Politics, society and Faith from a Christian liberal prospective. We believe that we can all accomplish great things in the world if we can just get past the lust of the powerful and the fear of the comfortable.
First thing I want to do is refer to the comments. I've been recieving links to porn. I've also have been recieving comments that appear to be in oriental writing. It can't be read by me, so I have no idea how my little blog is being used. I'm monitering comments now.
Second, thanks to a neighbor I now have a computer, so, I'm no longer left in the foggy world of popular media.
Well, on May second I had my burst appendix removed by Laparoscopic Appendectomy . I thought I pulled a muscle when walking the dog. I deal with that level of pain frequently so I wasn't, too, worried about it. So, I was going around with a burst appendix for a couple of weeks. That earned me five days in the hospital getting pumped full of antibiotics while the fluid in my gut drained into a little bag. I'm still a bit sore but I got the Okay to go about my regular business.
Why is such hate filled ignorant simplicity so tempting to so many different people of different cultures in so many different lands throughout our shared histories?
We're used to the word terrorism being applied to extreme groups trying to get their way on whatever cause they're overly violently concerned.
TERROR is different. It's employed by government to intimidate the population or a portion of it. Arizona is engaged in a fascist orgy of scapegoating a minority using the weapon of government sponsored TERROR.
Christ used the Samaritans three time as an example to all of us. They removed themselves from Judea in the past, politically then religiously, by building their own temple for worship separate from Jerusalem. They were very much thought of in much the same way as African Americans were thought of in this country. They were considered sub-par creatures. . 1) The good Samaritan. 2) The one leper, out of ten, who returned to thank Jesus for being healed was a Samaritan. 3) The lady at the well and her town where Jesus found thirst and hunger for faith. . He was very clear on the fallacy of deeming any person as less than human and treating them hatefully.
I have often stated that Conservatives, especially the Neocon kind, are, at the least, playing with fascism. However, Arizona, with the involvement of, FAIR, is playing with Nazi thought. .
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The most extreme conservative opinion, regarding undocumented workers and their families, is to arrest them all and ship them back to their country of origin. While there are people here illegally from many parts of the world this is first and foremost a reaction to the Spanish speaking Latinos from South of our border.
Massive roundups of those that are unjustly judged ‘unacceptable’ have never worked well for those being arrested or for the offending country involved. We have recent horror stories from Cambodia and Nazi Germany and in the United States with the Japanese internment and the Trail of Tears both of which were a disgrace. Tearing apart Latino families on our ‘liberty loving’ soil would be comparatively disastrous for obvious reasons for them but also for our national spirit which has suffered enough wounds already, most recently through the Bush years..
These people our not from the far flung reaches of the world, they are, especially from Mexico, our neighbors who share history with us. They are a part of the New World family, an ingredient of who we are. Their poverty and status has been used against them, as it was in the past for other immigrant groups deemed unacceptable, for the benefit of unprincipled business interests for many generations now.
It is immoral to use people then throw them away when they become inconvenient. Christian (isn't that the kind of country the religious right repeatedly says we have) kindness would dictate care and forgiveness for these people. Those who wear the bible on their sleeve should know very well how the Lord expects us to treat immigrants and all others who fall into need whether financial or medical. The arguments rationalizing this away do not come from God it comes from a much darker, hotter unholy place.
We need to protect the border. Many business interests seem to prefer the status-quo while others want the border closed simply out of unjustified prejudice..
Bring them into citizen ship in a manner that's just.We need to have strict, consistent punishment for all those who hire these people with the intent of misusing them for their own benefit.Strong penalties need to be given for all those who pay substandard wages.
Any corporation that moves south of the border must pay livable wages and conform to rational environmental controls or risk a high tariff or lose the ability to trade with the United States. We must realize US involvement in many of the economic and political hardships suffered by others who share the Americas. We have a moral duty to work to make things right and that doesn’t begin with exploitation.
“In Germany, they first came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist....
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.....
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist....
Then they came for the Catholics
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Catholic....
Then they came for me –
and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.”.....
Martin Niemoller
