Illegal Immigration

I once entered in speech and debate. The subject for debate was Illegal Immigration. Now, I must admit, I had some fun thinking about ways to stop illegal immigrants (my poor victims were Juan and Maria) from coming over the border (i.e. landmines, pits filled with spikes, and other such unrealistic things). But, I imagine the best way to do this is make this country even worse than the one they are coming from. So, with the Obama administration running the US economy into the ground, I guess it's all an anti-illegal immigration policy?


But now, Arizona has passed a law (that really was already valid in over 20 states and matches current federal law) that police had the right to ask for identification from suspects. And already people are calling them Nazi's or racists or saying that it is color-oriented. But, in reality, the only way the police can ask for identification is if the suspect has already been noted for suspicious activity (for example, the back of their car dragging the ground because of the four people stuffed in the trunk. Real story.) So, no. Police aren't harassing poor Latinos on the way to get some ice cream (to quote Senor Obama). The only way they can ask for said papers is if the Latino has done something worthy of suspicion. That doesn't sound much like Nazi's to me.


As a matter of fact, this brings to mind yet another of my pet peeves. Everyone pities the Native Americans and villifies the settlement of Europeans in North America. Now, don't get me wrong, some of the things the U.S. did to the Indians was wrong (for example, the Trail of Tears). But I get sick at all the things our founders were accused of. For example, there is a rock at Plymouth Rock, erected to a day of mourning for the Indians for the landing of the pilgrims. Isn't that a little over the edge? Well, I guess they had a right to be mad about the illegal immigrants who came into their land (sound familiar?). Those darn white people. They took everything from the Indians. The Indians were here first. Well, what about the Mexicans scrambling over the border illegally by the bucket load? We were here first and we have deeds to the property. And some of those same people are taking our money and smuggling it back to Mexico. Not to mention the fact that they are bringing in drugs by the millions.


And another thing. Because these pilgrims came to America, they introduced technology unknown to the Indians. Without us, it would have taken the Indians much longer to discover these things. So, what I propose to do to the Indians is give them back their lands. Yes, give their lands back EXACTLY the way they were when we got here. Take their iPods out of their ears, restrict their computers and phones, and give them back their Teepee's and animal skins. See how well they can hunt for their own food with a crummy bow and dull arrows. When you put it that way, life with the whites ain't so bad.


Now I'm not being racist here. I actually have a smattering of Indian descent in me. I just get sick of all these people complaining about their lands being taken away. Well, let's just think about all the people who got their lands taken away by insurgents. Romans. They allowed barbarians into their lands as sanctuary and then the barbarians killed them, slaughtering millions of Romans. Yet I don't see any day of mourning for those poor Romans. Not even a stupid rock commemorated to mourning the day the barbarians got in. We just view it as history.


Now, some might say that, "Well, the barbarians weren't racist! The Americans fought the Indians just because of the color of their skin. If the Indians had been white, the Americans would have just accepted them into their culture." Well, yes, but you know what? The Americans tried that. But the Indians didn't want any of the whites culture. All they wanted was some guns, a few of those cool jingle bells (I wrote about this in a Trailblogger post) and that's it. Besides that, the main issue with the indians was land. If the indians had been white, I'm pretty darn sre we would have fought them anyway. They were standing on land that we wanted and they weren't about to just hand it over. Now, say we had lost the Indian war. Would we be mourned? I really doubt it. I think we would have been written down in history as losers, and that would be that. Couldn't that just be the way everything was done?


Coragon, signing off.