to mispeak about the issue, I opened another bottle of Bud to keep my
blood pressure down. No use yelling at the TV, so I right some in
all capital letters, you all will know why. Terry Parker, I promise
to be nice.--- In [email protected], "terry12622000"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Victor, you sure can pick some good ones to post. I guess I have
been
> listening to too much talk radio especially Neil Bortz hollering
> about the undocumented immigrants being law breakers. I excepted
that
> from Savage and Limbaugh but I fiqure with Bortz's libertarian
> leanings he would have more
> sense.
> He did bring up a good point today if it is true that Fox and
> the Mexican government don't want to reform their very corrupt
> government and are trying to invade the US for economic and
possible
> political gain. Bortz said Mexican troops will actually drive
> immigrants over the border in miltary trucks. if this is true it
> needs to come out and Congress needs to warn the Mexican government
> against such action if they are tresspassing on private property
and
> that Congress could sue and possibly declare war on
> Mexico.
> Jon Roland is right about the constitution a lot ( but I
think
> he is wrong sometimes) and he runs a great website
constitution.org.
> I really doubt if he would lie to us when he says the laws of
> nations covers tresspassing over the border. That would give
Congress
> some constitutional standing on immigration but I doubt if most of
> the present federal laws and INS regulations would qulify as
> constitutional because of the Laws of Nations Clause in Article 1
> section 8 of the US
> constitution.
> Still there are other more specific parts of the
> constitution that would lean away from federal power and more
towards
> state government authority and private property
> rights.
> So unless there is evidence of a clear and present danger
of
> an invasion by the government of Mexico, immigration should be left
> to the states, counties, local governments, neighborhoods and the
> private property owners, in the reverse order of importance. Even
if
> there is an invasion the local, county and state governments have
> first dibs on protecting their area and the federal government
should
> butt out unless ask or the inasion presents a clear and present
> danger to other states and the other states ask. If Congress
declares
> war on Mexico then the federal government can act first but the
> state still have a say in the matter.--- In
> [email protected], "Victor Bozzo" <vbozzo1@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am not sure how I overlooked such a good piece but for what
it's
> worth here it is.
> >
> > Yet another great piece showing where the REAL problem is, The
> State and the people who support it.
> >
> > Vic
> >
> > "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
> alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it
> with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -
H.L.
> Mencken
> >
> >
> > "Illegal" Immigration Is a Phantom Problem
> >
> > by Marcel VotluckaI
> >
> > Exclusive to STR
> >
> > Last year I attended a sociology lecture which began with
the
> professor citing attacks upon minorities in the context of their
> struggle for equal dignity in our society. He cited Native
> Americans, Blacks, women, gays and lesbians, and Arabs and Muslims
as
> examples. Seizing the moment, I raised my hand and suggested that
> immigrants would be the next group targeted.
> >
> > Oh, how prophetic my statement was!
> >
> > Not five minutes before I began writing this essay, I
watched
> a news vignette about recently thwarted Congressional proposals to
> prosecute "illegal aliens" as felons, as well as the people who
> provide them with services. The vignette also looked at activists
> who aim to embarrass people who hire undocumented immigrants, going
> as far as to post their names and photos on their website.
> >
> > Recent campaigns and vigilante movements against
immigrants,
> such as the Minuteman Project, reveal much about Americans'
attitudes
> toward the State and the theology behind it. Most people really do
> want to live in freedom, but at the same time many people also have
a
> deep need to be taken care of, coupled with a fear of "outsiders,"
as
> it were. Human nature is a mix of these conflicting individualist
> and collectivist tendencies. The latter is where absurdities such
as
> nationalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, socialism, and
> any number of "isms" emerge. Politicians, being the savvy bastards
> they are, don't hesitate to take advantage of this psychological
> quirk and turn it into yet another marketing strategy to sucker
more
> people into statism.
> >
> > Indeed, immigration is only a "problem" for politicians
eager
> to win votes, not you and I. The miracle of America 's success as
a
> (relatively) free country is due to the contributions of immigrants
> who came here because they sought a better life through (gasp!) the
> free market.
