I've have not yet heard anyone use that phrase to describe the Immigration Law protesters who've traveled here to Alabama, though surely some folks have thought it.
Just like the outsiders who came here to sir up trouble back you-know-when.
Thirteen of the new troublemakers were arrested for a sit-in at the Statehouse, and on the street outside. They were all released late on Thursday.
More outsiders will be here next week, including a New York Congresswoman who writes to explain the reasons for her visit in The Huffington Post.
Of course she's not some intruder from another place. She's a fellow American protesting what she sees as injustice, as were those who came before her.
Montgomery Public Safety Director Chris Murphy told me his officers will treat those who come with respect, but make arrests if laws are broken. A far cry from The Edmund Pettus Bridge.
The street of Montgomery were bloodied by earlier protests. This is a state about which some people know only one thing. And that is protest. From Selma to Birmingham to Anniston and beyond. We are protest.
I say welcome to Alabama, Madam Congresswoman Clarke.
[UPDATE: A Mercedes Benz executive is arrested in Alabama for not having his ID with him. Great headlines in Europe, fellas.]
The doo-doo is now beginning to hit the fan for Alabama's all-Republikkklan legislators & state executives.
ReplyDeleteThe arrest of a MBUSA executive official is just the start.
One can only imagine how, or even if the Governor's office is doing International Damage Control.
If my firm's executive was arrested in a previously friendly place where I had, and continue to $pend BILLION$ of dollar$, I'd be seriously rethinking any expan$ion plan$.
Next, who'd a-thunk that politicians would CUT OFF their source... literally?!
I refer, of course, to the same idiotically miserable excuse of a law that FORBIDS any state or local governmental official or agency from ACCEPTING tax revenue from anyone whom cannot prove their U.S. residency.
The law is also hypocritical because it forbids governmental officials from accepting tax, yet allows businesses to collect them. Think "sales tax." It is anti-business because it forbids governmental official from ACCEPTING or COLLECTING taxes or fees from those whose U.S. residency cannot or has not been previously determined. In essence, it establishes a guideline for reckoning/suspecting based upon skin color or speech pattern.
That aspect of Alabama's failed so-called law (aka HB56) alone violates the federal Commerce clause says that the United States Congress shall have power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
I recollect these words uttered by Ronald Reagan - whom was excerpting Leon Trotsky to belittle the Communists - "The march of freedom and democracy will leave {this governor} and {legislature} on the ash heap of history."
Aha!
ReplyDeleteIf the state cannot accept taxes from an undocumented person, then all such a person has to do when checking out groceries is to say: "I'm undocumented. You can't collect sales tax from me."