| Regarding the Arizona law recently passed about | | | | challenged the AZ law, the ACLU will also undoubtedly |
| illegal immigrants, what if the conservatives in | | | | do so, and a federal judge will probably soon block it. |
| America proclaimed in all media outlets; "Dems prefer | | | | The issue, however, is one that demands the highest |
| occasional murders of AZ ranchers by illegals rather | | | | of critical assessment. If the U.S. government takes |
| than police profiling brown-skinned citizens!" The | | | | no action to protect its citizens, can the states do |
| reaction would be an immediate outcry disclaiming | | | | nothing? |
| any such preference - probably accompanied by legal | | | | The outcry and objections center about police use of |
| suits for defamation. Yet the constant drum-beat of | | | | "profiling" - the classic case being police questioning |
| comment about the evils of profiling by the liberals in | | | | and harassing a "black" man in a running suit, late at |
| Congress and media - with not even a mention of | | | | night, in an exclusive "white" residential neighborhood. |
| the Arizona rancher killed by an illegal immigrant only | | | | This has established criteria for behavior of |
| weeks before - or the lack of federal action to | | | | governmental authority in all related situations, in |
| provide protection to Arizonans (its Mexican border is | | | | some cases where common sense would dictate |
| notorious for uncontrolled traffic in drug and alien | | | | that such "political correctness" can become an |
| human smuggling and murders) - is that not the clear | | | | endangerment to society. Thus, for the past |
| inference to be drawn? | | | | half-century, 99.9 % of aircraft being blown up with |
| Oft-times life demands choices - sometimes between | | | | tremendous loss of life, has been caused by young |
| desirable options (e.g. what should we spend our | | | | Islamo-extremist terrorists - yet in US airports, |
| money on) - and sometimes undesirable choices. The | | | | government officials will subject octogenarians in |
| problem of "illegal" aliens in America has reached a | | | | wheel-chairs to more scrutiny than is accorded a 25 |
| critical stage, whereby the state of Arizona, with | | | | year-old, bearded, fierce-looking Arab-appearing man. |
| almost 500,000 illegals overwhelming its schools and | | | | Other states may take actions similar to Arizona; |
| hospitals, with a rancher recently killed by an illegal | | | | federal courts will probably block state actions. But |
| Mexican alien (with a crime docket) - has now taken | | | | what is the solution if the federal government, for |
| steps to defend its citizenry. The bill, clearly drafted | | | | political considerations, takes no appropriate actions? |
| to emulate federal law, bans profiling, but authorizes | | | | Can the killing of a civilian rancher by an illegal alien be |
| its police to question suspected illegal immigrants, but | | | | just shrugged off? One wonders - when "push |
| only if they are being stopped for some legal cause, | | | | comes to shove" (as in the case of the |
| an independent suspicion of law violation, such as in | | | | "water-boarding" of Al-Qaeda capturees, seeking |
| driving. However, the outcry from the liberal media as | | | | information to prevent future atrocities) - what |
| well as the federal government, primarily the | | | | would the most liberal of viewpoints decide - if one |
| executive branch, was immediate and conclusive as | | | | of their own loved ones was at risk? |
| to being unconstitutional; "States cannot take over | | | | In the "liberal" view of such "two-side" matters, is |
| what is clearly the responsibility of the federal | | | | "political correctness" ever over-ruled by "common |
| government!" The Attorney General has already | | | | sense"? |