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10.2.07 @ 12:01AM

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BLANK HILLARY
Re: Andrew Cline's Promises, Promises:

Now, now, don't start giving her any good ideas. Hers are weird enough already.
-- Geoff Bowden
Battle Creek, Michigan

Here's my request of Hillary: If nominated, she will not run, if elected, she will not serve. My second request is to not let the door hit her on her way out.
-- Andrew Macfadyen
Omaha, Nebraska

Turning PBS into all NASCAR would be a good thing. One less Democrat mouthpiece. LOL
-- Elaine Kyle

Hmm, that Edwards SUV sounds pretty good. Sorry, Fred.
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

Is Andrew Cline pulling our leg, was this article a spoof? I haven't seen the actual press release so I must assume Andy has a cutting sense of humor.
-- Tom Bullock
West Covina, California

DRUGS ARE CRIMINAL
Re: Christopher Orlet's Draining the Romance out of Drugs:

The very first act of the potential addict is to break the law against the use of controlled substances. He is a criminal first, even in this first act of becoming an addict. That is why I have always opposed the use of any tax-payer funds in "treating" addicts. With all the talk of "amnesty" for illegal immigrants let's also talk with equal fervor about "amnesty" for drug addicts, which has been government policy for decades. Dalrymple is absolutely right in his assessment and policy makers should take note.
-- Rose Storey

"Even the adding machine heiress and beatnik novelist William S. Burroughs said so..."

Heiress?? Was there something about Burroughs that Orlet knows and isn't sharing with us?
-- Howard Hirsch
Dayton, Nevada

WALLED OFF
Re: Tom Bethell's Freedom of Immigration Acts:

It has been more than two years since I responded to Mr. Bethell's then-judicious comments (3/3/05) about Welfare State immigrants. I said then, but cannot say now, that "Mr. Bethell's effort to inform his audience of the dangers of untrammeled illegal immigration is worthy of praise." Perhaps the apparent change in Signor Bethell's perspective comes from his enraptured reading the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, which never found an amnesty program that it did not support. Perhaps Mr. Bethell has had an epiphany that now sees the United States economy desperately depending on illegal immigrants, who represent 4-5% of the labor force, and who, to quote the favorite phrase of that "conservative" in the White House, "do the jobs that Americans won't do." How consoling to know that, like the 7th Cavalry, our Mexican et al. illegal aliens are here to rescue America. What flapdoodle!

Mr. Bethell seeks to engage our attention by pointing out that he, too, is an immigrant. I wonder how many "immigrants" of an earlier age would have had the bravura to tell Americans that they really don't know all that much about their country, and without a shred of evidence to prove his case to boot? Curiously, Mr. Bethell, the immigrant, is not from the savanna of the Third World, whose denizens can legally enter through a lottery system, but from the country that gave these United States our system of laws and language: England. Why is it, then, that our recent immigrant, whose "appreciation" of our country is heart rending, will not counsel its leaders to follow the law -- even if it varies slightly from the English Common Law -- in carrying out the statutes that are presently on the books dealing with illegal immigration? 'Tis a puzzlement.

Mr. Bethell, the aforementioned immigrant, seems to spend much of his time thinking about the topic of immigration by consulting with, and reading, David Broder, the Washington Post, and Mr. Ben Wattenberg. Now if I may be so bold, Dear Immigrant Bethell, you should widen your perspective: after all, those three sources could be considered an integral part of the "open-borders" crowd. The Washington Post, in particular, is filled with those uplifting stories about immigrants, such as Ernesto, "living in the shadows," who seem, however, to have no compunction about providing their full names to reporters. Some shadows. And those thousands "in the shadows" who march in every "America is an Immigrant Nation" (they elide the word "legal") parade, waving Mexican flags, of course, do provide food for thought about their loyalties, current and future, especially to those residents of the Southwest. But, not to worry, for if we can democratize Iraq, surely Mexicans are "no problema."

I grow weary of having to repeat this over and over again: a country that decides that it has no borders is a country that will not survive. When this country, more than 20 years ago, provided an amnesty to illegal aliens, it opened the door to the situation we currently face, and we witnessed the beginning of the end of the rule of law, for we had, at that moment, begun our descent down that slippery slope. Whether or not this, or any other, President of the U.S. agrees or disagrees, he is bound by his constitutional oath to enforce the laws that are on our books. Immigrant Bethell's comment that "...border enforcement may well be increasing at a time when the need for it is declining," is not worthy the dignity of a response, for he presumes that only illegal immigrants in search of employment are crossing the border. When Congressman Duncan Hunter claimed that nearly 160,000 Middle Easterners also had crossed that "virtual," but non-existent border, my first reaction was one of shock: we are, after all, "fighting a war on terror!" Immigrant Bethell, however, must have concluded that most, if not all of them, found gainful employment as taxi drivers in the sanctuary city of Chicago.

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