Well that certainly didn't sound biased. I have a great deal of respect for
agenda-free journalism.
Great work.

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=24718773587
>
> On Fox News this morning, State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley
> became the third Obama administration official in short succession to
> admit that he hadn’t actually bothered to read Arizona’s 10-page long
> “secure the border” bill before condemning it and criticizing
> Americans who support Arizona’s necessary efforts to do the job the
> Obama Administration should be doing. Crowley’s statement follows
> similar admissions from Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of
> Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.
>
> At first blush this revelation seemed unbelievable, but maybe I
> shouldn’t be surprised. This now seems “the Washington way” of doing
> things. If the party in power tells us they have to pass bills in
> order to find out what’s actually in them, they can also criticize
> bills (and divide the country with ensuing rhetoric) without actually
> reading them.
>
> Still I can’t help but feel outraged on behalf of Arizona’s citizens
> for the incompetence shown by these Administration officials.
> Arizonans have the courage to do what the Obama administration has
> failed to do in its first year and a half in office – namely secure
> our border and enforce our federal laws. And as a result, Arizonans
> have been subjected to a campaign of baseless accusations by the same
> people who freely admit they haven’t a clue about what they’re
> actually campaigning against.
>
> The absolute low point of this campaign came last Friday, when a U.S.
> State Department delegation met with Chinese negotiators to discuss
> human rights. Apparently, our State Department felt it necessary to
> make their Chinese guests feel less bad about their own record of
> human rights abuses by repeatedly atoning for American “sins” –
> including, it seems, the Arizona immigration/pro-border security law.
> Asked if Arizona came up at all during the meeting, Assistant
> Secretary of State Michael Posner answered:
>
> “We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first
> session, and as a troubling trend in our society and an indication
> that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential
> discrimination, and that these are issues very much being debated in
> our own society.”
>
> Note that he said “We brought it up” – not the Chinese, but the U.S.
> State Department’s own delegation. Instead of grilling the Chinese
> about their appalling record on human rights, the State Department
> continued the unbelievable apology tour by raising “early and often”
> Arizona’s decision to secure our border.
>
> Arizona’s law, which just mirrors the federal law, simply allows the
> police to ask those whom they have already stopped for some form of
> identification like a driver’s license. By what absurd stretch of the
> imagination is that the moral equivalent of China’s lack of freedoms,
> population controls (including forced abortions), censorship, and
> arbitrary detentions?
>
> Surely our U.S. Ambassador to China, John Huntsman, must disagree with
> the Obama Administration’s continued apology tour? We have nothing to
> apologize for. If Administration officials want to apologize to
> anyone, apologize to the American people for the fact that after a
> year and a half in office, they still haven’t done anything to secure
> our borders, and they join our President in making false suggestions
> about A
>
> 

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