My Virginia Boycott

First it was Herndon, now it's Prince William County. The Virginia yahoos are out with their pitchforks and getting inane local ordinances passed to vent their anti-immigrant spleen. How original of the cradle of slavery and Jim Crow!

My response? I will stop spending a penny in Virginia (just across the river from me).

I urge all who live too far from the Washington area to stop buying anything made in Virginia. That means the following:

• No U.S. tobacco products unless labeled as made with tobacco from somewhere else.
  
• No Virginia hams; Kentucky makes better ones.
  
• No Virginia wines. This shouldn't pose too much of a challenge.
  
• No Virginia airports. If you come to Washington, make sure you do not land in Reagan National or Dulles Airports, which are both in Virginia -- try Baltimore-Washington International, instead, which is in Maryland.
• Refuse to do business with the Pentagon or the CIA at their headquarters -- in Virginia. Both have offices in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.
• Contact Virginia public officials informing them of your decision to cease contributing to Virginian xenophobia and racism:
• Gov. Tim Kaine
• Sen. John Warner
• Sen. Jim Webb
• Pass it on!

PS: Read a Washington Post story, one of many, here; go here for a taste of anti-immigrant rhetoric.