Is the term ILLEGAL really that difficult to understand?
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
A Milwaukee County Board committee and a Milwaukee School Board committee separately endorsed resolutions Thursday calling for an economic boycott of Arizona in response to that state's recently adopted immigration law.
The county's Finance Committee and school board's Legislation, Rules and Policies Committee each unanimously approved the resolutions that call for banning the county and Milwaukee Public Schools from purchasing goods and services from businesses based in Arizona.
...School board member Larry Miller said the board would be acting on a civil and human rights issue, calling the Arizona measure racist.
County Supervisors Peggy West and Elizabeth M. Coggs also called the Arizona law racist.
This is so lame.
If Larry Miller, Peggy West, and Elizabeth Coggs are really so concerned about civil and human rights, then they should call for banning the county and Milwaukee Public Schools from purchasing goods and service from businesses in China.
They should call for the boycott of all goods and services from Muslim countries because of the way they treat women.
They should call for the boycott of Mexico because that country's ILLEGAL immigration laws are much stricter than the Arizona law.
If the panels really want to make a statement that's meaningful, they should call for an economic boycott of Arizona AND Mexico.
In addition to the boycott, they should offer to bring the ILLEGAL immigrants currently overwhelming Arizona to Milwaukee.
They should welcome the ILLEGAL immigrants. Invite them to benefit from Milwaukee's schools and the county's services. Of course, they also would need to figure out a way to pay for the influx of ILLEGAL immigrants.
I guess a boycott is much easier.
2 comments:
It is odd that there has been this big spike in right wing idiocy coming out of Arizona though. Texas has a higher background level of crazy and right now Arizona is like a supernova taking the attention. I wonder how long it will last.
Actually it isn't that strange. Arizona has been moving gradually towards the middle over the last twenty years. The population has doubled in that time and a big part of that spike wasn't old retirees who tended to be conservative, but a lot of younger families moving from blue states, etc. In 2008 McCain only received 53.4% of the vote here in Arizona, his sixth lowest vote total among the states he won. Now think about that, his home state was one of his least supportive states. Had McCain been from Texas, Florida, etc., he likely would have lost Arizona.
This state has a long history of very conservative, often racist politics and the supporters of those policies aren't happy that they are consistently losing ground to moderates and liberals (simply termed as liberals in their tirades). Because of how the state legislature is set up conservatives still have a major majority in both houses but, when Napolitano was governor, she vetoed a lot of their stupidity. In fact she set the record for vetoes in the history of the state. You take her away, bring in Brewer who is a wing-nut's wing-nut, and you see incredibly stupid legislation that was shut down by a reasonable governor make it out of the state house. At the same time you see an increase in non-conservative population as well as an increase in non-white population and the far white err, right is freaking out.
Dogmeat-
I had a feeling that you shared your comment elsewhere on the Internet. I found it here and here and here and here.
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