When Libertarians attack!
In response to the WashTimes article mentioned in the last post ("Hillary goes conservative on immigration", link), Nick Gillespie of Reason Magazine offers the following (reason . com/hitandrun/2004/12/hillarys_nation.shtml). I've tried to condense his thoughts down as much as possible, and I've put fact-based corrections in brackets and in bold:
Hillary's National I.D. Card
[...slags off on the WashTimes because of their Moonie connection and their cost...]
...stance against immigrants ["illegal immigrants", just like it says in the article]...
...Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), the leading congressional spokesman against people with last names that end in vowels (if you know what I mean)... [...sounds more like a race-baiting "liberal" than a Libertarian...]
Yeah, that's really fucking heartbreaking to see people lined up to work in the morning. God, this used to be a beautiful country, before all these people--many of whom look different than Hillary--started getting up early in the morning and working really hard at shit jobs for a living. [Awww. They're just here to do the jobs Americans won't do. Never mind all the downsides.]
[...promotes a Reason Open Borders piece...]
[...compares Hillary to a "camp commandant"... Who said Hitler references were just for "liberals"?...]
[...promotes another Reason piece...]
[...and another...]
Previous coverage of Reason's Open Border stance is here and here.
Comments
John S Bolton (not verified)
Mon, 12/13/2004 - 17:08
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Those anarcho-libertarians have no reasonable answer as to how the immigrant is blameless, when he takes net public subsidy. They cannot say how the immigrant is not accessory to such treason as diverts the citizens' tax money to him. They have no answer as to how an immigrant who steps on a landmine crossing the border illegally is more than a dead invader. They have no rational answer to the question of how bringing in masses of illiterates from abroad will not lastingly aggrandize the welfare state. The way to gain freedom is not to invite a dictator. They say immigrants are here just to work, but no one will ever be here just to work. Saying that they're here just to work, and defining them as blameless, classes them outside of morality, and thus beyond, and beneath humanity.