What would happen if lawmakers and politicians began telling the locals to ignore the laws in their communities? What would happen if the lawmakers and politicians took it a step further and began ignoring them themselves? I do believe that our statutes would become nothing more than stone, soon to crumble into dust and blow away on any prevailing wind.

    I don’t know about you, but that prospect frightens me.

    As a black American who, though young, lived through the black civil rights movement of the sixties and seventies. I came away from that movement with a great respect for the law, not because of the way the law treated the people fighting against the injustices of that time but because of the way those fighting against the injustices treated the law. The affect of what they did, the black civil rights leaders and those in the struggle, had a positive and resounding affect on the rest of society because of their respect for the law.

    However, what do you think would have happened if the black civil rights movement had become one where breaking the law had become the way in which civil rights was to be achieved? I think the outcome would be a much different one than what we witness today. Every American alive today has felt the affects of the black civil rights movement in one fashion or another, the undulation effect of that movement and the way it was waged has swept across America in resonance.

    The illegal alien movement occurring today has described itself as such a movement, a civil rights movement intending to affect how America will look at itself in the tomorrows.

    However, what that movement failed to grasp is, not once did Martin Luther King ever advocate breaking the law to change the law, for he realized the effect such a strategy would have on the future, how hopeless and futile such an approach would have on lasting strength within the American community.

    Perhaps the lawmakers and politicians advocating the breaking of our current laws failed to understand the message they are sending to average Americans.

    The undulation effect of such radical way of thinking can lead to but one end. When you cross such a line as that of allowing people to break the law because you believe that their services are more important than the law itself, you’re telling the average American contemplating breaking the law in order to feed his family that it is justifiable to do so.

    Ludicrous, I know, to think that anyone could relate the two issues, a guy robbing a liquor store to a guy crossing the border illegally, both of whom are trying to provide better for their family. You might believe that even the blind lady of justice should be able to tell the difference. Well, in fact, she should not.

    I say, if you don’t like the law, change the law. If you want to make it so that illegal immigrants can come to this country by crossing the border illegally and therefore become U.S. citizens than change the law to make it so. Protest; demonstrate down the streets of every city. Refuse to ride a bus or eat at certain diners, but when you have broken the law and stand before the American people and demand rights reserved for a citizen of this country, the ground on which to stand to demand is flawed.

    Well, I think the only reason those who are advocating this anarchy and refuse to limit it to such civil tactics as that of the black civil rights movement are those who realize that the difference between what illegal immigrants are demanding and what black Americans requested is simple, one is demanding privileges while the other was demanding rights.

    For all those who are in need of a definition of the two, an attempt to define the differences between a Right and a Privilege is a letter for another time.

    As a black man, I understand those who strive to improve themselves, to do things that will allow one to better ones self. Nevertheless, as a black American, I have a great love for the laws by which we govern ourselves. They are the cornerstone by which our society stands and you start shipping away at that, then you lead me no choice but to believe that your intentions are to bring down that which I so strongly believe in.

    Where do we draw the line America? Our system of democracy is designed so that changes are brought about in an orderly fashion, for every thing we do as a nation affects each, and every one of us. The undulation of anarchy is chaos and bloodshed.

    I know, I know, I’m being overly dramatic but I would like to ask those leading the Mexican movement a question.

    What America has built in this land of freedom, took generations. When will places like Mexico be forced to provide hope and prosperity for its own people? When will the people of such countries stand up and demand this hope from their government?

Well, it will not happen marching down the streets of American cities.