Tuesday, May 02, 2006

ANTHONY GREGORY: The Immigration Solution. Bill Walker over at LewRockwell.com nails it, as he takes on the economic, cultural and other arguments for leviathan to "do something" about illegal immigration: 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. I highly recommend that everyone read the whole thing. [Liberty & Power: Group Blog] Very well put. 10:59:31 PM    comment () trackback () Up against the wall! And thanks for cooperating.. Jim Peron at The Institute for Liberal Values - Mr. Peron had to travel into and back out of Amerika recently. He won't happily do so again. [clairefiles] Quote: I have tried to avoid air travel in the United States ever since the Feds took over "security" which means they harass hundreds of millions of passengers a year and act like mini Nazis. On my most recent flight into the US I actually decided to travel via Mexico just to avoid US air space. I drove into the US and then took a bus for the last leg of my journey. But even the bus was stopped by federal agents who demanded that everyone aboard provide "papers please." There may be no law mandating an internal passport for the United States but what does not exist de jure does exist de facto. Americans are now among the least free people when it comes to travel. One can not drive without a license which one is mandated to carry on their person. The Feds are there to make it virtually impossible for one to fly without ID as well. Interstate bus trips are stopped by federal agents who demand ID from passengers. Even commuters on local buses have been hauled off for not providing ID to demanding federal agents. Freedom to travel is gone without a document from the Feds. "Small government" conservatives are the ones who brought this about. ... Now I can only hope that this last flight through the US is my last. If I were a praying person that would be high on my list. I don't want to endure the US Travel Gestapo ever again. To all those tourists the world over I merely point out that we have a vast, fascinating world and in most places you won't be mistreated the way you are by the US bureaucrats. Give the US a miss. As for my fellow Americans: I can understand why you might fly out. I just can't comprehend why you go back. [End the War on Freedom - Links and Commentary from my Crypto-Anarcho-Libertarian Perspective] 11:33:38 AM    comment () trackback ()

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