BOLD MOVES: ANOTHER LOSS FOR THE U. S.
By Robert Klein Engler (01/21/07)
CHICAGO--(22 January '07) Tourists and Chicagoans alike know the area west of the Loop along Halsted Street as Greek Town. That's where many legal Greek immigrants settled a century ago. Today, fewer Greeks live here, but there are many fine Greek restaurants in a this neighborhood of trendy lofts.
Driving north on Halsted, any tourist or Chicagoan can now look up and see a large advertisement for Ford's new crossover vehicle, the Edge. The more than 25 foot, square sign can't be missed. What also can't be missed is that the advertisement is in Spanish. "Pasos Audaces" it proclaims. Bold Moves!
I suppose it is a bold move for a company that has a hard time selling cars to English speaking Americans, to try to sell them in Spanish to illegal immigrants. Yet, it is ironic that in Greek Town this ad would be in Spanish. Didn't anyone at the ad agency think it would be more appropriate to at least put up an ad here in Greek?
The truth is this ad tells us more than just the fact that Ford has a new vehicle to sell. It also tells us that in Chicago and across the nation an all out effort is underway to cater to Mexicans. Both big business and big government wants to incorporate our enemy to the south into a North American Union. The really bold move here is a plan to make the U. S. as we know it disappear.
Has it not occurred to anyone that if the government really wants to make people believe there is equal justice under law, they would deport Elvira Arellano as forcefully as they recently prosecuted two Border Agents? This government went to Mexico and gave immunity to a drug smuggler to testify against Agents Ramos and Compeon, a bold move, indeed. Yet, this same government cannot arrest and then deport a Mexican fugitive who claims asylum in a Chicago church.
But the unmarried fugitive Elvira Arellano has a young son who pleads her case to the media. What a bold move it is to be a single woman with an anchor baby. As fathers, Agents Ramos and Compeon have only set an example by making a home for their sons. There is nothing flashy about that. The example Elvira sets for her son begins in crime and ends in lies. You can't get any bolder than that.
Because Agents Ramos and Compeon have children, too, we have to ask where is the mainstream media when it comes to interviewing their sons? That interview would be a bold move: CNN has the Ramos or Compeon children weeping as victims across the HD TV screens of America, "Please, Mr. President, don't send my dad to prison." Maybe they ought to do the interview in Spanish, too, "Por favor..."
It would be a bold move if the "rules of engagement" were changed for our military so that they could win in Iraq, or our border patrol could combat drug smugglers along our border. It would be a bold move if ordinary Americans would work to take back their nation from big business and big government before our nation disappears. It would be a bold move, also, to deport all the Mexicans who are illegally in the U. S.
Should we hold our breath and wait for this change on our border or in Iraq? Now, that would be living on the edge. Better exhale. A bolder move is yet to come. Soon, if you can afford it, then you will pay for your new car not in dollars, but in Ameros. Pasos Audaces!
Robert Klein Engler
His book, A WINTER OF WORDS, about the turmoil at Daley College, is available from amazon.com
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