Border crashers making mistake

Let’s say you’re a wedding crasher.

You’re at this wedding.with a couple buddies, scarfing down the free food and drink and enjoying some dancing with other unattached guests. No one cares because you’re not a focus of attention on such a joyous occasion – who cares if a couple people no one knows show up, right? You’re laughing and joking…it’s a happy occasion and everyone’s having a good time.

Now suppose a group of a dozen people no one knows crashes the wedding. There will probably be some unfriendly stares and maybe even unfriendly questions. Now what happens if those people show up en masse, occupy a section of tables and speak only to each other in a foreign language, demand the band play music more to their liking, shove invited guests out of the way to get into the food line and ignore civil requests to depart? At the least, they’re going to make the acquaintance of the local police force but it’s more likely they’re going to get their asses handed to them by outraged wedding guests.

That’s why it’s such a bad idea that the pro-illegal immigrant crowd is planning protests Monday with the intent of shutting down some big cities and showing the American public the strength of its backing. Here’s the bottom line: Like wedding crashers, they weren’t invited, but were tolerated as long as they were not disruptive. Become confrontational, and you run the risk of turning what has been a little-perceived annoyance into a full-blown threat to society.

And you know what happens to threats to society, right? They’re removed by any available means…often violent means. Think Eliot Ness and The Untouchables, and you get some idea.

As Americans, I admit we tend to arrogance. Most of us will tell you this is the best place to live. Likewise, we think our system of government is the best, out way of doing business is the best, our military and economy are the best and our social freedoms are unrivaled. We’re also proud of our allegiance to the rule of law, pointing to this as setting us apart from most other countries of the world. Present a military, technological or commercial challenge from abroad and we’ll kick your ass.

People want to come here to live; we understand that in our self-admitted arrogance…we’d want to live here, too, if we were consigned to some third-world hell. But other countries must understand that this is our country and we make the rules…and we’re pretty proud of the way things have turned out. Border crashers coming here from their third-world cesspools and then trying to tell us by force to remake our rules to favor them is going against our blueprint for America. It insults us. Raise enough ruckus and the problem escalates to the level of a threat.

“Threat level,” of course, is not a good place to be – particularly when you’re a threat to a nation claiming the most efficient military force in the world.

Illegal aliens here are living on a bubble, and they don’t seem to realize it. Their presence is tolerated because they provide cheap labor to businesses, because it would take some effort to kick them all out and because, as Americans, we tend to be generous with guests. Jump up and down too hard, making too many waves, and that bubble will break – our reasons for tolerance will disappear in the face of a threat to our way of life.