> >
> > I can think of no better example than New York City 's
> Chinatown . Somehow I end up wandering there whenever I visit the
> city. I've often wondered why I am so drawn to that place. Could
it
> be the food? The low prices? The exotic yet familiar urban
> atmosphere? No, it's the glory of the democratic market on display
> that draws me there. The hustle and bustle of shoppers looking for
> the best deal, the competing fruit stalls on Canal Street, the
> bargaining, the efficient, no-nonsense service in restaurants and
> stores, the availability of goods the likes of which you'll be hard-
> pressed to find in an insular suburban community . . . the list
goes
> on and on. All I need to do is learn Mandarin and I'll be set for
> life! Never mind what you hear about "Red China"; these immigrants
> are hard-core entrepreneurial capitalists, and are willing to work
> from the bottom up to make a living and get ahead.
> >
> > How many of them came to this country illegally? Plenty,
I'm
> sure. That doesn't lessen their contributions one whit. We live
in
> an ever-shrinking world thanks to technology; there's no logical
> reason why oceans and mountains or even different languages and
> cultures need to hinder trade and commerce. Likewise, there's no
> logical reason someone from another geographical region should be
> prevented from emigrating to another. What's the difference
between
> a Chinese emigrating to New York and my moving to Brooklyn from
Long
> Island ? Essentially, there is no difference. And who the hell
has
> the right to prevent me (or a Chinese or anyone else) from moving
to
> where the grass is greener? What arrogance!
> >
> > After all, borders are just lines on a piece of paper
called
> a map, to be obsessed over by presidents, dictators, and military
men
> eager to protect what they seem to think to be their own personal
> property. In order to maintain their power, they have to stoke
the
> collectivist fires of racism and xenophobia:
> >
> > They invent stories of "outsiders" and "aliens" coming in
to
> steal our jobs (as if anybody has a natural right to a job).
> >
> > They come up with tales of how they leech off our tax
dollars
> (even as they shower corporate welfare queens with handouts,
> opportunities for war profiteering, and favorable legislation that
> acts much like Robin Hood in reverse).
> >
> > They spin yarns comparing immigrants crossing the Mexican
> border to an invading army of potential terrorists and criminals
> (even though said job-seekers are generally not aiming to blow up
> buildings--nay, that's a sport for, uh, red-blooded Americans like
> Tim McVeigh).
> >
> > They give shrill sermons condemning immigrants who do not
> give up their cultural identity, who do not assimilate or at least
> learn English (as if the immigrants' linguistic abilities had any
> bearing on their right to settle down where they please).
> >
> > Worst of all, they tell you to "buy American" (lest you
hurt
> the poor auto manufacturers who lack the cojones to adapt to the
> global economy and earn American business, not take it for
> granted).
> >
> > Yet, if individual rights mean anything, they include your
> right to go wherever you want in order to seek better
opportunities.
> They include your right to buy or sell stuff with whoever will
trade
> with you. They include your right to seek and earn work. They
> include your right to make free choices in the market. Indeed, we
> all make such choices, big or small, significant or trivial, every
> day. The market is made up of the aggregate whole of all these
> choices, all this bargaining and trading and exchange of ideas,
> products, services, and information. This is not a magical
process;
> it's simply how society operates.
> >
> > This is in spite of efforts by economically ignorant
> politicians and interest groups to set up barriers to commerce and
> free immigration. This is in spite of their efforts to control the
> market so they can make it work for their own ends. This is in
spite
> of their efforts to protecting and enriching themselves by robbing
> others of their freedom. This is in spite of their efforts to lock
> out foreigners out of paranoia that American culture will somehow
> disappear. That whole "borders, language, culture" nonsense, for
> instance.
> >
> > Attacks on immigration, legal or otherwise, are attacks on
> individual rights, not to mention attacks on the market and a free
> society. The only "aliens" we should be concerned about are those
> unsavory, ignorant, and politically-connected folks to whom freedom
> is an alien concept.
> >
> > In short, "illegal aliens" arouse their ire because they
> represent a force the politicos cannot control--a force that
> undermines their own ill-gotten power and replaces it with the
power
> of the truly democratic free market.
> >
> >
> > March 29, 2006
> >
> >
> > discuss this column in the forum
> >
> > Marcel Votlucka is a writer and freelance journalist from
> Queens, NY. He is a graduate of Stony Brook University, and is a
> frequent contributor to the Stony Brook Press and the Stony Brook
> Independent. He is currently finishing work a novella, Neverland:
> Voices From the Muslim Holocaust.
> >
> > Marcel Votlucka Archive
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Reprint Rights
> >
> > back to Strike The Root
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
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