Sweet Home Alabama and Immigration

What to say about how stupid the State Legislature and the Tea Party Conservative Christians that elected them? They are a continual source of embarrassment for me and all of us with sense that are left here in this desolate wasteland of stupid by no choice of our own. These people have a penchant for fried chicken, and a really annoying tendency to see the end of the world in everything that isn't in their literal southern small world.

In the newest expression of racism and xenophobia, Alabama passed the most idiotic "papers please" law that has ever been written. I have mentioned the sheer stupidity and illegality of this law in previous posts. In addition to the blatant racism of the law, the State has cut back on State Troopers, Sheriff's Deputies and local cops. Piling on the tomfoolery, they have slashed the county budgets on courthouse staff, security, jail guards, teachers...pretty much every one that allows the government and public safety to function.


This month, was the fun time that we all love, TAG RENEWAL. In the past, we had the option of renewing online or by mail, but thanks to the racist vultures in Montgomery, we have to renew IN PERSON. With a shortage of personnel, can you guess what that means? Long lines. Alabama's new immigration law requires motorists renewing a tag to have their Alabama driver's license number and license expiration date for each car owner. Tags lines have been so long in Birmingham that officials are adding portable toilets. Are you serious?! Who has a day to kill and wants to crap in a diaper like a psycho astronaut just to renew a tag because Governor Fire Marshall Bill Bentley and the rest of the goon squad can't think more than 5 min. in front of their faces when they wrote this idiotic law? I guess we should be happy they could manage to write at all...It seems we also need to take a birth certificate along with a drivers license, what's next a vial of blood, high school transcripts, baptismal records, my bra size, how many sexual partners I've had and a copy of my teeth x-ray's? More evidence that this b.s. system will fail much like the voting populace in general.

Between the court cost of trying to defend this bill, our school systems losing additional revenue we  can't afford, time and money wasted waiting in long lines for services, the farmers losing crops, money spent fighting lawsuits over false arrests, and having teachers and police work as immigration officials, this Law is costing  more money than it's worth. It's been a federal felony violation for U.S. Farmers to exploit/hi­re illegals since Nov 6, 1986.

U.S.C. 8 § 1324a : US Code - Section 1324A: Unlawful employment of aliens. Maybe U.S. Farmers should visit their local JOHN DEERE Dealership to check out the full line of Mechanical Harvesters­, available since the late 1940's. 

Speaking of false arrest, Muflahi, a 24-year-old born in Yemen, was arrested Friday during a drug raid in Etowah County, Alabama, along with two other Yemenis. Etowah County is a place that no one that is black or brown belongs after sundown. The three men were taken into custody for obstructing a government operation, and upon processing at the jail, only Muflahi was unable to produce documentation of his legal status. Muflahi is not in the U.S. illegally, but he could possibly be a terrorist at least according to Alabama Senators, (Shelby, Brooks, two of the smartest on the hill), but he is a legal citizen nonetheless. According to them, just because he was born in Yemen he should be regarded as a suspected terrorist. Yeah...no other reason...just by virtue of the geopraphical location of his birth, because we all know NO TERRORISTS COME FROM THE UNITED STATES, except the Unabomber, Timothy McVeigh, John Wilkes Booth, Jared Loughner, Sirhan Sirhan, Eric Rudolph, Dan White, Andrew Joseph Stack and Leon Czolgosz. Uh oh...problem with that logic isn't there?

Do they still have signs on all roads heading into Alabama that say: "You are now leaving the United States, welcome to Alabama." If not, they should.

Apart from the fact that the US government has assassinat­ed US citizens without a court to judge them, we are now labeling everything according to skin color and no one would admit it:
1. Black: Will rob you and steal your money
2. Too dark: 99% an illegal immigrant who stole my dish washing job.
3. Brown: Definitely a terrorist.
4. Yellow: O those nerd Chinese people who stole my broom manufactur­ing job. Who cares if he was actually innocent, or in fact a legal immigrant? America has still sent the message it intended: If you look foreign, you are in trouble. Since when do facts matter? Where have you been living? In post-Patri­ot Act America, little things like fundamenta­l rights, innocence and due process do not matter and if you live in the South, you can forget it, everyone not white, protestant and either an Alabama or Auburn fan are a tool of Satan. I guess the terrorists are winning...Yemenis in Alabama, thousands of Somalis in Minnesota, lots of black Muslims controllin­g the prisons...­world conquest is the goal. Don't open the door, hide your kids and your wife because they raping everybody out here. There will be plenty of low paying jobs with no benefits for the choosing when the Hispanics are out.

For everyone that thinks this law is just wonderful, think about this: your drivers license is NOT proof of your citizenship. It is only proof that you can drive in the State that you are licensed. Unless you are in the habit of carrying a birth certificate or a passport, you do not have proof of citizenship and Big Brother can lock you up just as easily as the so called illegals.

Here we have a bad law and we were prepared to make a public statement about the success of the law and once again we proved to the world as a state that we are a bunch of fools that are unworthy of being targeted by a terrorist group for an attack.

Arizona's SB 1070--and even more with Alabama's HB 56, which is "SB 1070 on steroids"--these state laws go much further than mere frustration with the federal government. Anyone can see that these laws are discriminatory and unconstitutional, not to mention racially motivated. Such tactics can affect everyone--including citizens and legal residents, if we aren't careful, it will happen. PATRIOT ACT, HELLO! Let's think! There is a better way to handle Illegal immigration and this isn't it. Let's not just sit back and accept the small, but really big government tea party vision of the world and act like it's normal and that it can't happen to another "minority" group.

