Going Downtown

JOHN LEWIS was a young sidekick to Martin Luther King, stood with him on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the freedom march fifty years ago, and stood there again a few weeks ago at the fiftieth anniversary ceremony. In our modern sruggles surrounding the issue of human equality, John Lewis has seen it all. He was elected to congress in the great wave of black progress following the civil rights movement of the nineteen sixties, and is still there, at a ripe old age. During his long lifetime he has been arrested and jailed dozens of times. He has a rap sheet longer than Al Capone, but keeps getting reelected to congress, by due process. What gives? For one thing, congressional districts are cleverly drawn to herd all the blacks, or all the liberals, into a group, which automatically guarantees that there will be blacks in congress, and liberals in congress; but not too many of them. Round 'em up, rope 'em off. Thus the powers that be remain the powers that be, and those wanting change can go and talk about it, to each other. It must be frustrating to people like John Lewis, Charlie Rangel, and Jesse Jackson, when they realize how little power they really have, assuming they do. Perhaps it is true that sometimes that frustration and anger explodes in fits of lawlessness, hence the rap sheet. Just the other day Lewis was arrested and jailed..UHHHHH gin. This time seven other members of congress went downtown with him. If we aren't careful, we're gonna end up with the entire United States government locked up, and if you think the government is shut down now....on the other hand, having congress locked up for awhile might not be the last idea on the minds of the American people right about now. Along with a bunch of illegal immigrants, the lawbreaking congresspeople were blocking traffic,yelling, waving signs, all the usual stuff, drawing attention to our current lack of an adequate immigration policy, and their demand that we create one. Thus, downtown they went. The immigration policy these liberals, Lewis and his ilk, would enact would be highly favorable to illegal immigrants: amnesty to those already here, an easy pathway to citizenship for them, and a fair and organized process for future legal immigration. None of this business of kicking out the eleven million illegals and locking the door behind them, as per apparent conservative preference. It almost seems as if the powers that be, who most certainly are not john Lewis and his ilk, but rather, billion dollar corporate managers, prefer that the illegals remain in the United States, but remain illegal. That way,the cheap labor will be available, but they won't be voting for democrats. And they might not be voting for anybody, at least not in this country, unless law breakers like John Lewis keep going downtown.