We’ve seen liberal “hunger strikes” where participants take turns fasting or going “liquid-only” kind of defeating the purpose of putting life and limb on the line for a cause. As there are no specifics with the Texas (and spreading) student-DREAM Act hunger strike, it makes one wonder just how committed they really are.
University students across Texas this week joined San Antonio students in a hunger strike aimed at pressuring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to vote for the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for students and soldiers brought to the country illegally as children.
Note to the students: Successful strikers tend to be people the populace cares about….
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This one really needs a third option:
“I don’t care either way…”
I checked a few articles on this, and while they say that the ‘strike’ is in its 15th day, there is not a syllable about how many have stayed the course for the entire time.
I have fasted for seven days on water alone (rule of threes — can’t go more than three days without water) while working (OK, I was mostly driving a van, not bucking bales). While uncomfortable, it wasn’t what I would call a hideous ordeal, and I was skinny at the time. The likelihood that these coddles X-ers would go even that far is quite remote.
It’s all theater, like everything else on the political Left.
In honor of these strikers, I’ll have a double portion at the family gathering today.
It’s great; they’re such idealists. As soon as they finish their free schooling here in the USA, they can return to Mexico and use their idealist zeal, along with their learned skills, to bring hope and change in the lives of other Mexicans. Never waste a good idealist here, when they’re needed so much more in Mexico.
Liberals on a hunger strike? Not buying it, liberals as a class are pussies and do not have the courage of their convictions and thus would never put their personal well-being at risk.
Doing the job of displacing American citizens, that a measured immigration policy would prevent. I’m surprised that the beneficiaries of left-wing sabotage. the so-called “minorities”, are not the most vocal opposition to their illegal replacements.
Where are the condemnations of imported out-sourcing?
Tallyman:
There is the question of merit. Why don’t the advocates for illegal aliens support the empowerment of the aliens’ nations? They deport the murderers and rapists, while keeping the servants on hand to serve them food and clean their houses. It’s as if they want Mexico and other “developing” nations to serve as their penal colonies.
Out of sight, and out of mind, makes a utopia clearly more tenable.
usmc8511:
In the best spirit of Obama’s volunteers, the liberals/progressives are individuals of integrity when their services are subsidized, and their convictions are bought and paid for.
until I hear otherwise, I’m not taking this “strike” seriously..