Arizona passed this bill that, as best I can figure, sez this: treat any situation where you think a person maybe here illegally like…you are seeing a robbery. The only glitch being a bank robbery usually involves guns, scared people, loud alarms, and the Screen Actors Guild. An illegal could be pretty much anyone in Arizona. Drive a shitty small car – possible illegal. Working outside – possible illegal. Enjoy tacos – possible illegal. Anyone carrying money could be the bank robber; anyone who is brown now has a big target on their back.

Governor Brewer promises all police will be trained in illegal recognition. I’m sure that’s very very conforting to anyone who is not very white and blond, pigmenting in their probable cause. I have heard that no 4th Amendment rights, per se, are violated by this since being here illegally is illegal. At least we did not dip into our depleted state budget for 6-pointed gold stars.   Governore Brewer is an idiot, and thinks this will all blow over.   Really, Beckie attended the conference she spoke at the day after this colossal act of stupidity became law.

Is she playing chicken with the federal government to try to get immigration reform?   I think she is not that smart.   I think she is just cow-towing to the peckerheads on the right like Russel Pearce, who now are somberly rejoicing in church that Janel Napolitano is gone (another idiot, but at least a Democrat to balance).   The hatred is amazing.   How can you bury your head in the sand and hate 30% of your population?   How can you try to stop a simple market force? I don’t like the negative externalities and criminal enterprises that our country’s backward guest work policies engender, but I’m not willing to give up protection from unreasonable search and seizure over it.

There are calls to boycott AZ.   Boycott conventions, boycott spring training.   MLB has been notably silent on moving the 2011 All Star game, which is understandable.   They selectively pay attention to issues, and keep their brown men down too. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the financial backlash further damages our broken state economy?   Wouldn’t it be ironic if the need for funding helped pass the medical marijuana law?   I predicted that AZ was moving towards a day of political reckoning – maybe extinction, maybe evolution.