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Edited on Sat Nov-07-09 08:06 AM by proud2BlibKansan
<skip> Have you seen Capitalism: A Love Story, the new Michael Moore film?I loved it. I love Michael Moore. I thought it was great. I wish he’d do something on the border, because it’s so important. I’d love to tell him, “Look, we need to do something about the border.” It’s so awful and people just don’t care. I’ve never seen such an ungenerous heart from the United States in relation to the migrant workers, the Mexican, salvadoreños, Guatemalans… They have such a terrifically difficult journey, they risk their lives in every possible way, and they’re the smartest, and the strongest, and the best, the hardest working. They send the best ones they’ve got, they don’t send the weak ones. We have a chance to take advantage of this wonderful pool of labor and smart minds that are trying to migrate up from the south, and we’re not getting the best of it. We’re making it so hard for them that they’re trapped, they can’t advance themselves once they get here. And they’re paying taxes and doing jobs that Americans won’t take. They’re paying into the health-care system by paying their social security, so they’re actually swelling the financial pool for the rest of us. They’re doing us good in a lot of ways, plus they’re buying goods and services once they get here. But people don’t see that, they don’t see what a benefit it is to have them here. They don’t treat them fairly, they don’t pay them fairly, they arrest them and harass them and put them into the private prisons, which are operated for profit. You saw in the Michael Moore movie about the prisons for profit. In Arizona they’re going to make all prisons for profit. It’s a total and complete scam to steal out tax dollars. They taking sometimes $20 million a year in profit out of those private prisons. And the biggest customers for them are the undocumented workers. Will those be general prisons or only for undocumented aliens?For any criminal, but the most number of arrests… If they don’t get a lot of immigrants, then their business isn’t good. The want to make the laws as Draconian as they can, and what they do is arrest them and they put them in these private prisons. Joe Arpaio has ten city jails in Southern Arizona, and I’m telling you: There’s no air conditioning, no heat in the winter and no a/c in the summer, which can be 115 degrees, and in the winter you can get 12 degrees. It’s freezing or it’s just unbearably hot. They brag about $0.75 cents a day they spend on food for the prisoners; they keep everybody hungry all the time. People come out of those places after three or four months and they’ve lost 40-50 pounds sometimes. It’s like the Arizona Gulag. And if there’s a bigger person that wants to take your food, you get nothing. It’s a terrible, cruel thing. And, in addition to that, only allows The Food Channel and The Weather Channel, so that they can see how bad the weather is going to be the next day, and he works them in chain gangs in the full hot sun for 12 hours at a stretch. So people are dropping dead from strokes, and heart attacks, and heat exhaustion. If you’re an illegal immigrant, it shouldn’t have a death sentence on it. (…)
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Have you encountered any Minutemen in your visits to the border?
Oh, my God…! There’s so many Minutemen! My father was a rancher and my grandfather was a rancher. We used to go to areas where we would hunt, and fish, and have picnics and pachangas, and it was empty. And now it’s so crowded in the desert. You see groups of Minutemen, Border Patrols, border-crossers, and other groups of Samaritans like us trying to help. It’s just unbelievable out there. But the Minutemen are just disgusting. They’re smug, they’re generally not from that area, they generally moved from the East or from the South, and they’re just angry people who are looking for a cover for their anger and their cruelty. They’re looking for ways to act on their anger and cruelty and make it look like they’re doing something righteous.
If the immigrants were Canadian, do you think there’d be so many Minutemen out there?
No! There wouldn’t be any! There wouldn’t be one. If those were blue-eyed blonds coming across the border, no one would even raise an eyebrow. Of course, they’re doing this as a justification of the Homeland Security Act, but the people who came and attacked the World Trade Center came across the Canadian border. They didn’t come through Mexico. It’s just a cover for blatant racism and nothing else. It’s racism. And somehow the hate mongers like Rush Limbaugh and, who is that guy…?
Lou Dobbs?
Lou Dobbs… They’re getting people killed. They’re the real terrorists, because they’re inciting anger by spreading lies and distortions. They’re spreading all this wrong information and they’re causing school children to be attacked on their way to school. It’s a terrible thing. We need to organize a boycott of the sponsors of the Lou Dobbs show, because he’s making things unsafe for our communities. He’s doing a terrible disservice that’s un-American, uncharitable, ignorant, and racially prejudiced. We don’t have to put up with that.
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