AS ARIZONA GOES – AT 8:08 A.M. ET:  In the post just below we recalled the formal end of World War II on this date in 1945.  For the United States, that war began on December 7, 1941, with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  The symbolic moment in that attack was the destruction of the U.S.S. Arizona.

How could we have known that, in 2010, the United States Department of State, in a report to the vastly corrupt U.N. Human Rights Council, would single out the state for which that ship was named as a potential violator of human rights because of its illegal-immigration law.

The people of Arizona aren't buying it, and won't back down, as demonstrated by a new poll:

PHOENIX (AP) -- A poll released Wednesday found that an overwhelming majority of Arizona voters support the types of provisions that are at the heart of a national debate involving the state's immigration law.

The survey conducted on behalf of Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for Public Policy found 81 percent of registered voters approved of requiring people to produce documents that show they're in the country legally.

It found that 74 percent believe police should be allowed to detain anyone who's unable to verify their legal immigration status, and 68 percent say police should be allowed to question anyone suspected of being in the country illegally.

The survey of 614 registered voters was conducted July 16-Aug. 6 and has a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

COMMENT:  Actually, the AP story misstates some of the provisions of the law, which isn't that tough, but you get the picture.  Arizona is on the front line, absorbing illegal immigrants while the federal government refuses to completely seal our borders. 

The Arizona poll is indicative of a national mood of defiance.  Americans are increasingly fed up with being dictated to by a Washington elite that is out of touch with the country.  And there is outrage that our own government, reflecting the high-grovel of the White House, is actually reporting American states to the U.N.  If the GOP takes over Congress, it might consider legislation to ban this kind of obscene practice, and dare the president to veto it.

September 2, 2010