Arizona Schmarizona

"When you talk it's like little people throwing up in my head!" - Couple's Therapist from College Humor

...Wow that quote made no sense. But then that is how I feel about the people responsible for this subject.

So yeah, there is a law now in Arizona that says if you look like an illegal immigrant you can be taken aside by the police, you will be asked for documents and papers that say you are an American right than and there, and if you don't have them you will be arrested. Yet this isn't racial profiling, according to bill signer and supporter Governor Jan Brewer?

Almost no one has had a positive reaction to this. Why? Because it doesn't make any sense! This bill has as many holes as the Star Wars prequels and is about as useful. Yeah I don't know how any sane and supposedly un-prejudiced person could like this bill. It is essentially giving people a right to descriminate. Do you have any idea how many racists are going to take advantage of this?

911 OPERATOR: 911 Emergency...
REDNECK: Uh, yes'm, I saw me some beaners in line at the Target. Looked to be a whole pack of em, brown skin, funny little noses and all. They's probably fence jumpers, you know. Tell ya what ya oughta do ya oughta get some riot gear down here with some of that bat-ons! Oomkay, some bat-ons and teesers or tasers or whatever ya call em, get those down here and send them back to whatever little desert hut they came from.

Now in a world we should be living in, this is what we would hear next:

911 OPERATOR: (Click, dial tone)......
REDNECK: Hehlo? I say, hehlo? Do you read, this is Cletus Fairfax.........Hehlo?

But no, in the real world this is what we will hear down in Arizona:

911 OPERATOR: Thank you, sir. Remain calm, we will have a squad car down there right away.
REDNECK: Yes, uh, thank ya, thank ya, ma'am. Just doin' my services to this fine continent of these United States of Amurica.

Who actually carries around with them any and every written form that says they are an American citizen. I don't, better stay out of Arizona. Imagine how the police must feel about this too. Imagine how awkward and shameful that would be to walk up to people who don't look American and pester them about their papers. Nobody likes this. The President doesn't like it. The people don't like it. Some upstanding Mexican-Americans from Arizona certainly don't like it. The ironic thing is, these Mexican folks they are so desperately trying to weed out of this country were here a long time before we were.

I especially loved it when Governor Brewer was taking questions around the time of her signing the bill. While she stuck to her guns and defended it, people asked some pretty logical questions: "What does an illegal immigrant look like?" To which she had no answer. Even though this is all clear racial profiling, she denies it. It's like saying this horse isn't white, it's blank. It makes no sense. But I suppose it doesn't have to. At the end of the day, the issue is not legality. The issue is we want brown people out of this country. Politicians can use whatever bills or laws they like, but they are no different from the assholes in my school who say "build a wall around Mexico!" They are racists who don't like the label "racist." There is another example of hypocrisy, or maybe just plain denial. I don't know, this whole thing is stupid. Politics are stupid, Jan Bitcher is stupid, this post is stupid. No matter what we do, someone will be feeding the fire on one side or the other. But still, I suppose it matters which side you choose. There are times though, when I wish I could be the wind that blows it away.

This has been a shout out to the bullshit from Your Modest Guru. Thanks for reading.