Arizona is fighting back against the LA City council decision to stop doing business with Arizona – By threatening to shut off electrical power from the Arizona Utility. Seems to me they just don’t get it.
Ok so let's say they do actually have the ability to shut off power to LA, are they really going to risk shutting down hospitals, military bases, the Port of LA? Do they think they will get Americans on board with their self created plight? No, this is a act of a cornered animal trying to get out of a bad situation. If I didn't know the damage it could cause, I wouldn't mind seeing if Arizona actually had the brass to do it.
The shitty tone in the message is even more amazing:
"I am confident that Arizona's utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands," If, however, you find that the City Council lacks the strength of its convictions to turn off the lights in Los Angeles and boycott Arizona power, please reconsider the wisdom of attempting to harm Arizona's economy."
I doubt Arizona has the power to "flip a switch" and shut down LA, but it makes me even more angry that they would even threaten it.
I wanted to add to the diary based on some comments I have gotten:
L.A. did not start this fight.
Arizona basically took existing U.S. laws, added a few fascist parts and passed it to continue spreading fear that illegal immigration is the problem. It is not by the way and only serves to deflect people from working on the real problems facing this country. If Arizona really wanted to make a statement on the lack of government action on immigration reform, they should have enacted a guest worker program; could’ve been a model for the rest of the country.
Actually filling Jails in Arizona with "illegal" immigrants is not going to do anything except make the already over crowded system even more crowded. It’s crazy! Let’s jail them, fine them (which they can’t pay) and separate them from their families – especially if their children were born in the US. Oh, and let’s trash the constitution in the process by jailing American citizens who are from a different background and don’t happen to have their birth certificate on them.
What a great idea!
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