By John Burtis
Thursday, August 16, 2007
We all knew that the idiocy of entire cities flaunting federal law and deciding that illegal aliens, criminals by their very arrival, and millions of them, were just fine and dandy and that nobody, not the cops, not the judges or the DAs, let alone the mayors of places like New York City, Los Angeles, Macon, Newark, San Francisco, were ever going to question their immigration status regardless of the hot water these crooks are in. But in Newark, New Jersey, where Seor Jose Carranza recently went a little crazy in the head, after living the high life for a bit too long, and mowed down three students and critically wounded a third after a liberal judge reduced his bail on the long term rape of a child and the dust up he enjoined in a tap room and loosed him on the public, the pigeons have come home to roost.
Of course in New Jersey, there's no way that Governor Corzine, Big Brother John Corzine, who recently cracked up his SUV while exceeding the speed limit big time and nearly lost his life thanks to his distaste for following any rules at all, let alone federal ones, especially those that cloud his elite sense of entitlement, will step in to curtail state government funding for his liberal Newark confrre and Mayor, Cory Booker, just because Mr. Booker refuses to abide by federal ones.
Rather, the Honorable Governor will support Mr. Booker's thumbing of his nose at our poor bedraggled Constitution because it has been shown to be a joke by such exalted constitutional scholars as the self admitted perjurer Bill Clinton, mass murderer Charles Manson, assorted members of the ACLU, spokespersons for the homeless in Santa Monica, and interns from Nancy Pelosi's office, among the elite leading judges of its continuing efficacy.
But as we review the legends of Jason and Cadmus and the sowing of the dragon's teeth, which is akin to finding the dreaded laws of unintended consequences, the whole idea of entire regions of the United States refusing to abide by standing laws and regulations, refusing to round up identifiable criminals, and coddling an entire criminal class to the detriment of the legal residing citizenry and caring not a whit about future victims of the predations of these roving bands of scofflaws, takes us beyond the old neighborhood and the America of my youth – way beyond it.
I can't even imagine bicycling around Hillcrest of about 1957 and asking those storied figures of my youth what they'd think about the ideas that mayors and governors are allowing illegal aliens to run wild, to arm themselves, to have their bail reduced by lax judges, are being allowed to kill and rape and bust up bars, to thumb their nose at federal laws and lawmen, and that they can be set free to do it all again, time after time, no matter how lengthy their record is, while American working folks have no such deal in the same judicial districts.
Charlie Nemeier, who flew with Eddie Rickenbacker in the Hat in the Ring Squadron in the Great War, would question my sanity and that of President Bush for not sending the US Marshals to arrest the idiots, all of them.
Bob Knowles, who lived across the street and served with the Marines in the Pacific would close his newspaper, get up from his rocker, go in the house, and slam the door in my face. I'd hear him tell poor Mrs. Knowles that I had gone off the deep end.
Don Shelley, the local fire chief, would quiz me about where I'd heard such a preposterous story and then advise me to stop reading and listening to such truck and go home.
After coming home, I'd try to explain the whole thing to the old man at dinner. The old man, a consummate capitalist, a law and order man who openly toted an antique Civil War pistol around town on certain shooting weekends and possessed a low numbered pistol permit, and who had served in the US Navy in a number of hot spots in WWII, would keep mum on the whole affair until dinner was concluded. And then, following dessert and finishing the dishes, he'd take me out to the garage for a hiding. He wouldn't truck with such idiocy in any way, especially in the waning years of Ike Eisenhower's final term, his former boss at Normandy. Then he'd ask me where I'd read such foolishness and if I'd borrowed some sort of commie tract from the older kids who were back from college.
In the late 50s and the mid-60s, we'd be exposed to the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits on TV. But even there, where our minds were stretched to their very limits, with monsters appearing on Maple Street and Ebonites torturing a sniveling Martin Sheen, we never found millions of murderous aliens being coddled by symps and dupes the likes of Bloomberg, Villaraigosa, who's no Sam Yorty by the way, and Cory Booker, among the growing number of leading elected migrant mollycoddlers and fawning felon worshippers.
For some reason, thanks to the fine examples of Sandy Burglar, Mary McCarthy, and their ilk, these craven politicians actually think that failing to prosecute crooks, as members of the executive branch, is a political act rather than sheer dereliction of duty and a crime in and of itself.
Yet, instead of setting a clear example of federalism, today's touchstone on the stump and on the hustings as evinced by Giuliani and Romney, George Bush and that increasingly worthless and weak paladin, Alberto Gonzalez, who could work to stop federal funds from getting to these bandits by badgering Congress, much as the US Department of Education stops funds from reaching a school with a Title IX problem on a veritable dime, rather than concentrate on the increasingly steady prosecution of our benighted Border Patrol agents, the few, the band of brothers actually trying to reduce the flow of this river of malefactors and corruption.
Amazingly, no one in the Democrat party has spoken up about this growing internal amnesty problem, and few Republicans dare mention this open abrogation of the Constitution. Shame on all of them. And every person running for president should answer how they will deal with this growing national problem.
Sadly, with the deterministic liberal likes of CNN, the utter cowardice combined with the supremely destructive ideological bent of the New York Times and similar newspapers of their ilk, the banal bovine herd mentality evinced by the Democrat Party en masse, including their increasingly damaging ordure production, combined with the failure of the Republican leadership to deal with this enormous and growing problem, as pernicious as al-Qaeda and dirty bombs, the growth of this cancer has metastasized beyond cure.
The dragon's teeth were first sown under FDR and his highly destructive disestablishment sidekicks, watered lately by the drive by media, fertilized by liberal judges and insane politicians and worthless district attorneys, watered by the tears of a growing number of unlamented victims, abetted by mewling Hispanic "community" groups, and endlessly supplied by a third world country, Mexico, who is using America for its social security system and a handy outlet for its violent criminal population.
Oh, yes, the joke? It's on us. It's always on us. And I mean on that dwindling number of us who pay America's taxes and provide the salaries of those who are so rapidly destroying the most prosperous nation in the world. That nation ruled in the fading mists of my youth, from sea to shining sea, by laws applicable to all the criminals.
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