Sunday, March 25th, 2007...4:59 pm
If This Horrible Thing Happens, We’ll Have a Mexican Restaurant on Every Corner and Canadian Actors Will Be All Over Our TV Screens
Because we don’t have any pressing problems before our fair State, the house homeland security committee will be taking up SCM 1002 tommorrow. What important issue does this non-binding memorial bill tackle? It is a resolution against plans to unify Canada, the United States and Mexico into one super state.
You haven’t heard about this? Well, it is apparently a huge thing, according to the materials on the issue that have been distributed to members by Senator Karen Johnson. This has been an issue for her for sometime. Last year, she apparently accosted Jeff Flake and Rick Renzi and claimed that they supported her position. According to Phyliss Schlafly’s newsletter (a “non-partisan” source according to a letter given to legislators), there is a scheme afoot to have a EU style North American Union. Some sources on the far right even claim that a name for the currency for this new confederation has already been chosen. The trouble is, the first person to ever use the phrase was a former member of the Canadian Parliament, who threw the idea out at a conference a while back. The guy is a defeated member of a party that is no longer in power, and there are few indications that he speaks for any government at all.
Such plans have been discussed in Canada since the 1880’s and have gone nowhere. There was an attempt by the US to “unify” with Mexico in 1848, but cooler heads prevailed.
But, paranoia seldom allows itself to be polluted by facts. The folks that are pushing this claim that a plan to build a highway from the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán to Churchill, Manitoba is part of a sinister plot to destroy American sovereignty, and this apparently is what has made them decide to push this resolution now. The highway plan would probably be an environmental and public safety disaster, but it is hard for me to see how it does anything to take away our nationhood. Sorry to tell you this, guys, but there has been rail, air, sea and road traffic between our three countries for generations, and that hasn’t made a single American speak Spanish or French, or have to watch Chespirito or the Red Green Show.
The folks pushing for the resolution are particularly concerned about Mexican immigration, but seem to have totally ignored the specter of a Canadian takeover (nothing to do with Canadians being white, I’m sure). Why, did you know that in Glendale, there is a public building that is a virtual temple to a Canadian institution? This keeps up, we’ll all be pronouncing everything like “boot” and eating backbacon.
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March 25th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Tucson City Declaration of Support for L.A.W. and S.O.L.E.
March 24, 2007
Address to Mayor Walkup and Members of the Tucson City Council:
On Tuesday March 27, 2007, a small group of prominent Arizonans, including Russell Pearce, Don Goldwater and Chris Simcox, will announce the formation of an Executive Committee to formulate, qualify for the ballot in 2008, and pass the following two state initiatives:
L.A.W., or Legalize Arizona Workers, which applies severe sanctions against any employer who “knowingly” employs unauthorized aliens.
S.O.L.E., or Support Our Law Enforcement NOW, which makes it a trespass violation for anyone to enter or remain in Arizona illegally, and allows law enforcement to inquire about the citizenship status of all individuals they contact in the normal course of their duty.
We, the citizens of Tucson Arizona, declare these truths to be self evident: Our neighborhoods are being invaded by foreign nationals. Illegal Alien gangs run rampant; our schools and healthcare system, jails, state prisons and criminal justice system are all over-populated and over-burdened with foreign nationals.
Therefore, we the citizens of Tucson Arizona, demand the City of Tucson issue a Declaration in Support for L.A.W. and S.O.L.E., and to implement the following changes in Tucson City Policy:
I. The Mayor and City Council immediately cease their “Illegal-Immigrant Friendly” policies, that, for the past 25 years, have directly led to the entry of more than 10,000,000 Illegal Aliens into America.
II. The Mayor and City Council properly fund the Tucson Police Department and fully authorize it to address a crime wave that has now reached critical mass.
III. The Mayor and City Council put the local business community on notice: if you employ Illegal Aliens, you will lose your license to operate in Tucson, and the respect of this community.
Roy Warden,
Director, the Tucson Weekly Public Forum
Publisher, Common Sense II
(520) 881- 0535
March 26th, 2007 at 6:59 am
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March 26th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
The odd thing is, while I would absolutely never support the second piece of legislation that this guy is proposing, the first (focusing on illegal employment rather than illegal workers) is something I’ve advocated for for a long time. But I will have to read it through very carefully first, the fact that Russell Pearce, Roy Warden and Chris Simcox support it already makes me a bit leery about what else might also be in there.
March 26th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
I *love* the Red Green Show. But I guess you have to have a little north country in you to get all the inside jokes.
For example, is using an old Chrysler K-Car as the blade of a highway snowplow funny in Phoenix?
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