Is SB1070 a Just Law?

A friend of mine sent out an e-mail to a number of folks on her email list.  One of the recipients cited scripture:

Exodus 23:9, “Do not oppress an alien; you yourselves know how it feels to be aliens, because you were aliens in Egypt.”

And here was my 2 cents worth response:

Joseph and his family were asked to stay in Egypt by Pharaoh when Joseph was “Assistant Pharaoh.” Hundreds of years later the “nation” of Israel had grown in numbers and the new Pharaoh forgot the promises made to Joseph and his family generations before.  Egypt oppressed Israel out of fear mostly.  While Israeli’s were “aliens” in Egypt, they were legally in the country, even esteemed invited guests to begin with.

In other words, Israel entered Egypt legally and later had their rights revoked.  Quite different than Illegals that break the law to become aliens.  Hence, illegal aliens.   Read Romans 13 if you want to know what God thinks about obeying the law.  The authorities are both a minister of God and don’t wield the sword for nothing.  If you do good you don’t need to fear the authorities.

SB1070 is not an “unrighteous” law that goes against God’s laws or even Jesus’ teachings.

If we are to show compassion toward our fellow man, what about the hundreds (thousands?) of illegals that are kidnapped and raped by those bringing them here?   What about the repeat criminals that don’t belong here that are stealing, killing and raping Americans?  In some cases raping children.

There is nothing wrong with asking someone for their “papers” when (and ONLY when) someone is stopped for a suspected crime.  When I get stopped for speeding what is the first thing the officer asks me for? My “papers.”   A drivers license is “your papers.”   Legal Aliens are expected to carry their proof of being here, and they know it, and they do it gladly!  (at least the ones I have talked to)   Border Patrol already has the authority to ask anyone, and everyone, if they are legal residents and if they suspect otherwise they can search your vehicle and check your “papers” all according to existing Federal Law.

I am tired about this law being lied about.  This law makes it HARDER for police to racial profile.  This law forces sanctuary cities to stop enabling criminals.  This law makes it a felony for an illegal to reenter after being deported.  It’s NOT a police state bill.  It is a state law that does what existing federal law does.  Those that are lying about SB1070 are stirring up hatred.   Some people honestly don’t know better and the media is helping them to misunderstand.  Others are lying on purpose for political reasons.   Talk to a rancher on the border about how they live in fear.  Our state leaders couldn’t wait any longer to protect it’s own citizens, that’s all.

Not everybody coming here is looking for a better life.  Many of those that are end up “stealing” social services and tax payer $$ for health care and education.  Others looking for a better life are being kidnapped and raped.  Phoenix is the WORLD’S second leading city for kidnapping!  Where’s the outcry over that?

America has a LONG history of being king to Aliens.  Most of us are ancestors of those who immigrated here legally.  We have seen the aliens and we are them!

I enjoy a good debate, but it should NEVER included name calling.  We should discuss these things openly so we can come to well reasoned solutions.   Unfortunately there are forces tearing us apart.  There is way too much name calling going on… and lying.   Please pray for our country.

Tea Party Racist? Black Conservatives Respond

As an off white male (I’m 1/2 Italian and tan very well in the Summer :-) the charge of racism is kind of like, “so, how long have you been beating your wife?”  I could respond with, “well, some of my best friends are black,” but doesn’t that just sound lame.  The charge of racism has been so over used lately so as to lose it’s punch, but it can still put an off white American on defense for no good reason.

I’ll just let Black Conservatives talk for me:

and then there was James T. Harris that I recorded at the Tucson Tea Party on April 15, 2010.

I’ll leave you with a scripture and a thought.

1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

It’s like Martin Luther King, Jr’s dream speech. Someday we will get to the point in this country where people are judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I’d say that some liberals and some in the liberal media have some catching up to do.

One Reason I Left TV

It left me.

There are many reasons why I left, but a Newsbusters story this morning reminded of something that used to really bug me.

I used to anchor the morning news on two stations in Lubbock, Texas.  CBS13 from 5:30-6:00.  ABC28 from 6:00 – 7:00.  Back on CBS for news 7:00-8:00 and then weather cut-ins on CBS from 8:00-9:00.  Yeah, it was busy.

Occasionally, our producer would want some time off and some of those times, I would come in at Midnight and produce my own shows.  Part of that process is pulling down news stories (packages as they are called) from the various satellite feeds from the networks.  It used to bug me to no end how hard it was to find down the middle reporting.  I trusted many of our local reporters to give an honest look at both sides more than I did the supposed leaders of our industry!

Being a watcher of the news these days, and also an unapologetic conservative reporter in the “new media,” I can tell you that yes, it has gotten worse.  It seems like when the networks crowned Barack Obama as President the veil was lifted.  Network news isn’t unbiased reporting any more, rather it’s reporting with a liberal slant in much the same way that this blog and my videos are reporting with a conservative one.  I don’t mind so much that ABCBSNBC are liberal, except they try to pretend that they are fair!

So here’s the story from Newsbusters.  Seems the by a margin of 12:1, ABC, CBS and NBC have been reporting negatively on the new immigration law in Arizona.  No kidding (sarcasm).  Translation?  They are lying to the American people.  Propaganda even.  No wonder their ratings are down.  Americans are around 60% in favor of this law, and that’s even while they are bombarded by lies!  Honest reporting on the facts of the bill might even put a damper on some of the violent protests against the bill.  It couldn’t hurt anyway.  Certainly good journalism requires telling the truth.  Right?

