The Right puts its spin on a tragedy

I’m sure we’ve all read, watched and heard the news about the bombings in London. Well, today I received an email from somebody associated with “Conservative Petitions”. The title of the email was ” London Wake-Up Call: Close Borders to Illegal Immigrants” and here’s the first few paragraphs of the email (emphasis theirs):

ALERT: Once again, radical Islamists have shown their true nature, murdering dozens of innocent men and women in London, and injuring hundreds more. The date of 7/7 — the day of the London bombings — will live in infamy with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, as a day when civilization was brutally, bloodily betrayed.

We share the sentiments of British Prime Minister Tony Blair: “We are united in our resolve to confront and defeat this terrorism.” But are we doing what REALLY needs to be done to “confront and defeat” the determined, well-organized international enemy who attacks us? Are we taking even the most basic steps to AT LEAST make it difficult for terrorists to come in and set off bombs in cities across our nation?

NO — because our government is doing almost NOTHING to stop the flow of illegal aliens into America.

As Michelle Malkin has written, “Remember: More than half of the 48 Islamic radicals convicted or tied to recent terrorist plots in the United States over the past decade either were themselves illegal aliens or relied on illegals to get fake IDs. Illegals participated in the first attack on the World Trade Center, the Los Angeles Millennium bombing plot and the New York subway bombing conspiracy. Three of the 9/11 hijackers were here illegally; two had previous immigration violations.”

Makes perfect sense right? The “logical” thought process from the London bombings to illegal aliens being terrorists? Except for the fact that the BBC published this article saying:

Detectives now believe the London bombings were carried out by four British-born men in what were possibly the country’s first suicide attacks.

Sure blows the illegal alien political war-path fodder out of the water, huh?It’s sad how quick the Right is to distort another country’s tragedy - the tragedy of an ally in the War on Terror - into political gain in an unrelated issue.

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