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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (11)	8/11/2002 11:20:50 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 3197

I believe the same as you. When do we as a nation start controlling our own destiny and stop paying expenses on everyone else's? The border problem has for too long been neglected.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (11)	8/13/2002 7:14:09 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3197

Before we begin today's lesson on how to keep from being sued by criminals, I want you to put down the newspaper and rush outside to your automobile. Insert the keys in the ignition, make sure the doors are unlocked and the windows are open. Then leave it. As you may have heard by now, the families of Mexican migrants who died in the Arizona desert while illegally entering the United States have filed a $41.25 million wrongful-death claim against the government. Attorneys argue that American taxpayers are liable for allegedly not allowing do-gooders to set up water drops for border crossers. If sharp lawyers can put the government on the hook for not adequately protecting someone who's breaking the law, how long will it take them to get the rest of us? At least now you're protected from lawsuits filed by car thieves. Or is your automobile still locked? Imagine the size of the legal obligation you could face if a sliver of glass lodges in the eye of a crook because he is forced to smash the driver's side window of your car in order to gain entry. Or what if he receives a mild electric shock while trying to hot-wire the vehicle because you cruelly and intentionally brought the car keys into the house with you? And what about the potential liabilities in your home? Unlock the doors and unlatch the windows immediately. And be sure to switch on all the lights when you go to bed tonight. The last thing you need is to have a burglar stubbing his toe on a piece of furniture or slipping on a toy car left carelessly on the floor by one of your children. In order to protect yourself against legal action by miscreants, you should also leave in plain view a heavy-duty dolly with carpeted end rails to assist thieves in removing your TV and stereo without wrenching their backs or scratching the merchandise. Business owners will be forced to make changes as well. I'd guess that convenience stores, banks and retail outlets will remove their surveillance systems after Winona Ryder's lawyers file a whopping lawsuit against the Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. The claim will not be aimed at the store's accusation of shoplifting, but instead will rebuke Saks for secretly taking pictures of a movie star on a bad hair day, thus violating her privacy, interfering with her ability to earn a living and intentionally inflicting emotional distress. Ordinary citizens might also shave a few feet from the walls surrounding their homes in order to prevent prowlers from spraining ankles while leaping over. They also should keep guard dogs out of yards in order to thwart claims of vision damage by Peeping Toms forced to gaze through windows from a distance. Perhaps the families of hijackers will choose to sue the government and the airlines for not providing their loved ones with parachutes. Or maybe the family of FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for spying for the Soviet Union and Russia, will sue the government for creating a hostile work environment when members of Hanssen's own agency arrested him for peddling top-secret information to a foreign country. We at the newspaper aren't immune to any of this, of course. If the border-crosser lawsuit succeeds, we'll most likely start handing out a free pair of gloves with each copy of The Republic, even those illegally lifted from coin-operated dispensing machines. The last thing needed by an operation this size is the daily potential of 500,000 lawsuits involving paper cuts. arizonarepublic.com