A La Carte (03/26)

  • Tim Challies
  • 03/27/06
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Monday March 26, 2006

Humor: Members of the Church of Nazarene of West Palm Beach delivered some old fashioned vigilante justice to a marauding thief. PalmBeachPost reports.

Praise: The case against the Afghan Christian, Abdul Rahman, has been dismissed and he is likely to soon go free. Paul, among many others, reports. Afghani Muslims have vowed to kill him regardless, and I don’t think it would be a suprise to learn that he does not survive long after his release.

Technology: An interesting article at The Motley Fool discusses Google’s future plans. He thinks Google is targetting a “Google-powered browser loaded with accessible, Office-like services and deep hooks into the best information the Web has to offer.” Google is becoming incredibly powerful!

Politics: I’ve got to say - these rallies where illegal immigrants are voicing their rights to immigrate illegally are downright bizarre. The U.S. wants to restrict the flow of illegal immigrants, and somehow this is a bad thing? I’m a bit confused here!

Comments (4)

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a comment from Billy • 03/27 @ 1:59pm

Whenever these rallies are held in the future, different government agencies should be there with stacks of 1040EZ forms, selective service registration cards, and the paperwork to start a citizenship application. I don’t have a problem with Hispanics, or any other ethnicity being here. Just go thru the process of becoming a law-abiding citizen who pays for some of the benefits he/she receives.

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a comment from Joel • 03/27 @ 3:25pm
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The biggest problem I see with the new law (which I understand has been softened by the senate) is that it cracks down on the illegal immigration by punishing anybody who gives any help to somebody who’s illegal. In effect, it requires that anybody offering charity check ID first. When Hispanics look for charitable help, where do they go? Their Church. I don’t get a lot of chance to speak well of Abp. Mahoney, but I’m proud of him for telling the government where to go on this.

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a comment from Brendt • 03/28 @ 12:04am
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If this confuses you, then you Canadians must be overly-protected from our US lunacy. ;-) See also this quote from last year.

Today, I heard the rallies likened to a bunch of burglars getting together to march in support of fewer cops.

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a comment from Kristie • 03/28 @ 3:42am
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As to the protests, I need to ask my friends who are “in the know”, but I think much of it was backed by the unions, like the farmworkers.

To give you some perspective, I talked with a Christian brother in church about this issue of illegal immigration. He is hispanic, but very much a part of our white suburban culture (and a strong Calvanist), but he expressed to my husband and I how he has mixed feelings on the issue. He went on to share his story of coming here as a kid when some relatives smuggled him out of the country. His father was already here illegally establishing himself, so the family could join him. They came from a very poor, isolated area in Mexico.

He recalls one night his father told him about later, when he (his father) was coming home from work. A cop stopped hiim for a broken headlight, then discovered he had no green card. My friend’s father begged the officer to not deport him—he had a family inside the house! The officer showed mercy and let him go. My friend said that night could have changed his life forever, and he is grateful for the officer that showed mercy and allowed his family to stay. How different things would have been if they had been deported!

I believe there are many people in those marches that could tell similar stories. That is why they are motivated to come and protest. It is an emotional mark on their lives. Most of my latino friends can tell you these stories. Most latinos end up assimilating into our American culture much in the same way as other immigrants have in the past.

Anyhow, I understand all the economic impact, etc. etc…but as Christians I believe we need to show a little more mercy and compassion for people that are coming from and oppressed society.

That’s my two cents.