put it out.--- In [email protected], "Victor Bozzo"
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> Hello All,
>
> Without question the most well written rebuke of the anti-
immigration movement in this country.
>
> Thank You Mr. Walker for writing such a well thought out piece.
>
> Vic
>
> "Anarcho-capitalism is a view that regards all forms of the state
as unnecessary and harmful, particularly in matters of justice and
self-defense, while being highly supportive of private property. It
synthesizes certain ideas from the tradition of classical liberalism
(see libertarianism) and arguably from individualist anarchism as
well. It opposes "traditional" anarchism on the issue of private
property; while anarchists such as libertarian socialists and
individualist anarchists reject all property beyond personal
possessions as a form of authority, anarcho-capitalism embraces the
established forms of property as an element of liberty."--Anarcho-
capitalism: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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> The Immigration Solution
> by Bill Walker
> by Bill Walker
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> Americans have recently been informed that Mexicans are
sneaking into the US, picking tomatoes, working in factories,
founding plumbing companies, and generally making us look lazy.
Apparently this behavior has been going on for some time; it's really
surprising that no one noticed before now. (There are two Mexican
Ph.D. students in the lab where I work. I'm surprised they have time
to take the jobs of hard-working American tomato-pickers, since no
matter what hour I go to the lab they're at their benches designing
gene-therapy vectors.)
>
> From an economic point of view, this means that
Mexicans who would have been assembling parts for American companies
in Juarez are now assembling them in Houston. Obviously, the economic
effects on American-born computer programmers in Seattle will be
catastrophic. More of their products will be stamped "Made In
America," lowering their perceived reliability. Seattle dwellers
already live perched on the knife-edge of Seasonal Affective
Disorder; the psychological trauma of knowing that their home
appliances were made in the US might cause them all to commit
suicide, or at least listen to boring pop songs about it.
>
> The Taco Curtain
>
> The solution is obvious. First, we pay Halliburton one
trillion dollars (plus expenses) to construct a 100X-scale Berlin
Wall around the entire United States (including Alaska, can't have
those treacherous Inuit smuggling non-government-approved workers in
their umiaks. what kind of real Amurrican drives an "Umiak," anyway?
Good patriots drive vehicles made in THIS country, like Hondas or
Toyotas.)
>
> Second, we will create another huge government
bureaucracy to defend the country's borders. We could call it the
Defense Department.. no, the Homeland Security Department. well, all
the good English names seem to be in use already by organizations
that do other things (whatever those things are). I guess we'll just
have to outsource to a foreign source for the name; we could call it
the NKVD (as most of the ex-Soviet Empire doesn't seem to want to use
that name for anything anymore).
>
> Third, we force every human north and south of the
Texas border (including the Canadians) to have a chip implanted that
will display their SS#, retinal pattern, and detailed sexual
preferences when scanned. The chip will be wirelessly updated by the
new "collar" cellphones, which are locked on the neck when the child-
citizen is tattooed with its SS#. When the GPS on the cellphone
detects that the citizen is at latitude coordinates on the "wrong"
side of the Rio Grande, it will detonate a shaped cutting charge that
will implode the citizen's head in a safe yet spectacular vertical
collapse, a la World Trade Center 7.
>
> Thus, we will finally achieve the neocons' goal of "a
place for every citizen, and every citizen in their place." Forever.
This will free up US government resources for more important
projects, such as suppressing Middle East oil production, nation-
building in the Third World, and bringing democracy to Afghanistan
and Florida (just kidding about Florida).
>
> Those Awful Foreigners!
>
> We instinctively fear and hate "the outsider". even
though Americans now come from every place on Earth, and few people
suggest that any ethnic group be forcibly returned (except for those
lazy, drunken Irish). Also, in modern times our fear of those outside
the tribe is a little misplaced. No roving nomad can actually come
and take your tribe's favorite berry patch without paying for it.
with the exception of any large developer who pays your city council
to use eminent domain and turn your berry patch into a commercial
development. But those large developers are rarely illegal immigrants.
>
> From the very beginning of the Republic, American
politicians have made emotional political capital out of the fear of
foreign devils. First, in the 1700s, it was those irresponsible
Germans who would threaten our "essentially English" culture
(presumably from their excessive punctuality and thrift). After the
Germans had become our second-largest ethnicity, worry turned to the
aforementioned lazy, drunken Irish. The Irish in turn having become
so popular that more people claim to be Irish than really are, other
groups replaced them as the menace o' the day. The stupid Swedes, the
mindless Poles, the un-Christian Jews, the too-Catholic Italians,
even the obscure Croatians (who sent us such shiftless drifters as
Tesla); all this teeming refuse and more deluged our shores. In 1910,
14.7 percent of US residents were foreign born, much higher than
today's 10 percent or so.
>
> All this occurred without much real interference from
politicians. Only the Orientals suffered from the Chinese Exclusion
Act of 1882, passed because of the well-known racial inferiority of
the Chinese. It was obvious to the Americans of 1882 that no nation
composed of Chinamen would ever be able to excel in the sciences.
>
> In the 1920s, more brilliant Aryan master-race schemes
were passed. One group restricted were the Japanese, thus ensuring
that hundreds of thousands of smart, hard-working people were forced
to stay in Hirohito's Japan and work for Mitsubishi et. al.
