Jan Brewer - Not Afraid To Do What The Federal Government Won't And Shouldn't
Arizona Governor
This April, when she signed into law Arizona's tough new anti-immigration policy, Gov. Jan Brewer bravely showed the nation that if the federal government wouldn't take the most draconian measures imaginable to deal with illegal aliens, then she would do it on her own.
By demanding that police check any suspicious- looking individual's immigration status, Brewer stood up for the kind of racial profiling that other politicians wouldn't, and under any circumstances shouldn't, have the guts to support. Refusing to bow down to sense or reason, Brewer also made it possible for citizens to sue police officers who fail to carry out the troublingly vague terms of the new law, no matter how much it might tie up the state's court system—a bold stance the federal government simply couldn't be bothered with.
And shouldn't be bothered with, because it's a really, really awful idea.
Like the growing tide of up and coming conservative politicians, Brewer understands that real change—the disturbing, almost surreal kind of change that drives a wedge between Americans, increases fear and xenophobia, and makes Arizona, and by extension the nation as a whole, seem impossibly backward—has to start at home.
The loon.
By demanding that police check any suspicious- looking individual's immigration status, Brewer stood up for the kind of racial profiling that other politicians wouldn't, and under any circumstances shouldn't, have the guts to support. Refusing to bow down to sense or reason, Brewer also made it possible for citizens to sue police officers who fail to carry out the troublingly vague terms of the new law, no matter how much it might tie up the state's court system—a bold stance the federal government simply couldn't be bothered with.
And shouldn't be bothered with, because it's a really, really awful idea.
Like the growing tide of up and coming conservative politicians, Brewer understands that real change—the disturbing, almost surreal kind of change that drives a wedge between Americans, increases fear and xenophobia, and makes Arizona, and by extension the nation as a whole, seem impossibly backward—has to start at home.
The loon.
This is horrible.
ReplyDeleteI know I will be wrong of me using this slippery slope fallacy but if immigrants keep getting pushed around a mass genocide will eventually come into place.
It begins with someone like Jan Brewer having enough power to pass and create such laws.
One Question, what is xenophobia?
ReplyDeleteI don't think it will get that bad, but it could get worse before it gets better, especially in states like Arizona, where there is clearly a problem with bigotry.
ReplyDeletePeople like the current governor only use it to fan hatred, and to generate support for their political power, without concern for the effects these things have on actual, living people.
She and her kind have lost touch with their humanity.
Xenophobia is the fear of the outsider, however one defines them. It could be people from another nation, another religion, or another race.
ReplyDeleteIt's basically an excuse to say "them" meaning that they are not "us"
It's actually a mental disorder, however common it may appear to be these days.
How can people full of ignorance exist in this universe. What is so bad about being a immigrant. I dont know why anybody else other than NATIVE AMERICANS could be complaining if to begin with this is THEIR territory.
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