Laigle’s Forum

By Don Laigle

I just got an alert from the Minuteman Headquarters. Here is how it starts out:
“ALERT: Congress is ready to GIVE UP on securing our borders against illegal immigration – unless WE do something about it NOW!

Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina has said it most bluntly, ‘We’re gonna tell the BIGOTS to SHUT UP’!

Graham was speaking in front of La Raza, a group that openly collaborates with MEChA, RADICAL- RACIST Chicano extremist political organizations that actively seek the removal of all “white Europeans” from the western U.S.”

Senator Ted Kennedy, whom many neocons are sucking up to these days, said he hoped the voices of bigotry (normal Americans like us concerned with our loss of sovereignty) would silence themselves for the debate over amnesty. Of course, it is normal for liberals to accuse their opponents of being bigots.
Until this administration, however, it was unusual for conservatives to fawn all over these bullies and do their bullying for them for fear of being nailed as a bigot. But now, we have a new crop of brainless “conservatives” who simply don’t know how to defend a constitutional position because they either don’t know the Constitution or they think that document was written by troglodytes and needs to be liberalized.

Let’s get this straight. Even Hispanics with common sense don’t want every one of their compatriots to have access to the country in which they seek refuge. The criminal elements that we invite into our country by awarding everyone amnesty are part of the reason they want to escape those places.
Further, if all the smart and industrious people leave Mexico and the rest of Latin America, that makes these countries even less desirable and livable than before.

But a point that Graham, Kennedy, Bush, McCain and company seem to be missing is that by pretending that all of Latin America is so bad that no one could possibly want to stay there, they are presenting themselves as the biggest bigots of all!

Finally, for a wishy-washy “conservative” to smear real conservatives for wanting to preserve a modicum of sovereignty for their country and protection for their borders, something guaranteed by the Constitution, is not only downright dirty. It is also dangerous. Sucking up to the Left caused the Republicans to lose their hold on power last election. They obviously haven’t gotten the message yet.
I think one of the main problems is that conservative “pundits” like Rush and Hannity are so obsessed with beating back the Left that they are giving passes like candy to almost all Republicans who will support the war effort. That would be fine if the war were the only means of keeping the bad guys out of our country. But obviously, if we keep the borders open, and even offer incentives to invaders, then the fine fighting men risking and laying down their lives in Iraq are being demeaned over here by the open-border crowd. It is not only insulting to them but downright unfair to put on their shoulders the entire burden of keeping America safe.

So until the pundits get a clue, let’s not give them so much of our listening time.

I already am giving Hannity a big miss these days. I just can’t stand his squeaky pompous little voice any more.

What say? If the talk show hosts refuse to notice the elephant in the room—illegal immigration—then let’s stop noticing them.