So, with this being my first diary on here and all, how fitting it is that it's a fairly testy one....
I saw on the news (msnbc) that this "Marg" Baker character alluded to bringing back INTERNMENT CAMPS as some sort of viable idea in the discussion of immigration reform. I was pretty much horrified as I imagine everyone else was. I decided to sleuth a little and found her campaign's email address. Here is what I sent to her (and by the way, I did not put her first name in quotes in my email, like I did here; whoever heard of "Marg" for a name?!):
Dear Marg,
I was watching the news this evening, after dinner,
and I saw a video clip of a recent appearance of yours
where you said that you felt the way to address the
immigration issue was to "follow what happened
in the '40's and '50's" and build camps to contain
illegal immigrants until they can be shipped back
to their home countries.
I was fascinated by this and I suppose my question
(with respect to enforcing this and how it would
happen) would be this: are you mentally retarded?
Please know that I mean no offense by this question;
it just seems to naturally follow, based upon your
suggestion, that you are, perhaps, "challenged"
a little bit. If you are retarded, I feel I must commend
you for surmounting such an obstacle to a career
in public service, regardless of how I might feel
about your thoughts on how to address this country's
immigration issue.
If you are NOT retarded, I would to ask a different
question: how are you able to sleep at night?
Sincerely Yours,
Rich Boucher, Poet and Patriot,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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I did not expect a response, but, she actually responded:
I would sleep far better if the illegals were not walking among us.
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The illegals. Not the human beings. Not "trespassers", even. Entire subsets of people quantified down to "illegals". That is every undocumented immigrant's life, from birth to death, I guess: illegal. They have illegal schools and illegal intramural sports and illegal high school romances and illegal marriages and illegal weddings and illegal baptisms, deaths, family gatherings. All of it illegal.
Because, for "Marg" Baker, there is such a thing as a certain kind of person being, intrinsically, illegal.