More on Border Bungles
Following up on Border Bungles from a few weeks ago. I have posted a question on my website homepage. "Is the Bush Administration involved in an effort (the original wording was 'criminal conspiracy') to cripple border enforcement?" It is an intentionally inflammatory question.
See: http://www.pardontheagents.com/ and: http://www.firesociety.com/article/10263/?src=105
Our freedom is not a product of cheap labor. Had it been so the Old South of the early 20th century, with its legacy of apalling wage rates, would have been a virtual heaven of liberty, and a business haven. It was no such thing. Freedom is the fruit of having laws the people insisted their representatives enact enforced- even if they are bad law. The first step to tyranny is the temptingly logical choice by the elite to ignore the expressed will of the people because they are sure the people are wrong. How soon is the next step, that the friends of the elite insist on ignoring the law simply to make themselves more profitable? Are we sure that step has not already been taken in the administration's refusal to respect the people's desire that the borders be enforced?
American democracy is not simply a form of government. It is an instrument for the reform of culture, a process by which a whole society, by virtue of making the people feel the consequences of their choices, educate the society in self-governance. The greatest danger to the governance of the whole world is that this great experiment should fall to the hand of an elite convinced that the populus is too stupid to have their choices respected.
This is the dark specter presented by the administration's contempt for our borders. One senses that these people trust the private capital oligarchs that are empowered in the elimination of national sovereignty more even than they trust the competitive pressure American government places on the rest of the world when it is operated as designed. Such is simple foolishness.
The world will not be made a safer place by compromising our governmental values with a nation like Mexico, a place more corrupt and socially stratified even than the antebellum South. Nor will the world become safer by so empowering the financial elite of China, or the well-dressed hoodlums of Russia. The British East India Company didn't make the world a better place. American government has.
Is border enforcement bad law? Convince us. Enforce the law. If that hurts US too much we will cry to change the law. Otherwise the government just proves their contempt for the American people, and leaves us with the suspicion the whole business is just an arrangement to make friendships among the aristocracy profitable.
