{"id":96,"date":"2006-03-25T20:32:33","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T00:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2006-03-25T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T00:38:08","slug":"today%e2%80%99s-america-yesterday%e2%80%99s-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/25\/today%e2%80%99s-america-yesterday%e2%80%99s-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s America – yesterday\u2019s science fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than the nation of laws, secure borders and common language that our grandfathers devotedly passed on to us, the United States now more closely resembles a fictional location set in an episode from Rod Serling\u2019s 1960\u2019s Twilight Zone TV series.<\/a>
\nAtlanta newspapers write about a third generation Atlanta area building contractor who acknowledges that illegal immigration has lowered the wages of that trade to levels that are nearly impossible for him to be legally competitive – but he hesitates to resist in fear of being labeled \u201cracist\u201d.<\/p>\n

There are \u201cjobs Americans will not do\u201d, we are constantly told. English is an optional language in Georgia. <\/p>\n

American veterans are held up to a means test to qualify for promised free medical care<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In their final years, members of America\u2019s \u201cgreatest generation\u201d are required to choose between losing access to Medicaid funds to remain in nursing homes – or forfeiting their homes. Meanwhile, the corporate-funded, ethnic-based lobby shepherding millions of illegal aliens has demanded, and obtained, no questions asked taxpayer-funded free medical care and education for people with no legal right to be in the United States. No means test needed – in any language.<\/p>\n

For those with the temerity to ask, they are merely \u201ccivil-rights activists\u201d. \u201cDignity\u201d is the current buzz-word.<\/p>\n

U.S. Senators consider waving a magic wand of legalization over the illegal aliens – and their bankers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

American college students pay out of state tuition if they choose a university outside their own state – but foreign students here illegally can, and do, access the far less costly in-state tuition. Because, we are lectured, \u201cit is the right thing to do\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a war on terror, American borders are violated more often than at any time in our history. It\u2019s just business.<\/p>\n

Illegal aliens are regularly found to be employed at sensitive \u201csecure\u201d military bases and the nation\u2019s airports. Turning over management of our ports to a suspect foreign government is regarded as somehow more suicidal than illegally importing un-inspected labor with access to American aircraft carriers – or airliners.<\/p>\n

Here in Georgia, a state legislator with the courage to attempt to mirror existing – but ignored – federal laws governing illegal immigration and employment<\/a> is regarded suspiciously. While those who have the most to lose if those laws are actually enforced fearlessly escort illegal aliens into the Georgia Senate Chamber <\/a>in an effort to \u201cframe the issue in human terms\u201d – insisting that existing law continue to not be enforced.<\/p>\n

In Georgia, illegal aliens are organized to threaten a boycott of American businesses. To demand\u2026 \u201cjustice\u2019. Yawn.<\/p>\n

No one asks about the possibility of Americans boycotting to demand equal protection under the law.<\/p>\n

Angry cries of betrayal from citizens are regarded as less valid or reasonable than the wails of \u201cinjustice\u201d from people with no legal right to be in the United States.<\/p>\n

Having been told that the \u201cone time amnesty\u201d of 1986 <\/a>for three million illegals would finally solve the border and illegal immigration crisis, Americans watch as campaign donors in American business attempt to coerce the federal government into granting another amnesty – with the same promise. \u201cGuest workers\u201d indeed.<\/p>\n

Number of employers sanctioned for employing illegal labor in 2004? Three.
\nThe same employers set the wage scale, knowing that there is always cheaper illegal labor on the way from across the border. Illegal immigration and taxes are up, but wages are down.<\/p>\n

Bankers openly extend mortgage loans <\/a>to people who by law should be more concerned about deportation than interest points.<\/p>\n

We are told that \u201cwe must have illegal labor to keep up with growth\u201d, but that we should get accustomed to I-75 becoming 23 lanes wide in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The 60\u2019s TV viewer would likely regard this scenario as another entertaining science fiction tale.<\/p>\n

To the 21st century American, it is the new \u201cglobal reality\u201d to be quietly accepted\u2026under pain of being labeled somehow \u201cun-American.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s change the channel. Let\u2019s call our Senators. No “guest worker” amnesty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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