Deck: Cyber Curmudgeon - Works a charm

I've gotten several anti-immigration e-mails lately from friends, both right and left -- excuse me, anti-'illegal' immigration. Sometimes I sigh and let them go unanswered; sometimes I tell them:

We are a nation of immigrants. We first stole the country from the Native Americans who were here before us. Now we want to shut the door and tell no one else they can come in, not even the Mexicans that we stole Texas from.

Doesn't seem fair, does it?

But as long as the powers that be can keep us worrying about immigration, we won't pay any attention to the trillions, that is TRILLIONS, of dollars that we are giving to the greedy bankers who destroyed our economy in the first place -- or the hundreds of billions of dollars we are giving to the Defense Department to murder Afghanistanis and Iraqs, or the billions we are giving to the insurance companies so they can deny us healthcare.

Works like a charm, doesn't it?

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