When waging an effective war, you need to know your enemies and recognize your friends. You have to be able to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys. And perhaps most important, you need to know on which side of the fence you’re going to be. Thanks to Arizona’s new illegal immigration law, we’ve gotten a meaningful look at some of the adversaries in this New American Civil War. And we know on which side of the fence many have chosen to stand.

When Arizona Governor Jan Brewer decided to give her state law enforcement officers the power to enforce federal immigration laws, liberals began concocting hysterical scenarios, as if the concept of enforcing the law could only lurk within the dark chambers of a totalitarian police state. As usual, when the Left’s statist agenda is exposed, they go on an unhinged offensive against any and all who dare to challenge them.

In a collective fit of outrage, liberals everywhere have been calling for boycotts of all things Arizonan. They’ve reduced a serious issue to a pseudo-racial political PR campaign. Playing the familiar race card, mayors, governors, and media pundits across the country have gone on the warpath in an attempt to intimidate Arizona into backing off. In their eyes, Arizona is now a racist rogue state—an enemy to be subdued into submission.

Another one of their tactics is also a familiar one. When liberals lack a sound argument, they just paint the opposition with over-the-top Nazi imagery. Phoenix Suns General Manager Steve Kerr’s comment was fairly typical of the sort of dysfunctional rhetoric coming from the Left. You might have thought he was talking about Vichy France 1940 rather than Arizona 2010 when he said, “It’s hard to imagine in this country that we have to produce papers. It rings up images of Nazi Germany.”

Melodramatic paranoia aside, here on Planet Earth, most Americans can’t go a week without having to produce some form of papers. If you write a check or use a credit card, a personal ID is often required. If you go to the movies, proper authorization documentation must be presented, or you won’t get in. At sporting events, you’re even required to proceed to a specific location determined by your access papers. If you loiter, an official will escort you to your pre-registered destination. They know who you are, and they know where you sit.

If you drive a car, you need three different official papers, and if you refuse to surrender any of them to a police officer, you’ll be headed for jail. At Disneyland they’ve taken it a step further. A Disney agent will ask that you wear a bright red wrist band that publicly reveals your access authorization for all to see.

Meanwhile, the Left puts on phony displays of sympathy for Latinos who they insist are the primary target of immigration laws. Maybe so. But any rational person who desires to show solidarity with the Latino community would be shouting from the rooftops about putting an end to illegal immigration. Even Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez understood the simple and obvious truth. As an ardent supporter of enforced immigration laws he knew that illegals siphoned off government funds as well as jobs. Yet the Left refuses to confront this simple reality. Their negligence is something that should be considered criminal and anti-American.

Tags: arizona, border, boycott, cesar chavez, democrat, illegal, immigration, jan brewer, latino, leftist, liberal, nazi, racial profiling, racism, racist, security, steve kerr

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