A Reader Says Look It Up In the Dictionary

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A
North Carolina Reader Says American Workers Already Have
“Training and Education”

From: [Name Withheld]

Re: Juan Mann`s Column:

McCain Bullies 9/11 Family Members While     Senate
Sabotages Expedited Removal

“A” is for
amnesty

President Bush has declared he will not sign an
amnesty bill.  The

Senate Judiciary Committee refuses to describe the
guest worker bill they are working on as an amnesty.  It
claims that since it is not granting immediate
citizenship to illegal immigrants the bill is not an

amnesty. 

However, the definition
for the term amnesty at the

Merriam Webster web site has nothing to do with
citizenship.

Amnesty is defined as:

“The act of an
authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted
to a large group of individuals.”  

The word pardon in the
definition means forgiving or excusing a criminal
offense so that the individual or group is not punished
as defined

here.

So if the US government
excuses the crimes of a large group of people, for
example the

15 to 20 million illegal immigrants in this country,
it is by definition an amnesty.

Politicians are
completely misrepresenting what they are doing with the
guest worker bill before the

Senate. They know it is a massive amnesty.

There is a word to
describe politicians who twist meanings to suit their
own venal purposes. You can find its definition

here.