Illegal Immigrants And Social Security

Amazing! A bill, related to certain illegal immigrants, actually passed unanimously in both houses this past Tuesday. Nazi war criminals who had lived in this country illegally, some using real names, others using false names, had actually collected social security benefits.......a few of them did this even after returning to Germany! The Senate passed the "No Social Security For Nazis" act, and Congress passed a companion bill, both with a 420 to 0 vote. Now it's on it's way to be signed by Obama.

Okay, okay.......no weed until it's legal. But maybe that will pass both houses with a unanimous 420 to 0 vote, too!

Sheriff Arpaio Must Report To A Monitor

This is too funny! Sheriff Arpaio, from Arizona, who makes prisoners wear pink underwear and hates people who demand that he respect their civil rights, has been found guilty of unlawfully profiling people of Latin descent. So Judge Murry Snow is going to make Arpaio report to a monitor every month or so, in order to ensure that he is not violating the civil rights of Arizona citizens, or anyone else passing through the state. We have probation officers, DWI monitors, and hall monitors, and now Sheriff Arpaion will have his own monitor. According to his attorney, he is not happy about this either, but since he has been ordered by a judge to report to a monitor, and since he claims to be all about law and order, he should really just shut up and cooperate. The judge apparently does not trust the sheriff to remember that this is America, and that the Constitution was not written for only a select few, but for all Americans. This is actually a great idea; possibly the best law enforcement idea since making prisoners wear pink! I'll bet the sheriff never thought that he could be profiled lawfully by Karma!

Kris Kobach Cries The Blues

Last week, Sarah Kessinger, of the Marysville Advocate, wrote this editorial about our renowned Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach, and his contributions to Arizona SB1070, which was signed into law by Governer Jan Brewer in 2010 in an ongoing effort to keep Arizona white. It is disguised as a law to curtail illegal immigration, but it assumes that all illegal immigrants are of darker skin complexion than the average Northern European and required that police officers everywhere in Arizona stop and harass anyone with dark skin or dark hair and demand to see a birth certificate or a passport. This law also sought to restrict voting. The problem in enacting this law had to do with the concept of "probable cause". Anyone whose descent happened to be African, Indian, Asian, Mediterranean, Native American, Middle Eastern, or Latin was naturally suspect. Because so many problems were created by the application of this law and the Kobachian hate with which it is associated, quite a bit of it either has been repealed, or is being repealed. Sarah Kessinger simply stated that Kris Kobach's work appears consistently to contain a racist and oppressive slant, intimidating legitimate voters. She certainly is not the only American to point that out.

In his rebuttal to Sarah's editorial, Kris Kobach denies his contributions to Arizona SB1070 and throws out obscure references to Arizona citizenship laws enacted in 2004, which are not the subject of this editorial. He also confuses the issue by complaining about the editorial's statement that Kris Kobach helped to "convince" lawmakers and the Governor in Arizona to "pass laws" by claiming that no one was actually "convinced" because not all of his ideas were passed into law! Seriously, Kobach? Arizona SB1070 most certainly DID get passed; the ACLU would never have involved itself if it didn't!

Another point Sarah Kessinger ponders in her editorial, which has been pondered before by one or two Kansans, is this: how does Kris Kobach have so much time, while doing the job of Secretary of State here in Kansas, to hire out as a legislative word twister for any state in this country wanting to bring back the days before the Civil Rights Act of 1964?  It seems in many ways to be a conflict of interest for someone in Kobach's position to be more concerned about side interests than the postion to which he is elected. Is representing Kansas simply not lucrative enough for him?