The Dream Act is Another American Nightmare
By James T. Moore (09/23/07)
You have to give the Bush scriptwriters credit. They can come up with the darndest names for their phony, bafflegab campaigns. Their latest is the Dream Act, an amnesty proposal which will hit Congress this week. This bad dream will "officially" create the roadmap to a new phase of amnesty which George the Second and the "open borders" lobby push so hard for.
Added as an amendment (isn’t everything) to the DOD’s 2008 Appropriations Bill, the Dream Act seeks, among its provisions, to grant citizenship to underage illegal aliens. What’s wrong with that, you ask? Well, for one thing, it rewards people who violate the law, steal identities, and illicitly use social services which only legal American citizens are rightfully entitled to. And which, incidentally, takes more money out of your pocket.
Along with the President’s and Congress’s total disregard for enforcement of our federal immigration laws, and refusal to hold illegals’ feet to the fire for crimes they commit in the United States, comes this Dream Act, a syrupy kind of heart-hugger bill “for the children”, which does nothing less than provide a blanket pardon for millions of lawbreakers---this, according to Chris Simcox, founder and President of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corp, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, where the action is.
Don’t pooh pooh the Minutemen. This is not a bunch of grumpy malcontents running off in all directions because they hate the Bush administration. They don’t hate Bush, they love America. Minutemen are a volunteer group of peaceful, law-abiding, citizen-led individuals standing watch at our borders and neighborhoods, reporting illegal activities to the proper authorities, and building border fencing on private lands, using private donations. Which is a lot more than your government “protectors” are doing for you.
Moreover, the “good for America” volunteer actions of Minutemen is hardly a contemporary phenomenon. Minutemen have been ad hoc protectors of America for a very long time; since the 1700’s to be exact. In those days, all able-bodied men between the ages of 16 and 60 were required by law to keep a serviceable firearm and serve in a part-time citizen army called the militia. Their duty was to defend the colony against her enemies.
In October, 1774, Provincial Congress called upon each town to set aside a portion of its militia and form them into new, special companies called “minute men”, which were different from militias in several ways: (1) militias were required by law, minute men were volunteers; (2) Militia men trained very little, minute men were in constant training; (3) Militia men were used only when called upon; minute men were expected to be armed and ready to march at a minute’s notice---thus they got their name of “minute men.”
Think what you will of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corp, in Arizona, they are the only domestic “force” I am aware of that stands guard where dangerous illegal action is taking place; where patriotic citizens are sticking their necks out to protect our borders against foreign intruders; where volunteers are protecting our nation in any way that can without breaking any laws; and where a 250-year-old legacy of “being ready in a minute” stands behind them. And in today’s”dream” world, every minute man counts.
James T. Moore
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