One day, they show up waving Mexican flags and flying Spanish language banners that claim California for Mexico.
The next day, they are draped in American flag hats, t-shirts, and headbands reciting talking points provided by International ANSWR (the modern form of the American Communist Party, by the way). Talking points that are clearly focus-tested to soothe the savage breast of the hard-hearted and soft-headed American voter.
What happened to all the Mexican flags? The signs proclaiming California, Texas and Arizona as the rightful provinces of Mexico? The Liberal Spin Machine is working the issue for the cameras. And the press cooperates.
So, did you hear anybody in the press noting how all the illegal immigrants were draped in the flag at the recent protests? What happened to the Mexican flags? They were, in fact, collected, where possible, by protest organizers to make a more media-friendly crowd. And where are the Spanish-language signs? Same. The vaguely anti-American rhetoric? The media conveniently missed it, or didn't consider it newsworthy (but they aren't biased, of course, or trying to shape the news).
It stuck out to me. It was obvious. But the mainstream news didn't even notice the difference.
And, literally, the illegals were draped in the flag. American flag arm bands, American flag head bands, American flag capes and bags and shorts and shirts and pants and blankets. Going so far overboard to show their "patriotism" (while they break our immigration laws and move much of their economic output, in the form of their paychecks, to the parasitical Mexican economy) should make any objective observer dubious at the very least.
And we're supposed to believe that these people, who are breaking American laws--and often not just immigration laws but labor laws as well--"love" America? No, they love American money and largess. They love American social services, and they love taking money under the table from American employers who ought to know better. And no amount of American flag T-shirts are going to change that.
But perhaps all is not lost. Recent polling indicates that average Americans on both sides of the political spectrum were turned off by the recent protests. While politicians will probably still look at them as future voters and take no real action to, say, make them obey the law or make any attempt to assimilate, average Americans aren't swayed by angry, sometimes racist, sometimes anti-American, protestors. No matter how many American flag headbands they put on.
Perhaps it's because illegal immigrants should be made to obey the law, and that blanket amnesty is just a bad idea. But it could also be because the protestors, and the folks organizing them, think we're stupid. If anything is turning average Americans off, I think it's probably how stupid, shallow, and gullible the protestors, and the protest organizers, clearly think us "average Americans" are.
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