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<span style="font-style: italic">Maryland citizens have had enough!</span>
In-State for illegals delayed… Hey Annapolis, can you hear us now?
J. Doug Gill, Maryland Statehouse Examiner
June 30, 2011 -
When Marylanders wake on July 1 (save, of course, for the citizen’s planning to stay up ‘til midnight to watch the giant deficit ball welcome in the new fiscal year) their wallets will be lighter, their freedoms a bit more infringed upon, their business climate a tad less friendly, and the tax on those lovely liquids that help them forget about the poorly-led state in which they live will increase by 50-percent.
Call it an early happy nation’s birthday present from one of the original 13 Colonies. Wow, how far we have fallen, huh?
But one thing Marylanders won’t wake to Friday morning is in a subservient, financially-supportive position to those who are in this state – and this country – illegally.
<span style="font-weight: bold">July 1 was to be the day that immigrant advocacy group CASA de Maryland – along with their criminally-complicit associates in the state legislature – finally got to give ‘the finger’ to legal citizens of Maryland via taxpayer supported tuition for higher education.
But thanks to a handful of concerned public ‘servants,’ hundreds of dedicated volunteers, dozens of responsive bloggers and a few members of alternative media – and believe it or not finger-pointing left, thousands of registered Democrats – Maryland’s version of the “Dream Act” is on hold until at least August 1.</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">If the BOE validates the nearly 57,000 signatures needed, this unjust legislation – passed in the General Assembly by a narrow margin in April and signed into law in May by Gov. Martin O’Malley – will go to referendum and be placed in the hands of voters in 2012</span>.
And that, in a nutshell, is why our Blue State leftists have their lace panties in such a tight little bunch.
The women aren’t too happy, either.
The last thing liberals want to see is the great unwashed moving en masse to right a wrong hoisted upon us by representatives that do their best to avoid representing us.
They sure didn’t listen to the electorate when they convened in the 2007 Special Session and raised our sales tax by 20-percent. They surely ignored our pleas to not raise fees or burden small business with regulations, and they didn’t heed our howls of disapproval when it came to speed cameras, red-light cameras, and other money-grabbing stunts disquised as public safety policies.
But given the reaction by sponsoring senators such as P.G. County’s Victor Ramirez, CASA de Maryland and their squad of intimidators, and the uber hypocritical ACLU, it’s looking like this time the message is coming through loud and clear.
Can you hear us now, Annapolis?
<span style="font-weight: bold">It wasn’t enough that Maryland taxpayers have had to provide K – 12 education, subsidized housing, medical care and other assorted entitlements to illegal immigrant families, a majority of our legislators – led by those from the county with the heaviest illegal population – felt the need to force us to also pony up for their higher education opportunities and subsidize classes for college-age adults</span>.
And now that the petition drive seems as if it will succeed, charges of hate, bigotry, racism and other assorted ‘isms’ are being hurled at those trying to see that the democratic process is allowed to play itself out.
The aforementioned left-leaning groups, however, aren’t interested in democracy, voter’s rights, or first amendment freedoms unless it benefits their laws and policies – a fact made crystal clear by the ACLU’s attempt to stifle Maryland’s on-line petition capability while simultaneously championing on-line signatures in Utah so as to not disenfranchise voters.
Looks like ACLU attorneys suffer from more than just bad shoes.
These very liberals – the ones who call for civil discourse, bi-partisanship and compassion for all – are the same peaceful, freedom-loving slabs of humanity who not only speak from two sides of one face, but have also harassed signature-collectors, shouted obscenities at volunteers and even spat at a group of anti-in-state-tuition associates.
All we are saying is give peace a chance, dude.
According to a number of signature collectors (and their photos), even Kim Propeack, CASA de Maryland’s Director of Community Organizing and Political Action, positioned herself between petition signers and collectors in an attempt to intimidate those exercising their first amendment rights.
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Voter suppression, one would think, would call into question CASA’s 501(c)(3) charitable organization status – especially in light of IRS rules stating such organizations cannot legally lobby for candidates nor legislation – a rule that is obviously lost on our attorney general’s office given representatives testify year after year while wearing CASA de Maryland t-shirts.
But that is a subject for a future column and a forthcoming email to AG Doug Gansler.
Prior to this petition drive, Maryland’s Greenies, Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Conservatives, Independents and even Republicans have had little or no representation in the halls of state government.
Now, each one of those political parties and affiliates can use the anti-in-state petition drive as a model to thwart or delay any legislation (save for tax increases) that Annapolis used to think they could sail right by us.
That nervous laughter you hear is from supporters of same-sex marriage legislation.
How dare the citizens attempt to strike down the holier-than-thou edicts thundering from atop the CASA de State House?
See, Maryland likes to pretend it’s a “progressive” wonderland (kind of a dumb label when you haven’t progressed much since the failed policies of LBJ’s great society. By the way: is there an exit strategy for the War on Poverty?), but in reality state leaders are what the stoners in college used to call ‘weekend hippies.”
A weekend hippie was an individual who would smoke a little weed, hang with the real hippies at concerts and other such events, but would never fully commit to pure hippie causes.
Where’s the legal weed? Where’s gay marriage? Where’s the assisted suicide legislation? Where’s the elimination of the death penalty? Where's the stash of Birkenstocks?
See? When the spit hits the spam Maryland progressives are the equivalent of those short-haired, suit-wearing, corporate-job NARCS that are still beholden to ‘the man.’
And I bet they don’t even inhale.
Maryland Democrats are, however, bullies because the numbers allow them to be. But these Kumbaya-ers will never reach their progressive Nirvana (the plot of land next door to that harem of Muslim virgins) until they actually start believing in liberal causes and commit to something a little deeper than their Prius.
Right now, our elected officials with the ‘D’s’ next to their name only believe in the special interest groups who can make money (and score political points) from supporting liberal causes – like amnesty for lawbreakers, off-shore wind power, outrageous public union benefits or bike lanes on a highway.
The only true belief currently held by Maryland liberals is that they’re much more intelligent than those who disagree with their political positions and policies.
And, coincidentally, the hundred thousand or so petition signers have been the most disagreeable bunch yet encountered.
So of course you get name-calling, hand-wringing and leftist columnists who try to associate tuition for illegals with picking apples.
Of course, the extreme, uneducated, hateful, fear-mongering racists who organized this effort – along with the fanatical, illiterate, odious, phobic bigots who lent their signatures to the petitions - have to be anti-immigrant and supporters of mass deportation.
Opposition to in-state tuition for illegals couldn’t possibly have grown from a frustration with the lack of immigration reform and enforcement. Nor could its roots be in the lousy economy, a fearful job market or a groundswell of exasperation with elected officials who refuse to acknowledge – let alone defend – The Constitution.
The war may still be raging, but this battle is seemingly won – the vile actions of the petitioners’ opponents confirm the victorious outcome of the first round.
So raise a glass and salute your valiant effort, petition volunteers, supporters and signers. But before you do, be sure and purchase your favorite adult beverage from a liquor store in a neighboring state
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