Rid Out

Of course I didn't watch Bush's "militarize the border" speech last night. I never like watching (or listening) to him, but especially when his speech is nothing more than a transparent, craven pandering to the base talk. Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo, provides a short, sweet summary that says it all.

The GOP has long been a haven for racism and bigotry, see Bill's a Bigot, and the current crop of Republican "Christians" have tried, with some success, to make bigotry mainstream. The anti- Latino bias that underlies and surrounds the Immigration issue cannot be ignored.

A recent example of this is extremely alarming. Citing an article, Against a Fence, posted at World Net Daily (which I will not link to), Crooks and Liars, notes that the author -- a self-professed Christian libertarian -- argues that the Administration should just look to the Nazis to see the way to get rid of illegal immigrants:

Not only will it work, but one can easily estimate how long it would take. If it took the Germans less than four years to rid themselves of 6 million Jews, many of whom spoke German and were fully integrated into German society, it couldn't possibly take more than eight years to deport 12 million illegal aliens, many of whom don't speak English and are not integrated into American society.

See also, Blogger Hullabaloo discussing the article at The Final Solution. I'd like to "rid us" of them.

We live in dangerous times.

Tags: Politics, Immigration, Racism