The first one is about Paris "I'm a spoiled rotten, whiny, baby with more money than brains" Hilton and her histrionics about being punished for repeatedly breaking the law and thumbing her nose at the court, the judge and, for that matter, the rest of us who are law abiding citizens.
The second editorial chastises the senators who defeated the, hopefully, now defunct immigration reform bill that was up for a vote in congress.
How are they related? Well, on the one hand the NY Daily News gleefully applauds the decision of Judge Michael Sauer to make sure Hilton is punished as per his instructions and not the sheriffs misinterpretation of same.
"Many hearty bravos to Judge Michael Sauer, who returned Hilton to a cell for violating probation on a DWI-related conviction. Praise also for L.A. Prosecutor Rocky Delgadillo, who dragged her back to court, declaring: "We cannot tolerate a two-tiered jail system where the rich and the powerful receive special treatment." Indeed, we can't. Even if the inmate in question goes on crying jags and mourns for the company of her Chihuahua or newt or whatever creature she had been toting as a fashion accessory."
Yet the first two paragraphs in the next editorial state:
Shame on the craven senators who torpedoed an immigration reform measure that is good for America's present and future. Good for those 12 million undocumented souls who are settled here. Good for the national economy. Good - to some degree, anyway - for the security of a homeland whose border patrol operations have been markedly insufficient.
Rather than get behind a bill that addressed the reality of the country's illegal population as well as our need for foreign workers, skilled and unskilled, too many senators picked at this provision and that. Guiltiest were Republicans who bent to, or led, anti-immigrant fervor on the right.
But then to go on to state that it is "good for 12 million undocumented (read illegal) aliens" to be rewarded for breaking the law only goes to show how out of touch with reality the editorial board of the Daily News really is.
The claim made by the Daily News that this bill is "Good for the national economy" is pure B***S***. How is it good? The illegals don't pay taxes - local, state, or federal, don't contribute to social security, send hard cash out of the country, help to drain the local educational and health care resources and when involved in a crime, violent or otherwise, flee back across the border to avoid prosecution.
To state that this same bill is "Good - to some degree, anyway - for the security of a homeland whose border patrol operations have been markedly insufficient." is only true if you use it to show just how lax and understaffed our border patrol really is. The fact that many of the illegals are repeat offenders and re-cross the border almost as soon as they are released only serves to show that we need more agents, stricter laws, and judges who are not afraid to enforce those laws and sentences on the law-breakers. If we stick them in a non-air conditioned, four to a two-man cell with no amenities and make them work for their keep for five or six years then perhaps we can get a handle on this problem.
I have no problem with anyone coming to this country for a better life, to improve their lives for themselves or their families. Many of our parents, grandparents or great-grandparents did the same thing though legal immigration. However, to start off this "better life" by not just breaking the law but flouting it in the worst way and then crying that you should be rewarded for your criminal behavior by being allowed to stay in this country and reap the rewards of your lawbreaking is pure, unadulterated crap.
"We cannot tolerate a two-tiered jail system where the rich and the powerful receive special treatment." Yet this is the very thing that the Daily News is asking us to accept for a certain low-income group. A two-tiered system that rewards that certain group of law-breakers and has us, the middle-class workers, pay the bill.
Remember, Justice wears a blindfold for a reason. Unfortunately some people want that blindfold removed and special privileges for those who have not earned the right to be in this country in the first place.
What do you think?
