Volunie 9
August 29, 1986
Issue2
Renaissanc Peter
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''If they were dogs, we could kill them'' An Essay what to do. But they'll be back, You "Hell yes, we could stop them, We can bet they'll be back. could stop them if they were dogs. If The queer notions of governments they were dogs, we could kill them. · notwithstanding, people have always But they are not dogs, they are human done what they had to do to get on beings." with their lives. -Bob Parks, What harm are they doing, after Immigration and Naturalization all? They wouldn't be here if there Service wasn't any work for them to do. If the fat Americans would like to go You can find them out in Brighton thin cucumbers, they can do that, thinning cucumbers. Or in Seattle too. washing dishes. Or fixing cars in The laws of supply and demand Green River, respect no borders. We've got jobs, lliegal aliens ·- from Mexico they've got backs. · mostly, but also from parts further Now and then the INS picks up south: Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, El some lucky bracero who has landed a Salvador. union bricklaying job while other They will tell you: Tirings are kind taxpaying American bricklayers colof crazy back where they come from. lect unempleyment. When that Inflation like you've never seen -100 happens, the INS usually holds a percent or more every year. Unempress conference. An announcement ployment, like one out of three peois made. A headline is written: ple, not counting women, And underemployment ~ those that are lucky ALIEN STEALS JOB · enough to have jobs don't work all Wetback discovered making $15.80 day or don't work all year. And then an hour there are these crazy soldiers with INS says Mexican national has been guns, running around killing people. caught here three time before. And these crazy revolutionaries with guns, running around killing people. . A man's got to do what a man's got Crazy people with guns all over the to do. place. Governor Lamm is among the And still they have their own lives people who would like to stop the to lead, mouths to feed. Hey, a man flood waters from Mexico. As a futulearns early how to thin cucumbers, rist enamoured of the "limited and all he wants to do is work. How resources" perspective popularized can a man be a man if he doesn't by Paul Erlich (The Population work? Bomb), the Governor knows there · They are very understanding about isn't enough of the good stuff to go occasionally getting thrown onto a around. An he thinks that we are bus beaded back home. more entitled to what's left of it than "La ley es la ley," they shrug. H the other people. Like Spanish-speaking INS picks them up and sends them people. Or old people. Or people home, they understand why. who live in the Third World. Governments are always messing Not enough to go around? That's a with their lives like that, telling them pretty popular opinion these days,
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but not everybody thinks so. There are plenty of far-sighted, educated people who happen to live in the Third World who estimate this planet could easily sustain 10, 12 maybe 15 billion people. On one condition: That the one-fifth of us who are using up ~o-thirds of everything stop being such pigs. That doesn't mean giving up our cars or our houses or our color television sets in order to put the world on we1fare. By now, everybody has figured out that welfare is a lousy idea. Welfare turns human beings into domesticated animals. What it does mean is that human
working conditions, unsanitary living conditions. Some of them die." Boy is that true. It happens all the time. But those "unscrupulous businessmen" couldn't get away with such gross violations of human rights if illegal aliens had civil rights. They don't. Illegal aliens are not protected under the Constitution of the United States. The Supreme Court said so. And the government, by making this . exchange of labor largely illegal, is a willing accomplice to all this exploitation. And lots of us, who are almost certainly the _descendants of aliens ourconttnued on page 4
''Wait a minute, these people are being exploited by unscmpulous business men. High rent, low
wages, unsafe working conditions, unsanitary living conditions. Some of them die."
beings can no longer afford to finance the expensive toys used in the expensive games that governments play. Can't eat those bombs, boys and girls, can't eat those planes. You also can't eat those cucumbers if you don't find somebody to go out there and thin 'em for you. "Wait a minute," I hear some politician say. ''These people are being exploited by unscrupulous business· men. High rent, low wages, unsafe