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Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed its lawsuit against Arizona’s illegal immigration law (commonly referred to as SB 1070).  What is very clear from the lawsuit is that the DOJ admits that it will not enforce existing immigration law.  The DOJ admits in their complaint the following:

As I have spent the last 2 ½ years (the time at which I became awake) trying to awake my friends and associates as to what is going on in America, I find that I have made very little progress.  Spending over two years devoted to something and seeing very little progress is disheartening to say the least, but there comes a point where one just gives up as seeing ones efforts as an exercise in futility.  For those of you who know me, you know I don’t give up that easily.  An exercise in futility or not, I will continue to hound you to wake up albeit the frequency of my requests will be diminished because frankly I have a business to run and grow and can only devote limited time to political endeavors.

While watching the Fox News channel’s weekend show Journal Editorial Report where James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal is a frequent guest (as well as a frequent guest on many other Fox News shows), I wonder why we give propagandist James Taranto any quarter anywhere in journalism.  I’m speaking in particular of James Taranto’s propaganda piece from July of 2009 entitled It’s Certifiable.  At the time, Leo Donofrio (who brought one of the suits regarding Barack Obama’s eligibility to hold the Office of the Presidency) unequivocally outed Taranto for being a propagandist in the piece.  Since that time, Donofrio has taken down his blog posts as he pursues his legal career defending Chrysler dealerships and the Bankruptcy proceedings that closed over 700 Chrysler dealerships.  I thought, however, it might be a good time to revisit Taranto’s propaganda and place back into the blogosphere the distorted facts and lies that Taranto spun on July 30, 2009 just so that we can all be clear that Taranto has no credibility.

Yesterday, I went to a BBQ in the hopes of avoiding all political discussions and just enjoying the day.  You see, I’ve gotten myself into trouble before talking about politics at family functions, so I had vowed to spend a day mute on all things political. I made it three hours.  Then, while standing in the kitchen with my nephew and two of his friends, I was asked what I thought about SB1070 (Arizona’s illegal immigration bill).  Damn, I thought, I can’t walk away from this discussion.  So I asked the questioner if he had read the legislation.  To which he responded that he had watched a lot of media coverage on the bill, and therefore, knew what it was about.  So I said, “but you haven’t read the legislation, is that correct?”  To which he replied, correct.  So I said, “then, please let me educate you on what this bill is really about.”  I subsequently shared the four goals of the legislation which I’ve written about here and here.  I explained to him that if we were still allowed to have honest discussions in America, the Arizona citizens would be allowed to participate in an intellectual discussion on whether or not the goals the legislation attempts are worthy goals, just and in the best interest of Arizona citizens.  His final reply on the subject was, “well we should have voted on the legislation.”  And that is the crux of today’s piece, our youth think we are a democracy instead of a republic, and until we educate them on the differences, we have little hope of seeing the “Great American Experiment” survive.

“The vast right-wing conspiracy theorists” is a phrase many on the left and in the media like to use, but I have news for them.  From this right-winger, I don’t believe in conspiracies.  I attribute them all to the ignorance of the American people, and I don’t use this phrase to disparage my fellow Americans as ignorant, stupid people, but rather to show that all of us are ignorant of some events.