Mayday, Mayday

I will not be going to work today. This (non-attendance) is merely an aspect of my ongoing non-employment. This is not a political statement to show my solidarity with the planned “Day without illegal immigrants” boycott.

As I have previously stated, I do not support any activity that threatens to disrupt traffic. I do not care what your cause is; you have no constitutional right to inconvenience me and others. Just as your right to swing your arm ends at my jaw, so should your right to demonstrate end at the curb of the public thoroughfare.

It seems to me that the most idiotic method of getting attention is gathering in numbers, marching in the streets jamming-up traffic. It pisses people who are trying to get somewhere off. It causes secondary problems because fire trucks and ambulances cannot get through. It makes commuters late. It ignites ire in the otherwise apathetic majority.

It has always mystified me that organizers of events choose to clog-up streets as opposed to gathering in a big open field where they will not bother anyone. I do not care if you are walking for hunger, breast cancer research, world peace or immigrants’ rights. Stay out of the streets!

The demonstrations for immigrants' rights have already caught our attention. They say that there are 12 million illegals in the country today - plus or minus a few million. I am not so concerned by the one's who came here to work and assimilate. I think we can figure out a fair way to get them on the taxpayer rolls and put most of them on the path to earning citizenship.

But I am very concerned about the bad guys among them - the crooks, killers and predators who snuck in with them. We need a way to identify these bad guys and get them out of our midst.

I am not in the conspiracy theory business, but it seems odd to me that suddenly we have an gasoline price crisis to catch the attention of the public just when the immigration issue threatens to reveal the gross ineptitude of the government to manage the borders and to ensure the protection of the citizenry.