Dakota Beacon

Do you ever feel like Alice in Wonderland?  I know I do.  Everywhere we look we find evidence that nothing is what it seems, labels are misleading us, the behavior of some of our people in authority is - to say the very, very least - bizarre.  We have this in both parties, both as matters of personal conduct and accepted social function and as a matter of official public policy.

For instance, it must really be confusing for loyal Democrats these days.  What is a Democrat to do? 

On Monday, we have the party spokesmen, up to and including the President, flaying alive the governor of Arizona, its legislature and law enforcement personnel, for a desperate act of self-preservation in an ongoing assault by illegal aliens (as Mark Levin would say, “There! I said it!”) and the violence and lawlessness inflicted on the citizens of that state.  These people are accused of the worst kinds of bigotry.  They are “racially profiling” when they pull over a car driven recklessly by someone who turns out to be Mexican, and then asking for proof of their right to be in Arizona in the first place. Law enforcement personnel are not allowed to guess on this – even when the driver speaks little or no English and can’t provide any documentation whatsoever.  Police seem to be required to believe the person is here legally, regardless of what their lyin’ eyes tell them about the suspect.

On Tuesday, we have Gloria Allred on ten networks waving a letter purported to be a “smoking gun” proving that California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman – a supporter of border security and enforcement of immigration law – is being hypocritical.  She supposedly was “guilty” of employing an illegal alien for many years as a housekeeper/nanny in her home.  Whitman, in answering these charges has explained the following in incontrovertible fact: she found the employee through a legitimate employment agency which presented the woman as having the right to work in the U.S.  She interviewed her, asking for proof of this right to work here and was offered a California driver’s license and provided with a Social Security number.  The woman was paid the “sweat-shop wage” of $23/hour plus taxes and Social Security contributions to someone’s account. Only nine years later, on the occasion of Whitman’s decision to run for public office, did this criminal confess that she had defrauded the Whitman family the whole time and figured now she’d be found out.  Gloria Allred’s “smoking gun” was a notice of discrepancy in Social Security information – which Whitman’s husband turned over to the fraudulent -unbeknownst to him - employee, because he thought she might lose her SS benefits if there were an error. Whitman quietly and regretfully discharged her, taking no punitive action.  Somehow, Allred, apparently an agent of the Jerry Brown campaign, found out about this woman and took her on as a “client”, exploiting her to exploit the inadvertent error of Meg Whitman, implying that Whitman was a liar and morally ambiguous on this issue.  (Never mind that Allred has horribly harmed her “client” – but who cares? This woman probably wasn’t paying her anyway.) Allred’s argument, if followed to its logical conclusion, is that Whitman should have racially profiled her prospective employee.  And of course, the human debris of this lawsuit, the illegal alien “client” has now been left by Allred to the law to deal with.  No one seems to be concerned about that . . . unless you count the alien and her children.

By Wednesday we just don’t know what the Democrats believe.  Are we racially profiling today or not?  What is the official position du jour?