[Rhodes22-list] PC, Imus, Illegal Immigration, Drugs, Welfare - Could be Politics?

[Brad Haslett]

Hard to fit all those items in one article but this guy did it!  Elle, you
started this so I'm holding you responsible.  Brad.

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*VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: Are you PC? If so, stop reading here*

I've been thinking about Don Imus. The irreverent New York radio talker was
fired last month for saying, in the course of some casual on-air banter,
that Rutgers University's winning women's basketball team included some
"nappy-headed hos."

Did this overgrown teenager really believe those women athletes were whores?
Of course not.

Imus, now past 65, was trying to stay hip by imitating the jive talk that
our black "entertainers" toss about with abandon, the same way David
Letterman graces his monologues with phrases like, "Let me ax you a
question" -- though Letterman is suave enough to get away with it.

Thus, Imus was fired not for what he said, but for saying it while white.

If that's too politically incorrect for you, best stop reading now, because
this week and next I hope to weigh in with a warning about the dangers of
political correctness, and in order to discuss them I'm going to have to
violate some of the strictures of this pathetic brand of self-censorship.

A few years back, one self-anointed "Hispanic leader" attending an editorial
board meeting here at the newspaper actually covered his ears and told us,
"I will not listen to these words," when I kept referring to illegal aliens
as illegal aliens.

The goal, of course, is to brand us as boorish, insensitive, tone-deaf
racists if we use anything but this month's preferred euphemism. If I'm
up-to-date, that would now be "undocumented guest worker" -- a phrase meant
to imply these millions of law-breaking trespassers have merely neglected to
stop by the nearest federal Guest Worker Services bureau to pick up their
"instant citizenship" and voter registration cards, available merely by
paying a bribe of some tens of thousands of dollars, which our socialist
politicians euphemistically call a "fine."

This is where PC double speak really helps these double-talk artists,
because the practice of openly bribing our elected officials is so
relatively new here that these liars and thieves can rely on the species
boobus voteris Americanus to buy this booshwah while knowing the targeted
Third World invaders will immediately identify it as what it is: a
Latin-style bribe for our entire immigration bureaucracy to look the other
way.

If any of that sounds facetious, it's not meant to be. Democratic
politicians, particularly, see this as the huge untapped voting bloc that
will put them over the top, likely to embrace a platform tricked up in nice
euphemisms but which really adds up to -- wink, nudge -- "We'll tax the hell
out of these morons who play by the rules and file their 1040s every spring,
in order to give you guys free medical care and 19 years of free child care
(complete with free meals) in our Youth Homogeneity Camps, free for all kids
age 4 to 22, cradle to grave, baby."

No, I'm not making that up. Democratic presidential candidate and New Mexico
Gov. Bill Richardson stopped by Monday to tell us he opposes private-school
vouchers because "They'd undermine the public schools, everyone would go to
the, uh ..." (sentence never finished.)

Richardson, who I must say appeared a bit jet-lagged, also noted, "All-day
kindergarten is important; preschool is important, you've got to get the
kids before they're 4."

His solution to the current invasion of Spanish-speaking peoples with no
apparent interest in real assimilation, no visible interest in playing by
the rules?

Gov. Richardson parroted every other mainstream politician of our time,
asserting, "You can't deport 'em all. How are you going to do it?"

This is an interesting position, which does appeal to my libertarian side.
If we got rid of all the welfare programs, I would indeed favor open
immigration. I pretty much favor abandoning all unenforceable laws.

What strikes me odd is that these politicians seem to want to abandon only
this *one* (supposedly) unenforceable law.

Drive down any street in Vegas traveling at precisely the posted speed
limit. Unless there's a black-and-white in sight, traffic will be zooming
past you on both sides. So why don't these same politicians say, "What are
you going to do, arrest them all? The battle is lost."

What about the war on drugs? Why don't these same politicians say, "It's
obviously a lost cause. What are you going to do, round up every pot smoker?
How many more prisons you gonna build?"

I proposed that to Gov. Richardson on Monday. He replied: "I'm not in favor
of decriminalizing marijuana. I'm in favor of sentencing enhancements."

They continue to pester us with *hundreds* of unenforceable laws. So why is
this the one law they won't even try to enforce?

If they brought all the nation's immigration cops to Las Vegas tomorrow and
started raiding hotels, they could have thousands of seasick illegal maids
dumped on the beach in Acapulco next week. The river of trespassers would
slow and -- when they saw the celery fields of California getting the same
treatment next week -- might actually reverse.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower did it a year after taking office in 1953,
with far fewer men than the U.S. Border Patrol has today. It was called
"Operation Wetback," and it worked. Arrest and deport the first 10 percent;
the rest get wise pretty quick.

No, the real fear here is that if they rounded up and deported and otherwise
drove away all the illegal Mexicans and Guatemalans, "Who would make the
beds in the hotels?"

The best answer is: "The children of the people who used to do it, who are
mostly currently on the government dole."

Cut off "Aid to Families with Dependent Children" -- or whatever this year's
euphemism is -- and most unwed mothers would marry their babies' daddies in
short order, out of sheer economic necessity. Why continue this disincentive
to forming permanent families, long known to be the best route out of
poverty?

Cut off the "disability" checks flowing to all those able-bodied fathers
with dubious "psychiatric disabilities" (including alcoholism) who line up
at the post office on the first of the month, and we'd have a huge new work
force overnight.

But that would mean the end of the welfare-state dream, with a concomitant
reduction in the power and siphoned-off booty of the welfare-state
politicians, wouldn't it?

Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Review-Journal and
author of the books "Send in the Waco Killers," "The Ballad of Carl Drega,"
and the novel "The Black Arrow." See www.LibertyBookShop.us.