If It Walks Like A Duck, Has Webbed Feet, And Quacks April 30, 2010
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Politics.trackback
It’s probably a duck. My blogmate opines: Well, I guess that cinches the argument. It’s fascism, worse, Nazism. First, let me state for the record that nowhere in my previous posts did I refer to the heinous Arizona law as Nazism. We all know that whoever first resorts to the Nazi argument loses. But if he wants to equate it with Nazism, who am I to argue? But it is without a doubt fascism, albeit the new American fascism. There will be subtle differences. Our agents will not be clad in leather trenchcoats and pince nez glasses. Nope, our guys will be wearing smokey hats and aviator shades. So there’s that. Here’s the actual article from which my partner quotes:
Truck driver forced to show birth certificate claims racial-profiling | Phoeni
When you read past the first two sentences, you will find that this unfortunate truck driver was, in fact, detained and incarcerated, even after providing the state trooper with a valid drivers license and social security number, just as that nefarious left wing journalist asserted in his story. Further, he was not released until his wife appeared and produced his birth certificate. That’s not a fascist policy? Give me a break. Does anyone seriously believe it’s not blatant racial profiling? Does anyone seriously assert that Elizabeth Mallory Finch III, while visiting her estate in the Hamptons, will ever similarly be coerced to provide her “papers” or face imprisonment? As for me, I may just start wearing a big old yellow star on the front of my shirt…just in case.
BW
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