HOW DARE YOU!

“Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and

Kathleen Curry her illiterate peasants.”

He could have read the opening lines of the Communist Manifesto; he could have quoted Bill Maher on the Pope; he could have recommended Jimmy Carter as minister plenipotentiary to the Court of Osama bin Laden, but no, he had to refer to illiterate peasants as illiterate peasants, the one thing at that moment in time that would have set the blood of every politically correct Democrat in the Colorado Legislature to boiling.

“How dare you!” screamed State Representative Kathleen Curry. Rosie O’Donnell had never been more furious.

Yes, how dare Colorado State Representative Douglas Bruce exercise his Second Amendment rights in the Colorado Legislature? Where did he think he was? Sitting in Herr Hitler’s Reichstag…at a Klan rally? How dare he! Curry gaveled the Representative down. Slink back to your Klan den, you wretch! All was pandemonium! What had Bruce said that could have offended the sensibilities of a group of legislators thought to be on the cutting edge of Colorado’s brave, new, permissive society? What?

“I don’t think we need 5,000 more illiterate peasants in Colorado,” he said.

Five thousand? That sounds fair. If Colorado takes more than its share there won’t be enough illiterate peasants to go around. Bruce was just thinking of Iowa and Illinois and Georgia. If Ms. Curry thinks 5,000 illiterate peasants is not enough she should have said so. Cheese…to gavel the poor guy down…

America faced a similar situation back in 1775. It wasn’t illiterate peasants that were pouring into the country then, though some of them may have been—it was redcoats and lobsterbacks and tars and Bosun’s mates. Some Americans welcomed them; others did not. One American who was adverse to their presence was Patrick Henry. One day in March of’ ’75 he stood before the Second Revolutionary Convention of Virginia in the old church in Richmond to voice his objections to what he called the accumulation of Redcoats ‘in this quarter of the world.’ “Should I keep back my opinion at such a time,” he said, “through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself guilty of treason toward my country and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven which I revere above all earthly kings…Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer.”

Like Patrick Henry, Bruce gave his opinion. Every remedy the Colorado Legislature has been willing to try to get the illegal immigration problem under control has been exhausted. They are deceiving themselves. If only Bruce were closer to being Patrick Henry than the Colorado Legislature is to being Herr Hitler’s Reichstag things might be looking a bit better.

Henry finished his speech with “give me liberty or give me death.” A few years earlier in the House of Burgesses he had offered a direct challenge to the Crown. “Caesar had his Brutus,” he said, “Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third—“

And the speaker (Was it Kathleen Curry?) cried, “Treason! Treason!”

And Henry said, “If this be treason, make the most of it.”

Nothing much has changed. The border is leaking, the people want it plugged, the politicians don’t—they want comprehensive immigration reform; it is their way of saying manana.. The Three Stooges, sharing one wrench, could do a better job along the border than President Bush, the US Congress and the Legislatures of as many states as anyone would care to name. Maybe when Obama is President—or perhaps Hillary—and the troops have been withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan they will send an observation team to the border—an observation team. In the meantime Bruce will face the music for referring to illiterate peasants as illiterate peasants. Obviously he will not be drawn-and-quartered, Colorado does not execute people accused of hate speech—not yet. “We can’t go filing ethics investigations every time someone says something we don’t like,” said House Minority Leader Republican Mike May. Give that man a cigar.

Forget that Colorado has 500,000 illegal aliens and spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year trying to educate 30,000 illegal alien students. Forget the 12,000 illegal alien gang members roaming the streets and the pampas, this is a Second Amendment issue—Bruce has no more right to shout ‘illiterate peasants’ in the Colorado Legislature’s crowded theatre of the absurd than Kathleen Curry would have to shout ‘Fire’ at the Folies Bergere..

If the Progressive Block—the Democrats and the Liberals and the Socialists and the Marxists and the Leninists and their running dogs at CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) and the professorial KKK (Kustodians of all Kultural Knowledge) at Berkeley and Cambridge and elsewhere—have their way, meaningful freedom of speech in America will be as dead as it is in England and France with Brigitte Bardot going to jail and Thierry Meyssan praised as the new Rousseau for 9/11: The Big Lie.

The pressure from these groups has become so great that Condoleezza Rice has recently been referring to Hamas as resistance fighters. That’s right—Resistance Fighters! What is wrong with thugs, gangsters, scumbags, creeps, fascists or terrorists? They are perfectly good words and are far more accurate than ‘resistance fighters.’ Yet there is no dearth of fools willing to say one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Unfortunately, this ‘Democratic’ approach has not reached into the Colorado Legislature where no one is willing to say one’s man undocumented immigrant is another man’s illiterate peasant.

If Jeremiah Wright had said, “God d___ Mexico” instead of “God d___ America” would the Liberal Democracy have smiled and walked away?

And there is that other thing connected to illegal immigration that no one wants to talk about—the Big C, no not cancer, crime. Ninety-five percent of all outstanding murder warrants in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens, 86 percent in Phoenix, Arizona. Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens—that’s more than the toll in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. The Liberal position is consistent—pull the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and pull the police off the streets of Los Angeles and Phoenix.

When speech is restricted all the other freedoms will go, including the freedom to protect oneself.

The Colorado Legislature believed Colorado needed 5,000 more illiterate peasants to work the fields so they passed a visa ordinance for 5,000 more and who was Bruce to complain? He wasn’t Robert the Bruce and he wasn’t Bruce Willis. He was the “Wha’cha talkin’ ‘bout, Willis?” of Different Strokes.

There will be a few more gang members—so what? Kathleen Curry’s fruit will be picked, her shrubs will be trimmed and her garbage taken out. Who knows—that illegal alien mowing the grass across the street might be an unemployed University President from Chihuahua…or an out-of-work haute couture designer from Mexico City…or a disfranchised marshmallow manufacturer…or a…(gasp)…PUT DOWN THAT GUN! PUT DOWN THAT GUN! I’M ALONE WITH MY KIDS! BANG! BANG!

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