Three blind mice leading Georgia to ruin by peaching the endorsement of illegal behavior

As Erick noted below we have yet again been treated to local “leaders” who insist that endorsing lawlessness is the way to maintain the law. Indeed, Rep. Hank Johnson, Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington and Atlanta Roman Catholic Archbishop Wilton Gregory have again called for immigration “reform” (i.e., reward illegal behavior) at a press conference held at The King Center yesterday.

Now, Hank Johnson is a fine man who I dealt with frequently before he was elected to Congress. That said, he is also a liberal loon. Archbishop Gregory is also a fine man who I have great respect for…up to the point where he and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops start sticking their heads into matters that deal with sovereignty. Pennington is just a dullard.

Let’s review the latest from these three Wizards of Smart:

“The lack of a coherent immigration policy is making it more difficult for law enforcement officers to build trusting relationships with immigrants in our communities,” the congressman said. Without it, many victims and witnesses of serious crimes are too afraid to report them for fear they will be taken away from their families because of their illegal status, he said.

What isn’t coherent about the current policy? If you are here illegally, you must leave. If you are thinking about coming here illegally, don’t…because you will be breaking the law.

Pretty simple, right? Evidently not for a Congressman from DeKalb and Rockdale Counties. Indeed, we are told because these illegals are breaking the law themselves, we need to fix their status so they can trust the police. Maybe, and I’m just spit balling here, they shouldn’t be here in the first place and if they were in their native lands applying for citizenship the proper way then the whole issue of forging relationships wouldn’t be such a big deal!

I also wonder if Congressman Johnson is worried about all the drug users and dealers who are unable to build a “trusting” relationship with the police in their community. Doesn’t he realize that someone sitting on a pound of cocaine in their apartment might not call the police if they witness a crime? How can we allow this horror to continue?!?

Ditto the man beating his wife who observes a burglary across the street. Because of his actions assaulting his spouse, his “trusting” relationship with the local constabulary is broken. The horror!

Friends, we have to fix this. Using the Johnson/Pennington/Gregory paradigm, the clear answer is that we should forgive drug possession, spousal abuse and other criminal offenses to ensure “trusting” relationships with the police. Much like we are lectured by “Those Who Are Wiser Then Us,” if we must reward illegal behavior from illegal aliens by granting citizenship to forge better community relationships, how can we do any less with actual citizens who are breaking so-called laws? Those laws were written by fat, white men long ago, remember.

Then, there is this from the simpering Chief of the Atlanta Police Department:

Pennington noted that the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, of which he is past president, adopted a resolution in July supporting immigration reform.

Well, if the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives thinks it’s a good idea, then we’ve got to act! I haven’t heard what the National Organization of White Law Enforcement Executives thinks. That’s probably because the existence of such an organization would be an affront to people everywhere and patently bigoted on its face. That Chief Pennington belongs to a similarly bigoted organization, though, is of no import as we are talking about the chief law enforcement officer for the City of Atlanta speaking out about forgiving an abundance of illegal behavior on the part of a goodly segment of the community. Real inspiring, Chief! Shouldn’t you be on vacation? I mean, it IS a day ending in ‘y’!

Finally, we reach Archbishop Gregory’s assessment of the situation:

“Those in the shadows now should be given legal status and integrated into American society,” Gregory said. “We can no longer accept a status quo that perpetuates a permanent underclass of persons and benefits from their labor without offering them legal protections.”

Again, Gregory and the other members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops continue to miss the point. No one here in the United States is putting these people into the “shadows.” They put themselves there. They made the conscious decision to leave their native country and travel illegally to the United States. If they are an underclass, which I would beg to differ on as their illegality is evidently celebrated by members of Congress, law enforcement, and the Catholic Church, then their “suffering” is only their own fault.

Why Gregory is always so swift to condemn the United States for failing to accept everyone coming over the border at any time for any reason and never speaks out about the political, economic and societal imbalances in the countries of origin for these people mystifies me. Eager is the Archbishop to talk about the changes we need to make in the United States, but his zeal is unable to be located when it comes to addressing concerns to the government of Mexico and other Latin American nations about the lack of freedoms in their own lands. While with a kind heart and gentle spirit, Gregory again seems to convey the message that it is preferable to have the United States overburdened and ultimately destroyed under the weight of an influx of people it can ill afford rather than striving to help realize the freedoms we enjoy in other corners of the world so people can remain in the lands of their birth rather than come here.

Alas, that is the state (and misguided beliefs) of our “leaders” here in Georgia.