Happy Cinco de Children's Day!

What better way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo than with Ricardo Montalban's utterly wicked Khan (God rest his Kirk-hating soul)?


And to put things in perspective.


Because it's pertinent, five facts on the new immigration law in Arizona:

• all state and local agencies must enforce existing laws
• with any lawful stop of a person of interest, his or her immigration status will be determined before being released. This means that the authorities must have a reason to stop someone (something Canadian police do not have to adhere to) and that the person's legal status within the country must be determined by appropriate agencies (something any and every agency in the world does)
• the proper authorities will be notified of any person illegally present in the state who is arrested
• the powers that be may return or transport an arrested person after getting judicial authorisation, meaning after the police get permission from a judge, they can then transport an illegal person to another place
• a legal resident or citizen wrongfully arrested, detained, ect may seek redress in court
  

What is the problem here? In an attempt not to beat a dead horse, any country one goes to, one will be under scrutiny. I've had my fingerprints taken while living abroad. I was told to always have my alien card. That was the law and the condition for my staying in the country. Why should the lawless be rewarded for their flouting of the law? Has anyone asked legal immigrants their feelings on standing in the queue, working hard, learning English and adopting a whole new way of life, only to see amnesty for those who don't care for their new country? And, really, the support for illegal immigration is actually about protecting cheap labour, not about the rights of others. For whatever reason, some deliberately ignore these things.


It is also Children's Day in Japan and South Korea. My experience has been that kids have a day off, go to the movies and enjoy the water slides. Lucky devils.


Children's Day in Japan always takes on special significance.