More pro crime legislation?

The “tough” new immigration laws recently passed in Arizona is a godsend for terrorists and criminals. Where else can so many documents necessary to infiltrate security be so easily obtained. All a terrorist needs to do is to mug or pick pocket random citizens – who must carry proof of citizenship that can pass law enforcement scrutiny. Or if they prefer less risky methods all you have to do is to pose as a real undercover police officer by having business cards with a real officer name to obtain access to real papers from real workers. They identify themselves as undercover officers enforcing the new law and apologize profusely for “the necessary inconvenience of enforcing the new law”. They hand out their business cards with real police station telephone numbers for the detained people to contact. Then one of the “undercover” police officers hands the papers to a 2nd officer for “verification”. Viola! You have photocopied critical papers that can be either duplicated directly or have the names and numbers used to obtain “replacements”.
People who live in poor neighborhoods will pay in higher crime. Criminals will have easy access to papers for identity theft. The ID theft will expand to higher income people because – to avoid “racial profiling” – everyone will serve jail time for not carrying papers. Businesses who recruit employees across the border will not be impacted. And terrorism will expand in our country. What idiots enact this kind of pro crime legislation?
The only logical explanation is that someone wants more acts of terrorism in our country. Today over 98% of terrorist acts are done overseas and the victims are military personnel or “those people”. And yes, some of those people are “collateral damage” from military retaliation. If we had a few more 911 style events we could rally citizenry to support more big government to protect us from these threats. This big government would be on a cost plus and spare no expense basis with great profit to those lucky contractors.

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