[MD] Back to the last static latch

[Ham Priday]

SA --

> Some kind of intellectual understanding is what I
> wanted, and as you stated it is centering around the
> law (an intellectual understanding).  Yet, the people
> in congress do not understand the law, intellectually,
> their focus is on the social reprecussion (politics).
> Nothing new with that.

You may see the law as intellectual understanding, but I see it as the legal
means of controlling behavior.  "Understanding" implies negotiation to
arrive at an equitable solution between the affected parties, and the law as
established by our federal legislators does not allow for this.  Laws are
mandates or rulings which are to be followed to the letter without
equivocation.  When laws have no meaning, you have a civilization in
disarray.

A nation which cannnot enforce its laws is inviting civil disorder and
anarchy.   This is the kind of irresponsibility that led to the collapse of
the Roman Empire and other great civilizations.  When we open our borders
indiscriminately to hordes of aliens, we lose control of our sovereignity
and make ourselves vulnerable to "mob rule" as well as treachery by those
with an anti-American agenda.  Wasn't it Jefferson who said that "eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty?"

> We live in a culture with no wisdom.  This
> culture has brute strength (no skill) to throw around,
> but what is to be done with that brute strength now -
> does the U.S. just kill them all?

What we lack is not wisdom but the will to implement it.  If you want to put
it in philosophical terms, we've lost the value of our national heritage and
are no longer willing to defend what America stands for.  The
'multiculturalists' have led us to believe that we have a moral obligation
to extend our freedom and resources to anyone who comes here, that the
fruits of our hard-earned freedom must be shared by all.  We teach this in
our schools, as a substitute for the facts of history.  It's no wonder that
our younger generation regards personal responsibility as an outmoded notion
with no relevance for Americans.

Tenny Frank, in his book "History of Rome", wrote: "The original peoples
were wasted in wars and scattered in migrations and colonization and their
places were filled chiefly with Eastern Slaves."

The modern analogue of slavery is immigration.  When an empire nation opens
its borders to immigrants of diverse cultures and backgrounds, it stands to
lose or gain, depending on the talents and working skills of its new
citizens and their willingness to assimilate.  Lacking these attributes, the
'melting pot' simile falters, allowing a disenfranchised class to emerge
that not only must be sustained by the state but that represents a potential
source of dissent within its ranks.

Illegal immigration is a problem that will only get worse until (or unless)
we take effective action.  The security of our borders is a primary
constitutional obligation.  Proper documentation of all U.S. residents is
essential to the national welfare.  If we allow ourselves to be intimidated
by mobsters on behalf of a foreign nation, we will have taken the first step
toward social anarchy.  At that point there can be no cure but civil
violence.

America lost 623,026 of its citizens in a war over disenfranchised Africans.
Are we about to engage in another civil war over disenfranchised Mexicans?

--Ham