If Illegal Immigrants were Cows....

Today I got one of those stupid e-mails stating implying that the Department of Agriculture, since it can find one cow with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease) from all the millions in the country, they should be allowed to search for the millions of illegal immigrants.

I had seen this BS so often I was fed up. I hit reply-all and replied, if you're willing to assume the civil rights of a cow, you'd be traceable, too. Problem is, the ones you want to find won't take that set of civil rights. You wear an ear tag from birth, you can be bought and sold at will, you can be bred or castrated at will, milked, slaughtered, moved, silenced, all the wonderful rights and privileges we afford our bovine companions (and the GOPers would like you to have). Meanwhile, those you'd find have all the freedoms you have today because they know one thing:

If every American were as easy to find as a cow with BSE, the bad guys would still be invisible in modern society.

So cut the bull.