Read the law
To the editor:
When U.S. Congressman Connie Mack first ran for Congress I wrote the first letter calling for his election he was a natural for the job due to his father’s connections. Like most new congressman he blended into the crowd and almost disappeared, but then he became a Washington playboy. He deserted his wife and children and took up with some political colleague.
But to add insult to injury he wrote a recent guest opinion about the Arizona immigration law. It seems, like most politically correct folk in Washington, he never read the law itself. Like so many other shabby politicians he wrapped himself in the American flag, waved a copy of the constitution and totally perverted the meaning of the Arizona law. He talks about infringing the rights of Americans but these are not Americans, they are illegal aliens who are not being stopped on the way to the ice cream parlor. They are questioned after a legitimate stop after some illegal act. Mr. Mack doesn’t want people to carry papers, apparently, but citizens are required to carry a driver’s license and show it upon being stopped by the police. The need for not having the driver’s license are not as quote, “Nazi tactics” but legitimate police actions. A citizen can be arrested for not having his driver’s license; perhaps we should make police question everybody’s citizenship since our open borders brings in everybody.
My many years in politics makes me suspect that Mr. Mack’s actions are just a political stunt to gain the Spanish vote in the upcoming elections but he has lost my vote. Perhaps others who do not trust politicians in Washington will join me “and throw the bums out.”
Peter S. Hare
Cape Coral