Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for May 07, 2010

Houndsville is in Arizona?

And you thought that Storm Troopers demanding your papers went out with the Third Reich…

“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”

That is NOT what the bill is about, take yer profiling argument and place where it is warm and damp.

It’s plenty warm in Arizona.

What do you mean, Dick? That we *do* get to keep our gardners?

Or that the illegals aren’t using our resources?

Or what?

Damned Canadians! Flouting our borders! Swinging in our pond! Crapping on our sidewalks! Can’t the government do something?

(Some say the Arizona bill gives the police no new powers. Then what is the bill for?)

(Radish: Tom Terrific! Greatest Hero Ever! Next to Flash Gordon.)

dick2002ti:

Open wide!!

All this jaw flappin’ going on about Arid Zone A merica and no one, not even the law demands criminal prosecutions against the actual criminals.

Put the slime who hire illegals in jail and the market dries up. After all, we prosecute drug users, don’t we? How about actually enforcing some laws for a change? Article after article quotes citizens who live in the border areas concerned about drug traffic and violence. What has this got to do with the law just passed?

Are we concerned with illegal alien laborers coming across to find work or are we concerned about the drug thugs coming across to spray their poison? I suspect we are more concerned about the cheap prices at Wal Mart than an acual pursuit of justice here.

Or, what is most likely, you folks in the impact zones might just be too lazy to actually find out who the criminals are and to prosecute them. Considering what I know about the reactionaries I work with here in this fine red state city, it is most likely the lazy part. Too much work to winnow the wheat from the chaff. Rather just eat the chaff…

Wonderful country, this.

pschearer, you ask “Then what is the bill for?”

If you read it, you’ll find that “asking for papers” is only part of it. There’s a significant section on going after employers, including the temporary employers who pick up day laborers.

I’m afraid to go to Arizona now.

I have no papers to show that I’m a native-born citizen and not an illegal alien. Since the law’s supporters, including the governor, promise that there be no racial profiling then I expect to be stopped, questioned, and arrested for not having them.

I wonder if they’ll deport me to Ireland.

Yumitori is Irish?

(I recently visited Ireland, and while they may call themselves The Emerald Isle, they can’t hold a candle to Vietnam in green-ness.)

“That is NOT what the bill is about, take yer profiling argument and place where it is warm and damp.”

So… Florida, rather than Arizona? Naw, they’d never try it there. The Cuban-American population (legal or otherwise) is so solidly Republican that the GOP would never risk alienating them with something like this.

jakebb2 said

“It seems to me that the only people worried about this law are the illegal aliens themselves. As they should be.”

Yes, they are the only people complaining. I didn’t realize so many Americans are actually illegal.

The cartoon is perfect. ‘Nuf drawn.

“I didn’t realize so many Americans are actually illegal.”

Isn’t it like one out of twelve in Arizona?

..and this is what happens when the South wins the war…

I was planning on visiting Arizona.

Should I bring my passport?

And birth certificate or certificate of naturalization…

It’s all well and good to talk about open borders, but the US as a sovereign entity is still infinitely valuable in the struggle for Human Rights.

I believe in the peaceful and post-racist post-sexist post-everything “Star Trek future” just as much as most leftist Democrats… But with the violent regimes still in place in much of the world, it is just too EARLY for the US to try and go “next phase” by becoming a post-national system.

When ALL of the world goes for Nationalist government instead of tribal or religious, THEN the US can talk about open borders. Phase 2 (human rights/democracy) is so WAYYYY not finished yet.

Get China to allow spoken dissent and THEN I’ll scold Arizona for trying to exist as an organized territorial entity.

Chris, let’s do both: Open our borders AND work on China’s oppression of its citizens. In addition, let’s hope that the future is NOT STAR TREK. That show gives me the creeps.

Now, now, people, there’s no need for blasphemy!

As Greg Palast has been reminding us, it’s still about voting and elections, and scrubbing the voter rolls of potential Democrats.

Another homeland security hater.

Are you? Why do you hate Homeland Security, Comyics?

pbarn, are you suggesting that illegals will vote in the election whether for Democrat or Republican? What happened to that thing about being a “citizen” in order to vote. If anyone can come in and vote, then China will send over about a billion of its folks and vote the US into the Peoples Republic of China. Of course, I’m being a bit over the top with that statement, but what’s the diff between non-citizens voting and folks who scream about the possibility of non-natural American born Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming eligible to run for President? I mean if we’re going to ignore some Federal laws on immigration, we might as well ignore all of them, no?

I think pbarnrob wasn’t referring to illegals voting, but the fact that if and when they (or their offspring) become citizens and vote, they tend to lean towards the Democrats. That is something the Republicans want to avoid.

I doubt the Democrats are looking 18 to 20 years into the future for voters. They want voters now. Regardless of how loud they yell and scream about “disenfranchisement” of voters in national elections, most of the proven cases of voter fraud and voter intimidation have been done on behalf of the Democratic Party. Amazingly enough, even blatant harrassment here in Philadelphia by Black Panther members documented on election day was swept under the rug with no prosecution nor much of an ivestigation. The GOP isn’t substantially better either, as I noticed that although I had lived outside of Louisiana for something like 10 years, when I went back I was still registered to vote (as a Republican, now registered Independent) whereas only a year after my son’s murder, he as a registered Democrat had been removed from the rolls. Face it, they all suck, and the best way to deal with it in my humble opinion, is to stop allowing lifetime “public servants” like the Kennedys, Specters, Byrds, Gores, Bushes, and all and force term limits on Congress, just as there are on the Presidency.

Of course they do Chikuku, and the Democrats bring busloads of people whether registered or not to vote and then get irate when ineligible folks are turned away. So who’s better? Neither. They both are wrong. Is that not patently obvious?