----- Original Message ----- From: "uncoolrabbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It might have been missed in the intial post... that the massive > latino protests are not about imigration. They are about ilegal > imigration. Pro imigration is great, but the right stance on it right > now won't bring the political success imagined as the right approach > is not to support ilegal imigration, wich also would only bring its > greatest success with non americans. The LP getting vocal here would > serve to divide the already small LP, and give undue credit to the > administration. There is a mass of issues that must be resolved before > open imigration should hit the LP political table, everything from > imigration system reform to ending the welfare state. > > I would say this is a good time to say mum is the word, going pro > ilegal imigration will not wrestle some great hispanic support for the > LP away from the democrats. > > "Illegal". What a word! What was once legal becomes illegal with the stroke of a pen. I've been a smoker most my life. A year ago, our city council banned smoking in bars. Now, I can't legally smoke in my favorite bar. The bar owner will get cited for having ashtrays out, but he leaves "Altoids" tins out for us. Now I'm an "illegal smoker". Sometimes I might forget to fasten my seatbelt, which makes me an illegal driver. Illegal immigration is something that has been legal, but now is illegal (without filing incomprehensible government forms). These government forms are incomprehensible even to many astute lawyers. How can we expect somebody to do the ridiculous? And the republican plan, which supposedly would legalize those here, would UNDOUBTEDLY lead to fraud as every immigrant would be forced to buy forged and otherwise fraudulent paperwork to prove their US residence of at least five years. I don't know many people (other than upper middle class home owners) that have paperwork going back five years. I don't believe that the democrats have any lock on the Hispanic vote. Historically they may have except in south Florida, but I think it is rather tenuous. And the democrat party has jumped on the punishing "illegal immigration" bandwagon. This is one of the biggest news stories of the year, and the LP is nowhere in sight. PEACE Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer Franklin County Libertarian Party (614) 891-8841 P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable" John F. Kennedy ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
