Phoenix - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a
tough immigration bill on Friday allowing police the authority to decide whether or not to check people’s papers depending on if they had had their favorite donuts for breakfast. It’s true. The bill states that if a cop had reached the Dunkin Donuts and they were already all out of jelly that day, and he had to settle for plain, a truckload of Mexicans on their way to Home Depot could get deported that afternoon. Probably. The bill requires that all aliens (the foreign kind, not the kind Stephen Hawking is telling us not to mess with) should carry their registration at all times, so police can check to see if they are in the state legally or not. The state claims that they had no choice but to pass the bill, as the federal government has been too slow to react on its own immigration reform. Ironically, Arizona has no fear of alienating their largest export market, Mexico – which is looking to import electronics, not more amigos.
Some critics, like the city of San Francisco, are already calling for a boycott of Arizona’s manufacturers, proclaiming the law to be overly harsh. We checked with law enforcement to get their take on it and one officer told us, “it’s cause for concern on the local level to be dealing with a federal issue. We’re not quite sure what reasonable suspicion entails as far as pulling people over either. The law says that we can’t use race solely to determine whether to question a suspect. But it seems pretty clear that if we smell Doritos on their breath, or tequila, we can consider it likely that a crime has been committed. Except outside of the Chi Chi's.”
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Here's an idea: all Mexicans and Mexican-Americans can move out of Arizona, thus decreasing the population to the point where they reduce the number of representatives to the U.S. House. F***ers.
Arizona can pass race base laws, pass Birthers laws and the state can continue to boycott Martin Luther King Day, well the rest of the Country can boycott the state of Arizona and spank them where it hurts them the most their pocket book. Their phony patriotism is sickening, they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions). The Birthers and the Tea party crowd think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. The world is complicated and people like Hamilton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt believed that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now it’s about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. For a party that gave us Abraham Lincoln, it is tragic that the ranks are filled with too many empty suits and the crazy Birthers who have not learned that the way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked internet lies, then, and only then, do you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called “facts”. Let’s face it no one will take the Birthers seriously until they win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. I heard that Orly Taitz now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC), she wants to re-establish a family values party, that’s like saying that the Catholic Church cares about the welling being of children in their care, too late for that.
Thanks, Montana! Arizona will be buried in legal bills, no doubt, as the law will be challenged as being unconstitutional. Their largest export is currently electronics, including Intel processors. Kind of a hard industry to boycott for most. Tourism could go to hell in a hand-basket though. HOPEFULLY.
Good comments Montana. If it's possible for a whole state to be a dick, Arizona is one. We should all remember the words on the base of the Statue of Liberty: http://www.statueofliberty.org/default_sol.htm
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