The Patriot Post® · Johnson: Amnesty Just Like Emancipation Proclamation

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) – he of Guam capsizing fame – compared Barack Obama’s looming executive amnesty to the Emancipation Proclamation because illegals are suffering like slaves. “They’re protecting an economic order that makes its living off of cheap labor, just like slavery. You entice people from across the border to come here and you pay them sub-wages and you keep them in an underground economy and you refuse to let them out. Those people work hard. They have played by the rules. They have built this country.” Wait, they’ve “played by the rules”? No, they’ve broken the law. Nevertheless, he continued, “One day there will be movies written about this episode in American history. There will be a president who issues an executive order like the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed 3 to 4 million slaves with the signing of a pen.” Actually, the Emancipation Proclamation freed no one, but that’s a whole other story. Johnson is clearly delusional about Obama’s lawless behavior. More…