| One of the things missed in the earlier mention of the Buffalo News piece centering on Jack Davis' "Heritage of our Fathers" speech was that Davis, later in the article, actually said he doesn't believe anymore that a takeover of states in the southwestern United States will happen with a war.
From the article:
"I think they'll do it without a civil war," he said. "They'll take control of the state governments and start voting themselves anything they want."
So instead of a civil war, they will (according to Davis) take over the state governments and give themselves what they want.
What we also can't overlook is the response to these comments. Jon Powers' campaign manager John Gerken said, "This is probably why his handlers won't let him debate and hide him from the press." Alice Kryzan termed the remarks as "wrong and offensive."
But it was this comment that perhaps the best response to Davis' words:
Meanwhile, a top official at the National Council of La Raza, the nation's leading Hispanic organization, termed Davis' comments "extremely offensive."
"He's feeding an environment of intolerance that doesn't distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants," said Clarissa Martinez, director of immigration and national campaigns for the organization. "He's presenting our whole community as invaders - people who want to take over the country."
Agreed. The problem is that Davis is lumping all immigrants into one group. That is, I would contend, the problem with all of the anti-immigration people in this country, including one of Jack Davis' favorite TV personalities Lou Dobbs. Instead of separating legal from illegal, they just lump them all into one group: Illegal immigrants.
Also, yesterday I wrote about Davis creating his own party - "Save Jobs and Farms." Read this part of the article and you tell me whose side Davis is on:
Many Western New York farmers rely on migrant workers from Mexico to bring in the crops.
After hearing quotes from Davis' speech, John Lincoln, the president of the New York Farm Bureau, said: "The farmers overall would be really concerned about his statement."
Told what Lincoln said, Davis replied: "He's not a regular farmer. He's one of these big guys . . . I'd call him a multinational farmer."
Lincoln, 70, is a dairy farmer with 200 head of cattle in Bloomfield, a village of 1,258 in Ontario County, southeast of Rochester. Asked if he had ever met Lincoln, Davis said he had not.
Because Lincoln didn't go along with Davis, that makes Lincoln a "multinational farmer" or "one of these big guys." Even Lincoln is a farmer.
Let's see: Owner of a factory or a farmer who just happens to head the New York Farm Bureau. Who would I talk to about farming, what's good for farmers and why migrant laborers are needed for farms?
I know the answer. So do the farmers.
Problem is that Jack Davis doesn't know the answer.
I have included the video of Davis' remarks from earlier this year below the fold for those who haven't heard them yet. If you want to see the REAL Jack Davis, he is in that video. |
