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The American people are being duped by dopes
- By Robert Miranda
- April 14, 2006
- The American people are being duped by dopes.
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- Robert Miranda, a frequent contributing columnist to HispanicVista.com (http://www.hispanicvista.com/) is a national award winning columnist, Latino community activist and Editor-in-Chief of the Milwaukee Spanish Journal. Email at: rmiranda@wi.rr.com
Once again the right-wing has been able to shift public attention away from their corrupt leadership and focus public attention onto the poorest and weakest of our society—the immigrants.
Without shame and brazen inhumanity, conservative extremists continue to lie and spread vicious rhetoric about the undocumented.
Millions of lives weigh in the balance of this political campaign.
At issue is the need to secure our borders from terrorist attacks. The issue manifested itself into a debate about the millions of illegal immigrants now living in the United States. Swiftly did the conservatives of the right-wing move the American public’s attention away from President George Bush and his illegal spying of American citizens.
Because of Wisconsin Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner, the United States is embroiled once again in a debate that pits people against people. This waste of human energy takes away from efforts to organize people into challenging the corruption and deceit of the Bush administration.
The heroic stand made by United States Senator Russ Feingold, seeking to censure and hold the most powerful man in the free world accountable for his spying actions, will forever go in the annuals of history as a lost opportunity to clean government of wild-eyed elected oil baron slaves allowing themselves to be subjugated by the oil cartel seeking to influence our government into doing war and other madness around the world.
The millions of Americans and immigrants now marching to protest the crazy actions of a few Republican Senators and Congressmen spurred on by zany and whacky right-wing talking heads, such as Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson and Lou Dobbs, provide the rest of us a sobering look at the madcap world of GOP neo-conservatives acting to appease the extremist conservative part of the population that view these guys as messiahs and visionaries.
Lou Dobbs points to the immigrants as the cause of our national strife, Limbaugh blames the Liberals for America’s global decline in prestige, and Pat Robertson continues to make wild and ridiculous statements against world leaders.
Other major issues include President George Bush being fingered by Scooter Libby as the person who authorized the release of information that could have caused the death of a CIA agent. China is now a major influence in Latin America, because Bush is too busy fighting an illegal war in Iraq.
To be sure, the United States is a divided nation because of the war and immigration.
The right-wingers point to immigration as the most important issue of our day. They’ve forgotten about the victims of Katrina. They don’t care about the millions of American seniors unable to pay for health care and prescription drugs. They turn a blind eye to the fleecing of tax-dollars by war corporations Halliburton and Bechtel. To the GOP, the undocumented is the biggest threat to the United States.