Up Against a Wall

Wow. Senator Elizabeth Dole and the RNC has been trying to raise money for the November elections by warning that if Democrats regain control of either the house of representatives or the senate they’ll hold investigations. I find that an odd strategy, basically admitting that there’s stuff to investigate and that it’ll be bad for conservatives if the truth comes out, but whatever. I also don’t recall her hubband thinking investigations were such bad things when he was senate majority leader and they were investigating whether Clinton had conspired to have Socks the Cat neutered or whatever. Then again, back then Hillary thought there was a vast right-wing conspiracy (she was right, there was), whereas nowadays she just sucks up to them as hard as she possibly. So, you know, whatevah.

But—and if you haven’t heard this, I think you’ll find it very interesting, I truly do—Liddy’s also been warning that Democrats will impeach the president. With his approval rating in the 20s, a mere four points higher than Trick Dick Nixon’s was the day before he resigned, I’m not sure why she thinks that’s such a selling point, but again I say, whatevah.

So, no, here’s the interesting bit: the latest folks to talk about impeachment? The far right-wing.

I kid you not. Hot but heinous hatemeister Michele Malkin has been talking about this the past few days. They say President George W. Bush has failed in his constitutional obligations by failing to protect our borders.

I’m not exactly a fan of GW’s—which may come as a shock to regular Left of the Dial readers—but this seems a bit bizarre. The illegal immigration problem is a serious one, but it’s not more serious than it was a month ago or two years ago. Why the sudden urgency?

There are a lot of theories on why the sudden urgency, but I won’t get into those now. And as I said before, I have a lot of thoughts on the situation but don’t know anywhere near enough to really put them out there yet, if ever.

Except for this: when head of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff was asked a year ago about putting the National Guard on the border, he said it would be prohibitively expensive and ineffective and an all-around bad idea. Now, of course, that’s what we’re doing.

Why, five years after 9/11 do we need the National Guard to protect our borders? Why don’t we have enough border guards already? Perhaps because instead of the 10,000 that were requested, the latest budget the president signed only had money for a little over two hundred. I kid you not. But then today he signed a $70 billion dollar tax break, most of which will go to millionaires. And the record deficits just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger...

I swear, it’s like a parody sometimes. Or an imitation of our credit cards.

Okay, I hate to bring this up—I do—but there’s one other thing before I go: our border with Canada is something like three times as long as our border with Mexico and the only terrorist we know we stopped from entering the country with the intent to blow us up came from that northern border, yet all the clamoring is about the southern one, the southern one, the southern one. I wish I didn’t think so, but I can’t help it: I don’t think that’s just national security concerns talking.

Here’s an editorial from World Net Daily. I used to think of WND as being a really religious news site. Obviously not. At least, I sure hope it’s not. "Dear Jorge"? And we should be looking to the Nazis for tips on the current situation? Let me put it this way: if you click through to the link and look at his picture, you’ll have a pretty good idea where he’s coming from.

Against a fence
By Vox Day
Monday, May 15, 2006

Dear Jorge plans to address the nation tonight, a speech wherein he will almost surely attempt to deceive citizens into believing that he does not wish the mass migration from Mexico to continue unabated. He will likely offer some negligible resources for law enforcement and border security – resources which will never materialize – in return for an amnesty program that will grant American citizenship to the Mexican nationals who have helped lower America's wage rates by 16 percent over the last 32 years.

And he will be lying, again, just as he lied when he said: "Massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic – it's just not going to work."

Not only will it work, but one can easily estimate how long it would take. If it took the Germans less than four years to rid themselves of 6 million Jews, many of whom spoke German and were fully integrated into German society, it couldn't possibly take more than eight years to deport 12 million illegal aliens, many of whom don't speak English and are not integrated into American society.

In fact, the hysterical response to the post-rally enforcement rumors tends to indicate that the mere announcement of a massive deportation program would probably cause a third of that 12 million to depart for points south within a week.

The complete absurdity of stating that enforcement of the national immigration laws is unrealistic, while simultaneously insisting that reshaping the entire Dar-al Islam to the liking of the World Demokratic Revolutionists is perfectly feasible, should be obvious. Dear Jorge's deceits are not only transparent, they are downright insulting to anyone capable of considering two concepts at the same time.

Unlike the Libertarian Party, I do not subscribe to a two-way open-borders policy, for reasons I explained previously. I do, however, believe that the chief hallmark of a free society is the freedom to leave it, as evidenced by the "no exit" policies so often adopted by socialist and other totalitarian governments.

The problem with a fence is that it works both ways. As it stands today, the only government agency that objects to an American leaving the country is the Internal Revenue Service, which weirdly attempts to claim income tax for up to 10 years after an American leaves the country and his citizenship behind. This is mostly because apart from the farsighted Fred Reed, few Americans now wish to leave what is still a wealthy and relatively free country.

