Wednesday - February 28, 2007

Let's Call Them Future Citizens

Or Anything But What They Are 

The following story is just another example of how the left thinks.  A Florida legislator wants to ban the phrase "illegal alien" from state documents.

A state legislator whose district is home to thousands of Caribbean immigrants wants to ban the term "illegal alien" from the state's official documents.

"I personally find the word 'alien' offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children," said Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami. "An alien to me is someone from out of space."

She has introduced a bill providing that: "A state agency or official may not use the term 'illegal alien' in an official document of the state." There would be no penalty for using the words.

In Miami-Dade County, Wilson said, "we don't say 'alien,' we say 'immigrant.'"

She said she encountered the situation when trying to pass a bill allowing children of foreigners to get in-state tuition at colleges and universities. Wilson, who directs a dropout prevention and education program in Miami, said she politely asks witnesses at public hearings on such issues not to use the term.

"There are students in our schools whose parents are trying to become citizens and we shouldn't label them," she said. "They are immigrants, through no fault of their own, not aliens."

Wilson said the first word isn't as bad as the second.

"'Illegal,' I can live with, but I like 'undocumented' better," she said.

Asked if her bill (SB 2154) might run afoul of Gov. Charlie Crist's "plain speaking" mandate for government agencies, Wilson said, "I think getting rid of 'alien' would be plain speaking." 

This is part of the cognitive dissonance of the left.  Let's call criminals something else.  Here it is even better, because it involves the "children."  The left has lost its moral compass.  Everything, everyone, and every act is okay.  Well, the exception to that is Christianity, Christians, and the United States.  These, the left can call evil and Nazi like.

This is why the left yawns at Islamic terrorism.  They can't bring themselves to take a moral stand because morality requires a judgement that some actions are good and others are bad.  Thus, people who break American law can't be called illegal aliens.  That is why the left can't show outrage about anything except those who uphold the good and the decent.