Thread: Big hub-bub in Arizona right now...

Mr. Jeff:

With all due respect, I don't get you. It seems, not surprisingly, based on the general theme of your post history that you're opposed to this new Arizona law because you feel it, in your opinion, will regulate and interfere with the lives of certain minority groups.

Yet you also seem based on your post history to be an ardent supporter of big government and the current administration. Bigger government absolutely regulates and interferes with people's lives in an escalating manner.

Opposed to regulating and interfering with the lives of minorities but in favor of increased regulation and interference with the lives of all U.S. citizens? At least I give you marks for being fair.

These are just my observations and maybe they're completely incorrect in regard to your convictions.

Having any kind of law on the books that doesn't really mean anything or is largely ignored by the government expected to enforce such a law is one of the many problems we have in this country and such occurrences are insult and injury to the citizenry.

Chris L

Originally Posted by billyjeff2

To all those who have expressed doubts about whether this new law will be applied "to the letter" versus enforced in a less-than-even-handed way by the Great State of Arizona:

How can anyone seriously doubt that Arizona wouldn't act in a proper and sensitive manner when it comes to issues related to race? It's not like it was one of those states that resisted recognizing Martin Luther King's birthday, or anything like that...

From Wikipedia:


"Sen. John McCain (Republican of Arizona) voted against the creation of the holiday to honor King, and later defended Arizona Republican Governor Evan Mecham's rescission of the state holiday in honor of King created by his Democratic predecessor. After his opposition grew increasingly untenable, McCain reversed his position, and encouraged his home state of Arizona to recognize the holiday despite opposition from Mecham.^[9]
In 1990, Arizonans were given the opportunity to vote to observe an MLK holiday. McCain successfully appealed to former President Ronald Reagan to support the holiday.^[10] Prior to that date, New Hampshire and Arizona had not observed the day. Throughout the 1990s, this was heavily criticized. Following the failure of the 1990 proposition to recognize the holiday in Arizona, the National Football League moved Super Bowl XXVII from Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.^[11]