THE DOCTOR IS IN
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LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
In response to an inquiry by Arlene C.: She asked my opinion as to why some politicians and government workers will refuse to carry-out the new Arizona law Bill 1070. Do I think that is the right thing to do?
Arlene, "No"! It is not the right thing to do. Just today, the Sheriff of Pima County, Arizona told the news media that he will refuse to carry out the law. He said the law is "racist." He is an elected official and is mandated to carry out the laws of the state of Arizona. If this law enforcement official doesn't want to enforce the laws of the state, he should not be a sheriff. He should resign and get a job in the private sector pumping gas, working selling shoes, etc., and let a law enforcement official who believes in enforcing all laws enacted in his/her state hold the position of Sheriff of Pima County, Arizona.
President Obama, President Bush and previous Presidents and all Senators in Congress are always the first to say: "We are a nation of law." If this Sheriff disagrees with any law that he feels is unfair he should move to change the law through legislation. He has no right to pick and choose which law he will enforce.
If any law is passed in any state and that law is put on the books, the State, County and Municipal government law enforcement personnel should enforce the said law. If this Pima, County Sheriff goes on a tangent, on his own, and decides that some laws are okay but his personal feeling about other laws shouldn't be applied to lawbreakers he clearly shouldn't be a lawman.
His argument that Bill 1070 is "racist" is his personal feeling running amok. Whether this sheriff likes it or not, if and when Bill 1070 becomes law his job is to "enforce" that law. This misguided sheriff's protests and screams of "racism" sounds a little like (he protests too much). Could it be he has a little racist feeling running in his bones? Who knows?
What doesn't this sheriff and other protesters understand about the word "illegal." Illegal is illegal. Illegal is not racist. There is one meaning and definition for "illegal and there is one meaning and definition for "racist." I suggest this sheriff and others who try to muddy a law with inflamed rhetoric page through the dictionary and see the difference between "illegal" and "racist."
So, Arlene--If indeed we are a nation of laws our own law enforcement personnel should quit screaming inflammatory speech and do their job. ENFORCE THE LAWS. If they do not, the public should fire them.- And, that's my opinion.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
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