David J. Stoddard -- Is the US Political Leadership Out to Lunch?

IS THE US POLITICAL LEADERSHIP OUT TO LUNCH?

By David J. Stoddard

August 20, 2007

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In the middle of the 19th century this nation was in turmoil. The biggest issue in the national conscience was that of slavery. There was debate whether Negros had souls. Were they human or a sub-specie? Do they have rights? The propaganda proliferated.

Every American had an opinion. The fundamental dividing line was between the industrial North and the agricultural South.

Many felt that the economy couldn’t survive without slave labor. The North had underground railroads. The South had bloodhounds, whips and “slave chasers.”

The slave labor advocates fretted and whined. If slavery were abolished, cotton and tobacco would be so expensive only the very rich could afford it. Agricultural interests threw huge amounts of money and time toward keeping and securing slave labor.

The South tried to secede and there was a war. In the end, Abraham Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation. The South lost its slave labor.

Share cropping became common. The cotton gin was invented. Cotton remained a profitable crop and so did tobacco. Soon the cotton industry became mechanized. The economy adjusted. The Southern agricultural industry flourished. There was no massive economic catastrophe as predicted by what we in the 21st century know as the “cheap labor pimps.” But many people died and property was destroyed in that process.

Today, America is in an even greater turmoil. The very existence of the USA as we know it is at stake. The government is apologetically threatening a crackdown on illegal aliens. The agricultural, construction, meat packing, hospitality and service industries are crying that there will be an economic disaster if they lose their modern day slaves and they are throwing fortunes at retaining their slave labor.

Attracted by offers of minimum wage jobs with no benefits, these modern slaves are dying trying to cross deserts, trapped in back of trucks, and as victims of the modern day slave traders—The “Coyotes.”

The modern day plantation owners gladly accept and exploit the cheap laborers, knowing fully well where they came from and how they got there. They smugly claim they are not responsible and have no way of knowing.

The cheap labor pimps see nothing wrong with overlooking legal employees in favor of those who will work for less, know nothing about OSHA, never go on strike, and are not a burden to employers in the form of paying benefits. These pimps feel no responsibility for the deaths and misery caused by their violating our labor and immigration laws. After all, it is a free market, you know? Americans are not willing to do the jobs, (at half the wage).

The Bush Administration is putting on a big show with its purported “crackdown,” hoping to create a big outcry over enforcing existing laws. Bush is hoping that the public will be sympathetic with the “baby wavers” and stories of the heartbreak of “splitting families.” So there will be a few enforcement operations while making sure that the cameras are rolling.

If Bush were sincere about his “crackdown,” the fence would be fully funded. The “matricula consular,” (the illegal alien I.D. card), would no longer be recognized. Illegal aliens would no longer be free to fly across the country with merely a “matricula consular” and a ticket in their pockets. ICE would be infused with funds and other resources. The National Guard would still be at the border with orders to interdict.

Behind the scenes efforts are being made to further cripple the Border Patrol and open the doors wider to the influx of cheap labor. TPS (Temporary Protective Status, a euphemism for amnesty for Central Americans) is routinely extended.

Recently, the Chief Patrol Agent of the Laredo Sector, Carlos Carrillo, announced that the mission of the Border Patrol is to interdict terrorists at the expense of disregarding narcotics smugglers and illegal aliens.

What is the Bush Administration really doing? Publicly, in view of the American people is the “crackdown” we have been begging for. Overtly, the gates are being opened wider by redefining the mission of the Border Patrol. ICE is overwhelmed, undermanned and under funded. Are the “strategists” seeking to so flood the USA that we just throw up our hands and passively succumb to massive amnesty for the world?

Americans are being killed in our streets and in our homes by illegal aliens. Poisonous and defective products from abroad are imported on a massive scale. (E. G. tires, food, meat, toys, clothing and who really knows what else?)

The economy is tanking, gasoline is unaffordable, proper health care is unattainable even by some insured Americans, Americans are losing good paying jobs, families are hurting and there is a herd of nitwits striving to be our next President with no real leadership abilities backed by unpatriotic political machines and “special interest” groups. (Perhaps this is an unfair statement. We do have Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter running, but the political machines and the media are opposed to them. They are not among the nitwits).

The illegal alien lobby is threatening massive “civil disobedience,” many families are being forced out of their homes, the entire Bush Administration is being run by “dim bulbs” and American foreign policy is incoherent.

If I seem to be disappointed, alarmed and pessimistic, it is because I truly am.

The next 18 months are going to be a butt kicker. Our immediate future isn’t very bright.

Leadership at all levels of government is absent.

Somebody please tell me what is going on. Are we headed for another Civil War? Or, are we headed for erasing our national sovereignty and identity as a nation?

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Dave Stoddard has lived and worked on the border all his live. He has traveled in Mexico and has friends and family there. Dave lives near the Mexican Border in Cochise County, Arizona. He speaks, reads and writes Spanish fluently.

Mr. Stoddard spent 27 years in the Border Patrol and served in Calexico, California, Vermont, Yuma, Tucson Sector Headquarters and Naco, Arizona. He also worked in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and other locations.

Stoddard provided testimony about immigration reform to Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner's (R-WI) House Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims in 1999 and a Congressional subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources in 2002. He has also been a guest on multiple nationally broadcast Radio and television programs, including Bill O'Reilly's "The Factor."

E-mail: diogenes@theriver.com

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