What’s The Big Idea?

Meet Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), co-author of “The Plan: Big Ideas for America,” and President-elect Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff. Emanuel recommends:

“There can be nothing wrong with all Americans having a joint similar experience of civil … what we call civil defense training or civil service … some sense of service to country in preparation, which will give people a sense of what it means to be an American.”

Again… “all Americans having a joint similar experience … which will give people a sense of what it means to be an American.” Here is Ben Smith’s New York Daily News interview with Emanuel:

First, vomit. Second, ask yourself if this sounds like a direct violation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the Unisted Sates, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Now, what does it mean if you’re not an American? Let’s say, for example, that you’re an illegal alien that entered the United States in 2000 on a temporary visa. Let’s say that, in defiance, you ignored a court order to return to your home country of Kenya. Let’s say that you hid from the U.S. government in Boston public housing, and now illegally reside with relatives in Ohio… Oh, and let’s say that you’re Zeituni Onyango, a fugitive aunt of President-elect Barack Obama. For starters, you can forget involuntary servitude…

Ok, so what’s the big idea? Apparently, in a bi-partisan maneuver, you get to stay in the country to avoid an election night gaffe that would eclipse anything ever uttered from Sen.  Joe Biden’s mouth. Michelle Malkin reports:

“According to my sources, the Bush administration issued a 72-hour cease-and-desist order to all fugitive apprehension teams to spare Obama embarrassment over his Kenyan half-aunt, Zeituni Onyango. The Associated Press had reported on Nov. 1 that Onyango was a deportation evader – one of an estimated 700,000 illegal alien absconders who have ignored orders from immigration judges to leave the country. The wire report mentioned that the Department of Homeland Security distributed “an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday’s election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional directors.”

So, what’s the big idea? The illegal aliens may continue to exploit our relaxed immigration enforcement system, which exposes us to exploits from real terrorists, while real Americans are forced to  listen to the likes of Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama, telling us how to be real Americans.

Now, help me find Rahm Emanuel’s military service record, and Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and I may pay more attention…