BayouVixen's Blog

Any time you have a protest march, there’s always someone loping along with a portable loudspeaker trying to get all the marchers to make the same chant in an effort to demonstrate their unity. The May Day march in Houston in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants was no exception, with two particularly grating individuals trying to get the crowd riled up.

 One individual, a female, seemed to be more at home with Spanish chants, “Si Se Puede” (Yes we can) in particular. She attempted English a few times, but I’m afraid her extremely thick accent defeated the purpose, since very few of those of us who heard her felt compelled to take up the rant.

 The other chant-leader, a young man apparently affiliated with an organization with an affinity for the color red, had one theme he seemed pretty good at and he stuck to it: “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!”

 

 

Give the boy credit, he tried to do good for his cause. But I don’t think I’m alone in wondering what the hell he was talking about.

 

 

“You’ve got to be kidding,” noted one downtown office worker whose path accidentally crossed that of the marchers. “They want justice? Why? They have everything else!”

 

 

Therein lies the rub that I think the politicians and the mainstream news media just don’t understand. The overwhelming majority of the American public is tired of the giveaways and all the special treatment afforded to people who – by law – are criminals.

 

 

The federal government and the states spend up to $90 billion a year of our tax dollars for welfare, food stamps and Medicaid for illegal immigrants, all in the name of “compassion.” Another $14 billion is spent to educate the children of those same criminals – “anchor babies,” although there is a growing sentiment to challenge the prevailing interpretation of the 14th Amendment which automatically makes them citizens.

 

 

The presence of illegal immigrants has resulted in $200 billion in lost wages for American workers – just in case you were wondering why the economy has slowed down. We spend another $3 million a day to incarcerate the illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in the U.S. (when we can catch them).

 

 

All told, it’s estimated that we’re spending $338 billion dollars a year to support illegal immigrants -- more than we're spending on the war.  And these clowns want “justice?”

 

 

If anything, Americans should be staging their own marches demanding justice and demanding accountability of our elected representatives who are so taken with feeding forever at the public trough that they’re willing to sell our culture and our way of life for that of a people whose country has for more than 200 years led the world in poverty, despair, misery and corruption.

 

 

Where is the justice for the family of Rodney Thompson, the Houston police officer shot in the back by an illegal immigrant he’d arrested for not having a valid driver’s license?  (His killer is now trying to plead insanity) Where is the justice for the family of Tina Davila, the Houston mother of five who was stabbed five times by an illegal immigrant trying to steal her car? (Timoteo Rios is believed to have fled back to Mexico and faces capital murder charges in Texas.)  Even convictions and rightful executions of the offenders will not restore to the Johnson and Davila families their loved ones.

 

 

More Americans are killed every day by illegal immigrants – 13 by either drunk or notoriously-bad drivers, 12 by outright murder – than are killed on the battlefields in the Middle East.  And this knucklehead with a megaphone wants “justice” so even more criminals can invade our land?

 

 

Want to hear a funny one? The Mexican state of Sonora now plans to sue the American state of Arizona after the latter passed legislation which prompted many employers to terminate the illegal aliens they had hired.  Seems Sonora is upset about having to provide for its own people – were there any doubt that the Mexican government is complicit in the immigration problem, there’s your proof.

 

 

One of the other marchers during the May Day rally carried a body-length sign proclaiming, “They can’t deport us all!”  I’m sure the screeching young lady with the megaphone won’t mind if I borrow her pet phrase to respond to him: Si, se puede – yes, we can!