The legendary musician Charlie Daniels recently made a public statement on his website about immigration. The significance here: This is one of the staunchest supporters Bush has had in the entertainment industry. Daniels has backed many of Bush`s more controversial decisions–and is now breaking ranks.

I don’t know how everybody else feels about it, but to me I think Hispanic people in this country, legally or illegally, made a huge public relations mistake with their recent demonstrations.

I don’t blame anybody in the world for wanting to come to the United States of America, as it is a truly wonderful place. But when the first thing you do when you set foot on American soil is illegal it is flat out wrong and I don’t care how many lala land left heads come out of the woodwork and start trying to give me sensitivity lessons.

I don’t need sensitivity lessons, in fact I don’t have anything against Mexicans, I just have something against criminals and anybody who comes into this country illegally is a criminal and if you don’t believe it try coming into America from a foreign country without a passport and see how far you get.

What disturbs me about the demonstrations is that it’s tantamount to saying, “I am going to come into your country even if it means breaking your laws and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

It’s an “in your face” action and speaking just for me I don’t like it one little bit and if there were a half dozen pairs of gonads in Washington bigger than English peas it wouldn’t be happening.

Where are you, you bunch of lilly livered, pantywaist, forked tongued, sorry excuses for defenders of The Constitution? Have you been drinking the water out of the Potomac again?

And even if you pass a bill on immigration it will probably be so pork laden and watered down that it won’t mean anything anyway. Besides, what good is another law going to do when you won’t enforce the ones on the books now?

And what ever happened to the polls guys? I thought you folks were the quintessential finger wetters. Well you sure ain’t paying any attention to the polls this time because somewhere around eighty percent of Americans want something done about this mess, and mess it is and getting bigger everyday.

This is no longer a problem, it is a dilemma and headed for being a tragedy. Do you honestly think that what happened in France with the Muslims can’t happen here when the businesses who hire these people finally run out of jobs and a few million disillusioned Hispanics take to the streets?

If you, Mr. President, Congressmen and Senators, knuckle under on this and refuse to do something meaningful it means that you care nothing for the kind of country your children and grandchildren will inherit.

But I guess that doesn’t matter as long as you get re-elected.

Shame on you.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels
April 3, 2006

This was followed up by the following post:

Out Of My Face

One of the big problems in America today is that if you have the nerve to say anything derogatory about any group of people (except Christians) you are going to be screamed at by the media and called a racist, a bigot and anything else they can think of to call you.

Well I’ve been pounded by the media before and I’m still rockin’ and rollin’ and when it comes to speaking the truth I fear not.
And the truth is that the gutless, gonadless, milksop politicians are just about to sell out the United States of America because they don’t have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the face reality.

And reality is that we would never allow any other group of people to have 12 million illegals in this country and turn around and say, ”Oh it’s ok, ya`ll can stay here if you’ll just allow us to slap your wrist.”

And I know that some of you who read this column are saying
“Well what’s wrong with that?”

I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it. These people could be from Mars as far as we know. We don’t know who they are, where they are or what they’re up to and the way the Congress is going we’re not going to.

Does this make sense? Labor force you say? We already subsidize corporate agriculture as it is, must we subsidize their labor as well?

If these people were from Haiti would we be so fast to turn a blind eye to them or if they were from Somalia or Afghanistan? I think not.

All the media shows us are pictures of hard working Hispanics who have crossed the border just to try to better their life. They don’t show you pictures of the Feds rounding up members of MS 13, the violent gang who came across the same way the decent folks did. They don’t tell you about the living conditions of the Mexican illegals some fat cat hired to pick his crop.

I want to make two predictions. No. 1: This situation is going to grow and fester until it erupts in violence on our streets
while the wimps in Washington drag their toes in the dirt and try to figure how many tons of political hay they can make to the acre.

No 2: Somebody is going to cross that border with some kind of weapon of mass destruction and set it off in a major American city after which there will be a backlash such as this country has never experienced and the Capitol building in Washington will probably tilt as Congressmen and Senators rush to the other side of the issue.

I don’t know about you but I would love to see just one major politician stand up and say, “I don’t care who I make mad and I don’t care how many votes I lose, this is a desperate situation and I’m going to lead the fight to get it straightened out.”

I don’t blame anybody for wanting to come to America, but if you don’t respect our immigration laws why should you respect any others.

And by the way, this is America and our flag has stars and stripes. Please get that other one out of my face.

Pray for our troops

What do you think?

God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
April 10, 2006

Charlie, I for one welcome you to the ranks of Americans that have spoken out on the topic of immigration–many of whom, I might add, don`t necessarily have the kind of secure position you have. These statements are a really good start. There is a lot of work to do before this problem is solved.

A Mexican standoff ended in the late summer.
President

Vicente Fox was forced, at machete point, to abandon
much-heralded plans for a new U.S.$2.3 billion

Mexico City airport. The impasse says a lot about

Mexico`s political culture and

lack of the rule of law – a culture

mass immigration is

planting in the United States.

