Peacemaker

SB 1070 was supposed to go into effect today. It won't thanks to the government's opposition to it and protesters as well as U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton. Bolton basically handed down her judgement that the law was unconstitutional since it's the federal government's job to enforce immigration and that if the states started doin' it themselves they'd get in the way.


The battle is far from over. There's still this idea in America right now that Latinos and Hispanics are somehow subhuman. Arizona will appeal. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is still roundin' up as many illegals as he can. Governor Jan Brewer still feels as though she was completely right.


I've read a lot of articles that say that we're just being used as a scapegoat. That we're essentially seen as new to this country, which isn't true for a lot of us, so it must be our fault that the economy is goin' to crap. It must be our fault that no one has work. If our borders were more secure we wouldn't have been attacked by terrorists. If that hadn't happened then we wouldn't be at war or have to go through hell at the airports or fear for our lives. We wouldn't have to be afraid of the Muslims. They're all terrorists now, too.


It's all bullshit. The economy is messed up for a dozen different reasons. We're at war over oil. Regardless of how secure the border is, somebody's gonna find a way through. Muslims are just a group of people, only different from you or me by the color of their skin and the God they worship. Should learn 'bout 'em if you get the chance. I don't know much about all those Middle-Eastern and Asian cultures but what I find out I usually find interestin'.



Not all of 'em are terrorists though. The terrorists are fighting America for a variety of reasons and it's not because they hate our freedoms. I was made aware of this by a comedian who said that in Amsterdam you could smoke pot, hire a prostitute, and hold a gay wedding all in the same building but nobody bombs them. (Forgive me if I can't remember the guy, I didn't know who he was at the time and it's been more than a week now so I can't give him credit.)



The point is there are nations more free than the U.S. and they don't have nearly as many enemies. I believe the difference is the arrogance of the U.S. Somehow our culture has always believed that we are right about everything and that everybody else is wrong and if you don't believe in that then you're a traitor to the nation. We go into other nations and tell them what to do and don't listen to anyone else from those other countries. Everybody else loves football, we call it soccer and say it's for sissies. We don't like dictators and killers so we go in take over their country by force, hang 'em, and put somebody in control that we like. We use an American standard form of measurement instead of the metric system everyone else uses. ('Cause hell Bill I already know this one why should I have to learn what they use in France?) It's the same attitude that comes to foreign languages. In Europe, traffic signs are in multiple languages and most everyone knows at least two of them. Here everybody better learn 'emselves some danged ol' American.



These "terrorists" while doing things in an extreme and violent way want a voice in the world and they directly oppose the wrong they feel Americans and the American government does. I don't encourage terrorism by any means. I merely support truth. We feel we were wronged by them they feel wronged by us and that's what starts a war. Wars don't settle those differences they just destroy one side or the other until there is no opposition. If we didn't agree that 2+2=4, you say it's 5 and I say it's 3, and I kill you or you kill me, we are still no closer to the correct answer. The truth is that we have a long way to go to make the world a peaceful place.



We still have a lot of tolerance and understanding that is needed to live with all the people of the world. We need education and independent thinking more than anything. We should stop taking pride in how ignorant we can be. Let's stop making excuses for all the work we don't wanna do to learn science, math, the metric system, or a new language.



There ain't nuthin' that you can know that ain't worth knowin'. No hay una cosa que puedes aprender que no tiene valor. There is nothing that you can know that isn't worth knowing.



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