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Some
Dare Call It Treason
(GOT
ROPE?)
Liz Michael
www.lizmichael.com
Released January 11, 2004
President George W. Bush along with Senator John
McCain, want to give some eight to ten million
illegal aliens, most of them from Mexico, legal
status. Theoretically, the plan would legalize
these aliens as "temporary workers,"
which would allow them to work freely in the
United States without fear of deportation.
I hear some hard-line conservatives call this
proposal treason. I hear very little from the
mainstream Democrats, but some people in Labor
and on the Left have pegged this correctly for
what it is. My opinion: this is a proposal which
has something bad for everyone. And in the end,
it will cause a violent revolution in two
countries.
Something for everyone
First of all, the plan alleges it is designed to
thwart illegal immigration. But in truth, by
assessing no penalties, the eight to fourteen
million illegal immigrants already here will be
joined by tens of millions more. So forget that
nonsense about this bill stopping illegal
immigration. That's a lie. This bill would give
would-be immigrants no reason to follow the law
at all. Already, more than ten percent of
Mexico's population is living illegally in the
United States. If Bush's plan is actually
implemented, that percentage would skyrocket.
Bush's amnesty program would only be seen as a
green light for millions more to invade our
nation from all over the world.
What the Bush-McCain plan offers
conservatives
Conservatives seem most concerned about the plan
"rewarding lawbreakers". Indeed, the
effect of the plan is actually to encourage and
reward the breaking of the law. And if this law
is broken, will this not inspire the whole of the
nation to break other laws with impunity? And
what manner of country will this become when that
happens, if it hasn't already. Where are we on
this now? Well, 33 percent of our prison
population is now comprised of non-citizens. This
doesn't mean everyone trying to sneak in is a
criminal. But it does mean our current policy
tends to enable alien criminals and not penalize
them or exclude them.
Also, 36 to 42 percent of illegal aliens are on
welfare. This shouldn't sit well with anyone, but
conservatives are the most alarmed by it. The
Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the
average Mexican illegal alien costs U.S.
taxpayers a whopping $55,000 each. This puts the
lie to the concept that such immigration is
actually "beneficial". Yes, some people
who are coming ARE a net benefit. But those
people are dwarfed by those who actually cost us
money.
Conservatives are also concerned that this is
another step in undermining the sovereignty of
the United States. Part of this is the Aztlan
movement, by which some Mexican-American radicals
are essentially preparing to craft a new nation
out of the Southwest, and though they won't
openly acknowledge it, "ethnically
cleanse" the region of whites, blacks and
Indians. Part of this is the burgeoning movement
toward regionalization, essentially making one
North American country out of Canada, Mexico and
the United States.
And every child born of a guest worker would,
under our 14th Amendment, becomes an American
citizen, automatically entitled to all the
benefits of citizenship. This also concerns some
conservatives.
What the Bush-McCain plan offers liberals
If you love social programs like Social Security,
Medicare, education funding, environmental
preservation, etc, and if you are a proponent of
universal health care, what does the Bush-McCain
plan do for your programs? Well, if the
Bush-McCain amnesty plan happens, kiss it all
goodbye.
The financial drain on American taxpayers which
will occur if more aliens are allowed unfettered
access to the United States is incalculable.
Taxpayers will be paying for their food, health
care, Social Security benefits, and education,
plus all of the above for their dependents, from
now on. Not to mention, the cost of law
enforcement and loss of property due to the
criminal conduct of a portion of the alien
population. What will this do to your social
programs? It will collapse them. The benefits of
Americans in these programs, and their access to
them, will all be cut.
Oh, and when I say taxpayers, I mean, those who
will still have jobs. Corporations will look to
hire the former illegal aliens wherever they can.
As a result, American unemployment costs will
skyrocket and so will welfare costs. The truth
is, this plan is designed to specifically
ELIMINATE as taxpayers the very people who are
needed to fund all these social programs.
I know, I know. You'll respond: well, we can
always raise taxes on the rich. Get real. First
of all, even if all the income of the rich were
confiscated, it wouldn't fund the government for
any longer than three weeks. But even if it
could: how are you going to do it when Bush and
the Republicans control all three houses by wide
margins? Which is exactly what all this is
designed to do by appeasing the Latino vote.
