[Vision2020] Racism Enshrined in Arizona Law

[Craine Kit]

Here's my 2-bits on this.

I am half-Swede, English, Scots, Irish with pale white skin, blue  
eyes, and (used to be) dirty blond hair. My name is as English as it  
can get. I have ancestors who arrived on the Mayflower, I am eligible  
to be a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and my  
great-great grandfathers on both sides survived some of the worst  
battles of the Civil War--fighting on both sides. .

I lost track of the number of times the bloody University of Idaho  
held my pay check until I produced a green card to prove I had a right  
to work in the USofA. Even the people who knew my parents for decades  
and held me when I was a baby would not accept my Idaho state birth  
certificate or the certificate with my just-born footprint from  
Gritman Memorial Hospital as evidence I am a citizen (I know how the  
President must feel).

Given my experence and the fact that we, as Americans, are not  
required to carry citizenship papers at all times, I can evision a  
justice system clogged with false arrests.

Unless, of course, we are required to carry national ID cards that  
must be produced on demand. Welcome to Natzi Germany.

Kit Craine


On Apr 24, 2010, at 7:10 PM, keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com> wrote:

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> Wayne writes:
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> "There is a process, for better or worse, that allows folks that are  
> not US citizens access to the US and to jobs in the US. >From what I  
> understand, the AZ law isn't going after those folks at all. It is  
> focused on the illegal immigrants."
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> It may be "focused on the illegal immigrants," Wayne, but it's  
> "going after" every single Latino-surnamed, Mexican-looking, Spanish- 
> speaking person in Arizona, who will now cease to enjoy the same  
> protections under law that you and I have -- for no reason other  
> than fear, fear that suggests that WE will somehow be safer if THEY  
> have to produce proof of legal residency.
>
> Keely
> www.keely-prevailingwinds.com
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> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> From: bear at moscow.com
> To: kjajmix1 at msn.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Racism Enshrined in Arizona Law
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:30:50 -0700
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> Keely,
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> While I agree that this has opened a whole can of worms as far as  
> profiling, DWM, etc, etc,  What can or should be done about ILLEGAL  
> immigrants?
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> There is a process, for better or worse that allows folks that are  
> not US citizens access to the US and to jobs in the US. From what I  
> understand, the AZ law isn't going after
> those folks at all. It is focused on the illegal immigrants.
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> Solutions?
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> On Apr 23, 2010, at 3:26 PM, keely emerinemix wrote:
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> Arizona Governor Signs a Controversial Immigration Bill
> >
> > Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed a bill that would require
> > the police to ask people about their immigration status if
> > officers have any reason to suspect that they are in the
> > country illegally.  (NY Times, April 23, 2010)
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> This is shameful.
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> "Any reason to suspect" that someone is in the country illegally  
> means simply that "anyone who looks Mexican" could have their race,  
> language, ethnicity, customs become probable cause for questioning.   
> The idea of "driving while Mexican" used to be a wry, sick joke.   
> Now, it's a cornerstone for "law and order," and it reeks.
>
> I hope our local "Libertarians" and freedom lovers join me in  
> condemning this bill with all vehemence.  Because if not, the  
> silence from their keyboards, fieldhouses, and offices would be  
> deafening, given the incessant braying recently about the State's  
> denial of rights, pronounced threats to liberty, and an alarming  
> erosion of Constitutional and family values.
>
> Keely
> www.keely-prevailingwinds.com
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> Keely
> www.keely-prevailingwinds.com
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