There The Government Goes Again…Or, Is It A Good Thing In This Case?
by Bill Simon
Cherokee County, Georgia law enforcement is going after landlords that rent to illegal aliens in an effort to enforce laws the federal government refuses to do.
The landlords will be responsible for “proving” each of their tenants is a legal resident of the U.S. or else face a fine or possible suspension of their operating licenses.
Question to ponder: If you enforce this on only one class of rental properties, don’t you have to enforce it on ALL rental properties? That is, EVERY property that leases/rents to ANYONE (whether they are of Hispanic origin or not), should have to prove their renters/leasees are legal U.S. citizens.
November 15th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
As an American it’s getting pretty tiresome to increasingly have to prove I have a right to be here. It’s actually pretty insulting.
November 17th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
The biggest threat to civil liberties in the coming decades will be from a major crack down on illegal immigrants. I hate to invoke Godwin’s law but this can only lead to “Show me your papers” every time you run into a police officer.
November 19th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
Well we as a society are not immune to all out acts of barbarism condoned by and in some cases supported by our noble government, as a casual recollection of our past reveals. The people have become so lazy and complacent since being overcome with the civility of civilization that they’d prefer quite readily a “police state order” to things on the path to outright genocide.
Here’s an excerpt to consider:
Consider, as one suitable example, the public reaction to the November 1864 massacre of 150 Cheyenne Indians – most of them women and children – at Sand Creek in Colorado. Black Kettle, leader of this small band, had been given a U.S. Flag by the Army as testimony of the tribe’s pacific intentions, and promised to protect them during their winter camp.
Yet neither the flag nor the Army did anything to help Black Kettle’s band when it was beset by a force of Colorado Volunteers led by Col. John Chivington, who had led Union forces in a key Civil War battle fought in New Mexico. The resulting slaughter, observes Hampton Sides in his terrific new book Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, “is now widely regarded as the worst atrocity committed in all the Indian wars.â€
That wasn’t how it was perceived at the time, Sides continues:
“Chivington returned to Denver in triumph. At a theater his men paraded their war trophies before the cheering crowds: Scalps, fingers, tobacco pouches made from scrotums, purses of stretched pudenda hacked from Cheyenne women. The Denver newspapers praised the Colorado Volunteers for their glorious victory.†“Posterity will speak of me as the great Indian fighter,†boasted Chivington. “I have eclipsed Kit Carson.â€
Read the whole article here:
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2006/11/updated-opening-gates-of-gulag-pt-ii.html