Burn Baby, Burn..............

All hell has broken loose in France. France has been the scene of bonfire party gone mad for the last 12 days. You would think General Tecumseh Sherman, the Union General that burned a path sixty miles wide starting from Atlanta, Georgia and ending at the sea, Savannah, Georgia, has been reincarnated and owns a lifetime supply of matches. This rampage began October 26, when two Arab youths, fleeing what they thought was police pursuit, leapt onto power lines and were electrocuted. It was as if someone stood up and declared,”let the riots begin”.

As much as it pleases me to see the French squirm, I receive no satisfaction from their current predicament. Why, we are heading down the same path that the French walk now. The rioters roasting marshmallows over burning buses and cars every night in France are of Algerian, African, and Muslim origins. Their parents originally immigrated to France in search of work and what they found were jobs the French didn’t want to do. These youths were born in France, have French citizenship, but were never assimilated into the French culture- they are as much French as Me and You. Faced with the lack of gainful employment, the unemployment rate in the areas the youths live in is atrocious at 20%, They have very little hope for a future. Couple these facts with a different belief structure based on religion, these nightly firestorms were bound to happen.

See the parallel. We too have been welcoming foreign nationals to come to our country to do the jobs we supposedly don’t want to do. We have not required them to assimilate into our culture, we don’t even require them to learn to speak the language. Go to any Home Depot and all the aisles are labeled in Spanish and English- Why do I have to choose whether or not I want instructions in English or Spanish at ATMs, hell if my ancestors could learn English under the harsh realities of slavery, they( the illegal aliens) can damned sure learn it here and now.

Not being required to speak the language, living separate in their own enclaves, the children of this massive wave of illegal aliens we have been allowing to enter our country are a time bomb waiting to go off. And we have brought it upon ourselves. Everyone talks of solving the problem, everyone is mad as hell that both political parties have drug their feet dealing with the issue. What is the answer? Some groups advocate bringing all these illegal aliens into the fold with an amnesty act- Regan tried that in the 80’s, it only increased the flow. Some groups want our borders closed, a wall built. I say the solution is basically simple- Any employer found to be employing illegal aliens should be fined so damned harshly that any profit they stand to gain vanishes. The stream of illegal aliens will turn into a trickle damned near over night. I don’t think we have a whole lot of time left to make this decision- ask the French.


Later’