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January 22, 2004
Bush policies not to liking of all Republicans
J.T.
Ready Guest
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I am a Republican. But first and foremost, I am an American.
I tow the party line only so far. When that party line is tied to a lead
weight that is sinking our Republic, it is time to cut it off. Many people
have asked whether I no longer support President Bush. The question is
not whether I still support Bush, but whether he still supports the American
people and is upholding the Constitution. Not only has Bush failed miserably
in protecting our sovereign border, he has actually acerbated the problem.
Just nine days after Sept. 11 the blasphemous 4,000-page Patriot Act came
out, and is anything but patriotic.
We defeated Nazism without destroying the Bill of Rights. We defeated
Communism without subverting our Constitution. And we can defeat terrorism
without destroying our civil rights. Investigating what books I read and
tapping my phone does nothing to stop terrorism. Why are my brother and
other service personal guarding the Kuwaiti border, the Syrian border
and the Pakistani border, when the U.S. border is wide open? The Middle
Easterners who are paying $50,000 a head to be smuggled across the border
are not coming to work at the local “Quickie Mart.” Does is
take a terrorist merrily crossing our not-so-sovereign border with a dirty
bomb to blow up Bank One Ballpark while packed full of people, before
our federal officials finally wake up?
It does not take troops locked arm-to-arm to secure our borders with Canada
and Mexico, we have the technology. No, it takes resolve. We have become
apathetic. We have lost our will. As Bush presses the FTAA and Amnesty
programs, we can tow the party line or we can fight for what is right.
Our president has been intoxicated with power far too long, akin the way
he was intoxicated by alcohol as a youth. The problems are not on Mars;
we cannot fight the war on terrorism with our front door wide open here
on Earth.
Finally, I am sick of the label racist being spewed forth like venom from
the lying mouths of true racists. Racism is subjugating an entire people
to near slave labor right under our noses. Illegal immigration is a pressure
valve for the corrupt Mexican government.
There are millions of lazy Americans on welfare who should be picking
strawberries or lettuce or promptly lose their unearned benefits. The
“guest worker program” is nothing but amnesty for those who
cut ahead of the line, which should be called the “guess who works
here program.”
I believe history will prove me correct. Taking advantage of illegal aliens
is a travesty of our national principles just as slavery remains a severe
blight on our nation’s founding.
I’m sure wealthy plantation owners could have argued that African
slaves picking cotton were simply working jobs Americans would not work
for themselves also. Just as slavery was wrong then, illegal immigration
is wrong now. Who is going to have the courage to speak out? Not Congressman
Jeff Flake who “flaked” out on his promises to us to protect
our border.
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