Mexico City`s airport is overwhelmed, encircled by
the ever-growing

megalopolis and often socked in by

smog. Governments have tried and failed for 30 years
to get a new one built. This time, Fox planned a new one
farther away, by the bed of dried-up Lake Texcoco.

His government thought it had done everything right,
consulting the Mexico City and Mexico state governments.
Instead, the grand project has blown up in Fox`s face.
His humiliation by a gaggle of peasant farmers is the
worst setback yet for a president who has

struggled since his inauguration at the beginning of
2001.

What Fox didn`t do was consult the Mexicans who would
lose their land to the airport. No doubt he thought it
unnecessary, if it occurred to him at all. Not only do

Mexico`s rulers not vet their projects with peons,

Article 27 of Mexico`s constitution – a

vestige of the

bloody revolutions early last century – says
“private property shall not be expropriated except for
reasons of public utility,” a term defined so broadly as
to make property rights entirely subject to government
fiat.

Mexicans are long-suffering, but they have a
rebellious streak and aren`t too particular about

obeying inconvenient laws. Those to be expropriated,
the ejidatarios (collective farmers) of San
Salvador Atenco, spurned the paltry compensation on
offer and

went on the warpath. They marched in Mexico City.
Closer to home, brandishing their machetes, they blocked
roads, burned cars and kidnapped officials sent to make
them see reason. In the brawls, the police captured some
rioters.

The standoff began in earnest. The farmers refused to
negotiate. Foreign and Mexican Leftists, including some
of Subcomandante Marcos` Zapatista rebels,
flocked to Atenco to show solidarity with the farmers –
a curious spectacle of a bunch of Marxists backing
people who were, after all, fighting for private
property.

At first Fox declined to negotiate with hostage
takers. The farmers said they would

burn their hostages alive unless their comrades, who
had been charged with violent crimes, were turned loose.
Fox hesitated, then let them go, on the farmers`
“recognizance,” a fanciful notion in Mexico. He then
offered the Atenco ejidatarios twice as much for
their land.

Nothing doing, said they, no airport here, and manned
their barricades, machetes at the ready.

Finally, backing down for the third time, the
government

gave up. Plans to build the airport at Atenco were
dropped. The announcement was timed to be buried by the

Pope`s visit. It didn`t work. To add to the
embarrassment, the leaders of 10 other ejidos in
the State of Mexico immediately denounced the
capitulation, saying it was “imposing the will of the
minority” (the Atenco ejidatarios) on them!

L`Affaire Atenco prompted public introspection
among Mexican pundits about the nature of

Mexican society. The Mexico City daily Reforma`s
columnists wrote for weeks about the lawlessness of both
sides: the contempt of government for property rights
and ordinary people and the brazen and successful
violence of the ejidatarios.

As Mexico moves in with us, the take on Mexican
attitudes in these excerpts is worth noting:

Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez (El
prestigio de la ilegalidad, Reforma, July
15, 2002)

“It`s said illegality is the last resort. Usually
it`s the first reflex. Political illegality is,
frequently, a rational and strategically planned act
that doesn`t result from desperation but from
calculation. People who block roads, break windows, keep
people from attending university, kidnap cops or burn a
criminal alive know they can count on a solid structure
of protection and legitimation. … Illegality effectively
enjoys an enviable prestige. If people say Mexican
institutions suffer from a general discredit, one must
say there is one institution that has escaped: the
institution of illegality.”

Federico Reyes-Heroles (Extorsión,
Reforma, July 16, 2002)

“Today, stronger than ever, all the profound vices of
our wrongheaded citizenry surface. … In Mexico, in
general, the law is neither respected nor applied
systematically. Mexican modernity, the proud tenth
economy in the world, still hasn`t arrived at the basic
accord of every state based in law. The law applies
sometimes; it depends. Depends on what? To begin with,
the citizen grants himself a wide and generous license.
Three of every four Mexicans believe they only have to
respect those norms that seem just to them, in their
personal opinion. … Mexicans do not accept that, first,
one has to obey the law.”

Is it any wonder Vicente Fox calls illegal alien
Mexicans

heroes?

In 1939, the British Catholic novelist

Evelyn Waugh visited Mexico. On his return to
England he wrote a book about it:

Robbery Under Law. While he saw much that he
liked and met many pleasant people, his impression was
of a

pathologically corrupt country. He saw that
unfortunate country as a warning, and a danger, to
civilized nations. It is a warning we might heed today:

“[In the English-speaking
world] progress is still regarded as normal, decay as
abnormal. The history of Mexico runs clean against those
assumptions. We see it in the story of a people whom no
great external disaster has overwhelmed. Things have
gone wrong with them, as they went right with us, as
though by a natural process. There is no distress of
theirs to which we might not be equally subject. … The
more elaborate the society, the more vulnerable it is to
attack, and the more complete its collapse in case of
defeat. … If [society] falls we shall see not
merely the dissolution of a few joint-stock
corporations, but of the spiritual and material
achievements of our history. There is nothing, except
ourselves, to stop our own countries becoming like
Mexico. That is the moral, for us, of her decay.”

September 11, 2002