Will Innuendo Be Enough For Dewhurst?

At the beginning of his campaign for U.S. Senator from Texas, candidate David Dewhurst, in a TV ad, touted the fact that his father was a veteran of the military and made a Procrustean effort to reconcile that with his own career. It didn't work, so now he resorts to a single negative ad of innuendo against his opponent for Texas Senator, Ted Cruz.

Innuendo is the way spineless detractors libel their opponents. In civil law, it is still prosecutable as libel, but when one becomes a public figure, such as a politician, libelers are protected by a more liberal interpretation of the law by tort courts.

The astute voter should ask these questions:

Has Ted Cruz been convicted or indicted for a crime? The answer is “No.”

The astute voter should then ask, “Has David Dewhurst committed a crime?”

The answer is a simple, “Yes.”

Aiding and abetting the illegal entry of aliens into Texas or any part of the U.S. is a felony. The Texas Dream Act, which David Dewhurst supported, not only gives illegal aliens an illegal stay of deportation, but abets the further entry of that alien’s extended family and all who know him/her. Aiding and abetting the illegal entry of aliens is prosecutable under Title 8, United States Code, 1324. Like many other politicians and like unscrupulous employers who encourage the entry of illegal aliens to enter and remain in the U.S., Dewhurst probably will never be prosecuted. However, the damage he and others of his ilk do to this country is immeasurable when you consider the cost of harboring the third world immigrants of the world, most of whom will never be able to survive without welfare benefits.

In 1952, then Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX) managed to earmark the infamous "Texas Proviso" into the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. That Proviso took the teeth out of an otherwise good immigration law, for it exempted Texas employers of illegal aliens from prosecution for transporting and harboring them. The Texas Proviso was deleted from the law in 1980, but the hardcore exploiters of illegal immigration in Texas continue to operate as if immune from the law. David Dewhurst zealously panders to that group.