Golmer's Blog

Dan, you can believe this or not, but I truly do think that the constitution is worth protecting, and laws are worth following. If a law is wrong so be it - it is the right and duty of every single citizen to challenge laws they believe are unconstituitonal at every turn.

I defend constitutional principles, because the alternative (lawlessness) is much worse. I defend gun rights because of the second amendment. I defend the right of people to have gay marriages because to deny that is unconstitutional. I defend the right of women to choose what to do with their bodies with respect to abortion. I defend people’s right to terminate their life should they choose. And I also defend the constitution with respect to illegal immigration.

I believe each citizen has the right to do what they want (within the law) as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. I also believe, whole-heartedly, that each person must be culpable for their own actions. That entails, at a minimum, taking responsibility and accepting the consequences of breaking the law. 

You say I don’t care about illegal immigrants, but that is a lie, pure and simple. I just look at the entire situation from a different and historical perspective. I see the entire situation whereby 12+million illegal immigrants live in this country illegally and outside the purview of law AND without the benefits and protections of US Citizenship as a travesty on the highest order. They are exploited and (contrary to popular belief) underpaid, unable to get benefits, insurance, and many of the other things that make the American Dream the American Dream. It is a failure of government and a failure of AMERICANS that not only allow it to happen but benefit from it on the highest order. Illegal immigrants make up the bulk of the American human trafficking and modern slave trade. They get screwed at every turn - but the blame isn’t completely on the government - it works two-ways. Illegal immigrants themselves know what they are doing when they come here off the radar. They know at any time they can be questioned, rounded up. and deported. It is a risk they take.

I’m all for immigration reform - real immigration reform - that fixes the problem and makes reasonable accommodation to HELP illegals become citizens and to FIX the problem that prevents a real system of LEGAL immigration. But again, I ask you, what is YOUR solution? You have yet to answer and yet to offer one.