When Amnesty Comes Up, Speak Out!

            The elites of America are very concerned that ordinary Americans are making their views known to congressmen at public Town Hall meetings. They are outraged that ordinary people are so brash and uppity as to question the health care plans now before Congress. Admittedly some at the meetings may have been too shrill, but in the main, people have simply expressed their heart-felt concerns about the plan. One of them is that the House health proposal, for all practical purposes, will allow illegal aliens to participate in the program.

            This public uproar, seemingly, is what representative government is all about. But one not too comfortable with that concept is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). She claims that this kind of populist upsurge does not represent grass roots America—as if this wealthy insular politico would have even a clue about average Americans. According to Pelosi, the critics at the meetings are “Un-American.” What irony! This is the same person who once praised the “patriotism” of illegal aliens. Pelosi probably wouldn’t know a real American if she stepped on one. (And step on them she does.)

            In any event, President Obama made it known during his recent trip to Mexico that once the health bill is finished, he’s going to move full speed ahead on his “comprehensive,” immigration legislation, i.e., amnesty for illegal aliens. In what Congress Daily PM called “his strongest commitment yet” to the plan, Obama stated that he hoped that it could be passed next year.

            Said the president, “This is going to be difficult. It is going to require bipartisan cooperation. There are going to be demagogues out there who [will] try to suggest that any form of legalization for those who are already in the United States is unacceptable.”

            There you have it. Those of us who believe in the rule of law and oppose reward for those who break our laws are “demagogues.” Well, we demagogues should prepare to borrow a page from the health care critics, and prepare to meet our congressmen at the Town Halls—as well as communicate with them by letter, phone and e-mail.

            Let there be no threats or insults, or any other violation of basic courtesy, but let the congressmen know in no uncertain terms that amnesty is unacceptable. Popular outrage toward misgovernment is as American as apple pie.