This situation between the Texas government and the US government could get "interesting". Do both sides actually believe they are right, or have the Constitution on their side? Delusion.
It’s a sign that welfare needs to be done away with. That all criminalization of armed defense against property crimes needs to go away forever. That self-defense against attackers-- all attackers-- needs to be encouraged rather than punished. It's why it's utterly stupid to allow politics, democracy, and v*ting to have any power to violate individual rights and liberty.
These are the types of counterfeit rules that allow sick borderists to try to escalate the police state to “secure the border”. They can get away with pretending it's about defense when government is allowed to criminalize actual defense.
It’s right to protect society from criminals, but it’s wrong to do it the way they are trying to do it; by making America into an open-air prison camp.
It’s inconceivable that some supposed libertarians are siding with borderist authoritarians to support and justify locking down the “border” instead of attacking the reason people see "border control" as essential and “immigration”* as a problem. Why don't they attack the root of the problem instead? I don't know.
But, I sympathize a little. They don't want "those people" moving into "their" country, but they also still want to keep a political government around for some reason. Tradition, or they can't imagine life without it, maybe? They can't even process the fact that government is forbidden to control "immigration" by the very document they worship when it supports things they want. Because yes, anything government isn't explicitly allowed to do by the Constitution is forbidden.
"Immigration" is not a problem except that government has been allowed to grow to the point where it makes it a problem for its own benefit and to increase its own power and "authority". Yes, "both sides" are doing it. Disgusting!
*Government importing people from other parts of the world is not "immigration", and is a separate issue. One caused, again, by government.
“It’s a sign that welfare needs to be done away with. “
ReplyDeleteI have long believed that socialistic ‘welfare’ in both the overt form of explicit government doles as well as the enabling parts like labor regulations, such as minimum wages and documentation requirements for work. were not the real problems behind which the State pretends to see an ‘immigration’ problem. A so-called problem that wouldn’t exist absent its prior meddling in the former areas.
Agreed.
Delete"Do both sides actually believe they are right, or have the Constitution on their side?" I think one side, (Biden/Obama) can't be phrased as believing they are right. They have stated their actions are to keep the border & America secure. But what they say & what they do are two different things, therefore they are lying. James Taylor
ReplyDeletePoliticians lie. They all do, all the time. Presidents also take an oath to the uphold and defend the Constitution, and yet they don't instantly, upon taking office, void every anti-gun rule in America (just one example among thousands). Trump even demanded more anti-gun rules (bump-stock ban). The solution is NEVER political.
DeleteThe massive immigration of other people into the United States was always in the past and still is today, an indication of the utter failure of their native countries to provide the necessary scope and protection for their inherent human rights and economic efforts. It is clear to me that people will only leave their ancestral homes and cultures when the States they are leaving are essentially failed States, unable or unwilling to allow them the freedom to exist and the ability to thrive and prosper where they were born. That they continue to come here where these possibilities are increasingly debilitated and hindered by the imperial US State as well is just a further confirmation of the comparative inferiority of their places of origin in these regards. This aspect of the situation is one I have rarely if ever seen discussed; that if immigration is a problem at all, that it might be more effectively addressed at its origination point than at its destination. It also leads me to wonder if other possible reasons for their emigration might be playing a more significant and relevant part in their motivations at the present and particularly here. Is it more profitable to be on the dole in the US than to work in your native country? Seems probable given that even US citizens seem increasingly to think so themselves.
ReplyDeleteSince the Rulers of America want to implement those same failed policies here (and are working hard to do so as fast as possible), it's unlikely they'll ever admit the truth.
DeleteUnfortunately, there's nowhere left (on Earth) to go, and the authoritarian idiots are already plotting about how to rule the Moon, Mars and other frontiers.