesters is, don’t break the immigration law, and get in line with everyone else. And you might consider working on your own country. If all the good people leave a country, what is left? And you can’t talk about immigration without talking about NAFTA.
April 13th, 2006 at 10:51 pmJack you are right on.
more people need to take the revolution to their own countries. if you really follow the lead of che guevera, that’s what you’d do….instead of waving che flags around anytown, USA.
Free trade means letting all the downtrodden travel wherever they want to lower the wages in teh countries who pay higher wages, until eventually the entire planet is working on slave wages.
i dont’ agree with this illegal alien stuff. sorry. my husband and i are dealing with legal immigration. we follow the immigration laws, and we stand more of a threat of my husband getting sent back to england than these people crying out for amnesty?
sorry I’m not on board with this one, and our sentiments are in line with all the others out there that are doing immigration the legal way. it’s fuckin bullshit.
life’s not fair. wait in line like everyone else.
April 14th, 2006 at 12:01 amNeed some of these “shadowy networks” to take out BushCo and the neocon cabal. With all the recent leaks, perhaps they’ve finally begun. Spread the word and DO IT……………………..!!!!!!!
April 14th, 2006 at 1:39 amWell, let me complicate things thoroughly. We have a system that’s been in place for decades. For immigration that is. And it’s worked fairly well over the years. Not perfect, but fully functional.
According to our law, people that enter this country undocumented are committing a crime. When you cross that geographical line, the first time you set your foot down in the United States, you are a criminal. Because you just broke the law by entering this country illegally. Even if the reason(s) you are coming here are of the noblest intentions, if you enter illegally, you are a criminal according to United States statute.
One thing I don’t understand is why it seems that no one from Mexico or any other Latin American country for that matter questions Vicente Fox’s motivations for having his people leave his country in droves. Why isn’t he held accountable for not providing decent jobs for decent people in his own country? Why does he just get to sit back and chill? When was he issued a “free pass” card?
But, he is a close, personal friend of George Bush, isn’t he? You (the United States) get cheap labor and we (Mexico) get rid of our undesirables. What a trade, huh?
Vicente Fox gets to unload his Mexicans of Indian descent on the USA while keeping the Spanish of European descent at home. How convient this exploitation benefits him.
The new slavery.
April 14th, 2006 at 3:32 amI don’t know much about tinfoil hats and don’t claim to be an expert in economics. But it has always been my understanding that when something is in short supply the price goes up. If that is so, then why is it that the more illegal immigrants, guest workers or whatever come into this country the more the wages stagnate to go down for the average American worker? I wish someone would explain that to me without calling me a racist, an idiot or some other epithet.
April 14th, 2006 at 8:09 amBush on Bush: 37% is remarkable achievement for an underachiever.
EWM- (April 13, 2006) White House handlers are rethinking their strategy of putting the President in front of his critics at town hall meetings after he offered a stupefying rationale for his plummeting poll standings at today’s event. In response to an elderly Minnesota woman’s question regarding the paltry performance numbers Bush stunned the audience by declaring “37 percent is remarkable achievement for an underachiever.â€
The exchange took place at a Minnetonka event aimed at building support for his Medicare prescription drug plan. Things went bad when 82 year-old Claudette Kerfuffle approached the open mike…
#4 – that was really funny and would probably happen if Bush was left on his own. It would be the only truthful moments of his life.
April 14th, 2006 at 8:24 amMarge,
April 14th, 2006 at 8:35 amWe have illegal immigrant workers so that wages can stagnate. It is a problem that will not go away until the demand (business) stops hiring cheap labor (supply) even with a guest worker program in place. Early efforts were to criminalize, make it a felony, for those that hired the illegal worker, but with the corporate loving republicans and a little pressure this was turned around to criminalize the illegal worker. Those who are the most quilty are the small business owner, gardening, construction, ect., that hire the most of the illegal workers. Don’t buy their claim that they could not find workers, there are plenty of workers at a respectable wage, these guys just want to put more in their pocket. The concept of buy American has died.
The truth is the Bush&Co want to keep the illigal immigrants in this country for the very reason that their willingness to work for low wages keeps all other workers wages low or stagnant. Just as all boats rise in the same tide, all boats get stuck in the mud/sand in the same retreating tide. This benefits the employers, many of them being large corporations such as commercial farms and hotel chains. Since there are no records kept of these illegal immigrants, they can be paid below minimum wage without benefits and they cannot organize for better working conditions. If there were no jobs in the USA for these immigrants, then they wouldn’t come here. Don’t blame the people that are trying to feed themselves and their families. Put the blame where is belongs – on the greedy rich employers that are taking advantage of people willing to do hard work for very low wages.
April 14th, 2006 at 8:38 amDavd B – interesting – we were both responding with the same train of thought. Great minds think alike :)
April 14th, 2006 at 8:41 amLink, provided is broken. I get Error Message 404
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The requested URL /weblog/archives/2006/04/index.html was not found on this server.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at http://www.prospect.org Port 80
April 14th, 2006 at 11:08 amCould some nice person explain what the “revealed” link goes to. All I get is one of those 404 Page Missing dealies.
April 14th, 2006 at 11:09 amCan we put the foil back on now that the link has been kidnapped by aliens?
April 14th, 2006 at 12:58 pm…In this “illegal immigration†canard we must All keep two things in mind…
1) These “illegal immigrants†are TRULY “indigenous†Americans whose ancestors rightfully occupied many of the lands they are currently flocking back to. Were it not for the overwhelming military might and sheer numbers of Anglos who invaded these territories, they would STILL be occupied by these “illegal immigrants†(the truly indigenous North Americans)…
2) The TREASONOUS, corrupt, mass murdering, racist “conservative†Bushites are ONCE AGAIN (successfully) attempting to divert the American electorates passions and attention on yet another wedge (DIVIDE AND CONQUER the poor/middle working class masses) issue, away from their TREASON (Valerie Plame), mass murder in Iraq, war profiteering, and various other SERIOUS IMPEACHABLE offenses…
…the criminal CORPORATE special interests (rich profiteers) WANT this slave labor, and the “conservative†Republisum and Democrats in Congress want the little people to focus on their poor/middle working class “brothers and sisters†(who seek ONLY to feed their families) rather than on the corrupt lawmakers and CORPORATE TRAITORS who keep wages depressed (and outsource jobs) for their own profit!
…time to stop blaming the victims, and go after the REAL culprits…
…the WASP male dominated TREASONOUS corporate/military/penal industrial complex…
Wake up everybody!
April 15th, 2006 at 11:41 amI believe the link is supposed to be this one:
http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2006/04/post_117.html#001682 for “permalink”
or this correct link:
April 17th, 2006 at 1:21 amhttp://www.prospect.org/archives/archives/2006/04/index.html#009809
(I notice it has two “archives” in the url maybe the poster who posted above though it was typo and edited the url hmm “