I went through all of this to establish myself as a tolerant American citizen. The reason for this qualification is leading me into the real reason for my writing. THE MINUTEMAN PROJECT. I would like to know more about it. I might be interested in taking part. The national news media is basically ignoring it. When they do it usually has a negative taste to it. A Tuson TV reporter who allegadely went undercover to gain information told of the orientation having an instruction about talking to the media, some of the participants toting shotguns around. The Border Patrol down plays it. The ACLU tries to place it into a light that represents a bunch of militas. Most of the blogs I’ve seen seem to only represent one side of what the project really is. How do you really know? I would hate to drive fifteen hundred miles and find out I didn’t want to be a part of this group. Boy, do we need a streight line reporting news service.
smokey l

Preventing Armageddon I: Enhancing America’s Border & Port Security After 9/11
http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2004/nov/zellenNOV04.asp

There’s been occasions where I’ve hung out at where ever it is that day workers hang out looking for pick-up work. And I’m not an immigrant. Nor were some of the others. Seeing how those pick-up spots are common local knowledge, I don’t think the illegals were stealing jobs per se, since real Americans have an equal opportunity to look for work by hanging out there as well. That they don’t indicates most Americans would rather be elsewhere, instead of looking for work that way.

I have written, called and got directly in my government officials face, they do not care about this issue, because they are benefiting from this crime.

The only people who want these illegal immigrants here, are the illegal immigrants, themselves, their families and the traitors reaping the financial and political windfall of this crime.

I have done the work of calling, writing, like the Minutemen, we are going to have to get physical about it.

All they have to do, to rid our great country, of these invaders, deputize Americans, believe me, we will get the job done.

When I say physical, I do not mean violent. I mean, get off our sofas, and act.

Tell me. If we are going to continue to have immigration, who do we allow in?

Only those of hispanic descent? Sounds racist to me.

You want action? Know of any illegal day workers, hanging around on the corners of your streets, to steal jobs from Americans?

Well, unemployed Americans, should be right there at those same sights, demanding, their treasonist countrymen, hire them.

Action, action, action, we must stop the talk.

Why is it hundreds of illegal Mexicans, can unite to flood the stairways of our courthouses and demand their rights, when they are suppose to be so hard working.

Most Americans, do not have that kind of time, because they really are hard at work.

It is our job to remove these illegal immigrants. We have every right to protect our country.

But we must be of one mind, and one accord.

I am increasingly, becoming ashamed, to call myself an American.

We use to be tough, now we have become a bunch of pansies, allowing everyone to walk all over us.

We are allowing another country to take us over, and all they have to do is walk across our border.

Thank you,

Suzie, in Ohio

Have a great day.

I see a possible and compassionate resolution, and Bush has the political capital to expend on, dare I say, a nuanced and credible position on the following;

1) State unequivocably that future illegal border crossing will not be tolerated beginning on a certain date.

2) Lay out the terms for amnesty, set up a review board for every city & town – say about a 30 mile radius – and give all illegals 90 days to register for an amnesty review hearing and receive a number.

3) In that 90 day grace period, those that know they won’t qualify may as well pack up their bags, take care of loose ends and leave. On their way out, they will have to submit to a biometric exit registration, so we know who they are should they think about returning before the “undocumented statute of limitations” runs out. (depending on circumstances, several years to never)

4) Those who think they have a shot at amnesty will continue as before while waiting for their hearing. the same conditions will also discourage those trying to sneak across, since a) they won’t be able to meet the qualifications, & b) if caught, they will be registered via biometrics and barred for life – it’d make sense for them to wait and go thru proper channels.

5) Any found here after 90 days without a review number will be summarily barred for life.

6) The results of the review could run the gamut from a 3-month per year guest worker visa (seasonal workers) to a green card. (Before ya’ll get blown out of shape, all of the conditions need to be thot out and codified before we start the process.

7) Once the wrinkles have been ironed out, we can then begin processing foreign applicants from their home country for temporary work visas.

