The world is upside down
Jim Thompson
By Jim Thompson
HCP columnist
The world is upside down – and has been for a long time.
I remember reading some time ago – indeed, I may have already mentioned it here, about the free speech movement protests in Berkeley, Calif. in 1964. The protesters wanted to jump on a police car, but they took their shoes off first so they wouldn’t scratch the paint.
Compare that to what has been going on in recent years, and specifically, the last week or so in Los Angeles.
This is pure violence and destruction of property. Yet, Governor Newsom characterizes calling out the National Guard as an overreaction. Maxine Walters and Cory Booker call the protests peaceful.
What are they protesting? The detainment of people who entered the U.S. illegally and have been previously arrested for crimes, up to and including murder.
This seems to be the Democrats’ mantra these days. Namely, it is OK to commit any crime and get away with it.
A few years ago, we saw criminal level riots in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland (Oregon) and other cities. These, too, were characterized as “peaceful protests.”
This is not the country I want to live in, nor the country I want my children or grandchildren to live in.
We pay for a safe country, and we should have it. Illegal entrants should be deported.
I have heard statements such as, “If we don’t have migrants, who is going to pick the tomatoes?”
Do you know what was being said in the public forum in 1859? “If we don’t have slaves, who will pick the cotton?” Both statements reek of elitism – and both are morally wrong.
Such statements also show one how technologically ignorant most people are. We have had cotton-picking machines for decades. Tomato harvesting machine are in the fields, too.
There are many online videos of automatic tomato, vegetable and fruit harvesting robots.
Just the whole idea there are “inferior” people, and we need them to do mundane tasks is abhorrent.
Let’s bring obeying the laws back into fashion. It seems to be the fashion in small towns and rural America. Let’s bring this idea back to the big cities.
Jim Thompson, formerly of Marshall, is a graduate of Hillsboro High School and the University of Cincinnati. He resides in Duluth, Ga. and is a columnist for The Highland County Press.