Re: John McCain: Illegal Immigrants ‘Intentionally Causing Accidents On The Freeway’, Huffington Post, First Posted: 04-20-10 01:00 PM
In an appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Tuesday Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) offered a strange
Senator McCain and the late Senator Kennedy announcing bipartisan immigration reform
defense of a stringent new Arizona immigration bill that could lead to racial profiling.
When asked by host Bill O’Reilly if he was comfortable with the possibility of racial profiling, McCain said he wold (sic) be “very sorry” if it happened, but suggested it’s justified because of “the people whose homes and property are being violated. It’s the drive-by that — the drivers of cars with illegals (sic) in it that are intentionally causing accidents on the freeway.”
McCain added: “Look, our border is not secured. Our citizens are not safe.” But the Arizona senator did not provide any additional details to back up his assertion about cars carrying illegal immigrants “intentionally causing accidents.”
McCain now:
Racial profiling is justified according to McCain. No more glad talk about how immigrants should have a path to citizenship. No more talk about how guest worker programs are essential. Now it’s all about how immigrants are intentionally hurting white people on the highways, in their homes, and with “drive-by”.
Now McCain is trying to out-conservative the conservatives in order to gain support of the tea baggers in Arizona. This man is as wishy-washy as George Bush claimed John Kerry was. During the campaign, and subsequently, I called him “Weathervane McCain”. During the campaign, and depending on which group he was talking to, he changed position on immigration no less than three times. Today, he has taken on the hard liner roll of a xenophobe to appease the growing radical fringe.
McCain during the campaign in 2008:
Underlying his talk, is the ever present racial epithets that we are hearing more of since the Republicans lost. I will attempt to translate his Republicanease. When McCain said that people’s “homes and property were being violated” and ending with “our citizens are not safe” he’s actually saying that immigrants are brown and scary, real citizens are white and righteous and everything good.
Immigrants are brown, almost to the point of being………black!
New driving violation in Arizona: DWM – Driving While Mexican!
If these huge farms, these agribusinesses, along with others like hotel chains, laundry services, and restaurants paid decent wages it would go a long way to end the illegal boarder crossings. Why? There would be no job openings for them here. The heart of the problem is that these businesses can pay slave wages to these immigrants without having to file any paperwork. There seems to be no intent by the authorities to crack down on these employers who could just send the immigrant workers packing when they get wind of a bust. But those busts are rare, and these business owners are allowed to continue.
It’s too bad that McCain can’t see the truth. He seemingly can’t remember a time when he had proposed some good ideas about immigration reform. Now? He can’t help himself. McCain is like he is a hungry dog after red meat. He is the worst sort of politician that will do or say anything for a vote even if it means backpeddling from everything he ever stood for.
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Secular America is Growing Fast
Re: Andy Ostroy: This Jew Says ‘Sorry Sarah, America is Not a “Christian” Nation
The nation is fast becoming a nation of non-believers. If you group atheists and agnostics with all the other secular and non-believer subgroups you get a number of people in the US totaling about 28 million. This figure is up 110% since 1990, and this is not counting the neo-pagans. In the meantime christianity has grown only 5% in the same time frame. The US is still predominately christian with over 150 million claiming to be christian, but there are enough secularists now to fill several states. The reason for the growth of atheism in the US is clear. The right wing fringe has hijacked the real christian message and has polluted it with hate and racism. They have poisoned christianity for anyone who may be considering it.
The well is poisoned for the catholics as well. Catholics look at the problems the church is having covering up their sexual perversions and they try to distance themselves from it using various excuses. The general public sees this as a credibility problem and rightly so. Who wants to join a church that boogers your kids behind the curtains and then tries to cover it up?
I was watching one of those christian infomercials yesterday morning, Sunday, April 26th, and the televangelist was speaking about socialism. He very calmly and softly spoke of taking action to urge your representatives in Washington to stop the spread of socialism in our government. Here’s the problem. Moving a congregation toward a political goal is not what church should be about and that kind of activity should be investigated as tax fraud. This is why we separate church and state. The separation clause was written to keep church out of state, but it was also meant as a means to keep state out of church. The clause does not do a good job of the latter as this kind of political speech happens regularly in the fundamentalist world. But, many people are turned off by these types of messages from the church pulpit. They want to hear a christian message, not a political advertisement. Also, they look at other more socialistic democracies such as France or England and realize that those nations are also predominately christian nations and they have no problem with socialistic programs. What gives?
The christian right wing fringe is anti-socialist. You see it on their signs, in their chants, and in their slogans. But are they really? Medicare, one of the biggest social programs, seems to be very popular with the tea bagger demographic. Social Security, a very socialistic program, is held onto tightly by the elderly tea baggers. They are even so mixed up as to complain about the public transportation in Washington DC when they went there for their big tax day rally. This hypocrisy is sending mixed messages. It is easy to see through the anti-socialist message to the real cause of their hate. They lost the election to a black man. No one wants to be a part of this kind of christianity.
I think that the number of folks who are turned off by the religious right and those who are just turned off by the hypocrisy are vastly more than the 28 million mentioned above. If you add up every person who claims that they are christian but either attend church rarely, or do no attend church at all, that 28 million would turn into 128 million. I this a christian nation? Not entirely.
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