But wait: there's more! I haven't forgotten about
you environmentalists. Guess what the extra
population coming in is going to do for the
environment? Totally destroy it. More resources
will be used. More of everything you hate will
have to happen to accommodate these tens of
millions of people. They will have to locate
somewhere. If they locate in cities, they will
displace Americans who will then have to move to
the open spaces. Or they will move to the open
spaces themselves. Do you know what kind of havoc
illegal aliens can wreak on the environment?
Well, check out the southern border wilderness
areas in California and Arizona. Ask the Tohono
O'odham Nation.
In any event, these new people will use more oil,
requiring the tapping of ANWR, more paper and
more homes, requiring the felling of more trees,
more water, requiring more diversion of the
natural courses of rivers. They will deposit more
waste in your bays, more sewage in your rivers,
and more trash in more landfills. The companies
that hire them will expand the level of their
pollution: why? Because they can, having
Republican majorities everywhere. The savings in
labor costs means that such companies, instead of
being forced out of business, will flourish at
the expense of the environment.
What the Bush-McCain plan offers
organized labor
First of all, let's acknowledge the 18 million
Americans who cannot find a job. The truth is,
there are not very many jobs around that
Americans will not do. So illegal aliens who are
coming here to work do so at the peril of
American workers.
What the plan offers labor is very simple: the
opportunity for major corporations to bust every
single one of your unions. It'll go something
like this. A company will advertise a job, and in
three months declare that no American
"wanted it". Thus, an immigrant will be
offered it. Now does that really sound so bad?
Well, if it doesn't, you forgot something. What
if the reason that job went unfilled with no
American willing to do it was that it didn't
offer a living wage? Is that really legal under
the Bush-McCain plan? You betcha.
And this will hit all the minority communities
the hardest. The first jobs to be hatcheted under
these plans are jobs mostly held now by black,
Indian, and Hispanic Americans. This is not an
unintended consequence, folks. This is by design.
And it will happen to jobs ALL OVER AMERICA. The
Bush-McCain plan is the ultimate union-busting,
racial oppression tactic. Which brings me to the
next subject...
What the Bush-McCain plan offers
immigrant workers
In a word, slavery. Yes, slavery. Every illegal
immigrant worker currently has a Sword of
Damocles over their head: accept our slave wages
and slave conditions, don't complain, or you'll
be deported, maybe even arrested and sent to
detention for two years. The new guest worker
plan not only allows such things to continue, it
LEGALIZES the practice. Abusive practices which
often include sexual harassment and forced
prostitution. The plan doesn't offer these
immigrant workers a path to citizenship, which is
exactly the condition Negro slaves found
themselves in in many states in the 1800's,
perpetual non-citizen workers.
Are you listening, MEChA? MALDEF? Are you going
to allow a practice which abuses Mexican
nationals, your brothers and sisters, in this
way?
What the Bush-McCain plan offers legal
immigrants
Bush's amnesty plan is also a serious slap in the
face to those would-be immigrants who are trying
to migrate to America legally. And to the many
many legal immigrants now here. And to every
single naturalized citizen of the U.S. who did it
all according to the rules.
There are thousands of decent, hard working
people from around the world who are seeking
entrance into the United States. Some of these
are seeking political asylum. Some are fleeing
persecution. Whatever their reasons, they are
following the rules and obeying the laws. Now,
they must wait and watch as President Bush pushes
lawbreakers to the front of the line. Bush and
McCain have flipped the middle finger at you, Mr.
and Ms. Legal Immigrant.
Something for Osama bin Laden, too?
As if everything else the Bush-McCain immigration
plan would do does not constitute an act of war
against the American people, here is the kicker.
As of now, it is made to seem that every
precaution in the world has been taken to prevent
another 9-11. We have gone on military excursions
into Iraq and Afghanistan allegedly to root out
"terrorists". Yet at the height of all
of this "Orange Alert" and security
mania, oppressing damned near every single
American in the name of keeping them safe,
absolutely no concern has been shown to the
southern border of the United States.
That's right. Not one troop. One soldier. One
national guardsman. Not one has been stationed on
our southern border to secure it. And mixed in
with the millions and millions of Mexican
immigrants looking for work, and occasionally for
crime, are agents of Al Qaeda also being smuggled
in in order to wreak the next havoc upon America.
