Saturday, May 06, 2006
Cheap and Easy Solution— The Job No American Will Do. Not Even Conservatives.
Want a test to see if someone is a true Constitutionalist who believes in American Exceptionalism and is not just a moral-relativist Oprah Boy in post-9-11 conservative clothing? Try this:
The fastest, cheapest and most effective way to protect our borders is to immediately lay a minefield. It can be done in a couple of months and can give us quick protection while we jack around looking at how we can build fences and trenches and do the "high-tech thing" that will kinda sorta stop foreigners from violating our borders in a really expensive and inefficient but "civil" way that helps us to feel not-too-guilty. After all, keeping poor foreigners away is selfish and mean-- and we wouldn't even DO it if there were ANY choice at all, because we are so undeserving of our unfair advantages in this life. Especially if we are given money to do something like act on television or perhaps get fifty thousand a year to talk to ten-year-olds for six hours a day, nine months a year. So, if we stumble and stutter around trying to show we "care" and we self-flagellate by putting a huge burden on our taxpayers, we will demonstrate how much it "hurts us" to lock out our neighbors who are, after all, Aristoctrats (forged card-carrying members of the Noble Order of Victims). And besides, if we did something BARBARIC like enforce our national sovereignty and security by means of lethal force, somebody from THE WORLD might take a dramatic photo of a smoking tire-tread sandal next to a dismembered brown hand still grasping onto a tattered photo of a doe-eyed child and BOOM! Time Magazine gets it Pulitzer, George Bush fails the GLOBAL TEST yet again, and-- most importantly--people with berets and comfortable shoes critique us mercilessly!
Sixty thousand troops, drones, trenches, and fences say "you really shouldn't come in here, and we are going to tell you in a very stern voice that we MEAN BUSINESS...and if you DO sneak in, we will send you RIGHT BACK and tell you to STOP IT!"
A minefield just says "NO."
Throw the minefield idea at the people who are stewing about a solution. See how they process this simple, efficient solution and you will see how moral relativism and the feminization of our culture is killing America. "It seems so barbaric!" "What will others think?" "People could get KILLED!"
Borders are NOT grey areas. By their very definition, they mean to define RIGHT OR WRONG, BLACK OR WHITE, YES OR NO. They exist for one reason, and "feelings" or "self-image" do not have a role in the enforcement of borders. Think about it. These are the folks who are wringing their hands and blaming politicians for not dealing with the issue, but who don't have the guts to draw the line, and call for the most logical solution for enforcing the border. Land mines have worked pretty damned well for the better part of a century keeping Turkey and Greece out of each other's bidness. That's right. Good fences make good neighbors, and land mines are even better—Oprah Boy!
Besides, this would finally give us the opportunity to apply what I think is a perfectly legitimate use of multi-lingual education, Spanish, French AND English versions of a sign that says:"DO NOT ENTER OR YOU WILL BE BLOWN UP BY LAND MINES!"
¶ 6:31 AM 
Want a test to see if someone is a true Constitutionalist who believes in American Exceptionalism and is not just a moral-relativist Oprah Boy in post-9-11 conservative clothing? Try this:
The fastest, cheapest and most effective way to protect our borders is to immediately lay a minefield. It can be done in a couple of months and can give us quick protection while we jack around looking at how we can build fences and trenches and do the "high-tech thing" that will kinda sorta stop foreigners from violating our borders in a really expensive and inefficient but "civil" way that helps us to feel not-too-guilty. After all, keeping poor foreigners away is selfish and mean-- and we wouldn't even DO it if there were ANY choice at all, because we are so undeserving of our unfair advantages in this life. Especially if we are given money to do something like act on television or perhaps get fifty thousand a year to talk to ten-year-olds for six hours a day, nine months a year. So, if we stumble and stutter around trying to show we "care" and we self-flagellate by putting a huge burden on our taxpayers, we will demonstrate how much it "hurts us" to lock out our neighbors who are, after all, Aristoctrats (forged card-carrying members of the Noble Order of Victims). And besides, if we did something BARBARIC like enforce our national sovereignty and security by means of lethal force, somebody from THE WORLD might take a dramatic photo of a smoking tire-tread sandal next to a dismembered brown hand still grasping onto a tattered photo of a doe-eyed child and BOOM! Time Magazine gets it Pulitzer, George Bush fails the GLOBAL TEST yet again, and-- most importantly--people with berets and comfortable shoes critique us mercilessly!
Sixty thousand troops, drones, trenches, and fences say "you really shouldn't come in here, and we are going to tell you in a very stern voice that we MEAN BUSINESS...and if you DO sneak in, we will send you RIGHT BACK and tell you to STOP IT!"
A minefield just says "NO."
Throw the minefield idea at the people who are stewing about a solution. See how they process this simple, efficient solution and you will see how moral relativism and the feminization of our culture is killing America. "It seems so barbaric!" "What will others think?" "People could get KILLED!"
Borders are NOT grey areas. By their very definition, they mean to define RIGHT OR WRONG, BLACK OR WHITE, YES OR NO. They exist for one reason, and "feelings" or "self-image" do not have a role in the enforcement of borders. Think about it. These are the folks who are wringing their hands and blaming politicians for not dealing with the issue, but who don't have the guts to draw the line, and call for the most logical solution for enforcing the border. Land mines have worked pretty damned well for the better part of a century keeping Turkey and Greece out of each other's bidness. That's right. Good fences make good neighbors, and land mines are even better—Oprah Boy!
Besides, this would finally give us the opportunity to apply what I think is a perfectly legitimate use of multi-lingual education, Spanish, French AND English versions of a sign that says:"DO NOT ENTER OR YOU WILL BE BLOWN UP BY LAND MINES!"
¶ 6:31 AM
