Dakota Beacon

It is time for us to demand that our “leaders” take a stand.  There is no middle ground here.  We have just witnessed the outrageous spectacle of a foreign head of state as our guest on our soil dressing us down for Arizona’s efforts to restore law and order within that state and provide for the safety of its citizens, while our president stood there smiling and nodding his assent, concurring with these views and his minions in the Democrat Party, like the bobbleheads they are, rising enthusiastically to their feet to applaud and cheer.  (Indeed, one wonders what Calderon could have said that they would not have approved.)

How much of this treason are we going to countenance?  The behavior of Sr. Calderon would have been considered “bad form” even had he been addressing the leadership of North Korea, but here he stood, before the nation his criminals have been looting and trashing, scolding America!  A proper American president – in other words, one unlike any we’ve seen in this millennium so far – would have publicly rebuked him and firmly supported the Americans in Arizona, in no uncertain terms.  They have the right to create a safe environment in which to live.  His “extras” would have greeted Calderon’s ill spoken words not with applause and cheers, but with a deafening silence, preparatory to walking out on his speech.

Calderon’s idea of a border is that it should “unite” us.  Would this be under President Soetoro or himself, one wonders?  In English, which is our language, a border defines, distinguishes, delineates and divides one entity from another.  That is its only function as a border.  Calderon whines that Mexicans living here illegally are living “in the shadows”.  Where else would fugitives be living if they’re here illegally?  In Mexico, as illegals, we’d be flushed out and deported at gunpoint.  A good question for Calderon is:  Why do your people flee your country for ours in the first place?

Mexico, of all nations, has been blessed by nature.   This country has two year-round navigable seacoasts, lush vegetation, copious natural mineral resources, fresh water, one predominant common language, a rich shared and blended culture of Spanish and native roots and a mild, subtropical climate.  If Mexico is deficient, why so?  Could it be a failure of Mexican leadership and government?  Perhaps corruption that reaches all the way up to Calderon himself?  Because if not, why doesn’t he act to stop it?

The reason for this Mexican invasion of illegal fugitives is that that nation is an abject failure.  Calderon realizes that his best hope for his economy is revenue coming from illegals sending money home to Mexico while taking pressure off of Mexican resources by sucking ours dry through free education, medical care and other services for which they pay no taxes to support.

Mark Levin proposed that we ought to enact Mexican immigration law right here, and enforce it to the letter.  That’s a good place to start, but in the meantime the empty suits that constitute Soetoro’s Democrats, who, like their leader, have not read Arizona’s law, should do so.  Then they should peruse the Constitution of the United States – that little document they’ve all sworn to honor, uphold and enforce – especially Article IV.  Section 4 of that Article states:  “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive [i.e., the state’s governor] (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.” 

In other words, Congress has failed to do its duty. 

Arizona has been begging for help from Congress for long enough.  If millions of illegal aliens, many of them involved in illicit drugs, human trafficking, vandalism, terrorism, murder and other violence as well as those who merely steal our services without paying for them while they drive up our unemployment figures, do not constitute an invasion in a non-aggressive entity like the State of Arizona, someone please explain to the rest of us what does, and how that – whatever it may be – could cause any more damage to that state’s economy, culture and public safety.

Many are expressing outright disgust, not only with these treasonous Democrats, but with Republicans who expect our support at the polls and who have yet not excoriated this president, his pathetic administration and his party, for the craven, traitorous behavior on display on the occasion of Calderon’s visit.  We should, by rights, in view of his remarks as our guest on our soil, have sent him and the Mexican ambassador back to Mexico City on the next bus.  We should try to take heart, at least, that no Republican accepted an invitation to the tasteless, gala celebratory feast at the White House.

So we bide our time until November.  Let’s store up these memories, let’s not forget.  But let’s not be idle.  Let’s boycott those who employ illegals and shun those who have forgotten that they are Americans.  And let’s call upon every governor – that’s you, John Hoeven, every candidate for governor and all of our national elected officials and candidates for national office to condemn this president and those who stand with him against the American people.  Let’s call on them to issue strong statements of support for Governor Jan Brewer and the people of Arizona.  Then let’s get to work on a strong immigration policy that does not include the enticement of amnesty, but that brings powerful punishment to those who provide employment, aid or comfort to these criminals.  Every state in the Union should enact laws similar to Arizona’s if our federal government is incapable of action to protect us, and we’re all at risk.  Is there a state without at least one sanctuary city?  Let us send this message to Sr. Calderon:  Nuestra casa no es su casa.

Sally Morris is a member of Americans for Constitutional Government.  She wishes to acknowledge the enormous contribution to our resources by author Linda Chavez and recommends the book, Betrayal (2004, Crown Forum, Random House) to patriots everywhere.