But that may not always be the case, especially given the increasing probability that the Lizard Queen will be squatting on the Cherry Blossom Throne three years from now. And a government that believes the importation of low-skill, low-income Mexicans is necessary is not one that is likely to smile benevolently upon the departure of high-skill, high-income Americans.

Dialectic has long been the political elite's favored means of manipulating public opinion. They push and the people pull. Action-reaction-synthesis. In this case, the action is government-abetted illegal immigration, the reaction is the massive outcry for a fence and the synthesis is a self-imprisoned people.

A fence is not necessary, for there are other means of efficiently resolving the problem without resorting to such an obviously dangerous measure. Instant deportation policies, employer fines and bounty programs combined with the denial of all social services to non-citizens would suffice to settle the matter without the need to imprison the American citizenry. As the Minutemen have proven, again, unleashing the power of motivated private citizens is far more efficient than relying on government bureaucrats.

Vox Day is a novelist and Christian libertarian. He is a member of the SFWA, Mensa and the Southern Baptist church, and has been down with Madden since 1992. Visit his Web log, Vox Popoli, for daily commentary and responses to reader email.

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

UPDATE: If you click through to the link, you'll still be able to notice the coiffery of Vox but you’ll no longer be able to "enjoy" his Nazi admiration in person, so to speak, because he appears to have just cut that bit out of his piece, several days after it was first published.

So. Not only does he seem to have—and, yes, I’ll say it—some clearly racist leanings (opinions which I find even more abhorrent than usual given that his bio specifically states that he’s a Christian, and I tend to hold us to higher standards), but then he doesn’t even have the courage of his hideously misplaced convictions.

But he doesn't disavow them. He doesn't say he made a mistake in writing that or clarify what his real beliefs are. He simply cuts them out, tries to hide them.

This guy is sorta the worst of all worlds.

Comments

[Pere Ubu]

But he doesn't disavow them. He doesn't say he made a mistake in writing that or clarify what his real beliefs are. He simply cuts them out, tries to hide them.

Jeez louise, the bravery of the Repugs and their apologists is just SO inspiring, isn't it?

[goslyn]

Sorta the worst of all worlds? That guy is freaking scary. Scary.

I think the fact that he obliquely praises the Nazis and suggest a similar system of "cleansing" for our country is beyond scary.

And we're worried about the terrorists OUTSIDE our country?

[Scott]

This is exactly what I’m sayin’:

Bush budget scraps 9,790 border patrol agents
President uses law's escape clause to drop funding for new homeland security force
Michael Hedges, Houston Chronicle
Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Washington -- The law signed by President Bush less than two months ago to add thousands of border patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border has crashed into the reality of Bush's austere federal budget proposal, officials said Tuesday.

Officially approved by Bush on Dec. 17 after extensive bickering in Congress, the National Intelligence Reform Act included the requirement to add 10,000 border patrol agents in the five years beginning with 2006. Roughly 80 percent of the agents were to patrol the southern U.S. border from Texas to California, along which thousands of people cross into the United States illegally every year.

But Bush's proposed 2006 budget, revealed Monday, funds only 210 new border agents.

The shrunken increase reflects the lack of money for an army of border guards and the capacity to train them, officials said.

H/T: TAPPED

[Scott]

Sorta the worst of all worlds? That guy is freaking scary. Scary.

I was being polite? :) You’re right, nix the "sorta" from that sentence. I guess I was wondering if it’s better to have people be subtle about their racism or to have them throw it in your face. Odious as the in-yer-face brand is, I reckcon it’s better to at least know where everyone stands.

I think the fact that he obliquely praises the Nazis and suggest a similar system of "cleansing" for our country is beyond scary.

And we're worried about the terrorists OUTSIDE our country?

You know, I was thinking about that just last week, about how after the Oklahoma City bombing we were all worried about the homegrown rightwing terrorists and how they were going to be the next huge threat. But they’ve sorta dropped off the map. Why?

Were they never actually all that big a deal in the first place, despite the tremendous "success" of the Oklahoma City bombing?

Did they find religion, so to speak, on 9/11 and decide that our gubmint ain’t so awful after all when compared with them folks what attacked us that day?

Or are they perhaps quietly conspiring with them folks, as those two groups would seem to have goals in common?

Or is it simply that their like-minded homeboy John Ashcroft came into power and that’s why they’ve disappeared from the radar?

[sam]

Maybe the horrors of Oklahoma City proved too much when they saw the damage done. And to perpetrate such on Americans could only damage the cause. I often wonder what the outcome of all this is going to be. How could our country have fallen so far so quickly?
With guys like Vox mouthing off, fixing the country is that much harder.