The golf course developers have taken over Phoenix, adding humidity to the heat of summer with their irrigation.
The people who were born and raised there have been pushed aside by outsiders.
]]>– Badtux the Helpful Penguin
]]>Second, I lived in Southern California and the obnoxious people were the white supremacists led by Tom Metzger and the anti-abortion groups, the majority of whom moved to San Diego from somewhere else. There were plenty of undocumented workers around and they kept to themselves. They also kept their crimes to themselves, i.e. their violence and thefts were pretty much confined to their own communities. In those cases that involved outsiders, the undocumented were almost always the victims, as is the pattern everywhere for poor people.
The reality that the Arizona Republicans refuse to honestly address is that effective control of the border would require enormous amounts of money and the only way of getting it is to raise taxes. Without even looking, I can assure you that the Arizona legislature did not include any money to pay for the enforcement of this unConstitutional mandate.
Arizona was taken at gun point from Mexico in 1848 in the totally bogus Mexican War. It has been a state for less than a century. The government of the state is in the pocket of developers, agribusiness, and mining interests. The undocumented workers are breathe of fresh air compared to the ruling elite in the state.
]]>Duff, if you ever really paid attention to Bryan when he talks about his cop stuff, you’d realize how constitutionally circumscribed the power of the police is here. You may disapprove of the changes we’ve made to the basic rules since we took our own space from your Mother England, but that’s just too damned bad… you don’t get to decide for us. Try actually reading what Bryan posts occasionally… against all odds, you might learn something about American government. But I’m not holding my breath waiting for that to happen.
]]>Jams, Arpaio was an “immigrant” from Massachusetts who started out with the Army’s Military Police and still acts like it. I would venture to say that most of those involved in this disaster weren’t born or raised in Arizona, because this isn’t how people brought up in a border state normally react to the conditions.
Well, Steve, you passed through the family homestead, originally both sides of the Mohawk River from West of Albany to East of Utica, but that was in the 17th century. It was purchased from the Iroquois by the Dutch as the Iroquois didn’t have the need to do the flood control that was required to make the flood plain usable, and the Dutch excelled in it.
]]>Perhaps after the first few centuries you get used to a place and inertia keeps you there and you ignore the new people until it is too late.
]]>In light of the rise in violent mental disability in the United States, they’re going to build three new asylums for the criminally insane:
* One will be in upstate New York;
* One will be built in southern California;
* And for one, they’ll fence off the State of Arizona.
Arizona is not a place any sane person wishes to spend time anyway, especially if that person is Mexican American or other Hispanic, or (as you point out) one of America’s indigenous peoples. It’s a good thing they have reservations… and look how resilient those have been over the past 200 years. [/snark]
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