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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (527646)	1/22/2004 12:49:29 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It is not that you confused me, Thomas. It is that your statement was not clear; and before I addressed it, I wanted to make sure it was quite clear. You make a grave error of reasoning when you mention the 18th Amendment and the speed limit in the course of this discussion. The 18th was established law that was properly repealed within the system of government described by our Constitution-- resulting in the 21st Amendment. Ultimately the same can be said regarding the adjustment of the speed limit. Neither aimed to declare lawbreakers non-lawbreakers, unlike Bush’s proposal. Bush aims to declare that trespassing is acceptable. This is the important principle here that I think Republicans have abandoned to the likely detriment of all. Like leftists, they are abandoning their principles simply because of expedience. Perhaps we need to reduce it to the fundamentals. America, prior to the currently developing immigration paradigm, declared its right to regulate who entered its borders and who remained within them, much like you have a right to regulate who enters your home. Today, what you and the rest of the GOP in effect are saying is that if a person or a group of persons overcome you and enter your home such that there is nothing you can do about it, your right vanishes and that you ought in response to them officially approve the trespassers. That is false. Despite the flood of illegal immigrants America must reserve its right to determine who can enter and stay in the country. No one has the right to trespass onto property that is not their own. There is no logic permitting what the GOP aims to do here. Immigration is every bit as moral an issue as abortion; and should we think in fundamentals we would easily see this truth. Should someone decide to immigrate illegally to your home, even should they begin to clean that home, then you would feel the thing in your bones.