*That* New Arizona Law

Last summer, the Arizona legislature passed a law concerning the right of employers not to hire illegals. [That's right, I said it.  Not "undocumented workers," non-specific "immigrants," "migrants," or any other neutralizing euphemism.  I called a spade a spade] Now, the babbleocracy is aflame with prognostication about the economic ruin that will soon be Arizona.

The law [H.B. 2779], which requires Arizona businesses to verify potential new hires’ – gasp! – lawful eligibility to work in the US before hiring them, goes into effect tomorrow [1 January 2008].  But, like with the Oklahoma law against renting [et al.] to illegals, many employers are pre-emptively canning illegal and “questionable” employees.  And, as with previous rational-patriotic immigration laws, the usual suspects – those who stand to profit [i.e., "immigration" lawyers, identity politicians, Hispanderers, the Mexican government, etc.] from the continuation of the current self-destructive illegal immigration policies [both de facto and ipso facto] (who are, in my mind, at least, on a moral level with the drug runners and coyotes who frequently rob, kill, rape, enslave[!!], or simply abandon their charges in the southwest wilderness) – are howling at the injustice of it all.  At least one legal challenge has been brought, and subsequently batted down in US Distirct Court.

Perhaps the biggest rational argument against it is that employers are not necessarily equipped to discern valid documentation from forged.  But the Leviathan has provided an answer to that problem, and the new law addresses it:  E-Verify [*].  With this handy little tool, employers can discharge their duty to the state in mere seconds by entering the applicants’ relevant information and letting Big Brother check it for him.  No muss, no fuss.

All other common objections amount to tossing around the “R” word, which argument is really – let’s be honest, here – starting to reach Godwinian proportions from overuse.  I mean, get a life!  It’s ridiculous [but somehow still sends honest conversation and debate scattering like the cockroaches in your kitchen].

Boy.  Wolf.  Crying.

Let me be clear:  I harbor no ill will towards anyone based on anything but their own actions and/or personalities. [As the old joke goes, I dislike everyone equally] But so many of these race-baiting whiners would brand me a “racist” simply because I recognize that illegal aliens are criminals because their very first act upon arriving at our borders is to break the law and violate our national sovreignty.  So, if loving the USA and wanting the Rule of Law to, well, rule the day is “racism,” then by all means, let’s us have a nation governed of, by, and for the “racists.”

Just as a side note, if the people of Arizona are so in favor of enforcement efforts, and so fed up with the illegal immigration invasion, how is it, then, that John McCain [arguably the most vocal supporter of the late Bush-Kennedy/Immigration-Surge Bill] still has a job?

* I have to admit that it pains me greatly to recommend a program of the federal government, and especially one from a partnership between the DHS and the SSA (two of the most bloated and unnecessary bureaucracies extant); however, in my defense, “desperate times…” and all that.

Ron Paul Revolution (X): An Open Letter to the Establishmentarian Elites

[Author's Note:  The following has been inspired by the series of "Open Letters" that is ongoing over at Lew Rockwell's site in support of Ron Paul's candidacy.  With apologies to Murray Rothbard (the inspiration for the series), Walter Block (the conceiver of the series), and Lew, I offer this, an open letter to the self-appointed derailers leaders of the American state and the future of American history.]

For nearly a year now, you Beltway insiders and MSM punditry have relegated Congressman Ron Paul to the “kook-marginal” fringe.  With vested interest in the status quo, you have, when you’ve bothered to mention his candidacy at all, decried it as a “lost cause,” insisted he has “no chance,” and attacked both his reasoned, principled beliefs and his unassailable character.

But despite your monolithic campaign to shut out Dr. Paul’s message and its merit, word has gotten out.  His message has taken wing precisely because it is rooted in the founding principle of this once-and-future great nation:  Liberty.

“The flames of Liberty burn in the hearts of men everywhere,” you have told us, as justification for a war of aggression in the Middle East; yet you systematically erode the freedoms of your own citizens and beg clemency because it’s “for our own good.”  And you have depended on the conditioning of a decades-long campaign of increasing public dependence on the government to cow a willing public into accepting your small tyrannies.

You have told us:

