Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon (a Democrat) has one idea as to why the Arizona law came to be. On May 14th, Mayor Gordon participated in a panel discussion put together by the liberal, bed-wetting Center for American Progress. The panel was called, "When Federal Government Failure Leads to Local Upheaval-Arizona and Beyond." You probably already see where this is going. So Mayor Gordon gets up to the mic and explains how the Arizona immigration law - calling on state law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws - may have been the result of ... the absence of a Fairness Doctrine.

Don't see how the two are related? Let Mayor Gordon explain it in his own words!

"I think it goes back to the Reagan era when the fairness doctrine was dropped, and instead of requiring both sides of a debate to be aired, only one side was given the chance depending on who was providing that."

The horror - the government not requiring both sides to be aired. Don't you know that society doesn't always do what it is "supposed" to do, and it takes our esteemed government to correct the wrongs of a free-will society when it does not do "right." Giving people a choice isn't fair, because some may succeed and some may fail. And when those who fail are on the "right" side - aka. liberals who love government - then something has to be wrong! It just can't be that conservatives are more entertaining and informative than liberals, especially when it comes to talk radio.

OK .. back to Mayor Gordon. He has more to say ..

"But more importantly, language that was never acceptable became mainstream. Those that were deemed to be in disagreement with those on television or radio were deemed traitors and extremists and hateful and language that we have never heard or seen."

He might as well have come out and called it what it really is: hate radio. Hate-filled, right-wing talk radio. Yup, that's all I've done day after day for over forty years - spew hate and language that has since permeated the mainstream!

"So it became acceptable in the mainstream media, it became acceptable in debates. And as a result the wedge issue that came about as a result of the economy over the last four years immigration became front and center."

Now we have come full circle. Back to this Arizona bill. So because of the "hatred" that was allowed to be heard for years on talk radio, illegal immigration became an inflamed topic that spawned over-the-top reactions like that of Arizona. Never mind that Arizona is facing a full-fledged crisis. The Mexican, Latino, Latin American .. whatever you want to call it .. invasion is costing Arizona $2.7 billion a year. The kidnappings, the rapes, the murders in Arizona cities are so bad that the state has asked for the National Guard to step in.

So when the federal government refuses to enforce its own law, Arizona takes responsibility. It isn't going to sit around and cry and wait for the federal government. It isn't going to stand by and watch its citizens be murdered and its taxpayers be drained at their expense. It is going to do what a government should do - protect its citizens. What is so wrong with this concept?? I cannot, for the life of me, understand why this is such a terrible concept to liberals. If the purpose of government is not to protect its citizens, then what else is it there to do? If you are a liberal, the answer to that question is as follows: write entitlement checks, make everything and everyone equal, and redistribute the wealth. Once people realized that they could use the ballot box as an instrument to plunder other people's pockets, we were doomed.