you GO Arizona. you totally rock.

About three weeks ago I heard about a new law in Arizona that dealt with the subject of illegal immigration. The gist of what I heard was that Arizona had passed a law to try to stop the Illegal Immigrants from, well, breaking the law. And I applauded Arizona. I was proud again to be able to claim Arizona as my home state.

Then, almost immediately, The rest of the country started in on Arizona. “this law is racist and will lead to profiling.” “This is akin to the old soviet union or east Germany.” “papers please.”
These were the kinds of things they were saying. I was proud to see Arizonans standing up to the rest of the country/world and standing firm.
I was also disappointed in the rest of the country and in certain parts of Arizona where they were so vehemently attacking what Arizona was trying to do. But I started wondering, “what does that law really say?” so I researched it.
I found Arizona sb 1070 and read it. And now even more than before I applaud what Arizona has done.

When I read the law the very first thing I thought was “all the people griping about it clearly have not READ it.” But then I thought that can’t be true. Well last night I found out that sadly I was right. I heard interviews done with several politicians including Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano and they all said “I have not read it.” or “I have not reviewed it” or some other statement to that point. And yet, to a man (as it were), they all denounced it.
“This law is evil.” “It is unconstitutional.” “It is a travesty.”

No I will tell you what is the travesty. Our federal government who understands, even though they have NOT read the bill, that the reason the bill was passed was because they were not doing their job and they are offended that anyone would call them on it like this. In other words they’re pride was hurt. They are ashamed and so they are lashing out. This is not the way that our government is supposed to work.
I am ashamed that we have politicians in Washington who are so self centered that they would respond like this.
What I find offensive is that the “ruling elite” think they know better.
I am reminded of an episode of Frasier. Frasier is supposed to be this great mind, educated at Harvard super smart. At least that s what he thinks. But in this one episode he is proven *GASP* Wrong. And he makes the comment that “when [he] is wrong the world doesn’t make sense.” after all he is the snobby upper crust ultra smart ultra learned elite.
That is the way our government seems to think. “I went to Harvard (or Yale or Brown or whatever snobbish school.) so I ALWAYS have to be right. And if I am always right then if you disagree with me then you are wrong.”
The thought that they could be wrong NEVER occurs to these people. And so since they are always right then when the MAJORITY of the country disagrees with them then that is merely proof that all those people are even incapable of caring for themselves. So “we must do it for them.” And we are seeing this in their attitudes even now. “we have to pass health care because we know what they need.” “We have to stop this silliness in Arizona because they do not know better.” and so on. Never mind that people are LITERALLY dying due to the inaction of these people. That must be what is best because that is what they have deemed.
I read an article posted by someone from the New York Times. The article tried to downplay the events going on in Arizona. But I was very gratified to see that the majority of the people who responded to his article were not so easily taken in and they challenged him on several of his “mistakes” like how when he used statistics to back himself up by showing how there has been a “decline” in crime rates while there has been a jump in illegal aliens, the figures he used were from two different sources with the source from “back when it was bad” being specific to Phoenix Arizona and the source from Now that it is good being a general survey of the country. Actual sources that were from the same time frame and same area would have shown a marked increase.