Limbaugh, where the *$^%!# have you been?

Now Rush Limbaugh is calling on our leaders to “protect the identity of this country,” and talking about instituting really tough immigration laws. Great. Fantastic. But how does the man on the Cutting Edge of Societal Evolution explain the fact that he’s just discovered this threat to our nation now, and that he’s not only said nothing about it during the 18 year history of his national program, but that he systematically screened out callers who wanted to talk about it?

Furthermore, now that he’s finally come round on the subject, is he serious about it, even now? Read to the end of El Slowbo’s remarks on his April 6 broadcast and see what the draconian “Limbaugh Laws” he is proposing really are:

All right, immigration proposals under discussion. Let me add mine to the mix. I want to call this proposal the Limbaugh Laws. Here they are.

First, if you immigrate to the United States of America, you must speak the native language. You have to be a professional or an investor. We are not going to take unskilled workers. You will not be allowed.

There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools, no special ballots for elections, no government business will be conducted in your native language. Foreigners will not have the right to vote, I don’t care how long they are here, nor will they ever be allowed to hold political office.

According to the Limbaugh Laws, if you’re in our country, you cannot be a burden to taxpayers. You are not entitled, ever, to welfare, to food stamps, or other government goodies. You can come if you invest here, but it must be an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage. If you don’t have that amount of money, you can’t come and invest. You have to stay home. If you do come and you want to buy land, okay, but we’re going to restrict your options. You will not be allowed to buy waterfront property in the United States. That will be reserved for citizens naturally born in this country. In fact, as a foreigner, you must relinquish individual rights to property…

These are the Limbaugh Laws. Another thing. You don’t have the right to protest when you come here. You’re allowed no demonstrations, you cannot wave a foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies, or you get sent home. You’re a foreigner. You shut your mouth or you get out, and if you come here illegally, you go straight to jail and we’re going to hunt you down ‘til we find you.

I can imagine many of you think that the Limbaugh Laws are pretty harsh. I imagine today some of you probably are going, ‘Yeah! Yeah!’ Well, let me tell you this, folks. Every one of the laws I just mentioned are actual laws of Mexico, today. I just read you Mexican immigration law. That’s how the Mexican government handles immigrants to their country.

This is more than a double standard. It is an indication of just how gutless people in charge in this country are to protect the identity of this country.

Thus, in typical mainstream conservative fashion, Limbaugh is not capable of taking a principled conservative position of his own, but only of attacking the double standard of the other side. So unserious is he, that he even calls the position that he is not adopting the “Limbaugh Laws.”
Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 28, 2006 02:31 PM | Send