UPDATED: Arizona: The Hysteria and the Hyperbole
…of the nascent anti-Arizona movement.
People throw the term “fascism” around too easily these days. Arizona has been the corridor of choice for Mexican illegal aliens for about a decade now. If it’s crawling with Nazis, why did they wait so long to implement their “your papers, please” regime? Or did all the Nazis move in right after Janet “The System Worked” Napolitano move out?
Arizonans have a very good reason to support this new law in large numbers: illegal immigration isn’t just about the movement of people and contraband across the border anymore. In less than a decade, it’s evolved into one more battleground of the Cartel Wars.
Thus, Arizonans are rightfully afraid; and more Americans should be afraid for them, but it seems some people are too busy trying to let everyone know how open minded and tolerant they are, compared to Arizonans, to realize that some very bad stuff is going on at the border. That’s bad stuff that can only spill over into the U.S. before too long.
That was the irony of the refried bean swastikas. There are organizations in Mexico right now terrorizing and killing anyone who dares get in their way, much like the one that made swastikas so infamous some 70 years ago. That’s what Arizona is reacting to. Not Mexicans in and of themselves.
UPDATE: …and the Stupidity: Arizona Iced Tea faces calls for a boycott…even though the company is based in New York.
MORE: A robust round-up, at Instapundit.
