The Hoosier Pundit has posted a political cartoon on immigration (and, ostensibly, on the Fairness Doctrine). It’s a cartoon and mostly for laughs, so I won’t get too worked up about it, but the cartoon turns such a blind eye to the historical context of the time, I felt like commenting.
It has Paul Revere and his Fairness Doctrine mandated counterpart (FDMC) on a horse –
Revere: THE BRITISH ARE COMING!
FDMC: “No they’re not”
Revere: THE BRITISH ARE COMING!
FDMC: “To do jobs we colonists won’t.”
Revere: THE BRITISH ARE COMING!
FDMC: “Paul Revere is a bigot.”
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The irony* of the cartoon is that one of the charges against King George by the colonists in the Declaration of Independence was that he was too tough on immigration:
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
*(I’m not an English major so I’m not sure if that’s real irony or just Alanis Morissette irony.)
The irony (and it is irony) wasn’t lost on me; it is one of the reasons I posted it. :)
Funny!
However the pro-amnesty forces already lost the immigration debate for this year once again so we will fight it again next year.I find it interesting how Bush and Chertoff tried to spin the last few days of this debate as a national security issue in hopes of winning approval of the ill conceived legislation then when it died so did the national security emergency.Chertoff shortly after was asked on one of the Sunday shows if some emergency funding such as the 4.4 billion they kept promising for border security could still be appropiated.Mr Chertoff was having none of it.No amnesty no money.Actually research showed some of that money could have been spent on the new Z visa program not border security and was really just a farce.
We all knew that once the amnesty was passed there would be no security and the American people knew it.We were not going to be 1986t all over again!