world bully!
This intimidates some other nations into buying much US debt.
(China, Japan, Saudis & more)
That facilitates American hyper-prosperity generated from govt
deficit spending.
Ultimately, US dollar's value sinks; raising price of some imports
like oil (Gold: approaching $700/oz from $250/oz in 2001)
US govt intervention abroad also generates retaliations like 911
(aka: blowback)
Immigration to USA increases in response to its debt based hyper-
prosperity.
Govt justifies asserting more power, domestically and abroad, as
needed to protect Americans against increased threat of intervention
blowback and increased immigration.
Some Americans want govt to stop making these problems while others
call for more govt power to deal with these problems it continues to
create.
-Terry Liberty Parker
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TerryLiberty
--- 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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