| Dear Anti-Minuteman Observer and | | | | |
| Reporter:These Minuteman yahoos are trying to | | | | "Tex" the Enlightened OneDear TEO:When the |
| tell me that if I really loved America that I | | | | Minuteman Project knot-heads come a calling, |
| would suddenly, like a light bulb turning on | | | | catch and hogtie them, then call the Sheriff |
| in my head, realize their cause was right and | | | | and have them arrested for trespassing on |
| good and would let them come on my land and | | | | your land.Signed, |
| do God only knows what to those illegals the | | | | |
| wife and I have coffee with every | | | | AMOR***Dear AMOR:I attended one of those |
| morning.Signed, | | | | Minuteman Project meetings where they kept |
| | | | telling us that if we were real patriots that |
| Billy Joe Bob ("Tex")Dear "Tex",Oh, please | | | | we would jump at the chance to permit them to |
| call me AMOR for short. You'll get a headache | | | | come on our land to "observe and report" all |
| trying to write out that whole name. Ok, | | | | those lovely Mexicans crossing the border to |
| here's the scoop. The Minuteman Project | | | | pick our fruit. But what I cannot understand |
| people and all their friends (do they really | | | | is why they were all armed to the teeth with |
| have friends?) use an argument that is almost | | | | a gun on every hip at this meeting and why |
| 300 years old. The offspring of the original | | | | will they want to take their guns on my land |
| English settlers of America used the | | | | if they are there just to "observe and |
| identical craziness, pitching a hissy fit | | | | report"?Signed, |
| over German and Scottish-Irish IMMIGRANTS | | | | |
| coming to America to find a better life.Here | | | | Clovis in LaredoDear Clovis:Did anyone ever |
| it is briefly:"With unemployment at | | | | tell you that you have a GREAT name? |
| chronically high rates in nearly all | | | | |
| countries, it is not surprising that the | | | | There are many mysteries in life, Clovis, |
| number of explanations and interpretations is | | | | and I am afraid the gun toting "observing and |
| on the rise. In less developed countries, we | | | | reporting" Minuteman are just one of |
| are told, the high birth rates and population | | | | them.Here are the only things I can figure |
| growth rates exceed the ability of | | | | out:1. Some of them think they look really |
| agriculture and industry to absorb the new | | | | cool in their cowboy outfits and gun belts.2. |
| population, with the result of increasing | | | | Some of them didn't get to play much "cowboy |
| unemployment. In the industrial countries, | | | | and Indians" when they were kids so they are |
| where the rates of growth of population are | | | | compensating.3. Some of them are still only |
| much lower, the explanations cover a wide | | | | kids.4. Some really, really, really want to |
| spectrum from the Marxian exploitation | | | | shoot some hapless Mexican.5. Some of them |
| doctrine to the Keynesian | | | | want to have the press take their pictures |
| inadequate--spending theory. In the United | | | | looking like Roy Rogers.6. Some of them |
| States, the oldest explanation of them all is | | | | suffer from severe paranoid delusions and are |
| coming to the fore. Rooted in the fear and | | | | in need of heavy doses of psychotropic |
| resentment of foreigners, many of whom are | | | | medications.Other than that, I don't know |
| illiterate and poor, more and more Americans | | | | what else to tell you, Clovis. |
| are pointing at the newcomers as the cause of | | | | |
| their difficulties. Labor leaders, | | | | Did your parents ever tell you just "why" |
| especially, are quick to vilify "the illegal | | | | they named you, "Clovis"?Signed, |
| aliens" for the chronic unemployment that is | | | | |
| plaguing organized labor." [1]There you have | | | | AMOR***[1] Illegal Aliens; by Hans F. |
| it. Let me know what you think.Signed, | | | | Sennholz;Doug Bower is a freelance writer, |
| | | | Syndicated Columnist, and book author. His |
| AMOR***Dear AMOR:Took the wife and me the | | | | most recent writing credits include The |
| better part of three weeks to figure this | | | | Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Houston |
| out. We had to call the little woman's | | | | Chronicle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and |
| nephew, Avis, who just got out of college. He | | | | Transitions Abroad. He is a columnist with |
| explained it fine. So what do I do when them | | | | and more than 21 additional online magazines. |
| there Mexican hunters come wanting to catch | | | | He is also a writer with with a readership of |
| and hog-tie them some Mexicans on my | | | | almost 6,000. He lives with his wife in |
| land?Signed, | | | | Guanajuato, Mexico. |