Thank God that the term “media” is plural.  There are all sides being discussed on various mediums.  The TV networks used to do a better job of balancing themselves out.  Now we consumers of news have to turn to a variety of sources.

I don’t miss being on TV so much… well, maybe weather anchoring.  Maybe that’s why I started TucsonWeather.us.  See ya there!

Ruth McClung is FOR Arizona

Reasons to Vote No on May 18th

Prop 100 is before voters in a special election. I have let me feelings know in a blog post here.

Here are even more reasons to Vote No May 18th

A Legal Immigrant Speaks on SB1070

Gabriella is a friend of mine. She spoke Tuesday at the Tucson City Council. One of the council members, Regina Romero is wanting the city to look into suing the state over the immigration bill, SB1070. Here’s what Gabriella had to say:

Tammy Bruce just picked up the story and the video

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Smart Girl Politics Border Clean-up

This past Saturday I spent an amazing day in Bisbee, near Naco, Arizona. Smart Girl Politics sponsored a border clean-up in remembrance of Rancher Robert Krentz who was killed most likely by an illegal entrant into our country.

Our group ended up exploring a trail known as an alien “Super Highway” and we found all kinds of things on the trail as well as some surprises at the Border Fence itself.

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Arizona Congressman calls for boycott of…. Arizona!

Well, Raul Grijalva does lead the Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives (is that who you really want representing you District 7?). Last night on The Ed Show on MSNBC, Raul Grijalva called for a nationwide boycott of Arizona because the Governor is about ready to sign Arizona Senate Bill 1070. Unemployment is 9.6% in the state right now. Tourism brings BILLIONS of dollars into the state. Is he serious? Apparently so.

Meanwhile, State Senator Frank Antenori appeared on MSNBC this morning and explained what is actually in the bill.

I say boycott Grijalva and support Ruth McClung for Congress.

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Why I Hate the Proposed 1% Sales Tax in Arizona

And why you should too.

I have a friend who is a teacher in Tucson.   Recently on Facebook she asked for folks to support the proposed 1% sales tax to save her job.   She might be right.  If the sales tax goes through her job may be saved for awhile, but at what cost?  Most likely at the expense of thousands of other jobs in the state.

What really upsets me about this starts at the national level.  This is how misplaced priorities in Washington, D.C. trickle down to the state level and into our personal lives.  The Obama Administration has been determined to grow government instead of creating jobs.  He gives himself a B+.  If his aim is to vastly increase debt and the size of government, I’d say he’s about right so far, although passing the government takeover of health care might bump that up to an A-.

The so-called stimulus bill didn’t stimulate anything except for the growth of government.  That means at a time when tax revenues are low because so many people are out of work the government grew itself which demands even more revenue.  Since revenue is down we have to raise taxes and go deeper into debt.  This Administration is shattering records for debt creation all the while blaming the Bush Administration.  Shameless, wrong and dangerous.

The proven method of stimulating job growth and tax revenue is cutting tax rates for individuals and corporations.  It’s how Reagan got us out of the mess Carter created and it’s how George W. Bush saved the country from an economic disaster after the 911 attacks.

Instead, we have an administration that is very dangerously growing government and creating a HUGE debt load.  It is a huge drag on an economy that should already be pulling out of this deep recession.  Instead we have near 10% unemployment for the foreseeable future.

So, that brings me back to the proposed 1% sales tax in Arizona.  Instead of a better national economy that would spur the local economy, we have a high jobless rate and the State of Arizona is broke.  Now the debate is about;  do we agree to a 20% sales tax increase to save some teachers jobs? or do we reject higher taxes, save private sector jobs and watch teachers get layed off?  What a lousy choice.

I’m against the tax increase because a new tax increase will bog down the local economy even more than it is which will delay any hope we have of pulling out of this recession.  I know that “they” promise it’ll be “temporary,” but I know better than that.

I love my teacher friends.  You watch how this debate is going to be framed.  “It’s about the children.  If you are against the tax you hate children.”  They are going to pull on emotional strings to get folks to vote to increase their own taxes.  Because Obama has taken fiscally wise solutions off the table we are reduced to emotionally charged debates over the best ways to tax ourselves into deeper trouble.

If the self imposed sales tax increase is self imposed the problem ultimately isn’t solved.  We’ll just have to go back to well again and again.  More debt, more taxes, more jobs lost… a downward spiral.

We MUST have fiscal conservatives back in charge at the state level and at the federal level.  This debt is unsustainable and if we don’t apply proven solutions to the problem and fast, a 1% sales tax will be the least of our problems.

Arizona Health Care Freedom Act

American’s for Prosperity and the Tucson Tea Party teamed up to bring, “Townhall on How to Stop Obamacare in Arizona” to the El Conquistador Resort in Oro Valley. Dr. Eric Novack is a pediatrician who was instrumental in writing the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act that will be on the ballot in November. In this clip, Dr. Novack talks about the two main protections Arizonans would receive under the act.

In this clip, Dr. Eric Novack takes a two-part question on whether Obamacare will cover illegal aliens and whether abortions will be paid for by taxpayers.

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