Amnesty

"amnesty (am.nes.ty) n., pl. -ties; v., -tied,-tying. --n. 1. a general pardon for offenses against a government. 2. the granting of immunity for past offenses against the laws of war. 3. Law. protection against punishment granted a witness in order to compel him to testify to incriminating facts. 4. a forgetting or overlooking of any offense. --v.i. 5. to grant amnesty to; pardon [t.L:m.8. amnestia, t. Gk.: forgetfulness]" --The American College Dictionary

Here're my questions about what it appears President Bush will announce tonight in a press conference:

1. How is it going to the back of the line --if you are waiting--and working--in the USA illegally while you're applying for legal status, and the people "in front" of you are not?

This is a two-parter. And how is this protecting our country from an invasion of angry, foreign squatters?

Frankly, while it is sad that the Mexican economy cannot manage to pull itself together enough to support its citizens without resorting to selling drugs in the USA, our Job One is to never waver from protecting our country from those who will take from us what they want without any regard for our laws.

Mexico is rich in natural resources and corruption. We seem to be rich in corporate greed, gullibility, and inertia.

2. What part of offering a "guest worker" program to foreign citizens after they have sneaked into our country illegally, in direct violation of our laws, does not sound like the dictionary definition above of amnesty? What part? The President can re-define any word he wants, but I'm still speaking English and I'm still using a dictionary to define my terms.

3. If we are a "nation of laws" why do our leaders ignore enforcing them?

4. Why would any decent person, who happens to be an elected official, make any decision that favors interests of international business at the expense of our government and people's future? And what should be done about such an action?

This selling out of our country to corporations which have no national loyalty (and a strong disregard for our laws--civil and criminal) will certainly result in the demise of our democratic society. A country cannot succeed without laws, language, a flag, and borders.

Also, the selling out of our people by their own elected officials blatantly ignores the principles upon which we were founded--the very ones that have been the only set of principles anywhere in the world that have been as successful as ours have for the past 230 years. We are witnessing blatant disregard of the future of our people by many of our elected officials. So where ARE we headed? Where ARE these Democrats and Republicans taking us?


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