Posted on Thu, Sep 2nd 2010 at 05:09 AM by Roland_Melnick
Signs like this are plastered all over the Southern half of Arizona, not just the immediate border areas, some as far North as 30 miles South of Phoenix. The US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management does a pretty good job of itemizing the dangers. Notice that there isn’t any denial that the problems exist.
Meanwhile, the good people of Arizona have been working to make their State a safer place to live and work, which included a new State law that mimicked existing Federal law…Arizona SB1070. Adopting Federal law into the laws of individual States is nothing new, despite the rhetoric decrying this as an unprecedented power grab by a “rogue State.”
The recent controversy over SB1070 was fueled by the wrath of pro-illegal immigration advocates and hyper-partisan Liberals/Progressives who were willing to write off the whole State as nothing but a bunch of racists. A typical tactic aimed at bullying their opponents into backing down, which leaves little room for finding solutions to real problems.
Only Arizona didn’t back down. Proving to be the opposite of the Great Uniter, President Obama ignored the appeals of his Arizona constituents and preferred to send in the Justice Department to quash their efforts.
Rather than work toward real solutions…rather than show support and understanding for the problems faced in Arizona…the Federal government opted to post these signs around the State. The following is from an article in the Washington Times:
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county lies at the center of major drug and alien smuggling routes to Phoenix and cities east and west, attests to the violence. He said his deputies are outmanned and outgunned by drug traffickers in the rough-hewn desert stretches of his own county.
“Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona,” he said. “They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.
“This is going on here in Arizona,” he said. “This is 70 to 80 miles from the border - 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States.”
He said he asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but what he got were 15 signs.
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It would seem that the message being sent over 1700 miles from Washington D.C. is…”que sera sera.” So many people predicted Obama would surrender Iraq…who would have guessed it would be Arizona instead?
So why the controversy here? Wouldn’t you be up in arms with these problems in your backyard? Who can honestly say that seeing a sign like this in Kettle Moraine State Forest or any of Wisconsin’s parks and wildlife preserves wouldn’t drive you to demand action from your lawmakers and law enforcement officials? Arizona has a greater responsibility and more worrisome concerns to have time for what the Milwaukee County Board, the MATC board, the MPS school board or some other like-minded group that decides to get loony and stick their uninformed, pretentious noses into this issue.
When the federal government is issuing warnings against travel into certain areas within the United States, I think we are well past the point of condemning State and local officials for taking matters into their own hands.
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