I am self-employed and work all by my lonesome a lot (some say this is good for the rest of the world). So I get to listend to radio a lot and have listened to conservative talk radio for years...I remember when Rush had so few advertisers he had to put fake ads on (Spatula City! For ALL your spatula needs!).

It occured to me when the excrement hit the fan online during the Bush-Kennedy-McCain hearings for the Scamnesty bill that I'd heard little to nothing from almost all of these conservative yakkers (including my own former-favorite here in my local market) about the illegal immigration problem.

Sure, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck to some degree, a few others would mention it in passing, but primarily as a "security" issue (fact: to date, there is no proof that anyone intending to or actually carrying out acts of terror in the US got here through the porous southern border..many have come from Canada, tho...).

Sure, we need to be secure and a leaky border like that one is an issue. But the real issue with that border has nothing to do with al Queda. So why did it take the popular upsurge (from BOTH sides of the political spectrum) among workaday Americans, vian the Internet, to get this topic on the front burner? Why weren't guys like Hannity and Limbaugh on this like dog on a bone, chewing it up for the past couple of years? Yeah, Hannity did the Minuteman thing, but again, he ONLY related this to security, vis-a-vis the possiblity of incursions by terrorists.

No mention of what this invasion is doing to the character of 1/3 of our country, the crime, disease, disorder and cost it brings to the states in the South and Southwest. It's all about "security."

So while we worry over some Ahmed coming in that way strapped with a nailbomb, 40 million Juans and Juanitas come in and alter the very face of American culture and are now a big enough force to be altering the socio-political face of America.

Welcome to Aztlan, friends!

Tokie