CNN: Arizona a Rogue State that may seek nuclear warheads next

[EL PRESIDENTE]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/27/navarrette.arizona.rogue.state/index.html

Don't be surprised if, any day now, you read that the People's Republic of Arizona is in the market for nuclear warheads to put an end, once and for all, to illegal immigration on its southern border. After all, it's the next logical step for the rogue state.

This week, to advance the narrative that Arizona has no choice but to do its own immigration enforcement because the federal government is asleep at the switch, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer called for air support. Brewer requested helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles from the White House to patrol the border region with Mexico.

In a letter to President Obama, Brewer asked that the National Guard reallocate reconnaissance helicopters and robotic surveillance craft to the "border states" to prevent illegal immigration. The governor also requested the deployment of unmanned drones, including possibly the Predator drones used in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, in her letter, Brewer even mentioned those foreign wars as examples of where the drones have been effective.

What's the matter with Arizona? Isn't it a little early in the year for the folks in the desert to be suffering from sunstroke?

I guess this is par for the course. Brewer just signed SB 1070, a disgraceful anti-immigration and pro-racial-profiling law, to give local and state cops throughout the state the chance to suit up and play border patrol agent. Why shouldn't she get the chance to suit up and play general?

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

LOL

 

[Eastoff]

hahahaha okay that is a little ridiculous

 

[chris_in_pdx]

ridiculous.

 

[BlazerWookee]

What a douche, lol!

 

[BrianFromWA]

Actually, the Governor of the state is the General of the State's Militia, and of the National Guard units assigned to that state. Based on the 2007 bill where the President can use the state's troops with or without the governor's consent, it's a bit different now...but I have a big problem with some idiot effing reporter comparing use of surveillance drones to patrol a border to nuclear weapons. I can play this game, too.

"Since the security force at CNN utilizes weaponry (in the form of batons, zip-ties, tasers and even firearms--all of which have a military purpose) in the maintenance of their assigned duties, Rogue CNN CEO is leading an insurrection of private corporations against the people and government of the US. They should be shut down, instead of being allowed to spew their rhetoric across FEDERAL airwaves."

 

[MrJayremmie]

It is a CNN contributer, not CNN.

But I agree that this guy is an idiot.