Reply from Congressman Emanuel Cleaver concerning Orphan WorksActof 2008

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Leo Mauler wrote:
> --- On Wed, 8/20/08, Jeffrey Watts <jeffrey.w.watts at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Leo Mauler
>> <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Of course its a valid comparison.  Illegal immigrants
>>> don't want to have to obey the law like everyone else.
>>> They want *what they want*, *when they want it* and 
>>> don't want to have to *obey the law* like everyone else.
>>>
>>> In many ways illegal immigrants are poor versions of
>>> Paris Hilton: they're *snooty people* who think *the 
>>> law shouldn't have to apply to them* just because 
>>> they're *poor* and want to live somewhere else.
>>>       
>> Your line of reasoning is totally absurd.  Sorry to 
>> belabor the point from my earlier reply but if you 
>> think comparing an illegal immigrant coming to
>> America to get a job and support his family with Paris
>> Hilton driving drunk then you sir are putting too much 
>> Crazy Sauce on your hot dogs.
>>     
>
> So comparing one person who commits a crime because they want something and won't follow the law, to another person who commits a crime because they want something and won't follow the law is "absurd"?
>   
"Absurd" in the debate sense, because it's an extreme case?
> Incidentally, there's no real proof that they aren't drinking their paychecks every Friday,
I read somewhere that the second-largest item in Mexico's gross national 
product list is money sent back to families from the United States.
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