"Look at the silly monkey."
It seems in the wake of Arizona’s passage of SB1070, the law that imbues the state with the authority to enforce Federal immigration laws independently, immigration reform has become the hot topic of political discussions. This issue is becoming a driving force on the Sunday morning chat shows as well as many of the political blogs sprinkled throughout the realm of cyberspace. It’s become the hot button issue of the 2010 mid-term elections for many of the candidates seeking office in an increasingly divisive political environment. The debate on immigration reform may very well be the pivotal issue in the upcoming November elections, which may be the worst of possible outcomes for the future of American politics.
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It's not as scary as it looks.
This afternoon I watched a video clip on youtube of an old episode of Crossfire, a Sunday afternoon talk program. This clip was from the year 1986 and the subject was obscene rock music and whether or not the government should step in and impose standards of censorship to ensure that obscene materials do not fall into the hands of impressionable young listeners. Two of the four panelists were political commentator John Lofton and musical iconoclast Frank Zappa. During one point in the heated discussion (it was actually more of an interrupting contest than a discussion), Lofton asked Zappa if he’s some kind of anarchist. This was in response to Zappa’s unwavering viewpoint that the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is completely inviolate in all forms of media. Often when someone is openly advocating freedom over government control, it seems that there will always be someone else who sees exercising that freedom as anarchy. I myself have often been called an anarchist. At first I defended my pro-liberty viewpoint as not being anarchy but rather as a Constitutionally sound rational perspective. After closer examination of this however, I may be forced to describe my defense of individual liberty as anarchy.
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