Regarding Garin Groff’s article on Dec. 12 (“East Valley Patriots”): Apparently this is a group of misguided individuals or progressive liberals who have decided to use the word “patriots” to pretend to stand for “American values.”
American values are God, country and family — with the Constitution as our foundation in order to worship God and have the freedoms God has granted us.
These individuals represent very little of what Arizonans feel. Most of the people in this country agree with Russell Pearce. The misguided ideas and practices of President Obama, the White House administration and a lot of Congressmen (who have lost their jobs this year) are bent on destroying this country.
I do not want to live under communism or socialism. I do not want our country over-burdened with individuals unwilling to become citizens through our legal system and burdening our welfare and educational systems. I do not want criminals crossing our borders at will. I do not want entitlements to continue.
Thank you so much for alerting the people of Arizona to this subversive group.
Terrie Johnson, Mesa
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Dale Whiting posted at 8:13 am on Mon, Dec 20, 2010.
Rich,
Notice that when challenged to provide examples, these intellectually challenged Conservative Patriots cannot respond supstantively? It's all touchy feelly politics to them.
Here the challenge to Terrie was "Give my your "informed" take on how Preemption does not make SB1070 unconstitutional." The silence of the response is deafening!
Dale Whiting posted at 4:30 pm on Sat, Dec 18, 2010.
Terrie,
Read the comments after the last Weinstein article and the letter to the editor on Weinstein's article. Those apply to you.
Why don't you suggest we have a House Committee on UnAmerican Activities? Or do you recall anything from the Joe McCarthy era?
I do agree that groups ought not use lables such as "Tea Party" and "Patriot." In addition to being pandering to those who cannot think for themselves, they cheapen the terms.
What was patriotic about the "Patriot Missile? What was patriotic about the 'Patriot Act." Not a darn thing? But anyone who cannot see through Russell Pearce is darn near blind.
Where Buz Mills offered Arizona conservative leadership from a successful business leader, our pandering RIght lead us away from him to a do next to nothing follower in Jan Brewer whose one achievement in life was fixing her name to a piece of Pearce generated obviously unconstitutional legislation. And you say you believe in the Constitution!
Give my your "informed" take on how Preemption does not make SB1070 unconstitutional. And none of that talking around the issue!
concernedcitizen posted at 9:32 am on Sat, Dec 18, 2010.
Sounds very similar to the slap in the face for homeowners who have always kept up on their payments and were not greedy, yet those who were in default were the only ones that could get government help when times got tougher. Not a very fair system. It is one thing to lend mercy, which I believe in. But welfare shouldn't be just a hand out, there needs to be some effort, some work tied to it on the part of the recipient. Same with illegal immigrants, I agree they should have to go through the same process as everyone else-how fair is it for someone to get away with doing something illegal or wrong, or to get an easier way because they were doing that? That doesn't sound like the America I know and love.
Accuracy posted at 8:37 am on Sat, Dec 18, 2010.
In a nutshell: The grass-roots group called East Valley Patriots for American Values are urging the Mesa City Council for an endorsement of amnesty for people coming to the United States illegally, as in the "Utah Compact".
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has issued support for the Utah Compact, proposed by the group, calling it a responsible approach to the urgent challenge of immigration reform.
The United States allows more than 1 million aliens to become Legal Permanent Residents every year, more than twice as much as the next nine countries combined.
But, an endorsement of amnesty (Utah Compact) for those entering the United States without documentation and permission is an insult to the face of all legal immigrants who waited in line a long time to become citizens through a process called naturalization.