Arizona's Immigration Problem - Democracy v. Republic

It is foolhardy and preposterous to think we can understand the mindset of those who are against the Federal law and the new Arizona law which is simply a copy of the Fed law with the addition that Arizona law enforcement can stop, detain, and arrest illegal’s. Although I don’t understand them, here goes my foolhardy attempt to explain their strategy.

They always say the simplest answers are right in front of us. Why would any American not support legal immigration? I believe legal immigrants tend to be very patient, and hard working conservative people. Those who come here illegally know they’ll receive a handout and in addition, are not concerned about our laws. They tend to lean toward those who protect their plight.

So, here’s the question of the day for amateur rocket scientists. What group of Americans will benefit most if 20,000,000 illegal aliens are instantaneously converted to U.S. citizens?

Get the picture? I thought so! It’s a radical move for control. Ask yourself this; Why do they want more control? My opinion; they want to change the U.S.A. from a constitutional republic into a direct democracy. Most citizens already think we’re a democracy so the conversion from one to the other will be subtle and somewhat uneventful. The danger, as founding father James Madison pointed out is factions. He defines a faction as; "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."

The US Constitution was created and drafted to eliminate direct democracy and it’s “faction” problems. Today, June 2, 2010 we are seeing direct democracy in action from the Whitehouse and US Congress. This is a violation of the intent of the U.S. Constitution. Any number of elected officials are acting in a manner that has this great country off course. If it stays off course for more than a few years, it’ll become the norm and returning it to its foundation will only happen through civil strife and possibly internal war.