Inflammatory rhetoric and emotionally charged phrases may get the blood boiling, accomplish little and exaggerate a problem a taxpayer great expense.

The oppression we silently caused and ignored south of our border has returned to haunt us.

Sins of the Fathers? At least we got those bananas real cheap.

Just maybe we should consider how our actions caused our reality.  

Those banners are so much easier to wave than understanding our participation.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Sheriff Joe Arpaio lead what some believe is

the whackiest state in the union. (illustration: DonkeyHotey)

Arizona Is a "Kookocracy"

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/287-124/15900-arizona-is-a-qkookocracyq

February 5, 2013

Border Folly

From Governor Jan Brewer to Sheriff Joe Arpaio to a Tea Party–dominated state legislature, no state deserves the tag “Kookocracy” as much as Arizona, and in Arizona there’s no bigger issue than immigration and border security. As immigration reform takes center stage in Washington, one man in Arizona is caught in the middle.
 

ByWilliam Prochnau and Laura Parker

 

Photograph by Jorge Balderrama.

Bob Heilig in front of the U.S-Mexico border fence on his Double Bar R Ranch, 70 miles south of Tucson in the Sonoran desert.

It didn’t help Arizona’s slide into “Kookocracy” that the most recognizable photo of Governor Jan Brewer has her waggling her finger under Obama’s nose on his airport arrival in her parboiled state or that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio took it on himself to send an Arizona posse to Hawaii and declare Obama’s birth certificate to be a fake.

By MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images.

Jan Brewer.

“Until you solve that very basic problem, you’ll not solve any of the problems.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/02/border-folly-arizona-immigration#