Reflections

On Friday of this week I was asked to give a commencement speech for a Christian High School. It was a great honor to be asked and I received a lot of positive feedback. I was a little reluctant to share my thoughts with my secular radio audience because as I have been told the last thing people want is a political preacher. Whether it is a positive or a negative that is what I have become and find a sense of true pride in this fact.

***I'm not saying I agree or disagree with the following arguments; as Dennis Prager likes to say, I'm looking for clarity over agreement***

OK folks, I've been looking for logical (not logically fallacious, ie appeal to pity, ad-hominem, etc) arguments for the unconstitutionality of SB1070. Here's what I've been able to find:

A Foundation to our Melting Pot

Illegal immigration is not a simple topic. It is a national security issue, as well as human rights issue. As a conservative it may be surprising to some that I have brought up the issue of human rights along with the issue of assimilation and need for immigrants to learn the values that have made our country great.

I was recently asked if I wanted to live a meaningful life? I was told that in life you don't get what you deserve you get what you negotiate, while this may not be true, the question about a meaningful life sparked these thoughts. 

The question I was asked appears to be loaded and/or open for interpretation. Just asking the question about meaning opens a “Pandora’s Box” about what we find to be valuable. 

Can the homeless man lead a meaningful life? Does the prostitute serve a purpose? Does the politician deserve our trust? What about the drug addict or wanderer? According to the rules of organized societies, these people are not as valuable to serve purpose x, y, and z unless rehabilitated to the norms of the culture in question. 

The Obama Administration has its priorities slightly off kilter with the health care reform push. Think about it. Food is most definitely more essential than health insurance for the Declaration's enumerated right of the "pursuit of happiness".

The Obama Administration should be pursuing grocery and farm reform, not health insurance/care reform. They should go after the greedy grocery stores and farmers that sell food for as much profit as they can get, while mercilessly leaving the women and children and the poor and the elderly and the down-trodden and the non-white-males on the streets hungry, malnourished, and starving. After all, if we have a God Government-given right to health insurance we sure as hell have a God Government-given right to food! And not only do we have a God Government-given right to food, but to healthy, organic food - the way God evolution originally intended chanced it!