>
> Fortunately, not all the European Jews were kept from
escaping to America before WWII. Though many thousands kept out by
immigration restrictions went to unnecessary deaths in the Holocaust,
at least most of the nuclear physicists managed to escape involuntary
employment under Hitler. Jingoists should think really hard about an
alternate WWII where Germany had not only the best jet aircraft, the
most advanced cruise and ballistic missiles, but nuclear bombs as
well.
>
> When the best and brightest people can flee to the most
peaceful and freest nations, the whole world is safer.
>
> Or Maybe It's The Awful Natives?
>
> Libertarians should have learned by now to be a little
suspicious when politicians offer to solve our problems with the use
of minefields and secret police. Especially when it's the same
politicians who created the problems in the first place.
>
> We laugh at the stupidity of our ancestors, who
sincerely believed that Irish were all lazy drunks, Jews had low IQs,
Chinese could not be doctors, etc. We now know that Irish are very
productive drunks, Jews have inherently high IQs (the fact that their
mothers make them study hard can't have anything to do with it, of
course), and only Chinese or Indians can be doctors or scientists
(math courses are too much work for white students). However, as with
any other area of life, these things are more accurately discovered
by market processes rather than by a large secret police bureaucracy.
>
> There are two legitimate worries about immigration. One
is that the Mexican culture will produce millions who will vote for
more government. This is a little funny, because it wasn't illegal
immigrants who voted us into socialism; it was our own English-
speaking great-grandfathers who voted for FDR. Mexicans don't even
control their OWN country's policies; Mexican (or any Third World
nation's) politics is always dominated by the faction that gets the
most US foreign aid. (Remember when Clinton "found" $35 billion for
the Mexican government bailout? Or is that one down the memory hole
already?)
>
> It is legitimate to worry about other people voting
your money away. However, those people are already here. They are the
fourth-generation welfare families; people like the CEOs of Archer
Daniels Midland, Halliburton, et al. And they control the Diebold
vote, which is now the biggest voting bloc.
>
> The only solution to this problem is to educate the
productive classes about economics, while they still outnumber the
non-working. Hernando de Soto does this; so does Alvaro Vargas Llosa.
And they don't spend time blaming the clueless US taxpayer for
funding the parasitic governing 'elites' of Latin America. although
they certainly would be justified if they did.
>
> Immigration is a Libertarian Opportunity
>
> The other "problem" is that immigrants will expose the
unworkability of America's various socialist programs, including our
Federally controlled schools and medical system, a few years before
they would otherwise collapse. (The immigrants are actually funding
the Social Security system, but fortunately it will collapse anyway).
This is indeed a problem. for socialists. The existence of a welfare
state makes open immigration into a problem. for them. Every
immigration conflict is an insoluble conundrum for the statist, but
an opportunity for privatization for the libertarian.
>
>
> Open borders between the US states have been a force
against state-government welfare programs. David Friedman put it like
this on his blog: "If welfare is provided and paid for by the states,
high levels of income redistribution tend to pull poor people into,
and drive taxpayers out of, states that provide them. That provides a
potent political incentive to hold down redistribution. This is one
example of a more general principle: The more mobile taxpayers are,
the more governments, like businesses in a competitive market, have
to provide them value for their money, and thus the less able they
are to tax A in order to buy the votes of B."
>
> If you believe that forbidding Americans to hire
Mexicans will help our economy, then surely it would help to forbid
the people of New Hampshire from hiring immigrants seeking tax asylum
from Taxachussets. Refugees from New Orleans should be forbidden to
work or live in Houston. In fact, everyone should just stay in their
father's village and follow his trade.
>
> Americans are being conditioned to live in a Soviet-
style prison nation with border minefields, national electronic ID,
travel controls, random searches, etc. all justified by the need to
protect the welfare state against the poor of the world. It isn't the
libertarian's job to defend the welfare state, or the Gulag that it
always becomes. It is our job to point out that the State itself is
the problem. Without the US government support for Third World
kleptocracies, more countries would be free (and more people would
want to stay there). Without public schools, "free" medical care,
etc., immigrants would not drain our nation. They would power it, as
they did in the early 20th century.
>
> Libertarian supporters of the new NKVD say that we need
a Berlin Wall around the US because cutting welfare is "politically
impossible." This is nonsense. The welfare state is intellectually
dead. Capitalism has swept the world. The only people still convinced
that the elimination of government programs is impossible seem to be
American libertarians; the "Communist" Estonians, Czechs, Chinese,
etc. certainly don't believe it. And eliminating the welfare state is
the solution to all immigration problems.
>
> It isn't poor Mexican workers that are trying to take
our freedoms away. Poor Mexican workers aren't going to send your
children to die in unending Middle Eastern wars, spy on your email,
or disappear you to some foreign CIA prison. Every libertarian knows
where the real enemy is (hint: think "Potomac" instead of "Rio
Grande"). If it scares you too much to face it, don't take it out on
Juan or Pedro. You may be wading the Rio Grande yourself on your way
south ten years from now. ~ "Guillermo" Walker
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> May 2, 2006
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