Farmers Branch revisited

It's been a while since I blogged about a Dallas suburb, Farmers Branch, whose mayor proposed and its city council passed ordinances aimed at curbing the growing strain on its resources by an influx of illegal immigrants. Among the ordinances was a law that would prohibit apartment complexes and individuals renting any kind of property from doing so to illegal immigrants.

I predicted then (although it was a fairly easy prediction to make) that ACLU attorneys would descend upon the city like vultures on a fresh carcass by the side of a country road. And lo and behold, they did not disappoint.

What happened was that these Lib lawyers, with all kinds of Mexican-American association types standing behind them, forced the city to suspend its new ordinances until a vote on the matter could be put to the public at large.

That vote occurred over the weekend. And by a 68 to 32 percent margin, the taxpaying citizens of Farmers Branch voted to uphold those ordinances.

Now, this ordinance was not aimed at Hispanics in general, so there are no Fair Housing laws being trampled upon. The ordinance didn't even apply to those here on some type of LEGAL visa. It applied only to those who have thumbed their collective noses at this country's laws and processes, which millions of immigrants have LEGALLY followed in order to work and live here and eventually become citizens.

But guess what? The Libs now don't care that the people also have spoken. Already, they're back in court, seeking a restraining order (that some activist judge somewhere no doubt will grant) to "protect the rights" of people whose mere presence in this country is ILLEGAL ... all the while trampling and spitting upon taxpaying citizens who spoke loudly and clearly with their ballots even though it should not even have come to that.

The moral of the story, my dear friends, is simply another in a series of sad tales when it comes to Liberals these days:

We the people elect those who run our cities, states and country ... same as it's been done for 230 years. Only now, when the Libs don't like the results of those elections or the way those elected officials exercise their constitutional powers, they resort to tactics ranging from fillibustering, in the case of presidential court appointments, to utilizing activist judges as a means to their end, as they're doing in Farmers Branch.

Because in the end, YOUR vote, YOUR rights matter very little, if at all, to these people.

(Imported from May 15, 2007)