Today's danger: Undocumented fruit pickers

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Today's danger: Undocumented fruit pickers

by Christy J., April 21, 2006

Re Mexicans and my liberty...

I want to thank you, H&HH, for taking the stand against this hysterical "war on Mexicans." It's really depressing to me, to see the extent to which Republican propaganda has been internalized by good people, even many self-identified "left-wing" partisans who know better on most other issues.

When we let Republican hate-mongers define what the issues are, we are always, always, always told to be afraid. Be afraid of the terrorists, be afraid of the homosexuals, be afraid of the war on Christianity, and now be afraid of fruit pickers.

Look, it's a rock-solid rule of American politics: Republicans lie. They lie about everything. If you sit down and think about it, you can come up with a hundred Republican lies from the Bush era, everything from Iraq to 9/11 to tax cuts to the Bush-made Social Security "crisis." A good indicator that you're being lied to is when a Republican says anything. Never fails.

I ain't saying Democrats are all virtuous, but when most Democrats speak you have to at least listen before deciding whether it's hogwash. Republicans haven't said anything that wasn't hogwash since Dwight D Eisenhower. They just lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and yet some people are willing to believe the Republicans are telling the truth about today's horrible danger: undocumented fruit pickers.

Don’t let them poison your heart with anger and worry and hate. Ask yourself: Who's hurting you more, Mexicans or Republicans? Who's hurting you at all? Most of the people most worried about Mexicans don't even know any Mexicans, let alone being hurt by them.

Anyone who believes the immigration panic, you're just swallowing the rightwing liars' bait.

Christy J.