(HT to The MEMRI Blog and RCP) Another cartoon has surfaced that could be considered intolerant and insensitive to a culture’s values. But this time, the offenders are of Middle Eastern origin, mocking the racial and gender equality of the West.

The Egyptian publication Al-Ahram recently posted a cartoon titled “‘Hillary’ and ‘Obama’ – A Woman and a Negro are Participating in the Campaign for the American Presidency”. The caption said “This is another sign of the collapse of the Western civilization’.”

Now let’s see how the “American Street” responds to this blatant hate speech. I suspect it will be considerably more self-restrained than the infantile, anti-infidel Danish cartoon intifada.

The New York Times weighs in again on illegal immigration and has decided that the illegals are America:

The country has summoned great energy to confront the immigration problem, but most of it has been misplaced, crudely and unevenly applied. It seeks not to solve the conundrum of a broken immigration system, but to subdue, in a million ways, the vulnerable men and women who are part of it.

At least they called it an editorial and made no attempt to portray it as unbiased reporting, which is their norm. But even for the NYT, this is a bit extreme.

It has directed much traffic into the remote Southwest desert, making more immigrants vulnerable to smugglers and leaving many people dead.

They do not, of course, substantiate that statement with facts. Just say it is so and it is. Despite numerous reports that overall attempted crossings are down.

In immigrant communities, the undercurrent of fear has been replaced by terror, and employers are jittery, too.

And that is a bad thing? I think that the purpose of the increased enforcement and raids has been achieved if that statement is true.

State, county and local officials have picked up where they left off last year, introducing bills to get tough on illegal immigrants. They cannot control federal policy, so they try other ways to punish those they see as unfit neighbors, to stifle their opportunities, extract money, expose them to legal jeopardy and otherwise inflict suffering, in the deluded hope that piling on miseries will make them disappear.

State and local officials are trying to overcome a President that is willing to ignore border security and a Homeland Security Secretary that says:

”Every time a Border Patrol officer is transporting a load of future housekeepers and landscapers to someplace to be returned, he’s not looking for drug dealers or drug loads,” Chertoff said.

Pray tell, how is a Border Patrol agent supposed to differentiate between a housekeeper and a drug runner? A landscaper and a Middle Eastern terrorist? In other words, state and local officials are just doing the jobs that federal officials won’t do.

Then after all of that nonsense, the editorial has the gall to say:

Enforcement of laws cannot be ignored.

I’m tempted to say unbelievable but this is the NY Times. Anything negative for our country is par for the course for those guys. Never forget this image from the marches last year by these peaceful illegal housekeepers and landscapers lawbreakers.

 

 

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In the future, if you should find yourself in the “EZ-tag Only” lane yet without an actual EZ-tag, please do NOT bring your vehicle to a complete stop only inches from the toll-booth and attempt to drive backwards across three lanes of 65 mph oncoming traffic so that you can pay in the proper lane.

Some of us prefer not to die or be permanently maimed just because you want to avoid a traffic fine.

Thank you for your kind consideration.

Sincerely,

David Benzion

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