Patriots On Our Borders & Security At Home

Well, the Minuteman Project is at it again!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank these bold patriots for forcing this on-the-ground approach into the national debate.

Although they are certainly unable--at the moment--to patrol our entire southern border, they've chosen one of the highest traffic areas for illegals, rolled up their sleeves, and gone to work, well aware that their greatest achievement will probably be to put pressure on the politicians who have refused to do the job that they were elected to do.

The usual whiners are out in force.

"Hispanic" and "Immigrant 'rights'" groups are complaining that the Minutemen are "racist". (If you look carefully, you'll find that most groups throwing that term around are actually racist themselves, and are often expressing their racist sentiments by screaming "racist" at anyone who isn't)

The media is delighting in referring to the project as "controversial"--which, for those of you who haven't caught on yet, usually means "bad" in mediaspeak--and conjuring up horror stories of what these dangerous people could do--unlike the "peaceful" Arabic Muslim creeping over the border with drugs and explosives.

President Bush, not content to keep federal forces from protecting our borders, has openly opposed the project, calling the patriotic volunteers "vigilantes".

In case you missed the memo, "eternal vigilance is the price of freedom".

Has anyone else figured out why President Bush opposes securing our borders?

I have.

I'll be nice and give the President the benefit of the doubt that his intentions do not involve another successful terrorist attack, but one thing that they do involve is power.

Power from two different angles:

First, he wants to keep the "Hispanic" community (especially the illegal portion--after all, they vote too!) voting Republican. (He has managed to pick up some support among their ranks.)

This is the "gotta keep my Party in power" mentality.

Second, he wants terrorists to make it across the border so that he can catch them using his pet project, the so-called "Patriot Act". Why? Because he needs a trophy that he can hold up every so often to keep too many people from seriously questioning this tremendous power-grab.

Now, I understand that the Democrats are, for the most part, screaming bloody murder over the wiretaps, the "Patriot Act", and other similar Bush projects, but try to understand; they don't mean to be right, they're just doing what they have to in order to keep themselves opposed to the Republican Party so that the people won't notice the two working toward the same goal: absolute control of the American people.

Thus, they violate our constitutional rights, claiming that it's necessary to do so in order to "keep us safe," while at the same time they refuse to take the most basic legal security measures--enforcing our immigration laws and deporting violators immediately.

Benjamin Franklin once noted that "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

And as I recall, it was on this Thursday (March 23) in 1775 that the great American patriot Patrick Henry uttered the immortal words:

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me; give me liberty, or give me death!"

It's time a few more of us spoke up with words to that effect, and demonstrated to these politicians that we will no longer be made slaves to our own government under the pretense of "security".

Let us remember the advice from Patrick Henry that we have failed to remember, let us remember, repair the damage, and forget no more:

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."