Incoherent and Incompetent.

The Editor’s column in today’s Daily News Record once again demonstrated the dark side of the editorial staff.  Radicals, "incoherent" activist judges, illegal immigrants, murderers, and law-breakers, were today's villains.  The editor once again expresses the extremist view that his own common sense is an adequate replacement for everything he DOESN'T know about federal and state law.  His comments were about Judge James Munley's ruling that cities and towns could not pass ordinances regarding illegal immigration because cities and towns don’t have jurisdiction over the BORDERS OF THE UNITED STATES. Judge Munley stated simply that: 

"We cannot say clearly enough that persons who enter this country without legal authorization are not stripped immediately of all their rights because of this single illegal act."

Further, the judge indicated that illegal immigration is a FEDERAL crime and can't be overturned or replaced by a town ordinance.  To this point our editor simply uses his common sense to state:

"Well, homicide is sometimes a federal crime too, so does that mean that cities and towns can’t enforce the laws against murder?"

And

"...what good are laws if people who recklessly and wantonly violate them are not held accountable?"

And even once step further into insanity,

"People who are not here legally definitely should not have rights that trump – or undercut – the rights of American citizens and their elected representatives.

Liberal activist judges seem to think that criminals and illegal aliens have a whole host of rights under the Constitution but that law-abiding people have none."

So to summarize:

To gain "a whole host of rights under the Constitution," one must emigrate to another country, gain citizenship in that country and re-enter the United States illegally! 

We should repeal all the laws of our country because we don't hold illegal immigrants accountable.  (This is a version of the classic "He did it first." argument of middle school miscreants.)

Anyone who breaks the law immediately loses all rights and privileges of American citizenship and is not deserving of any protections under the Constitution.  (This one is simply the "Cheney Doctrine" of "taking the gloves off."

Cities and Towns should be allowed to form gangs of vigilantes to enforce laws against murder, rape, and pillaging, AND illegal immigration.

Using language like this should be a crime!  It certainly would not pass for logic, reason, or intelligence.  Paranoid ranting has no place in the editorial column.  This type of petty shouting should be relegated to the farthest reaches of the blogosphere where it's proper audience can be found.  

I once again call on citizens of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, the publisher of the Daily News Record, and the readers of this community newspaper to demand the resignation of this editorial writer.  His writings are a complete embarrassment to our fine community.