Sunday, March 26, 2006
Silencing the Critics
Representative for the counties just a few yards south of where I type in the dark, Tom Tancredo (R-CO) was on This Week and did only OK, even against Senator Arlen Specter (R?-PA). He started strong, saying merely that he wanted to enforce the law, but then got a little wordy. I'm a strong supporter of calling illegal aliens line jumpers--a concept we all know and really dislike. Anyway, he was followed by the round table with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the looney leftist The Nation, a woman I'm beginning really to hate. And now I know why.
It's not just that she's an ardent socialist when history tells us socialism most often delivers a generalized misery, but she tries to silence the other side with hateful epithets. It is a tactic most often employed by the left and it is despicable. Katrina compared Tancredo's desire to enforce our immigration laws to the racial and ethnic hatred of David Duke; then, if that wasn't enough, she called the Republican desire (such as it is) to stem illegal activity xenophobia. Way to go, Katrina! Elevate the debate with assigning the most hateful motives to the other side. When I call her a socialist, she should agree and embrace the 'epithet' but no one wants to be compared favorably to Klan leaders--even former Klan leaders like Senator Byrd (D-WV).
I don't know what new legislation will 'fix' the illegal immigration problem and I certainly don't know what the political ramifications of that legislation will be, but I'm with Jim 'Pinko' Pinkerton, a fence will be built and the huge gatherings of illegal aliens in many of our large cities this past week cemented it.
UPDATE: Along with the line jumper comparison for illegal aliens, I also support Pinkerton's analogy of legal immigration as taking each country's first round draft picks. Yea, that sounds right.
It's not just that she's an ardent socialist when history tells us socialism most often delivers a generalized misery, but she tries to silence the other side with hateful epithets. It is a tactic most often employed by the left and it is despicable. Katrina compared Tancredo's desire to enforce our immigration laws to the racial and ethnic hatred of David Duke; then, if that wasn't enough, she called the Republican desire (such as it is) to stem illegal activity xenophobia. Way to go, Katrina! Elevate the debate with assigning the most hateful motives to the other side. When I call her a socialist, she should agree and embrace the 'epithet' but no one wants to be compared favorably to Klan leaders--even former Klan leaders like Senator Byrd (D-WV).
I don't know what new legislation will 'fix' the illegal immigration problem and I certainly don't know what the political ramifications of that legislation will be, but I'm with Jim 'Pinko' Pinkerton, a fence will be built and the huge gatherings of illegal aliens in many of our large cities this past week cemented it.
UPDATE: Along with the line jumper comparison for illegal aliens, I also support Pinkerton's analogy of legal immigration as taking each country's first round draft picks. Yea, that sounds right.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:45 AM 
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I agree. A fence is a bad idea so here is my suggestion. Instaed of spending the money on a fence, we spend trhe money on land mine removal in Angola and Afghanistan.
Then, we take all the land mines that were in those places and begin to bury them along our border w/ Mexico. It's a win-win situation except for the illegal aliens and drug runners who step on one and get blown up. Illegal aliens will be much easier to identify, just look for the missing limbs. Of course local ranchers may lose some livestock but you can't make hamburgers w/o killing steers.
Then, we take all the land mines that were in those places and begin to bury them along our border w/ Mexico. It's a win-win situation except for the illegal aliens and drug runners who step on one and get blown up. Illegal aliens will be much easier to identify, just look for the missing limbs. Of course local ranchers may lose some livestock but you can't make hamburgers w/o killing steers.
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: 4:07 PM
: 4:07 PM
Mary, you lose me as soon as you say war on drugs. I support decriminalization (kinda). The war on drugs is a sham and a shame, like prohibition on a far grander scale. Can't see the same future as you about a fence. Good fences make good neighbors. Tony, I thought for a second about land mines and spedifically about the ones we called toe popers (debilitating but not fatal) but dismissed it. Of course you are being sarcastic. How about two fences and land mines in the middle? No cow explosions that way.
Ironic. W/ the 2 fences you get into the expense issue. I have it!
North Korea is one of the poorest nations on earth. It can't feed its population but they are good @ border security right? Kim Jung Il is a wack job who has @ least one nuclear weapon, I think, and is nuts enough to use it. Kim Jung Il is into classic Hollywood movies.
So here is what we do. We ship some of our excess wheat to North Korea and give Kim Jung Il a satillite dish. We subcontract our border security to North Korea in exchange. It's a win-win situation and we no longer need the 6 Nations talks.
North Korea is one of the poorest nations on earth. It can't feed its population but they are good @ border security right? Kim Jung Il is a wack job who has @ least one nuclear weapon, I think, and is nuts enough to use it. Kim Jung Il is into classic Hollywood movies.
So here is what we do. We ship some of our excess wheat to North Korea and give Kim Jung Il a satillite dish. We subcontract our border security to North Korea in exchange. It's a win-win situation and we no longer need the 6 Nations talks.
# posted by : 1:03 PM
: 1:03 PM
Of all the Axis of Evil, N. Korea will be the toughest nut (and I use that word advisedly) to crack of only because nearly half the population is held hostage to N. Korea's non-nuclear weapons. I imagine an Iraq style invasion of N. Korea would result in a million dead, several thousand of them ours.
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