Illegal Amnesty, the Iraq War and the Loss of Rights
by Charles Coughlin
There are some fierce debates raging in patriot circles about which is worst for America: the Iraq War, the Guest Worker Amnesty Bill or the Loss of Rights, meaning the warrantless spying, Bush’s torture bill, the loss of habeas corpus, secret prisons and the president’s new power to declare any one of us an “enemy combatant.”
A significant number of Americans might say the threat of an guest worker amnesty bill is the biggest danger to America. Many of these people voted for the GOP in the last election, fearing that if the Republicans lose Congress, a guest worker amnesty bill would be pushed through. There’s just one little problem with this logic. The Republicans were in power for SIX YEARS and they failed to deport even a small fraction of the 20 million illegal aliens. That is a de facto amnesty. Rewarding the Republcians with another electoral victory would have just led to more of the same.
Some may argue that it’s too big a risk leaving Bush alone with a Democrat Congress for two years. Unfortunately we had no choice. We could NOT allow the neocons to get rid of any more of our basic Constitutional Rights.
In fact we need to get back some of these lost Rights as soon as possible. For starters, we need to revoke the presidential power to declare any of us “enemy combatants.” After that, we need to get rid of torture, then secret prisons and then all the other abominations. The Bush government is literally just months away from kidnapping dissidents in the middle of the night and tossing them in secret prisons –much like the old Soviet Union did. The neocons are literally transforming our government into a mirror image of the government of Israel. American dissidents and political activists were about to suffer the same fate as Palestinian dissidents in Israel. We need to have our basic Consitutional Rights restored so that we can safely speak out on other issues such as illegal aliens and the Iraq War.
And where does the Republican Party get off putting some lunatic up as president –namely someone who would sign an illegal alien amnesty in the first place? George W. Bush has some half-wit notion that he can get millions of Latinos to join the Republican Party. The two-party system would then be a multi-racial GOP versus a multi-racial Democrat Party. Conservative Pat Buchanan has seriously advocated impeaching George W. Bush over his open borders advocacy. Buchanan was right. Leaving Bush in office was a huge mistake.
If an amnesty does happen, it will be a rubber stamp on what the president and Republican Congress were already allowing to happen. In fact an amnesty might be the one great symbolic event that will wake up Americans and get them to finally abandon the treacherous two party system.
An amnesty is far from a sure thing. Opinion polls on illegal immigration show that a large percentage of Americans oppose an amnesty. Anyone who voted for an amnesty would likely be voted out of office in the next election. Given that fact, there could easily be enough cross-over votes from the Democrats to kill off an amnesty bill despite the unreliability of George W. Bush.
The bottom line is that we are in this predicament because we were putting our trust in a badly flawed political party controlled by big business and the Israeli Lobby. We NEED a Third Party that will look out for our interests and do what we want them to do. The Republicans controlled all three branches of government for six years and effectively did nothing, but legalize torture and remove our Rights. If we had real representation, the twenty million illegals would have been deported in the first year and an isolationist policy would have been adopted that would have removed the motivation for the 911 attack. The two party system will only give us more hardship and betrayal. It’s long overdue that we should wake up to the fact that we need real representation and we need to start building a new political party.