Also we need to lean on crooked foreign leaders that breed miserable conditions for their citizens

Once we have an orderly process, the burden on employers to vet potential empolyers will be dramatically lightened and workers will pay into the tax base – all the more reason for a flat tax/sales tax system. And we will have realistically (can never 100% eliminate w/o becoming a police state) and dramatically reduced the illegal problem

I’m not arguing about protecting the opportunities of folk from south of the border. I’m arguing that if there’s no relief on their pressures that they will explode and the damage could be greater than the damage by a terrorist bomb.

Afterall, we already have 10 – 20 million illegals within our midst that could make anything inflicted by a bunch of misogynist ragheads look like a minor incident. Not that I “fear” illegal immigrants, because I truly believe a majority only want a better chance. But like a cornered animal will attack a much larger foe, 10 million people who feel like they’re running for their lives will act irrationally and unpredictably.

Which is a greater loss? A couple million in DC/NYC from a terroist attack or millions down south? That’s my “Kantian” point that perhaps better that some die at the hands of evil doers in spite of my efforts to prevent it, but I wouldn’t want to be party to a policy that is equally deadly to those whose only crime is to be born “American” in spirit but stuck in another land, just so we can maintain our sense of status quo.

Before you wig out and accuse me of being anti-American, let me say that I’ve always believed that we should spend our blood and treasure to defeat tyranny. Manifest destiny? Perhaps. But I happen to believe that when we say “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”, the truths aren’t unique to America.

Throwing money at some organization (UN) and hope the problem goes away somehow or that if we tolerate/prop up a “friendly” dictator, things will maintain some sort of status quo (read real-politic) is a crock.

I mean defeat tyranny, like we’re doing in Iraq and should have done in ‘91. like we should have stood up to Hitler early on saving 10s of millions at the cost of a couple million. Or like Hungary, or like Czechslovakia, or like Poland, or like Rawanda, or like Sudan, or like Cambodia, or like any other place that tyranny dares rear its head. Like whack-a-mole.

But I’d wager you this, had we had the moral backbone then, we wouldn’t have seen half of what we’re seeing now.

Barring Federal intervention, what States can do is rollback all of the giveaways and what have you that encourage illegals to take advantage of our system. Rollback the right to free schooling, healthcare, translation/bi-lingualism. You want to work? Learn English and USE it. Public officials shouldn’t even give you the time of day en Espanol if you’re illegal.

And no, the judicial branch does not have the last word, contrary to what the MSM/DNC would have us believe. They can be countermanded and if need be impeached by the legislative branch.

You know, there was a reason why originally the Senate was supposed to be chosen by the legislature of the home State — ACCOUNTABILITY!!! The Senate is not a place to maintain a career. They’re to come in and represent their State’s interest and not give a rat about some namby-pamby global test.

As for States protecting the border, they can. But they’ll also will look inland for reimbursement. I doubt they can shoot on sight. that in itself will be a big deterrent. Again, the Guard is severely strained in our taking the fight to the terrorist’s turf. That in itself has a bigger return on the buck as opposed to retreating back to our border.

If that happens, then the terrorist will get in cahoots with Mexican drug lords and lob dirty bombs over the fence. All that does nothing to alleviate the teeming masses looking for a better life.

I’m sort of taking the Kantian view that maybe a bomb going off in DC or NYC is preferable to me being responsible for the deaths of innocents trying to get in or otherwise holding them down by denying that opportunity for a better life.

Frankly, we already have nests of terrorists within our midst. Locking the border down will not prevent such a bomb going off. There’s plenty of off the shelf materials, along with radioactive materials for you or I to make such a dirty bomb. In that sense, I’m not AS worried about material crossing the border.

Here’s an for instance: regarding the recall of that 1950’s Flu virus. What’s to stop some doctor who already received it from passing it off to his local terrorist to unleash it in your neighborhood. Would that keep you up at night?

As far as what we are to do, I think what we are doing has value in itself. It begins here at the grassroot level with informed citizens, and especially those who have joined the Minutemen in their quest. Much better, it would seem, than trying to contact our elected representatives [though we ought to do that as well, give 'em heck]. They are, in the main, bought and sold by the forces who wish a post-national New World Order and the end of sovereignty and borders. One shining exception is Tom Tancredo — how I wish I was in his district, I am about two miles further North in the district of Bush Bootlicker Bob Beauprez, Bah! Rep. Tancredo has even spoke at the minutemen’s opening day in Tombstone, Ariz.