• Our property is not our own.  Through the over-reaching judiciary, a complicit Congress, and a series of increasingly ruthless Chief Executives, you have convinced the People that their land, their homes, and their businesses are only on loan from the State, and so we cannot ever truly own anything that is not subject to federal rapacity.
• Our money (and time) is not our own.  By insisting that all of each person’s income is subject to direct taxation, you devalue the effort, expertise, and entrepreneurship of all Americans.  Your irresponsible monetary practices over the past century of the fiscal autonomy of the Fed has exsanguinated what was once a rock-solid, robust, and innovative economy, and indentured the futures of this country’s children to foreign masters.
• Our thoughts are not our own.  In the name of “equality,” you have made it impossible for anyone who does not play identity politics – within, of course, the approved demographics – to be treated fairly with merit as an individual, thereby replacing one form of discrimination with another.  In the name of “diversity,” you have ensured that any business or organization – public or private – must conform to your preconceived formula, no matter how baseless that formula is.  In the name of “free speech,” you have virulently attacked anyone whose ideas did not conform to your strange calculus of political correctness, regardless of the truth.
• Our beliefs are not our own.  In a self-destructive multiculturist frenzy, you have screamed “tolerance!” while simultaneously eradicatingfrom any public venue acknowledgement of Jesus Christ, or of Judeo-Christian theology, which is indisputably – by any honest, serious scholar, anyway – the foundation upon which this country was built.  You reinterpret the Constitution to suit you fancy, and then ignore it altogether when it becomes inconvenient.
• Our children are not our own.  You seek to limit the influence of parents on their children, by slowly but deliberately eroding the moral and ethical fabric of our society in your books, television shows, and movies.  You claim that Americans are too incompetent to educate their own children – flying in the face of thousands upon thousands of years of human history – and demand that we submit them to the propagandizing bureaucracy of the public school system, while placing your own children into elite private institutions.  You expose our children to modes of thought and lifestyles of which their parents do not approve, without first seeking our permission.  And if any of us presume to actually take responsibility for the education and upbringing of our own children, you respond with unfounded allegations of abuse and neglect, and try to have us declared unfit as parents.
• Our lives are not our own.  It’s not enough that you sap our intellect, our pride, and our will with your ubiquitous, oppressive “Nanny State” policies; you crave power, for the sake of power.  You are willing to sacrifice any number of us to feed your insatiable lust for dominion; you will use any means available to try to dupe the witless and inattentive among us into voluntarily buying in to your machinations – your wars, your “police actions,” and your “conflicts” – and if we refuse, you grant yourself the ability to compel our obedience, on pain of imprisonment.  And by your treatment of foreign nationals, you are preparing us to accept the despotic enforcement of your unconstitutional “laws” against American citizens.

But we are a new breed of American citizen.  You have not seen our like before; you’ve seen us, but you did not recognize us, because we do not fit into any of your pigeonholes, we do not comfortably wear any of your labels.  If you wish to see our faces, look to those of your own children.

We do not listen to your propaganda machine, the MSM in print and broadcast.  We do not buy into your lies; we seek out the truth, and we are patient enough to find it, and intelligent enough to recognize it when we see it.  You try to tell us what to believe, but the current economy forces you to put the facts on the Internet, where we are much more savvy at finding them than you are at obfuscating them.

We have not vested our careers into oiling your machine; we don’t care about your legacies, and so we are at greater liberty to expose the truth and your fabrications.

You have told our parents and grandparents what to do, what to say, what to think, and how to vote.  But we are wise to your agenda.  We are more discerning than they were, more cynical of your intentions.

You say, “Ron Paul isn’t a serious candidate.”  But you fail to understand how serious we are in our support of him.  You have discounted us as a political force because you saw us as apathetic.  The truth is, we have been uninvolved to this point, because the choices in Presidential candidates we were offered had no substantive differences among them.

You cannot measure that which you cannot define.  We do not conform to your templates.  We don’t commit to political affiliations; many, if not most, of us have never bothered to vote.  We don’t register with your pre-approved political parties.  Many of us don’t own a land line.  We have caller ID and screen our calls.  We slip through the seive by which you prognosticate American elections.  And we are at least half of the electorate.

Dr. Paul, at long last, offers us an option besides “politics as usual.”  Your candidates of choice cannot hope to “out-Paul” Paul, because they can never counterfeit his honesty, integrity, and devotion to principal.  And even if you’re right and Dr. Paul is not elected, his “Revolution” has already succeeded:  his candidacy has changed the political paradigm of this country for good.

Do you hear that sound?  A new wind is blowing – the wind of change.  Its name is liberty.  Its cause is freedom.  And its champion is Congressman Ron Paul, MD.

“Consensus” Debunked

“There are still people who believe that the Earth is flat.” (November 5, 2007 – LINK)

Gore also compared global warming skeptics to people who ‘believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona’ (June 20, 2006 – LINK)

 — Algore, fmr. Vice President and 2000 DNC presidential candidate, Nobel Laureate

Hmmm…

“I invented the internet.”  — Algore

Here’s the problem with claiming a “consensus” in a scientific debate:  observable phenomena either exist, or they don’t.

Can you imagine anyone citing a “consensus” on gravity?  Aerodynamics?  The impact of strong and weak nuclear forces on chemistry and nuclear physics?  The effects of various heat treatments on the crystalline structures of different metals? [Okay, maybe I'm getting a little esoteric here...] My point is, when a scientifically provable phenomenon exists, it is definitive; no consensus is required, because agreement on reproducible facts is unanimous.