How do we know? For one, Al Qaeda themselves have
said they are doing it and are going to do it.
For two, instances of notepads with Arabic
writings have been discovered in the Arizona
desert.
Are ya "feelin'" me, people? Do you
understand what I am trying to tell you? This is
a far more serious matter than just replacing
George Bush with Howard Dean, Dick Gephardt, Wes
Clark, Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, or whomever,
and a far more serious matter than replacing John
McCain with Liz Michael. This is not about
matters for which members of Congress and the
President should be defeated at the polls. This
is about matters over which they should be hung,
under the treason clause of the constitution.
Yes, treason. If Al Qaeda is an enemy of this
nation, then the Bush administration is giving
aid and comfort to that enemy by exposing our
southern flank to attack on purpose, and
dissuading law enforcement and private militias
from patrolling that area and arresting
violators. If the "War On Terror" is a
real war, then those who perpetuate this open and
unguarded flank willfully are real traitors, and
they should suffer the penalty reserved for real
traitors.
Who is funding illegal immigration?
Think about this. Coyotes, immigrant smugglers,
can make anywhere from $500 to $2000 a head and
more, for smuggling the poorest of Mexican
immigrants, who barely have a peso to their
family's name, across the southern border.
How do you square that?
I mean, seriously, these people, who are
absolutely economically devastated in their home
country, are supposedly paying coyotes thousands
of dollars to get into the United States.
Bull puckey.
Coyotes are being financed. By outside sources.
And these people, many unfamiliar with how to
traverse the Sonoran Desert, are being directly
encouraged to come, by SOMEBODY. We may never
know for sure, but here are my list of prime
candidates:
1. Drug trafficking. Many illegal immigrants are
directly used in the trafficking of illegal drugs
into the country.
2. Corporate sponsorship. Proving this may be
difficult. But it is the logical conclusion. Who
benefits from having these people come into the
country? Who would therefore be motivated to pay
these people? The corporations who are going to
exploit them when they get here.
3. The Mexican government. This is not a stretch
at all. Vicente "The Sly Fox" is at
wit's end trying to figure out a way to unload
his very vast domestic problem of too many
citizens and too few economic opportunities on
the United States.
4. Terrorists. Think about it. What better way to
provide safe passage into the United States for
your agents than to make sure the path across the
desert is overflowing with aliens. What better
cover, and what better diversion? What better way
to test the routes, than to test them with
innocent and desperate Mexican citizens first,
before sending your guys in under their cover.
Who benefits?
Well, gee, if so many people are going to be
devastated by the Bush-McCain immigration plan,
who is it going to benefit? I mean, it HAS to
benefit SOMEBODY? Right?
Big Business. Corporations. This is who it
benefits. And it is the only people it really
DOES benefit, outside of Osama bin Laden. But
only in the short term.
Yes, this is a lever for union-busting and
cost-saving. And yes, corporations will make
profits and maybe even the stock markets will
rise through it. However, long term, this is
going to destroy the American middle class. It is
going to evaporate the ability of common people
to buy American products. And history teaches us
that when violent revolutions happen, it is when
the middle class is unhappy.
And we're not just talking about America here.
It's been these very same alleged "free
trade policies" like NAFTA that have
devastated family businesses in Mexico and forced
people to consider these dangerous trips to the
United States for survival. When the people of
America revolt, the people of Mexico will be
right behind.
The Republicans may indeed pass this, through
flattering the very communities they intend to
devastate when the plan is fully exercised in
full force. And they may indeed win an
unbreakable stranglehold on the American
government, secured by black box voting and
McCain's campaign reform that silences
incumbent's opposition. However, as John
Fitzgerald Kennedy said, "Those who make
peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable." In the end, all
Congress may find they have gained is a nice hemp
necktie, and the common saying of the land about
politicians may become "GOT ROPE?".
And I'm sure the good honest decent people of
Mexico will follow by also putting their ruling
class in their proper place, namely, the gallows.
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Liz Michael has formed a committee to
run for the U. S. Senate from Arizona in 2004,
and encourages donations and offers of
assistance. http://www.lizmichael.org
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