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March 09, 2007
Don't Touch Me, I've Got Kids
Back in the 1970s, the cover of National Lampoon magazine ran a 
photo of an adorable puppy with a gun pointed at its head. Scrawled across the cover was the message "If you don't buy this magazine we'll kill this dog." It worked. The issue was a big seller, and as far as anyone knows, the mutt died peacefully of old age.
The same sort of shameless emotional blackmail is now being used by the illegal alien advocacy network - only they're not trying to be funny. As the government has begun to take baby steps to enforce our immigration laws, the illegal alien advocacy network is resorting to emotional blackmail. If the cover were to be created in 2007, the dog would be replaced by an adorable tyke, and the message might read, "If you punish me, you'll hurt my kid."
As a society we are thankfully loath to harm innocent puppies and children. But our compassion cannot allow us to allow people to use children as human shields, whether we are prosecuting a war against terrorists, or enforcing our nation's immigration laws. Anytime society takes action against parents who break the law, their innocent children are harmed. It gives no one any pleasure when children wind up paying a price for their parents' actions, but there is no alternative. We regret the misfortune that befalls the kids, but we hold the parents, not society, responsible. If there is a figurative gun pointed at the heads of the children of illegal aliens when the law comes knocking at the door, the hand that is pointing it is that of the parents who consciously put their kids in that situation, not society.
Posted on at March 9, 2007 04:05 PM