My point is, scientific fact is observable, definite, measurable, and reproducible.  Not in the 20 or 30 years we’ve been getting warned about “global warming” have any of these “consensus” scientists been able to prove – not postulate – man-made global warming.  [Or even definitively demonstrate any natural global warming] “Global cooling,” remained unproven for the decade or two it was the next cataclysmic event, too, prior to inexplicably becoming “global warming.”

So anyway, I say all this to say that, apparently, despite the documented strong-arming by – ahem! – certain administrations, as well as the MSM and certain factors in the worldwide science community, of climatologists and other experts [by threatening grants and such], it is finally getting out that there is, well, not so much with the monolithic “consensus” on global warming:

Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.

The new report issued by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s office of the GOP Ranking Member details the views of the scientists, the overwhelming majority of whom spoke out in 2007. 

Even some in the establishment media now appear to be taking notice of the growing number of skeptical scientists. In October, the Washington Post Staff Writer Juliet Eilperin conceded the obvious, writing that climate skeptics “appear to be expanding rather than shrinking.” Many scientists from around the world have dubbed 2007 as the year man-made global warming fears “bite the dust.” (LINK)  In addition, many scientists who are also progressive environmentalists believe climate fear promotion has ”co-opted” the green movement. (LINK) 

This blockbuster Senate report lists the scientists by name, country of residence, and academic/institutional affiliation. It also features their own words, biographies, and weblinks to their peer reviewed studies and original source materials as gathered from public statements, various news outlets, and websites in 2007. This new “consensus busters” report is poised to redefine the debate.

[...]

This new committee report, a first of its kind, comes after the UN IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri implied that there were only “about half a dozen” skeptical scientists left in the world. (LINK) Former Vice President Gore has claimed that scientists skeptical of climate change are akin to “flat Earth society members” and similar in number to those who “believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona.” (LINK) & (LINK)

The distinguished scientists featured in this new report are experts in diverse fields, including: climatology; oceanography; geology; biology; glaciology; biogeography; meteorology; oceanography; economics; chemistry; mathematics; environmental sciences; engineering; physics and paleoclimatology. Some of those profiled have won Nobel Prizes for their outstanding contribution to their field of expertise and many shared a portion of the UN IPCC Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Gore.

Additionally, these scientists hail from prestigious institutions worldwide, including: Harvard University; NASA; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the UN IPCC; the Danish National Space Center; U.S. Department of Energy; Princeton University; the Environmental Protection Agency; University of Pennsylvania; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the International Arctic Research Centre; the Pasteur Institute in Paris; the Belgian Weather Institute; Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute; the University of Helsinki; the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S., France, and Russia; the University of Pretoria; University of Notre Dame; Stockholm University; University of Melbourne; University of Columbia; the World Federation of Scientists; and the University of London.

The voices of many of these hundreds of scientists serve as a direct challenge to the often media-hyped “consensus” that the debate is “settled.”

[...Read the whole thing...]

But don’t fret, Gorophiles.  Your man will keep his medal [and the money that assuredly helps him pay for his tremendous "carbon footprint"];  they can’t take Algore’s Nobel medal until after they take Jimmuh Carter’s, and beat him with reeds.

[Now this, for those of you who, like me, have a taste for irony]

An American Citizen Primer

[Tongue-in-cheek, of course, but this is good for a few laughs.  So take a few minutes, and enjoy!]

Shades of Things to Come?

A Lima, OH, man has been exonerated for the recent fatal shooting of one of the two thieves who broke into his house and assaulted him and his son (stabbing his son).

His brave act did not go unpunished, however.  First the local constabulary, and then none other than the Effa-Bee-Eye came along and seized his and his wife’s life savings from his private, in-home safe.  Because he had some maryjane in his possession (which he says he smokes for arthritis, shingles, and hip-replacement pain [but who cares, since pot usage, like virtually all illicit drugs, is a self-inflicted victimless crime, and you can't fix stupid]), he will likely not get the $400k nest-egg he worked his entire life to save. [I'd bet this guy is smart enough that he doesn't own any credit cards, and probably worked hard and paid cash  for his home – Uncle Sam must be upset that he didn't drink the consumerism Kool-Aid]  Forfeiture statutes [the justification for this highway robbery] are one of the most brazen offenses to the Constitutional guarantees to property rights of which I think I’ve ever even heard.  Due process?  [Censored] off!

Can you say, “Police State”?

This is what happens when unnecessary wars (e.g., The War On Drugs, The War On Terror) are used to slowly grind down civil liberties that people have fought and died [and if you haven't ever done anything for anyone but yourself, shut up!] to ensure and protect.  The rule of law[which, ironically, is a foundational concept in reformed theology, now sidelined by religious identity-politics fomenters], mark my words, will soon be nothing but a punch line, thanks to decades of special-interest pandering in the Congress and the legislatures.

But it’ll be okay; just repeat after me:  “We are at war with Eastasia… We have always been at war with Eastasia.”