[MD] French ingredient in the soup of sentiments

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

Ian/SA,

At the risk of being accused of first-degree sarcasm, I don't see the
complexity. Is not the MOQ pretty straight-forward in demanding "moral
ruthlessness" in dealing with "threats to society"? One has only to turn on the
"usual suspects" on their AM Radio, or pick up nearly any major media
publication, to hear how illegal immigration is tauted as potentially being the
issue that will destroy America, making illegal immigrants possibly the biggest
threat to American society. Our survival as a nation, we are told (Bill
O'Reilly has declared it has the potential to lead to a second Civil War)
depends on dealing with these illegals.

The MOQ, thankfully, is crystal clear. They are a threat to American society,
and as such we can morally "kill 'em all like germs", the same way we have
morally dealt with other "potential threats". Remember that the MOQ does not
even propose that the threat must be "real", that's only commie-liberal marxist
propaganda. Nor does the MOQ restrict our "morally ruthless" response to the
specific threats, it gives us carte blanche in killing anyone and everyone in
the potentially dangerous group in order to protect ourselves from our
perceived threat. You see an illegal mother and her two illegal children, you
off 'em. Simple as that. Bang. Like a germ. No more threat, American society is
preserved, and the MOQ bestows its moral blessing.

Indeed, according to the MOQ, we'd be perfectly justified in a "preemptive
strike" at the heart of the illegals homeland, to stop the flow of these
dangerous biological threats from even making it onto American soil. Nuke
Mexico City. Nuke Tijuana. A few Mark V Fire Bombing campaigns onto the streets
of Mexicali. And those illegals we do capture alive, well... hehehe... the MOQ
gives us its blessing in torturing them so that they will reveal potential
information that could help us in our War on Illegal Immigration (mark my
words, you KNOW that phrase is coming...).

Perhaps Arlo got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, you might ask.
Perhaps. Perhaps Arlo is tired of the scare, scare, scare redundancy of
American political discourse. Or is it the latent (and often blatent) hypocracy
(did I spell that right this round?) of the dialogue. All of the above?
Perhaps.

Arlo