While Gates and his police officer partner, will be sipping beer at the White House, a NYT editorial put La Affaire Gates in perspective. The Immigration and Custom's Enforcement Agents have been trashing the Constitutional rights of Latinos and violating due process and search and seizure laws. The Cardozo Law Clinic has produced a report on hundreds of cases of ICE agents in violation of basic rules of law. trampling over the lives of defenseless immigrants and non-citizens and citizens. Just reading the few details of the report mentioned in the NYTimes editorial is revolting.
It makes me laugh that Obama has so much time for Skip Gates and his troubles while this outrage got zip comment from the Oracle on Pennsylvania Avenue. The report showed a systemic and long standing program of criminal behavior on the part of gangsters with badges and loaded weapons. This report should produce a wave of firings and arrests of ICE agents for crimes under official cover of the law. Of course, this type of report gets written about every twenty years. I wonder where the Latino politicians and media are when something like this should produce mass protest....? The faceless, the poor, with limited English, and no power....perfect as a punching bag for the agents of the state...who was in charge? Who let this happen?
Meanwhile, the papers are reporting the undoing of the el-Presidente's health care fantasy. He has been swallowed up and spit out by his own party....Of course, he can say, " Well, who else do they have to vote for." The said truth is that Obama and the Democrats are set themselves up for a backlash from independent voters who rightly feel they have been defrauded. And so it goes.
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