"Undocumented Vigilantism"
by Bucktowndusty
vigilante (vijilan'te) , member of a vigilance committee… formed in U.S. frontier communities to enforce law and order before a regularly constituted government could be established or have real authority.
pa·tri·ot (pa'tre-?t, -ot') , One who loves, supports, and defends one's country.
Patriots died to ensure that America eventually had a constituted government - one that vigilantly looked out for the interests of its citizenry over that of foreigners. Real authority to do so came from the United States Constitution that, besides protecting the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of its people, ordered the government to defend American borders. Despite this mandate, however, America now has an estimated 15 million illegal immigrants within its borders, largely due to the lack of vigilance on the part of American politicians.
To fill this law and order void, citizens associated with The Minuteman Project have constitutionally gathered in several Southwestern frontier communities in an attempt to remind politicians of their duty, and express their love, support, and defense of America.
And what's been the response to the project – accusations of "vigilantism" of course. However, just who are the true vigilantes? These 12 million illegal aliens are the vigilantes. Foreign governments – like Mexico that sends its people out in hordes to obtain "financial justice" from America to alleviate their own financial failures – are the vigilantes.
Vigilantism that ignores American law is illegal. However, when initiated by Americans to encourage American politicians to enforce American laws, it's American patriotism to the core. How could any rational person who has America's best interests at heart, denigrate the term vigilante, or the Minutemen for that matter?
Simply put, America needs more Minutemen, especially in the hearts and minds of politicians.
There, glimmers of hope do occasionally shine through the fog. Delegate Albo, Senator Hanger, and Governor Warner of Virginia drafted legislation that denies local and state benefits to residents of Virginia over the age of 19 who cannot prove they are in the U.S. legally. Even though the scrutiny over the distribution of public benefits should be, AT LEAST, as stringent as the requirements to purchase cigarettes or visit nightclubs, I applaud their efforts.
With cautious optimism, I shout, "Three cheers for Virginia, and many, many more for The Minuteman Project."
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"The Golden Egg"
by A. Hamilton
President Bush's proposal to rescue social security, by giving the option of investing a small part of the individual's contributions into a personnel investment fund, has met stern territorial opposition by the AFO-CIO and the AARP that resurrects shadowy memories from the past.
In the late 1920s, in big cities like New York and Chicago, small retail shop owners paid protection fees to hoodlums in order to keep their shops open. Of course, these same hoodlums threatened the shop owners with bodily harm if they didn't pay. You might say that the hoods were forming a union of sorts.
Labor unions (AFL-CIO) employ some of the same tactics as the protection rackets did long ago. That is; if you don't pay into the union fund, then you can't work on projects that employ union members.
This week AFL-CIO President John Sweeney accused the Bush administration of cutting the guts out of Social Security. Sweeney told the Charles Schwab investment firm, "Don't try to pick our pockets so you can line yours." This begs the question; how do investment companies and union officials make their money? They don't build anything or produce any products. Yet, it seems everyone that works for these companies are millionaires. Could it be that John Sweeney is familiar with the fund-transfer process when he suggests that Wall Street will take a chunk of the Social Security contributions?
You bet! That's exactly what the AFL-CIO does with union members contributions. They invest it - after Sweeney and the rest of the AFL-CIO officers take their cut. However, to be fair to the AFL-CIO (and the idea of personnel investments accounts), everyone I know that has retired from a union is living very comfortable now.
AARP is another organization that’s intensely against President Bush’s plan to save Social Security. Keep in mind that the “R” in AARP stands for “Retired” people, the same people that the Bush plan will NOT affect. I’ve heard President Bush many times say, “If you are retired now, the plan will not affect you.” So, why do the liberal higher-ups in the AARP hate the Bush plan?
I think the AFL-CIO and AARP just plain hate Bush and view his plan as the government muscling in on their territory and clipping the wings of their goose that lays golden eggs.
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