The first hour of Rush’s show Wednesday was spicy as a hot tamale in Santa Cruz. In the 25 minutes of audio below, you will hear the following gems about the left’s hysterical and irrational backlash against the state of Arizona:
Go get ‘em, Rush!… [W]e are not confronted by actors with heavy German accents demanding our papers! We are instead confronted routinely by people of all stripes asking to see our driver’s license:
When we board an airplane, we are asked to produce a government-issued photo ID, usually a driver’s license.
When we make some credit- or debit-card purchases in department stores, we are asked to produce a driver’s license.
When we enter many office buildings, both private and government, security guards often ask us to produce a driver’s license.
When we go to doctors’ offices and hospitals, we are asked to produce a driver’s license.
When we check into hotels, we are asked to produce a driver’s license.
When we purchase some over-the-counter drugs, we are asked to produce a driver’s license.
If we go to a bar or nightclub, anyone who looks at all young is asked to produce a driver’s license.
And needless to say, if we have any encounter with police or other authorities, we are asked to produce a driver’s license.
Some situations involve an even higher level of scrutiny. When we get a new job, we are asked to provide not a driver’s license but a passport or birth certificate to prove citizenship. In other situations, too …
And in many places, buying a gun -- a constitutionally-protected right -- involves enormous scrutiny. … Given all the situations listed above, can anyone argue that being asked to produce a driver’s license, if one is in some sort of encounter with police in which police are acting lawfully (that is also specified by the new law) is overly burdensome? Being asked to produce identification is a burden that falls on everyone, and now all of a sudden it’s racist?
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Let me ask you something, folks. What really is more Nazi-like:
Is it more Nazi-like to produce your ID when you check into a hotel or cash a check or what have you, or when you take over two automobile companies? Which is more Nazi-like?
What is more Nazi-like: Demanding that you prove that you are a legal citizen if you are in a situation where you may have committed a crime, or is it more Nazi-like to commandeer and take over one-sixth of the US private sector and run health care from the headquarters of the regime? Which is more Nazi-like?
What is more Nazi-like: Asking people for IDs when they get on airplanes, buy an airplane ticket or what have you, or cash a check, or when American businesses follow the law and say, “You know what? You just passed the health care bill. I gotta take a one-million-dollar from my bottom line according to the law,” and then Henry Waxman sends you essentially a subpoena … “You bring yourself up here and bring your papers, you bring your e-mails, and you bring your books.” ...
And you will not find “Produce your papers” anywhere in the law. It has been totally created and been picked up by government-run media. Now that’s Nazi-like.
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My friends, this regime, in its day-to-day actions, is far more Nazi-like than any identification law that is enforced anywhere in this country.
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The president ought to just come out and say right now, “Look, even though I took an oath to uphold the Constitution and the law of the land, I’m not going to. I don’t give a damn about the people of Arizona or the people in any of the border states. I don’t give a damn about the people of this country generally. I’m on a worldwide stage now. My number one job’s to impress other governments and other people, not to look out for the best interests of the American people …
"I can bully, I can smear, I can abuse the citizens of this country by going overseas and denouncing them, their parents and their grandparents, calling them imperialist, in essence, capitalist pigs, in essence. I can pass laws that force American citizens to do what I tell ‘em to do whether they like it or not,”—such as this insurance mandate, which is wholly unconstitutional—”I can raise your taxes as much as I want. I can deny you energy to heat your home and run your car. I can tell you what to eat. I can kick Americans to the curb or make them wards of the state.
“I, Barack Obama, in 16 short months have done that and more. But when it actually comes to protecting you from alien criminals, protecting you from aliens coming into your town and state by the millions who use your services and who are here illegally, well, I’m going to side with the illegal aliens every time. I, President Obama, think the cops are stupid. I am going to oppose cops every chance I get. I am going to side with illegal aliens every time.”
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Barack Obama is siding against us. He does not stand up for the law-abiding citizens of this country. He does not stand up for the legal immigrants in this country. He goes to bat for the illegals, the malcontents, the lawbreakers. Because it is their votes he needs. And he can’t get those votes if we ever get to a point where voter photo ID is required at the polling place. That’s what’s undergirding all this. Look at the war on terrorism, my friends. Obama and his attorney general have spent months trying to insure that terrorists receive constitutional rights. No president before has ever conferred on this kind of an enemy. It’s suicidal. But he does it. He doesn’t care about the American citizen. He doesn’t care about the dire consequences of his actions. He is reckless. He borders on lawless.
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Here’s the thing: The people of Arizona and their state government are not acting in a radical way. The president and his regime are. The radicals in this argument are the pro-amnesty, pro-illegal alien people, the Democrat Party, the government-run media, and everybody in this regime. The people of Arizona are the epitome of reasonable, they are the epitome of controlled but at their wits’ end. The president and his administration and his regime, they are the radicals.
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“The only reason Obama and the Democrats are upset about the new Arizona immigration law is because it threatens their attempt at nationwide voter fraud. … The left -- the Democrats, Obama -- recognize that this notion of proving one’s identity is a lethal blow to their agenda.
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I can understand Obama being touchy on the subject of producing your papers. Maybe he’s afraid somebody’s going to ask him for his!
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Obama says anybody whose great-grandparents were in Arizona before it was a state has a right to walk on in there, and yet the Jews were in Israel thousands of years before any other religion, and Obama wants to deny them the right to build in Jerusalem?
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To say that immigration has always been important to this nation is to misstate what’s taking place. Illegality, whether committed by citizens or noncitizens, has never been a principled objective of the society. How could it be? … To say that immigration has always been important to this nation is to misstate what’s taking place. Illegality, whether committed by citizens or noncitizens, has never been a principled objective of the society. To conflate immigration and illegal immigration is to be intellectually and factually dishonest in an attempt to justify that which is illegal by suggesting it is otherwise.
[Edited for long silences, commercial breaks, and extraneous talking]
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