John Conyers and ICE enforcement

I am absolutely puzzled! I recently read that immigration reform advocates, including Democrats like Chairman John Conyers of the House Judiciary Committee are calling for an end to Immigration and Customs raids at businesses that knowingly hire large numbers of illegal aliens. See why I’m puzzled? It doesn’t make any sense, does it?

What if law enforcement was watching a business which ended up illegally making drugs that were hurting people in our country? Would we claim that law enforcement should not raid that kind of place?

So now that I’ve posed some questions, try some of these facts that are actually happening. There was a report out of the Center for Immigration Studies last week showing that raids along with other enforcement methods are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing; reducing the number of foreigners illegally working and residing in the United States.

The illegal population has decreased by over one million persons in the past year. In fact, with the deportations, and self-deportations going on, the report states clearly that if this decline is sustained, it will reduce the illegal population by half in the next five years.

So why, then do people like Congressman John Conyers call these raids part of a “brutal, payback, gotcha” agenda being pursued by the United States government? No, Congressman. It would only be that if this were being done to law-abiding citizens who were living law-abiding lives. To equate them with those who are not is a lie. There is no brutality here, or payback, but there is gotcha.

In the end, lawful citizens are not puzzled so much as they are getting just outraged by your kind of pick and choose attitude on what to enforce in this land. The only “gotcha” that is involved is the fact that people are starting to see what hypocritical charlatans people like you actually are. I’m Gary Sutton.

OMG....It Was True After All!

I'm sure the Clinton folks knew the REAL footage would come out eventually, instead of that "doctored up" version that CBS had. This should set the record straight, and put this issue to rest once and for all.

Apologizing for slavery

There is another movement in the United States Congress to apologize for slavery in this country, that last I checked ended in the 1860’s .

Why? Because politically words are a lot better than actions and makes those who sponsor such divisive, yes, I said divisive bills, feel a little more caring than those who are already past that trivial moment. Check me if I’m wrong on this, but shouldn’t an apology be made to those who have been wronged? If there are any slaves yet today, I would hope that our government would apologize to them. Problem is , there are not. Have you noticed anyone lately spurring this conversation by suggesting that slavery was a darn good thing, and heck Goober, why don’t we re-instate it. Haven’t heard it either.

Was there a time we apologized to those of color we had wronged?Hmm. Let’s check and see if that apology came in the form of action which in my book, was much more powerful. How about if we start with the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves while in the midst of a civil war fought at least in part over the rightness or wrongness of slavery. A big reparation was paid in terms of lives spent there.

Move ahead to the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments put together specifically to grant rights denied. In 1964, the U.S. Congress passed a Civil Rights Bill which made sure we enforced the application of those rights, and Brown vs. the Board of Education in the 1950’s said “separate but equal” would not go in this country. Does that not constitute an apology through continued and sustained action?

If there is an apology owed, it should be from a politically- motivated Congress which continues to divide while the rest of us want to unify. I’m Gary Sutton.

Obama and the Pledge (just so you know)

Keep in mind that nearly all of these "oh my gosh, don't vote for such & such" type e-mails are sent with some kind of agenda behind it. More often than not, the best thing to do is to research it yourself and whenever possible, got directly to the source. You'll feel better about the truth, when you've found it on your own.

UPDATE: Gary mentioned Snopes.com, the Urban Legends Reference pages.

Link to Barack Obama's urban legends page (from Snopes.com)