Clear and Present Danger!!

Last week, a friend of ours visiting from Scotland, told us that his wife and son would be arriving for the Christmas holidays.  We were excited and looking forward to seeing them also, since it has been almost five years since we saw them last.  Yesterday, our friend told us that homeland security and the immigration department had detained them for several hours in New York, and then deported them back to Scotland!  Apparently, the wife’s crime was that she had overstayed her visa five years ago by two days!  Because of this heinous crime, she was banned from returning to the United States for ten years!  To make matters worse, there is no appeal; nowhere to go and nobody to reason with.  Is this really what we have come to?  Millions of illegals bleeding our country to death, and our government thinks it’s more important to perpetrate this kind of injustice on a visiting, hard working, self supporting, family of three.

How would you like to be subject to this kind of arbitrary injustice?  In case you haven’t been keeping up with the news, there is now a “bill” on President Obama’s desk that gives the justice department, homeland security, the military, or any law enforcement agency the right to hold American Citizens Indefinitely if they are suspected of being terrorists.  The scary part is that any low level bureaucrat could be making the decision about who is a threat.  Indefinitely, without the right of appeal, without legal defense and without due process!  What the hell is going on in this country?  Does this not frighten all of us?  This should be a wake-up call to anyone who values freedom and “The American Way.”

Do we really want the demagogue in the White House to have this kind of power?  This power grab is unprecedented in our history, and was last seen during the French Revolution and the “Reign of Terror” that followed.  Don’t let it happen here.  Speak now, or forever hold your peace, or you may end up being detained indefinitely.  Call your representatives, write to your newspapers, or just talk to your friends and neighbors.  There is a real danger here and awareness has to be raised!!!

I'm sorry Mike, that my country has treated you so poorly.