A Republic, ... If You Can Keep It
“A Republic,... if you can keep it”- Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father, 1787.
“ Welcome to the new Arizona”- Janet Napolitano, Governor of Arizona, 2003.
Mr. Franklin was responding to a question asking what kind of government had been created for the American people in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was at once announcing the formation of a Republic, a government ruled not by men, but by laws, and warning that keeping that form of government would not be an easy task.
Governor Napolitano made her exclamation to a meeting of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials as she vetoed legislation passed in her state that would have required identification to be presented by voters at Arizona polls on Election Day, and by those seeking government services.
Critics of the bill called it “anti-Hispanic”.
The Governor called the bill “a thinly disguised effort to suppress minority voting”. She responded to claims made by the bills sponsors that the bill was aimed at preventing voter fraud by telling the cheering crowd that “in Arizona, we want people to vote”.
The Governor objects to requiring identification to prove that someone attempting to cast a ballot is a registered voter, and a citizen? Who are these “minority voters” that concern Gov. Napolitano? Who are the “people” she wants to vote in Arizona? Are they the hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens who live in her state? The people that the U.S. government correctly refers to as “illegal aliens”?
Citizens who express concern at having these “non-citizens” voting and receiving government services are referred to as “racist” and “anti-Mexican”. Can “un-American” be far behind?
The founding Fathers recognized that a “Democracy” was bedlam, a dangerous process of majority rule and something to be fearfully avoided. They chose instead a Republic, a nation of law, knowing that a “Democracy” could, and would, turn into “Mobocracy”, then tyranny. But even they were thinking only in the context of a majority of citizen voters and could never have dreamed of the outrageous and shameless pandering to foreign invaders by politicians that is occurring in our country.
A quote from closer to home:
“Your song may be, ‘We shall overcome,’ - Our song is ‘We shall overwhelm’”-
Sam Zamarippa, Georgia state senator, 2000.
State Senator Zamarippa was explaining to Lyndon Wade, retiring executive director of the Atlanta urban league how the Hispanic lobby would handle resistance to Hispanic “influence” in our region. State senator Zamarippa advocates giving illegal aliens drivers’ licenses –“ because they are here” and “they are going to drive anyway”.[ So much for Mr. Franklin’s nation of law, aye, Mr. Zamarippa?]
He tells the Ga. Senate that we must “bend the rules” for the “undocumented…. Hispanic community”. It is a first step.
Anyone familiar with Motor Voter laws must see what is coming. Mr. Zamarippa also pushes for our admitting illegal aliens to our already crowded state - funded institutions of higher learning, then charging them less in tuition than citizens from other states.
What would Mr. Franklin say?
We have roadblocks to check for seat-belt law compliance, but it is somehow politically incorrect to enforce our immigration laws? Reward the violators? What?
When U.S. citizens must face the fact that 10-12 million illegal aliens are colonizing our nation, [U.S. Census figures - Mr. Zamarippa puts that number at 20 million.] and watch as elected officials endorse lawlessness in the name of “the people”, one must wonder if we can, or deserve to, keep the Republic for which our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
How will we know when we have enough illegal aliens in our country, and how will we stop them then?