Most everyday down here in Dumbutt, Texas we read of about America’s Men in Black Gestapo (ICE) storming into homes and workplaces to haul off and imprison people whose crime is working hard for small change. They literally tear mothers from children and husbands from wives for lack of paperwork. The destruction of families sent by our most boisterous family values crowd. The same crowd who cry "rule of law!" only when it suits them.
When this xenophobic rounding up began with that ring of what another such gestapo did for similar reasons in a time and place far away, it was just the few Hispanic organizations one would expect, and a lonely Houston Chronicle which would speak up.
But over the past few months with the economy tanking, this marriage of Homeland Security and US Customs which has given birth to our own little Frankenstein, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has become like the Joe Horn issue, a NO BILL. The writing is on the wall, the people are mad and wrong and nothing can be done about any longer.
At times people step up to the plate who are often the least expected. In this case it is Jim McIngvale. Better known to all of us down here in Dumbutt over the past 25 years as Mattress Mack! Most every day we see him on TV holding up that fistful of dollars with his fast talking screech of "SAVES YOU MONEY!" We also hear of Mack each year during rodeo time when he spends a millions on buying the top bred steer or pig. Someone we see often flaunt their millions.
"Nothing surpasses the greatness or the dignity of the human person." Pope John Paul.
Jim McIngvale wraps his op ed piece in today’s Houston Chronicle around that statement by the late Pope. He does not attack either our government or the ever growing majority of people who add insult to injury toward the very least of us, but questions it from a humanitarian point of view. Jim McIngvale, Saves Your Soul!
Never forget: We are all just Pilgrims