Arizona is attempting to become the first all-white all-English speaking state. Heaven for WASPs. Now then they just passed another law and ruling to remove all classes that are geared towards ethnic groups or can be construed as "anti-American" as well as a ruling from the education department that anyone with a "thick" accent is banned from teaching English classes.
Wow how Arizona is going off of the deep end. The first Police State. Here is a cartoon from the great Matt Bors that sums this up nicely: (http://www.mattbors.com/newstrip.html)
They try to argue that this is a law only to prevent crime and they hold this weird belief that illegal immigration is the main problem with our country. Let me be the first to pop your little bubble Arizona, but the problems with our health care, the problems with our prisons, the problem of crime, and the problem of the economy is not due to the illegal immigrants in the USA. The problem is more due to the lack of educated Americans, the functional illiterates, and the people who are addicted to drugs in the first place, most of whom in all of these situations are legal Americans that cannot even name three of the founding fathers. The drug running and drug problem that they claim to be fighting against is not due to people drug running, it is due to that fact that there is a market for it in the first place. Most people, if given a choice, would rather do a legal, honest, hard working job for their wages and wants, but our society has made it so difficult for them to do so that they revert to drugs and alcohol along with black market goods, including narcotics. It is a simple formula. You are never going to eliminate drug use, but you can attempt to fight the causes of it instead of the symptoms. I have known a good amount of illegal immigrants and they are just like you and me, struggling for a better life for themselves and their loved ones. Many come here because of all of the violence and corruption in their home countries and America is still one of the few places that if you are lucky and work hard you can make something of yourself. They come for hope.
Many of them would rather be legal, but you have made it so much more difficult for them to come legally that they have no other option. This country was founded and took pride in the idea of the "Melting Pot". Different people and cultures could come, become integrated, and thrive in peace and freedom, not the idea of white rich people only which is what you are trying to claim. While the last president, ol' Bushy was in office, he made it even harder and more expensive to come here legally. Hmm...
Also, just because someone has an accent does not mean they do not know English or even that they may know it better than we do. Oh, here it comes, another bubble-bursting moment...English is not that "National Language" as you so like to claim. It was never founded or formalized as such. It is the most common language, but the idea of freedom means that you can speak whatever language you would like, and if the people or business owners do not want to cater to Spanish or whatever language, you do not have to.
You are afraid of what is different. You are angry because you cannot communicate with some people, or at least that is what we are saying to be polite. The truth is that people who claim such things are just plain racist and hateful of that which they do not understand. Those "damn Mexicans" as I have heard them called, are some of the nicest and hardest working people in this country. You like to claim that they are taking our jobs, but the fact remains that many of you will not do the jobs that they will. You are to good to build houses or pick in the fields.
I love America and the freedoms that it was founded on. I personally despise a lot of religions and people who are paid to lie on televisions for political ends, but they have the freedom to due so and I defend that freedom. I feel bad for the ignorant Arizonians that honestly think this bill is a good thing because most of them are just brainwashed by Fox News and education cuts. Many totalitarian dictators believed in burning books and banning freedom of thought because education as a whole will open everyone's eyes to how they are being fucked everyday by the people in power. The right-wing especially loves cutting education spending because many of their ideas on social issues are of such a third grade mentality that they can retain power as long as that is your highest level of learning. Texas is working on changing facts in their school books, we saw it with Kansas and Pennsylvania over the whole "intelligent design" theory which was not intelligent at all, and we saw it with President Bush issuing a decree that park rangers were not allowed to say how old trees and sites were due to the idea that the scientific fact is against the bible. Can't you see the horrible problems with this?
Many of you claim problems with science and their are problems, but it is a self-correcting philosophy that is not always right. You claim that science does not know anything, but they know and can prove way more than you can, so please shut your mouth until you have an actual logical argument. Get your facts right and admit your own problems please. Speak up if you want, but at least have some idea of reason. The great old quote says this: "It's better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it." and boy, how many people prove it everyday in this country. I love the right of free speech but as is consistently noted, with rights come responsibility. Have some.
