So Phoenix, Arizona has become the second largest kidnapping hub in the world. So what!? That's no excuse to pass legislation to allow police officers to do their jobs! Come on now! That's just racism, pure and unadulterated racism!

Or so says the Reverend Al Sharpton and dozens of other liberals on television.

This actually amazes me a little (but not a whole lot, I'm used to seeing stupidity everywhere around me). For those of you that don't know what I'm talking about, let me explain. The state of Arizona has passed a law that allows police to ask people for their identification cards (green cards or visas, basically) if the person is acting or seems suspicious. With Arizona being run over by the drug trade and having very real security problems with illegal aliens crossing over into their state, the law makes sense.

Is it profiling? Will the majority of people who are stopped be Hispanic? Of course the majority of people being stopped will be Hispanic! The majority of the people that are involved in the Mexican drug cartels are Mexicans! (DERRRR!) Just like, although it doesn't happen this way, the majority of people being stopped at the airports should be young Muslim men. Just like, when they are looking for a serial killer, they should be going after middle-aged white men. Or, in the case of rape, men of any color. If the suspect of a crime is identified as a black male,then yes, black males will be stopped, as with any color. Come on people!

I understand that people want to avoid profiling at any costs (unless that profiling is being done to a person riding a motorcycle, in which case they'll get pulled over and harassed as if they were a Hell's Angel, but I digress). But in this instance, if the people that are committing these crimes and are proving to be a problem happen to be Hispanic, then yes, a majority of the people being stopped will be Hispanic. If the IRA were causing problems in New York (which does have some Irish illegals, yes), I would say the same thing. If Canadians were kidnapping people and holding them for ransom in exchange for Americas far superior health care, yes, I would say the same thing. Let's all take off our "sensitivity goggles" for a minute, change the setting from "Anyone that isn't an American", and put that setting on "Those who are in this country legally" for once, put them back on, and reassess the situation.

The Mexican drug cartels are a major problem, and are becoming increasingly more so. Americans are being kidnapped and held for ransom, drugs are easily flowing into the hands of our children, and Arizonians are fed up, understandably. The fact that these protests against this bill have in so many instances escalated to violent degrees is another thing that burns me. MSNBC actually had the gall to say that "While there are some kooks, the majority just want what they feel is right." WHAT?! Flashback to two weeks ago and talk about the TEA Parties, and analyze what they said. Just tick off the list: racists, check, terrorists, check, lunatics, check...the list goes on and on!

But since this is a "sensitive" issue, you don't see the footage of the policeman holding a baby being pelted by protesters with glass bottles flying all over the news. The media has always had a bit of a double standard, but this time it's just WAY too apparent. How does one say something like that with a straight face? Really!

Thankfully, Arizona is leading the way towards amending a problem that has needed to be fixed for a long time. Illegal immigration isn't a matter of ones race. I could care less if a person is Hispanic: Hell, work out at the mills sometime and see how hard a 65 year old Hispanic man will work, and how he leaves a 23 year old white kid in the dust. Amazing work ethic, amazing people, amazing food. But if a person of ANY color or ethnicity is here illegally, and on top of that doing things that are illegal, I have a problem with that and so do 70% of Arizonians (which happens to be the number of those that support the bill). Don't label me a racist because I don't want to just ignore the problem.