So there I was. Listening to the Michael Medved show yesterday.  Only Michael wasn’t there.  The substitute host, whose name I cannot now recall, asked for legal immigrants to call him up and talk about the proposed legislation.

One of these callers really ticked me off.  He boldly admitted that one of the reasons he came here (legally) was precisely to help bring about the state of affairs we face.  He went on to say, among other things, that Americans don’t have the stomach or the backbone to defend our borders, and he is happy to this all going on.  In short, his coming here was, as far as I’m concerned, an act of war in his mind.

This guest host assured him that Americans don’t respond well to threats.  That may be so.  But we know that the reason these illegals come here the way they do must be because they think that we do, in fact, lack the backbone to do something about it.  Think about it: if they thought that we’d actually do something about it, would they protest in our streets, waving the flag of the nation to which their loyalties so abviously belong?   As we used to say when I was a kid:  You don’t toy with someone whom you think can do something about it.  Think about: whose space got invaded when you were in school?  The wimp’s, right?  You don’t mess with the 800 pound gorilla.  Illegals just are not afraid to be here illegally.

And so far, Congress seems to me to be confirming this guy’s conviction that we do lack the required backbone.

I agree whole-heartedly with this guest host’s assertion that the Undocumented States of America will be in a border war with Mexico inside a handful of years.

On the same topic, Denver station KAO-AM interviewed several of the students who protested yesterday.  (You can read the Denver Post story here.)   One of them, a high school student named Juan told interviewers that he was protesting because, “We are not criminals and we need to have our rights too, because we are people.”  Now that’s logic.  He is entitled to the rights of citizens recognized by our Constitution simply because he’s a human being.  Well heck, on that logic, who isn’t entitled to be treated like a legal citizen of the US?  Fine. Let’s not wait for them to come here.  Let’s just declare all of the earth’s inhabitants to be US citizens, with all the rights and privileges (but none of the  responsibilities) thereunto appertaining!  Now, we can go do something about the ethnic cleansing in the Sudan, right?  And no one needs to ask anymore where we get off being the world’s police force.  As far as I’m concerned our role (as Juan would have) as the world’s sugar daddy gives us the role as world’s police force.  It’s the Golden Rule:  The one dispensing the gold makes—and enforces—the rules.  (One begins to understand why teenagers aren’t allowed to vote, despite being able to shoot and kill people, and have babies.  As Aristotle pointed out (in his Nicomachean Ethics), they just are not mature enough to engage in philosophical, and hence, policy discussions.  And given that adolescense in the Undocumented States of America doesn’t effectively end until around age twenty-five, maybe we should adjust the voting age accordingly.  But of course we’d have to rely upon those younger than 25 to go along with that.