Give Me the Immigrants

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:07:10 GMT <== Politics ==>

L. Neil Smith at Random - why Neil prefers immigrants, even "illegal" ones, to gummint kleptocrats.

Until the middle of the last century -- about the time of World War II -- kleptocracy in America acted with a fairly intelligent restraint. As long as it stole the least it could steal to satisfy its hunger, and otherwise left those pretty much alone who were forced to feed it, its victims could be persuaded -- this is where the con comes in -- they have a moral duty to pay the kleptocrats, a parasitic class who are almost certainly incapable of earning a living in a truly free society.

Similarly, if the kleptocrats of this country had ever made the slightest effort to abide by, observe, respect, or enforce the highest law of the land -- the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, commonly known as the Bill or Rights, instead of spending their time and energy whittling it down, bit by bit, year after year, century after century, the country might be worth saving from unfriendly intruders who seem bent on making changes whether we want them made or not.

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Rich but statist to the core!

Submitted by Ali Hassan Massoud on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:02:16 GMT

The author makes pretty good points, but.. So many of the worst statists are people that are personally very wealthy and often self-made wealth too. That life of privilege is what makes them so favorable toward state imposed equality schemes IMHO.

Regualtions? They don't hurt them. Gun control? They've got Secret Service or excellent private security, so who cares about having a gun. Militarism? They don't serve up their kids to Leviathan's war machine. Affirmative action and such? Bah. Their kids get into the Ivies on a legacy basis.

How I see it anyhow.

Ali

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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

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Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents.

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Why Did It Have to be... Guns?

Make no mistake: all politicians -- even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership -- hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician -- or political philosophy -- can be put.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims.

What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?

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Also from The Atlanta Declaration:

... like going to the bathroom, breathing, eating, sleeping, or making love, it turns out that self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party.

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