David

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February 25, 2008

Minneapolis Children’s Deaths Reveal the Lethality of Liberalism

Four children were murdered here in my home state of Minnesota on Tuesday. The school bus they were riding home in was broadsided by a van driven by an illegal alien, Alainiss Nuñez Morales. Or so we call her now. Even that name is an alias. Just exactly who this person is and what she was doing here when she wasn't supposed to be remains unknown as of this writing.

And it would probably stay that way a good long time if the liberals running local government and the news media had their way about it. You see, Miss Morales (or whoever the hell she really is) was convicted of driving without a license two years ago. But she was neither imprisoned nor deported at that time, thus leaving her free to needlessly slaughter three boys and a girl.

Nobody checked her immigration status then – neither the law enforcement who arrested her nor the local or state government with jurisdiction. I don't know that I can blame the officers themselves. I imagine they probably know they're not going to be backed up by their superiors and might even get in trouble with them for doing so. For you see, a good many cities in Minnesota have become “sanctuary cities” – places proudly advertising their blatant treasonous refusal to enforce immigration laws.

Yes, that's right, I said treasonous. No mayor or state official has any prerogative to pick and choose what laws on the books they will and will not enforce. When they arrogantly and unconstitutionally do this anyway, in violation of their oaths of office, they have for all intents and purposes seceded from the union and declared their city or county a personal fiefdom. And they themselves are, in principle, the dictator thereof. When you top all this off with the veritable pride most take in defying the law they've sworn to uphold, I don't think traitor is by any means an inaccurate description or too strong a label.

Naturally, these places become magnets for illegal aliens, as they know their status is much less likely to be discovered. Add to that the ridiculously generous welfare handouts most of these same ultra-liberal dictatorial politicians are all too happy to tax away from you and hand to them, and it should be no surprise to find a great many Alainiss Moraleses here.

By the same token, the biased news media is never interested in investigating the backgrounds of incidents like these, or what gave rise to them. I suspect it's because some of their liberal conventional wisdom would be proven to be flat-out wrong and, sadly, lethal to innocent bystanders. That's why they'll likely not even look into what Morales was doing here, how she got here illegally and why the previous arrest didn't result in her incarceration, deportation or both.

We had another horrible incident in Minneapolis a week prior, in which a little four-year-old boy was brutally beaten to death by his father's cousin, who ordered her children to hold him down so she could bludgeon him into oblivion while they watched this horror. The boy was staying with this woman, who was previously investigated for abusing her own four children and has multiple drug convictions on her record, because his father who came up from Chicago was arrested himself on an outstanding felony warrant. Just where his mother was through all this is unclear.

But did the aftermath of this evil attack cause any curiosity in the local media? Any desire to know where this poor child's mother was, what the father's business was in coming to a place where he knew he could be arrested, how he wound up in the care of a woman who apparently had no business tending to children, and what exactly gave rise to their drug- and crime-riddled lifestyle?

Sounds like a good topic for a crack investigative reporter to dig into. But it wasn't. The story dropped off the radar screen a few days later and it hasn't reappeared – not a sound, not a peep. Could it be, like the bus crash, that finding out the details of the lives of these criminals will be every bit as lethal to liberal shibboleths as the perpetrators were to their innocent child victims?

Fact is, these entirely avoidable killings are the direct consequence of liberal policies. From being soft on crime, to handing out welfare that destroys the nuclear family and acts as a lure for the criminal element, to not sealing the border and refusing to enforce immigration laws, liberals have set the stage for the carnage we've witnessed over the last couple weeks. They have enabled this all along, and without their having done so, it's highly unlikely that either awful crime would ever have happened.

Neither of these incidents was a “tragedy,” with the incidental nature such passive language connotes. These were the entirely predictable and lethal results of stupid, immoral and wrong actions deliberately taken by those holding the levers of power. We can either deal with this truth and reverse course before things get even more out of hand, or we can bury out heads in the sand and let political correctness run amok cause even more avoidable bloodshed.

We owe nothing less to these precious little ones taken far too soon – Demond Reed, Jesse Javens, Hunter Javens, Emilee Olson and Reed Stevens – than to ensure that they did not get killed in vain.

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