A social and racial sin in Arizona

The news today reports that our New Mexican Governor Bill Richardson also has sent the Arizona governor's office his concerned counsel that this bill must be vetoed.

Considering her recent shocking signing of a bill permitting the concealed carry of firearms without a permit, this present bill may also receive her signature.

We can only pray not, that less politicized heat may prevail, that justice and peace may thrive.

Catholic Cesar Chavez came from Yuma. Let us pray with him now for his ever powerful intercession for the people of God.

But many Catholics in the pews don't care about this issue, or are hostile to it. And the priests don't preach about it, because they are worried about offending parishioners with money. Last Sunday, in my parish, I asked one of the pastoral associates to raise the possibility of having a weekend of prayer for immigrants on the week-end of May 1, as suggested by the national JFIC office. His response to me was that this is a complicated issue!!!!!

Its horrifying! How will people pay for impounded cars when arrested for not having the proper papers while legal citizens, what about job loss after being arrested innocently. FEAR, HATRED, EGO DRIVEN MADNESS, and the use of corporate owned prisons that profit off all the arrests they can make, of course its the tax payers who will pay the outrageous service charge to house all these people-but thats ok, its corporate welfare at its best. Wake up people your being sold a lie.

"Under this law, those who "knowingly transport or harbor undocumented immigrants will be at risk of arrest." Good! They should be. We are supposed to be a nation of laws. If you are illegal, you don't belong here, go home. If you don't want to be profiled and arrested, I don't blame you. The solution is simple, go home.

About one third of penitentiary inmates are illegal aliens. If we continue with this goofy open border policy, the United States will not be a country that anyone will want to come to. The good people of Arizona have finally had enough and are showing some common sense. We do need to "get busy with our own senators" to pass even tougher laws in every state. Bankrupting ourselves financially and morally with a flood of illegals is not Catholic and does no good for anyone.

"And the priests don't preach about it, because they are worried about offending parishioners with money."

The essence of way too much of Catholicims these days.

We dare not afflict the comfortable in order to comfort the afflicted.

Particular the comfortable with bucks.

Arizona can pass race base laws, pass Birthers laws and the state can continue to boycott Martin Luther King Day, well the rest of the Country can boycott the state of Arizona and spank them where it hurts them the most their pocket book. Their phony patriotism is sickening, they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat War profiteering contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions). The Birthers and the Tea party crowd think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. The world is complicated and people like Hamilton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt believed that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now it’s about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. For a party that gave us Abraham Lincoln, it is tragic that the ranks are filled with too many empty suits and the crazy Birthers who have not learned that the way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked internet lies, then, and only then, do you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called “facts”. Let’s face it no one will take the Birthers seriously until they win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. I heard that Orly Taitz now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC), she wants to re-establish a family values party, that’s like saying that the Catholic Church cares about the welling being of children in their care, too late for that.