Sunday, January 05, 2003

Run for the border: Private citizens perform service in rounding up illegal border crossers. Las Vegas Review-Journal Editorial - Run for the border: Private citizens perform service in rounding up illegal border crossers - property rights trump trespassing "rights". [trt-ny] A number of activist groups, including the Arizona Civil Liberties Union and the Border Action Network, are asking Arizona Gov.-elect Janet Napolitano to step in and stop private property owners along the Mexican border from engaging in "vigilantism." [End the War on Freedom] I don't approve of what the private property owners in question are doing, but it's their right to do so. I suggest that instead of whining about it, the ACLU and Border Action Network buy some land on the border themselves, and use it as a safe entry point. They could distribute maps in Mexican border towns, and distribute fresh water to travellers. comment () trackback ()  3:12:53 PM     Why I Avoid Airports. Steven Yates at LewRockwell.com - Why I Avoid Airports - can you say "Police State?" Thought so. Some have said that Nicholas Monahan's experience in Portland, about which I got all hot and bothered, was a fake. Mr. Yates says that it was not. [smith2004] This has nothing to do with the "war on terrorism" and everything to do with the U.S. government terrorizing its own people, whether through humiliating treatment at airports, from the amoral John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness, or whatever nightmare the feds dream up next. My prediction: someone is going to end up staring prison in the face after a confrontation at a security checkpoint in an airport goes bad. Probably someone who saw his wife being fondled and lost control, or possibly just a guy who lost patience after a bad day at work or a poor night's sleep. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already. I can see the feds trying to make an example of such a person -- a citizen whose "crimes" consisted in believing that there should be limits on what the federal government can do, even in an age of terrorism, and that citizens have an inherent right not to be bullied by their government. When federal employees can bully citizens with impunity, including getting cheap sexual thrills out of it, the citizens cease to be citizens and become subjects: subject to arbitrary federal power. I know of no answer except litigation, which has already begun in the Monahan case. If it should turn out that litigation is impossible, we will know that we are living in a police state. [End the War on Freedom] comment () trackback ()  3:02:40 PM

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