That's Not How a Democracy Works
By Daniel Horowitz
ConservativeReview.com
Susan Walsh | AP Photo
One of the reasons why so many immigrants have flocked to our country over the years is because they respect the stability of democracy and the rule of law. Many of them have emigrated from countries that have no civil society or stable system of governance – countries where mob rule reigns supreme.
America is still an attractive place to live. It
is the land of opportunity and freedom, but that is
changing, both to accommodate the influx of illegal
immigrants, and to accommodate politically, those
that agree with open borders.
Sadly, the influx of illegal immigrants, culminating
with Obama’s nullification of our laws, is
transforming our government into the very system
from which most immigrants fled.
Now, some of the illegal alien Astroturf lobbying
groups are trying to interject this mob rule into
our political process by intimidating members of
Congress. Hence, lawlessness begets
lawlessness.
Groups of illegal aliens and their advocates have
been known to disrupt congressional hearings and
intimidate members in the corridors of Congress for
quite some time. But yesterday was particularly bad.
During a hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee
on immigration, a group of illegal aliens wearing
Casa de Maryland T-shirts (the name of a criminal
advocacy group,
which is funded by taxpayers) stood up and
shouted slogans and hateful rhetoric for a half
hour. The Capitol police were overwhelmed
until Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was finally able to
marshal enough manpower to escort them out of the
committee room.
In addition, groups of illegal aliens and their
advocates stormed as many as 30 congressional
offices in groups of 10 and acted extremely
belligerent, rude, and threatening to members and
their staffs. One conservative staffer told me
that his office had to press the emergency button to
call in capitol police. The number of police
officers who were diverted to deal with this
disturbing behavior from people who, are in the
country illegally, could have easily created a
security breach.
Here is another conservative staffer:
Early in the afternoon, a group of around 10 people
associated with the organization “Alliance
for Citizenship” came into our office. All but
three of them did not seem to speak English and
about a minute after they came into the office they
began chanting a number of slogans as loudly as they
could and screaming directly at members of our
staff. Two of them began recording videos of the
encounter. When we informed them that they could not
record videos in our office and that we wanted them
to leave, one of them responded that “the
congressman deserved an ass whooping,” and another
called him an “asshole”.
Folks, this is what a banana Republic looks like.
Perhaps, capitol police should have called in ICE
agents and these malcontents could have been
deported. Imagine what would happen to any of us if
we tried to enter Mexico without a passport, and
then storm government offices? We wouldn’t even get
across the border.
These pro-criminal organizations are now emboldened
to openly disrupt our democratic process because
this rogue president has turned the rule of law
upside down. Border agents are now being sued
for excessive force. They are being forced to seek
out illegal border crossers and apprise them of
Obama’s amnesty.
Meanwhile, Obama’s
DHS has set up a special hotline for illegals to
call and report any agent that follows our laws.
While our law enforcement agents are being misused
and abused for a purpose antithetical to their
lawful mission, illegals are given Social Security
cards, work permits, refundable tax credits, and
even
transgender hormone treatment.
At the same time, as illegal immigrants are allowed
to walk the halls of Congress and intimidate members
with impunity, the voice of the taxpayer is not
being heard, as they are stuck with the
$1.5 billion tab of this amnesty, which drains
our education, health care, welfare, and criminal
justice system now, annihilating it for our children
and grandchildren.
No words can describe the depravity of this
situation; no analogies can fully capture the moral
and intellectual dyslexia playing out without
understating the problem.
There is only one way to right this ship and restore
sanity to our Republic. Republicans need to
hold the line and refuse to move off their
constitutional funding bill for DHS – ever.
There is no compromising with this unlawful lunacy.
#DontBlink, #DefundAmnesty,
#DontShutDownOurSecurity
Daniel Horowitz is Senior Editor of Conservative
Review. Follow him on Twitter
@RMConservative.