Life: More Important If It’s American
The current top story on Digg (at 10AM EST) is a segment on Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show, the O’Reilly Factor, featuring Geraldo Rivera (check it out here). The discussion revolves around a young girl being killed by a drunk driver. The said drunk driver was also an illegal immigrant that had been arrested for a DUI prior to the heinous incident.
O’Reilly’s predictable stance was (paraphrased), “Why wasn’t this guy deported before!?” The conversation gets pretty heated and Fox executives have to be restrained for their inevitable excitement caused by a sudden doubling of the O’Reilly Factor’s ratings. Rivera goes on the offense to Bill’s statements and states, “It has nothing to do with illegal aliens…it has to do with drunk driving! Don’t obscure a tragedy to make a cheap political point. It is a cheap political point and you know it!!”
I don’t see how a compassionate person couldn’t agree with the position of Geraldo. What are we really talking about? Illegal immigration, or a death of an innocent spurred by a pattern of criminal behavior? If, as O’Reilly wanted, this “illegal” was deported and ended up killing an innocent Mexican girl, would Billy boy even bat an eyelash? The answer, as you know, is unequivocally no. Because, according to Bill, and according to most (if not all) deportation pundits an immigrant’s life, along with lives of individuals in their home country, are worth squat.
Ah, good ol’ xenophobia! You know, the Roman Empire thought those “barbarians” to the west were of a lesser-race and creed too, look how great that worked out for ‘em…
Look, a death is a death, a life is a life. A family starving here in the US should have as much right to assistance as a family starving in Peru. When will the world collectively get their head-out-of-their-asses and begin supporting the human race?
Do I need to reiterate the fact that if Bill O’Reilly was actually a decent Roman Catholic (Papal), his views regarding “illegals” would be drastically different. Even many conservative Catholics that hold to the “life” line of the Church believe that American immigration policy is a bunch of shit. Who’s a cafeteria Catholic now, Billy boy?
Oh Cas, you know Bill-o’s Catholicism is entirely wrapped up in his twisted sexuality & his scary, nagging parochial school fear that he is a bad boy & he is going to hell. Don’t try to confuse it w/ some belief system from which he should glean an ethical way of living & looking at the world.