Poem: Arizona Immigration Law & Senator John McCain

"As a former marine I am honored by your call to duty & sacrifice, But you and no one alive should deny any minority a better life."

Senator John McCain

(LOS ANGELES) - What do you think of John McCain's politics? Millions of Americans see Arizona's decision to have local police officers begin enforcing immigration law. as the last thing that this nation needs.

The act of singling out people on a border with a Hispanic country and somehow managing to do this without racial profiling, is viewed as a cruel fantasy by people of color in Arizona who wish to maintain a degree of privacy and dignity.

Few are surprised that these are the politics of a state where on some days, there are more police cars on the freeway than civilian cars. Arizona is already the closest thing the United States has to a police state.

And from this position it becomes the first state to authorize police to investigate federal immigration issues. This is not acceptable under a number of American ideals and historical patterns.

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Arizona Immigration Law & Senator John McCain

The year 2010, it’s April & what do you think is front-page news?
The 1930’s & 40’s, Hitler’s henchmen check papers of the Jews,
From Plymouth Rock to modernization Indians are under attack,
And during that period Blacks in chains were unable to fight back.

Arizona has passed a sweeping and controversial immigration bill,
It’s authorizing police to stop suspected illegal immigrants at will,
Able to check identification and demand proof of their citizenship,
Most certainly to handcuff, arrest & detain anyone giving them lip.

Is there a reason for those of Mexican descent to be upset thru panic?
Well, just ask African slaves who were brought across the Atlantic,
Oops! It’s been a couple hundred years since they put out that lamp,
Less than seventy since the likes of Auschwitz Concentration Camps.

“Racial Profiling,” I thought there was a national, federal kind of law,
"Hate the Law, Not Arizonans," but Hispanics didn’t get to vote at all,
Are they pulled from a box of Cracker Jacks or like a rabbit from a hat?
The calendar’s supposed to be going forward so why is it going back?

Hispanics, Jews, Indians, Blacks, take heart because you’re not alone,
Over 2 thousand year before 2010 Christians were despised in Rome,
Many were unjustly beaten, falsely accused, you name it & they were,
Just be thankful there’s no Coliseum & lions or crucifixions to occur.

McCain calls it Human Trafficking smuggling Mexican’s seeking work,
That is when women are forced into prostitution then treated like dirt,
Mexican’s want jobs for a better life and to funnel money back home,
Kidnapped females are sexually abused every way, they are all alone.

Pimps take all the money and leave them with barely enough to eat,
And the “John’s” have priority some don’t even get a chance to sleep,
Well, if you call being locked up in dog cages living in human waste,
Like you Senator as a P.O.W., are you saying those days were great?

The negative comments are more amazing because you’ve had a taste,
Eventually you came home as a war hero but what will be their fate?
Remember, most take jobs that Americans feel are below their pride,
Companies are indeed hiring them why should they have to run & hide?

Yes there is the huge problem that I do agree with, the influx of drugs,
Hey! Stop using them & we won’t have to deal with most cartel thugs,
However, there is an even bigger problem killing more people I fear,
Those who drive drunk behind the wheel from liquor, wine and beer.

Dick's daughter Liz has started a movement, “Keep America Safe,”
Certainly it’s a brilliant patriotic justified cause and idea but wait,
Cindy owns one of the largest beer distributors in the United States,
I mean no disrespect to your lovely wife but how can you retaliate?

Alcohol is even more deadly killing and maiming more by drunks,
Than illegal drug use so how can you stink and call them skunks?

As a former marine I am honored by your call to duty & sacrifice,
But you and no one alive should deny any minority a better life.

By Luke Easter

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Luke Easter is a poet who writes about things that are very close to the heart of Salem-News.com. Another former U.S. Marine, Luke explained what drives him to try to heal the world with an approach that reaches people on a different level, one known for centuries, yet too often forgotten in the one we live in.

We live in a world of social & economic injustice. The main reason for founding America in the first place was to relieve the oppression of the King of England. Patrick Henry said it best, “give me liberty or give me death.” And yet, all too often death seems to be the only way out. Why is there such a high suicide rate especially among teens, in the land of the free & the home of the brave? What makes headlines? Good news? Ha! More depressing stories than anything else. I feel poetry takes an edge off the hurt of bad news while still delivering it but in a, “glitzy” sort of way. Giving a different perspective. Kind of like slap in the face as opposed to a knife in the back. At least with the slap you’ll live to see another day and you will know whom it’s from. I wasn’t here for the beginning of the world but at 59, I just might be here for the end.

Even though it’s still a knife, rhyme poetry helps to dull the blade. And that’s my job. You can write to Luke Easter at: lyricsfromlucas@aol.com