Let's say I break into your house...

[Desertdog]

Received this in my email today.  I feel this is one to pass around.

Let's say I break into your house...

A lady wrote the best letter in the Editorials in ages!! It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV.

Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration. Certain people are angry that the U.S. might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely. Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests.

Let's say I break into your house. Let's say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave. But I say, "I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors; I've done all the things you don't like to do. I'm hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters, not only must you let me stay, you must add me to your family's insurance plan, educate my kids, and provide other benefits to me and to my family (my husband will do your yard work because he too is hard-working and honest, except for that breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my right to be there.

It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself. I'm hard-working and honest, um, except for well, you know.

And what a deal it is for me!! I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of selfishness, prejudice and being an anti-housebreaker. Oh yeah, and I want you to learn my language so you can communicate with me.

Why can't people see how ridiculous this is?! Only in America .... if you agree, pass it on (in English). Share it if you see the value of it as a good simile. If not, blow it off along with your future Social Security funds.

[Typhoon]

Ah, Yes!  But the latest rhetoric is that this is not YOUR house at all!  

Its THEIR house, and YOU are the ones who broke in!

So, Im driving home from work the other night, and happened to have one of the local drive time programs on the radio.  Peter Camejo, Green party candidate for this years gubernatorial election in California, (running again how many times?) was ranting on about how the Southwestern states of the United States were illegally and forcefully taken from Mexico.  That the border between the United States and Mexico is, in fact, illegal on its face, and the Mexicans here in the United States are indigenous to this Southwestern United States' piece of real estate.  

Its really THEIR home and WE (European types) are the interlopers.  

How did Peter Camejo make his point?  

Radio program:

Peter:  Al, (addressing the radio host), what city do you live in?

Al:  Los Angeles.  

Peter:  Isnt Los Angeles a Spanish name?"  




UMMMM,   Didnt Spanish come from, oh, I dunno?  SPAIN?


INDIGENOUS?

The only indigenous people on the planet are somewhere in Africa&

[Antibubba]

It's a good analogy, Desertdog, but you're forgetting about The Roommate.

He's the guy that shares that big house with You.  He actually let this person stay after breaking into the house, because The Roommate hates to do the dishes and clean the bathroom and mow the lawn, just like You do.  And here's someone who actually wants to bust his butt to do all that, for almost nothing.  So The Roommate figures You won't mind, even if it will cost You a little-HEY!  He's not going to pay the guy!-and truthfully, You wouldn't actually mind someone doing all the crap chores for pennies; but since You are the actual owner of the house, you wish that YOU'D ACTUALLY BEEN ASKED, FIRST.

A few weeks later You know You'll never have to touch another dish or scrub the grout or pull weeds again; the best part is, if this guy complains that maybe You work him too hard or You pay him too litlle, You can call the cops because he BROKE INTO YOUR HOUSE.  He knows it, but he also knows You won't tell, because You'd have to go back to scrubbing Your own toilet.  He's an opportunist, and he knows he is safe, because YOU are an opportunist, too.

[Trisha]

This is pefect material for a remarkably LSD (Liberal Socialist Democrat) with whom I am required as a matter of my volunteer work with Rescue to interact courteously.

Aaaah.

Thanks - why is it so difficult for the compulsively ego-concentric to see the problem at hand?

[The Rabbi]

This is pefect material for a remarkably LSD (Liberal Socialist Democrat) with whom I am required as a matter of my volunteer work with Rescue to interact courteously.

Aaaah.

Thanks - why is it so difficult for the compulsively ego-concentric to see the problem at hand?

Why is it hard for the knee-jerk nativists to see that the solution to the problem is simple?  Why is it that people favor liberty only for some people but not others?  AARGH.