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Arizona has been on a roll lately. Actually, scratch that… the state seems to have gone quite mad (in a good way). What I can only call “pro-American” bills have been flying through the state senate and off the governors desk (with her signature on them) on everything from firearms to healthcare, so many of them that I’ve lost track.

Only somewhat surprisingly, the media has more or less overlooked even the “anti-Obama” bill, and their focus seems stuck on the Arizona Immigration Bill (SB1070). As usual, they are doing their “un-biased” best to stir up protests, boycotts, and drama amongst the sheeple over the matter. A friend of mine sent me this picture of some of these fine, hard-working, American citizens out on the streets protesting the bill…

Now I’m not assuming they are illegals, I really don’t know either way. The lack of responsibility for their own lives portrayed in their message doesn’t bother me too much. Even the blatant threat of violence against us if we don’t feed, cloth and shelter them isn’t all that shocking, we’ve certainly seen that and much worse from their camp before.

…but what is that flag they are carrying?

In the past when this sort of protest has broken out they’ve carried the Mexican flag around called us names, or flown ours upside down underneath theirs while passing out rhetoric about the big bad American oppressors that need to be overthrown. This time they march the streets with the American flag as if to say that they are the Americans here, and those of us who work for a living and pay our own way are somehow being un-American by not wanting to give the whole world a free ride on our dime?

If they feel things have progressed far enough in their favor that it is time for this message, doesn’t that make it blatantly obvious just how far our society has fallen? If you cannot see this, and the threat it represents, you truly are blind.