ˇStrangers and Aliens!

 

Our inheritance is turned to strangers,

our houses to aliens.

— Lamentations 5:2

             

We know this nice brick mason who recently lost his business. He couldn't compete with all the illegal aliens who could low-bid him because they didn't pay taxes.

 

Our neighbor tells everyone he knows to ask to see a workman's driver's license before contracting for any work done. That's because he once arranged with some foreign guys to come and do a bunch of work at his house, and they took his up-front money, laid out all their tools . . . and never showed up again, apparently on the lam from immigration officials.

 

Everybody gives me grief about the weeks when I was "accidentally broadcasting" EVERYthing that was said inside our home through our intercom system. Our private conversations were blasted out for all the world to hear after some foreign-speaking guys obviously got their wires crossed. Then they couldn't be found to come back and fix it. Boy, was my face red.

 

The point is this: be kind to strangers. Oh, yes. BUT DON'T LET THEM WHUP YOU!!!

 

I have this wonderful, handsome, buff friend named Charles Lewis from South Carolina. OK, you guessed it, I'm buttering him up because he's probably reading this. Anyway, he recently had a really bad experience with an illegal immigrant. It points up a serious justice issue in our country right now that I'm sure God doesn't like to see happening.

 

Charles put it in a note to friends with a little wry humor, but serious undertones:

 

"Just got back from Greenville City Court and testifying against the invader who rammed my car and sped off (to his home, a mere block away -- such is the well informed assurance among illegals that they're above the law here). Here is my report on that experience:

 

"Sat through innumerable other cases first. They were an eye opener, largely consisting of Americans charged with heinous crimes like making right turns at stop signs without coming to complete stops (causing no collisions).

 

"In exchange for pleading guilty to these scandalous charges, these Americans received 'reduced' fines of $50 'plus costs.' These costs were spelled out in only one case, where it sounded like they came to something like $272. These Americans also were assessed four costly (in terms of forever raised insurance premiums) points on their driving records, points which they were generously allowed to erase if they went to drivers' classes at the local community college.

 

"The one notable break in the monotony of this involved a gentleman who somehow was driving (and causing accidents) on South Carolina roads without, evidently, being capable of speaking a word of English. It was noted he had no license or insurance, and he was no doubt an uninvited guest in our country. He also pled guilty. Apparently, for the additional violations of breaking and entering America, and driving without a license or insurance, his fine was an astronomical $70.

 

"That's it -- an additional $20 for those apparently trivial offenses. Except not really. I don't recall the judge saying anything in his case about 'costs,' meaning being an illegal alien appears to have saved him around $252.

 

"As to my case, the perpetrator similarly had no license or insurance, and likewise spoke no English. But he wasn't charged for driving without a license or driving without insurance -- two serious crimes in South Carolina (and elsewhere), I'm told. Nor was his obviously illicit immigration status of any concern.

 

"Nope, the only charge was hit-and-run. And the penalty?  How much jail time? Er, nada. Fine? A whopping $100. (ˇCaramba!) The lack of so much as a charge, or even the slightest admonition, for driving without a license or insurance made it clear this hombre, as well as the previous invader, could go on driving illegally and wreaking havoc to his heart's content. Compare that to the penalties for the much more minor offenses that some of the American defendants had paid dearly for. 

 

"I realized the investigating officer had not been kidding when, at the scene of the crime, she'd commented that if the perp were illegal, there wasn't much the police could do. Invaders are literally above the law in just about every sense of the word in South Carolina.

 

"I was told I was welcome to take the nice chap to small claims court to collect for my car repair damages. On the way to pick up the forms for this, I noticed the 'No Parking' signs on the streets. The fines were $500.

 

"I was informed that it would cost me $80 to file a small claim. That's $20 less than the sum total my amigo was fined for invading the country, driving without a license or insurance, wrecking my car, and blithely driving away. And $10 less than the other invader had been told to pay.

 

"It gets even better. I told the clerk at the small claims window that the muchacho had been found guilty, and asked what the chances were I could win a judgment with my $80 investment.  She said it was about 50-50.

 

"I later talked to a friend who'd been through the process, and he told me that even if I won, if the guilty party simply refused to pay, there was no further recourse. Shades of OJ, 10 years after the $6 million wrongful death judgment, of which he's paid not a penny. Nice to know our civil assessments have been reduced to the (dis)honor system.

 

"So here I am with a side of my car smashed in by a felonious invader, and so little prospect of justice that it would seem ludicrous to even think of shelling out that $80. Anybody wanna buy a bucket of bolts for 50 bucks?

 

"Epilogue: was listening to a debate on an Asheville, NC radio station later today. One of the candidates mentioned an illegal alien in the state who'd been convicted four times of drunk driving and, as in the case of the scum in my courtroom, never been deported. He wound up recently going 70 mph in a 25 mph zone, running over and killing a 7-year-old girl. The wages of judicial corruption. . . ."

 

            Oh, my God. I have a daughter about that age. So does Charles.

 

But there's always hope. The more we understand this scourge of illegal immigration, the madder we get, the more we want to act to stop it, the better we'll be able to cope with it.

 

Meanwhile, thanks for the report, Charles, and hang in there. The Lord God Our Judge hates injustice. He hates what happened to you in particular, and what's happening to our country in general. He's going to deal with it, and the people who are letting it happen to us . . . and then THEY'LL be the ones scratching their heads and exclaiming ˇCaramba! †

 

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Charles is a textbook author: www.mathandphonics.com, national outreach director for Christian Exodus, and moderator of the Save America Summit, www.SaveAmericaSummit.com which is dedicated to finding a good conservative candidate for the U.S. Presidency. Contact him at charles@saveamericasummit.com or (864) 517-8282.