- by Bob Lonsberry © 2018
THINK ABOUT THIS…..
Where do they Go Potty?
The 7,000 people walking north to America, where do they go to the bathroom? Where do they eat, sleep and store their clothes? Or even CARRY their clothes?
And how is it that after a week on the road they are clean and their hair and clothes are well kept? How's any of this possible?
And why do these people, supposedly fleeing intolerable conditions in their homeland, carry little flags from their homeland and break into its national anthem when the TV cameras show up?
And speaking of which, for oppressed people, they all seem to be pretty well fed, well-groomed and well dressed. Their hair is neat, their clothes are clean and in good repair, and they appear to have had ample nutrition all their lives. They look well developed – and many of them are overweight.
None of the people in the caravan that we see on the TV news all day look like they've been sleeping on the ground for the last week.
There’s just nothing in any of this that makes sense.
Supposedly, these several thousand people spontaneously decided to leave Honduras, walking north in a group, hoping to trek the length of gang-plagued Mexico and present themselves as refugees at our American border.
To me, there are A LOT of unanswered questions. And unasked questions . . . Such as, 'Who organized this? Who is paying for it? How in the heck have they covered 500 miles in one week?"
Seriously. Any number of American “reporters” have walked beside a sympathetic walker and talked about how this particular woman and her children had trekked half a thousand miles over the last week or so. That’s 71 miles a day. The best soldiers through history have been able to march 25 miles a day
How have 7,000 people been fed and watered? And how have they gone to the bathroom? If the average person across the world produces about a pound of solid waste a day, that means that these folks are somehow disposing of more than three tons of feces each day. That’s a heck of a lot of crap, even for a Central American roadway.
Provisioning such an army of people – the equivalent of 10 combat battalions in most of the world’s militaries – is a large task. Transporting and distributing the food and water necessary to keep those people moving is a massive chore which the press says nothing about. The entire enterprise, as a spontaneous ad hoc event, is implausible. However, as an orchestrated international attempt to influence an American election, it starts to make sense. And it ought to alarm us. Unless it’s only the Russians we don’t want screwing with our democracy.
Unfortunately, none of this has made the evening news. It’s almost as if the press, in whatever scheme is afoot, gladly accepts its role as propagandists to the American people. Every story is sympathetic, like an attempt to ENLIST viewers and readers in this caravan and the politics it symbolizes.
Because all of these people, if legitimate, have the ability to apply for American asylum in their own country – as do the residents of most nations of the world. We have consulates and embassies for a reason, and this is one of those reasons.
We also have laws and an oath of office for a reason. Laws, so that “We the People” through our elected representatives, clearly and systematically govern our society.
Law is the means by which the people express and exercise their sovereignty.
Disobedience to law is disobedience to the will of the people – us. It's subverting our sovereignty and franchise.
Breaking the law is denying us the vote. Our votes elect representatives – we pick the country’s direction – and the representatives write the law. If that law is ignored, our representation becomes meaningless. We get screwed.
And the oath of office? Members of Congress swear an oath to “bear true faith and allegiance” to the Constitution, which establishes our system of laws --- and specifically charges the Congress with making the rules of naturalization and immigration.
Who comes across the border and under what conditions they can stay is a constitutional responsibility of the Congress. That's to be determined by a congressional vote, not by a Honduran mob.
Failure to insist on that – for political officeholder of ANY party – is a serious violation of our congress-person's oath of office.
So there shouldn't be a "Democrat response" or "Republican response" to this travelling mob of invaders – there is only an American response. And that needs to be: "Turn around and go home!"
Because the law of the United States does not allow a mass entry like this. The law does not declare the borders open.
If any of our politicians don't agree with that, they can try to change the law. Those who want open borders and believe all the world’s people have a right to live in the United States – as they say they do – then they should change our present immigration laws accordingly. But until then, if they are to keep their oaths of office, they must stand FOR the law and the border. And they must tell these marchers to turn around and go home. Because this caravan is nothing more than a bunch of carefully-timed politics.
