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04-26-2005, 08:27 PM #1
'Nightmare' that wasn't
'Nightmare' that wasn't
By Robert Stacy McCain
WASHINGTON TIMES
April 26, 2005
It's over now, the carnage on the Arizona-Mexico border caused by violent right-wing vigilantes. No longer are members of the so-called Minuteman Project shedding the blood and violating the human rights of innocent Mexicans whose only "crime" was illegally trying to enter the United States to earn money for their impoverished families.
Weeks of slaughter and atrocities are now at an end, and the Minuteman vigilantes are going home. Oh, wait a minute. It never happened.
There was no bloodshed during the three weeks when civilian volunteers patrolled the border. No carnage, no human-rights violations, nothing. The closest thing to an "atrocity" was when a volunteer had an illegal immigrant to pose for a photo holding a funny T-shirt. (The horror.)
"Border vigilantes stir fears of violence," was the headline on a March 31 Associated Press article, warning "law-enforcement officials and human-rights advocates are worried about the potential for bloodshed." A California college professor/"human-rights" activist called the border volunteers "domestic terrorists [who] represent a danger to the country."
Rep. Raul Grijalva, Arizona Democrat, sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, warning that the Minuteman Project "creates a situation for something violent to occur."
Yet nothing violent occurred. What did occur, both U.S. and Mexican officials agree, is that a few hundred law-abiding Americans did what their government (with an annual budget of more than $2 trillion) said it couldn't do: discourage illegal border crossings.
The lack of vigilante violence in Arizona was the latest (though certainly not the last) in a long history of liberal predictions that failed to materialize. Like name-calling and scandal-hunting, scaremongering is an easy way for liberals to divert attention from the fact they haven't had a workable policy agenda in years.
A partial list of predicted nightmares that never came true:
• In the 1960s, Paul Ehrlich and others predicted tens of millions of people around the world would soon starve to death as a result of overpopulation. It didn't happen, and global fertility rates are now so low (and still falling steadily), that some demographers forecast a decline in world population beginning as soon as 2050.
• In the 1970s, Americans were warned an "energy crisis" meant the world would soon run out of oil. Three decades later, no one predicts exhaustion of the petroleum supply â€â€"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" George Santayana "Deo Vindice"
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04-26-2005, 09:16 PM #2
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Rep. Raul Grijalva, Arizona Democrat, sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, warning that the Minuteman Project "creates a situation for something violent to occur."http://www.alipac.us Enforce immigration laws!
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04-26-2005, 09:25 PM #3Originally Posted by dataman"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" George Santayana "Deo Vindice"
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04-26-2005, 09:35 PM #4
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Re: 'Nightmare' that wasn't
Originally Posted by Mamie
This type of thinking undermines the very sanity and soul of our nation. Where do these people come from, Mars?When we gonna wake up?
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04-26-2005, 09:40 PM #5
Re: 'Nightmare' that wasn't
Originally Posted by Scarecrow
I think they've all gone crazy --- could it be terrorists are pumping something through the air conditioning system? that might explain the asinine behavior"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" George Santayana "Deo Vindice"
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04-26-2005, 10:04 PM #6
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Mamie, I love the Mark Twain quote. One of my favorites and oh, so true.
Just write a few of them and you soon find out.When we gonna wake up?
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04-26-2005, 10:29 PM #7
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Nightmare That Wasn't
QUOTE from Article: The closest thing to an "atrocity" was when a volunteer had an illegal immigrant to pose for a photo holding a funny T-shirt. (The horror.)
I sure hope that T-shirt read for the illegals "I tried to attach myself like a leach to the Northern nanny but instead all they gave me was this lousy T-shirt!!!"
Great article about the Minute Men and glad you shared it!People who take issue with control of population do not understand that if it is not done in a graceful way, nature will do it in a brutal fashion - Henry Kendall
End foreign aid until America fixes it's own poverty first - me
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04-26-2005, 10:56 PM #8
Re: Nightmare That Wasn't
Originally Posted by noillegalimmigrationannie
“Bryan Barton caught an illegal alien and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.� Bryan Barton was wearing an identical shirt."Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" George Santayana "Deo Vindice"
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