Case in point: they marched on CITY HALL -- a place that has literally nothing to do with immigration policy -- instead of the FEDERAL COURTHOUSE. They would know this if they were in their CIVICS CLASS AT SCHOOL instead of playing Marco Polo in the City Hall reflecting pool.
Here's one of the gems from yesterday's Houston Comical outlining the mentality of these "protestors":
"There's no other way to be heard ... It's not the best way or the right way, but it's our way," Reagan freshman Jose Lopez, 14, said of the effort.
Well, thank you Cicero, for your laser sharp command of civics!!!
Let me get this straight -- you're going to prove what an asset you are to American Society by violating its laws, assaulting its values, and then pretending like it's your only method of recourse.
Let me school you -- YOU ARE NOT ROSA PARKS!!! Our history is replete with acts of civil disobedience that are revered. This is not one of them. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s was designed to make a place for black Americans at the table of American society. Much needed and well deserved. But these stunts are about what you can take off the table for yourselves, without the responsibility of giving back to society.
Bottom line -- we are a coountry of laws, beginning with the basic law of citizenship. Do not demand a voice in a country that you are not legally entitled to be in.
And my mesage to all of the folks out protesting this week is:
Isn't your time better spent in school learning to legally use our system of government to bilk huge entitlements for yourself courtesy of the US taxpayer. That is, after all, the AMERICAN way!
