insomnomaniac

Save the country, eat a donut

Finally, something cops can do to enforce our immigration laws!

EAT DONUTS!

Thanks to Pete, I found my way over to Michelle Malkin's blog, and of course, once there I had to check out what she personally had to say about it so I spent some time at Hot Air, and the news made me so giddy and lightheaded, I had a momentary lapse of judgment and clicked on the ACLU link to read for myself (as if I didn't already know) why they are so keen to kill my buzz.

Here's a test to see if you've already fallen pray to the evil ACLU "Mind Melt." The Mind Melt is what happens to a person whose brain has been fed a steady diet of American Idol and People Magazine for so long, they actually think that both are "News" outlets. Such people are incapable of detecting the treachery of the ACLU even when it's printed in black and white in front of their faces. Not sure what I'm talking about? Read the following paragraph from the ACLU's reaction to the Dunkin Donuts plan to obey our immigration laws. See if you find anything odd about it...

The American Civil Liberties Union ("ACLU") recommends opposition to legislative proposals to establish a nationwide, electronic, employee work-eligibility verification system that requires any worker to obtain government pre-clearance to start a new job. Building such a system will cost the nation far more--in dollars, lost privacy and increased discrimination against lawful workers--than it will achieve in controlling undocumented immigrants. And this kind of system would, for the first time in American history, give the government the power to deny any willing worker, citizen or not, the ability to obtain a job.

For those of you who missed it, here it is again, just not buried in the middle of a sentence that might otherwise be inoccuous:

And this kind of system would, for the first time in American history, give the government the power to deny any willing worker, citizen or not, the ability to obtain a job.

Ummmmm...For the first time in history??? Gee, it's been my impression that the government has always had the power to deny NON-citizens the ability to obtain all kinds of jobs. They can deny non-citizens the right to serve in the military, the right to work in government jobs, for the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the FAA, the FCC, and many of the companies they license...Need I go on? Governments--state and federal--have always had the right to deny non-citizens the ability to obtain a job, the question is, what job is it they want?

See, that's what the ACLU does! They twist the English language, insert little fragments into a paragraph, and take ordinary well-intentioned Americans and turn them into mush-brains, sympathetic to a cause that doesn't exist, defending people whose rights have not been violated because (here's a novel concept) they HAVEN'T ANY TO BEGIN WITH! At least not insofar as this particular topic is concerned!

Since when does a non-citizen have a RIGHT to obtain a job here, with or without the government's permission? Since when does the ACLU work for non-Americans anyway? What's the damage to our rights as Americans if non-citizens are denied the right to work in this country? My right to a well-manicured lawn and cheap strawberries?

All I have to say is, way to go Dunkin Donuts! Consider it a very high compliment that you've made me actually miss Massachusetts for a moment here. At least there I couldn't throw a rock in any direction without hitting one of your stores. Here? I have to drive at least 15 minutes to your nearest location. Until today, I did it reluctantly, and only because yours is the only coffee my husband will drink. But now, I'll happily make the trek over there, if for no other reason that it will make me feel like I'm doing my small part to protect this country. The fact that it might also piss off a bunch of ACLU types? Ah, now that's just the icing on the cake (er, donut)!

Posted by insomnomaniac at June 1, 2006 11:21 PM | TrackBack