Sometimes doing something will result in a blood spattered suicide. This law has given Etowah County just enough rope to hang themselves.

The South is the Cradle of Idiocy

Arizona, Georgia, and my inbred hick state Alabama have all jumped on the "ban Hispanics" immigration / Jim Crow Laws bandwagon. What none of these states considered outside of the illegality of racial profiling is the economic consequences of such unconstitutional and hypocritical laws.

Arizona, Georgia, Alabama immigration laws allow cops to ask suspected illegal aliens (what a terrible term) for identification. Since the most useful guide in the Land of Dixie as to who might be in the United States unlawfully is to start with anybody who looks Mexican, police will more often than not use ethnic identifiers as the basis of any profile. And, that, by the way, is the definition of racial profiling. Dixie's law attempts to cover that potentially unconstitutional base by requiring officers to have “due cause” to detain someone before asking for their papers. But I suspect Rihanna or J.Lo (and they're pretty stupid), could see through that one, we aren't talking about shoes or penis photos... if a cop wants to find an excuse to check you out, he has one of many to choose from, whether it be speeding or any of the thousands of misdemeanors on the books, such as spitting on the sidewalk or littering. Jan Brewer, Arizona’s governor, has said that “we need to trust our law enforcement.” But how can we trust them not to profile when the law’s very intent is to detain and deport a class of people defined by their ethnicities? The loopholes just seem big and obvious to me because it doesn’t really make any sense to pull over Caucasians or black people if you’re looking for Mexicans or Guatemalans, right? And please don’t give me that tired argument that they’re not just looking for people from Central America, they’re looking for all unlawful residents ...

The idea of simply asking every Mexican-looking person you come across to present papers is seductive because it assumes that people who are here legally will simply show their passports or green cards or birth certificates (driver’s licenses only prove identity, not citizenship) and go on about their business. People who are here illegally will be stopped, arrested, and possibly jailed or deported. Easy right? Wrong. Let me simply list the ways in which this kind of needle-in-a-haystack policing is dumb, dumb, dumb, and ineffective. (Did I mention dumb?)



Such policing is very, very expensive. As it is, in Dixieland, the TOP 10 in crime, we have a law we can NOT afford to enforce. We are pulling cops and troopers off of the street for real crimes and don't have enough personnel to staff the courthouses. Do you really believe we have enough people to chase down someone who "looks Hispanic"? What are the other costs? Tourism boycotts. Arizona suffered a comical boycott when Major League teams pulled all-star games from Phoenix and San Francisco and Boston had declined to do business with Arizona costing the state millions, even billions in dollars.

What does Alabama have? The Civil Rights Hall of Fame? The 16th Street Baptist Churh? Yeah, let's evoke images of a klansman bombing a church and killing 4 kids. Real positive message to project to the world. Vision Land? Horrible roads? The same work being done on I-65 that's been worked on since I was in college and that was in 98? How about a confederate flag being flown off that same freeway? Bad memories? If anyone is crazy enough to want to visit this god forsaken state we should be grateful they took the chance of risking harm to their brain cells by the air pollution or the overwhelming scent of stupid. What type of hit in tourism can Alabama afford? We already lost City Stages because the morons that funded it couldn't ever get band's people wanted to see and never paid the vendor's on time. To add insult to injury, the had it on the hottest weekend of the year and it always rained...Like I wanted to see Bootsey Collins in 100 degree weather, while some drunk guy named Floyd pees in ally and tell's me how he loves black people...please...

Legislators never think more than 5 minutes in front of their faces... and we don’t get to have it both ways here. Yes, undocumented workers are breaking the law, but our demand for cheap labor has made them an essential part of our economy. Many, if not most, of these people come here to perform the low-wage jobs that Americans don’t want and won’t do. Georgia had a mass exodus of their undocumented workers because of their draconian and half assed law and as a result there agriculture and farm production took a huge hit financially. Why? There undocumented labor pool dried up and they had no one to perform the cheap labor the state farmers had become accustomed to. South Carolina, observing the trend, drafted a similar Dixie Immigration Law, excluding agricultural workers, which is primarily what the function of undocumented workers are since the housing market has dried up. ONLY IN THE SOUTH! How can you talk out of both sides of your mouth and say "we hate illegals, go back where you came from, but please keep picking those bananas and shining my silver, glad my lawn is still under you." Hey fools remember, your scorched earth cut everything policy? You are cutting the teachers, the police? Who are going to check for the "immigration papers?" What the hell are immigration papers for that matter and why must I have them or if the person that is in my car doesn't have them they get arrested? Unless it's Vestavia, they only have 3 jail cells...It would be great for once, just once in my life that the south, one damn southern state wasn't on the top of the nation's laughing stock list, but with this b.s. rolling out with testicular fortitude and no logic, I have a better chance for Beyonce to rule world without her Lion King crusty wig.

This is a federal issue and this must be taken up by CONGRESS and no matter how badly we get upset about illegals using the system, it's not like they just came here yesterday. The government , the Federal government knew about the "Invasion" in the 80's. I remember reading in one of my books in high school that Hispanics would be the largest minority group in the 2000's and that was in 1990 something, so it's not like it's a surprise. All of this xenophobia is manifesting itself in a ridiculous stone stupid law in a ridiculous stone stupid part of the country. Instead of wasting money defending lawsuits, these states should invest in education (which we are sorely lacking), and jobs. Where are the jobs?

Good job Tea Party! This is what you get when you vote in an uneducated, vengeful, white, right wing, nativist, population mass cabal in The Land of Dixie