Aiding and abetting

A few days ago I asked why we're paying the government to do things like secure the border, then doing the job ourselves. This, I said, is akin to hiring a maid, then cleaning your own house.

If only the situation were just that bad. Turns out the maid not only refuses to clean house...she's working against us doing it as well.

From childhood, we're taught this is a government of, by and for the people. One that responds to our agenda, rather than imposing one from on high. Polls are consistently showing illegal immigration to be a major concern of Americans. Two-thirds of the public are demanding the border be secured, and illegal immigration reduced or eliminated -- even before figuring out what to do about the millions already here. What's even more amazing is how the percentages stay roughly the same regardless of the respondents' ethnicity or party affiliation. If ever there was a clear sense of what the American public wants, this is it.

So how does Washington respond? With token enforcement against a few small-fry employers of illegal aliens...and by colluding with a foreign government to negate the efforts of patriotic Americans to do what their own government refuses to do: secure the border.

In the name of fighting terror, we have granted unprecedented power to Uncle Sam, to snoop, eavesdrop, and detain. In two years, we will have the first-ever national ID card system. We've been asked to give a lot for our own safety. Yet the back door remains open for anyone to walk into our country. Does this make any sense?

Do enough Americans care enough to look the Federal government in the eye and say "You work for us. You've failed. You're fired!" Does anybody read our founding documents anymore?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
- Declaration of Independence

Centuries from now, I fear historians will write that the tragedy of America was it provided peaceful methods for holding government accountable, but citizens failed to do so until it was too late. Whatever future calamity comes from the multiplying failures of Federal policy, in the end, there is only one group to blame: ourselves.