How Do We Spend OUR Money? 

And who gets the honor? 

J.D. Hayworth???  Really??? 

Does this guy have a chance?  Again?

Illegal immigration is a huge issue in Arizona and across the nation.  Several sheriffs in different counties of Arizona, and the greater United States, disagree about how the immigration "CRISIS" should be handled.  In Arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio adamantly supports the ideas in SB1070 .  That law effects immigration in Arizona in a couple of ways.  One thing the law does is give local police the authority to arrest someone for being in the country illegally.  The second major thing done by the law is to allow private citizens of Arizona to sue local law enforcement if it appears they are not enforcing immigration laws in Arizona communities.

Just imagining for the sake of intelligent thought on the matter, one way this might play out is with police officers hanging out on dirty day labor corners in Mesa, Arizona harrassing all the people that don't speak English by asking for papers.  In an effort to devote more time to traffic enforcement, local police might go to places where hispanic people wait for work every second Wednesday and check documentation.  In this vision of Arizona's future, the police do the bare minimum of setting up a scheduled rotation on highly-visible sites where brown people hang out. 

Another vision might be one of a police state.  Officers raiding hispanic neighborhoods in South Phoenix at night with spotlights on.  Knocking on doors and taking people away in the darkness.  'Show us your papers.'  Couch lies on its side as a barking dog protecting its home is shot dead to bleed on the front step.  Along this scale of imagined outcomes from SB1070 anything could result.  Who knows, it might even be positive. 

Sheriffs in Arizona are split on the issue.  Santa Cruz county Sheriff Tony Estrada was quoted  saying, "I feel immigration and border patrol should be doing the job, and not us," Estrada added, "We're not equipped."  Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, on the other hand, wants to begin implementing the law rather than discuss its necessity. 

People are worked up about illegal immigration.  Noone really seemed to cared passionately about the subject 2 years ago, but now suddenly ire runs high when discussing what should be done.  The illegal immigrants.  Those people here.  What should we do with them?  We might follow suggestions like the one posted May 29th 2010 to a Reuters.com message board .

"Sorry, but the race card has been totally worn out. This is about illegals and the unwarranted drain they put on American society. Illegals should be rounded up like cattle, branded, jailed and eventually deported to their own country, wherever it is. Illegals are NOT welcome in the U.S. period."

What's really funny is toby3061 starting out with an apology.  When making the "branding and eventually deportation" argument, "SORRY" doesn't seem necessary.  To whom might you apologize there?  The only person I can imagine toby3061 would be apologizing to are people actually trying to advance his cause in a productive manner.

Rounding people up like cattle doesn't really play with the mainstream audience much anymore.  You may be able to incite a riot for a short period of time in the United States now, but most people will be bored with it after a week or so.  Adolf Hitler did a wonderful job advertising the ugly side of a Fascist Police State and television has pretty well taken care of American attention spans. 

How long will Hitler play in the memory though? 

How long before we forget what it looks like to have 6 million people disappear in an "ADVANCED" Christian nation?

We can move forward with a round-them-up mentality, but I wonder why all of the venom?  The venom suggests an irrationality and irrational people do irrational things. 

(May 30th, 2010) NBC Meet the Press with J.D. Hayworth and Luis Gutierrez:

Fascism:

For a working definition, to facillitate further discussion, dictionary.com  offers the following definition for fascism.  "A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism."

Separated into its four components (i.e. "complete power," "suppressing opposition," "regimenting all" and "aggressive nationalism") then applying those principals to an analysis of J.D. Hayworth's performance on Meet the Press last weekend reveals that J.D. Hayworth has some fascist tendencies. 

Hayworth is aggressively nationalistic with his repeated assumptions of agreement placed on Luis Guiterrez regarding the nature of Memorial Day. (In the clip above at both the 1:48 mark and 12:10 mark.)  Hayworth insists on law and order at the 4:00 minute mark and seems to rant from the 12:00 minute mark to the 13:00 minute mark about the need for control in the world.  At 4:27 J.D. Hayworth demonstrates a tactic for suppressing opposition when he asks Luis Guiterrez a convoluted question which only a lunatic would answer in disagreement.  (The question J.D. Hayworth asks is "Do you believe crossing the border, Luis, is not an illegal act when it's on the books in fact it isn't legal?")  Luis Guiterrez does not respond and David Garcia quickly changes the subject, but J.D. Hayworth sincerely looked as if he would've sat waiting for an answer.

How could Mr. Guiterrez begin to answer such a question?  The question is a double negative and doesn't make sense. 

Opposition suppressed.

A desire for complete power can only be surmised from Mr. Hayworth's comments, but I believe he gives himself away at the 14:10 mark when he says, "It's not a question of right versus left.  It's right versus wrong."  J.D. Hayworth sounds as assured as an AM talk radio host.  I'd put J.D. Hayworth up against Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly any day in a Battle of Audacious Certainty.

(March 15, 2010) J.D. Hayworth on the "Rachel Maddow Show":

Again, J.D. Hayworth demonstrates several strategies for suppressing opposition and in the end he simply stops talking.  If this is not a sign of someone in the very least wishing for complete power over the conversation, it certainly defines J.D. Hayworth as a man capable of asking obvious questions in a patronizing tone.  J.D. Hayworth is running for the U.S. Senate against John McCain this year in Arizona.

I'm not saying J.D. Hayworth is a Fascist but he smells like one.