Interesting points, Brad. I've gone into this in depth on my blog (http://trueconservatism115.blogspot.com/), so I'll give the abreviated version here. Zio, I don't find it hard to believe at all that illegal immigrants are protesting in our streets. In a way, this puts us on the same level as France, who, a few months back, had the protests by the "disaffected youths", who were, in fact, young Muslims who were being discriminated against because they refused to assimilate into France's culture. This protest does not surprise me because it is the embodiment of American liberalism at work. Act like a victim and politicians will treat you like a victim...especially if you act like a potential voting bloc, which is the root of our illegal immigrant problem: too many politicians capitulating to a potential voting bloc, rather than taking the actions that their constituents voted them into office to take. The thing that surprised me, and continues to disgust me, is that the California State Assembly voted (along party lines) to officially endorse the May Day travesty. The last thing we need our government doing is telling foreign nationals that it's okay to march in our streets and tell us how much we suck. The First Amendment applies to citizens of the United States...not to people who decide to just come in illegally, no matter what the reason. It's hard to go too hard on these people - after all, they've been going through a heck of a time in Mexico, what with its corrupt government that is all too willing to export their poverty problem to the US rather than doing anything substantive about it. But on the other hand, the minute we start excusing illegal behavior is the minute that our laws don't matter a whit. And we've been excusing this illegal behavior for far too long now.