Thursday, July 7, 2011

Got Your Ticket?

Perhaps this makes it simple enough for our government to understand citizen’s feelings today, as I don't think they get it.

This was written by a Mexican who is now a naturalized US Citizen, and I think it's a great explanation of the illegal immigration issue.

Here is the quote:

"If you had tickets to a sports event, concert, Disneyland, or for an airline flight, and when you got to your assigned seat you found someone else was in that seat, what would you do? You would call for a person in charge of ticket checking and have the person in your seat removed. You would properly be asked to show your ticket, and you would gladly and proudly do so, for you have bought and paid for that seat. The person in your seat would also be asked for a ticket, which they would not be able to produce. They would be called "gate crashers" and they would properly be removed.

Now in this huge stadium called the USA we have had millions of gate crashers. We have been asking security to check for tickets and remove the gate crashers. We have been asking security to have better controls in checking at the door. We have asked security to lock the back doors. Security has failed us. They are still looking the other way. They are afraid to ask to see the tickets. Many people say there is unlimited seating, and whether there is or not, no one should be allowed in for free while the rest of us pay full price!

In "section AZ", of "Stadium USA", we have had enough of the failures of Security. We have decided to do our own ticket checking, and properly remove those who do not have tickets. Now it seems very strange to me that so many people in the other 49 "sections", and even many in our own "section" do not want tickets checked, or even to be asked to show their ticket! Even the head of Security is chastising us, while not doing his own job which he has sworn to do.

My own ticket has been bought and paid for, so I am proudly going to show it when asked to do so. I have a right to my seat, and I want the gate crashers to be asked to show their tickets too. The only reason that I can imagine anyone objecting to being asked for their ticket is that they are in favor of gate crashing, and all of the illegal activities that go with it, such as drug smuggling, gang wars, murder, human smuggling for profit, and many more illegal and inhumane acts that we are trying to prevent with our new legislation. Is that what I am hearing from all of the protestors such as Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, US Rep. Raul Grijalva, even President Obama? If you are not in favor of showing tickets, (proof of citizenship, passport, green card, or other legal document) when asked, as I would do proudly, then you must be condoning those illegal activities."
 
Let me know what you think...

3 comments:

Monique said...

Ticket for thought...

H said...

I think that I didn't have to purchase my ticket and therefore might have a bit more charity for those that find themselves in situations that force them into drastic measures to gate crash.

Are you telling me, dear husband, that you have NEVER gone into ANY event (game, movie, tennis match) without a ticket and/or upgraded your seat to a more desireable location? One that was not taken by the ticketholder?

Let's say that Section AZ of Stadium USA had jobs available that ticketholders didn't want. Would it be fair to give that ticket to someone who was willing to work for it? Maybe ticket prices in Section AZ would go up because they weren't selling enough seats. Yes, sometimes we let in undesireables and the things that go with it, so maybe we need to have better methods for handling that.

It's kind of like the the student section at ASU football games, isn't it? They get rowdy and crazy, drunk, and get in fights. But do all of them? No. Should we ban the student section because of the few that make it bad, or should we just learn to deal with those causing problems? The student section is the heart and soul of ASU, it's where the passion for the University comes from. So let me ask you this: isn't the passion within Stadium USA in it's immigrants? One might argue that it's with the ones that purchased their tickets, but I would say that many of the first immigrants did not have tickets. In fact, the "settlers" just came and took what they wanted from the original ticket holders, didn't they?

Unknown said...

I like this but its not my favorite analogy. :)