The Incomplete Cynic

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Mindless Advocacy and Outrage

On air with Mark Davis today, Domingo Garcia said the following with out substantiating any of it:

  • he repeated the untrue statement that the Arizona law allows people to be stopped for “looking suspicious”, though acknowledging the prohibition of racial profiling as a way to deal with things “at the edges”
  • the Arizona law “invites abuse”
  • “Every police association in Arizona” has come out against the bill. At least one hasn’t: Arizona Police Association
  • Gov. Brewer is “scapegoating” illegal immigrants (which entails putting blame and punishment on an innocent person, not enforcing consequences on the guilty)

He compared this to the segregated south, which should be considered an insult to every black man and woman who lived through it. That was about citizens having rights withheld, and being forced into a lower class. This is about non-citizens who broke the law to be here at all. Allowing them to stay will simply encourage more lawbreaking. Do any of these people have kids?

He compared Gov. Brewer to Hitler and George Wallace, and did so with complete solemnity.

This guy has lost tough with reality. In a couple of months he’s going to listen to this tape and be embarrassed.

An interesting aside: the Arizona Police Association has linked to the text of a California law that is startlingly similar to SB1070: The Hypocrisy of California Politicians