tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post8160571694666238332..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Excusing Anti-SemitismGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-57827318842098100462014-09-28T04:35:28.673-06:002014-09-28T04:35:28.673-06:00JB,
Your examples overlook several provisos in my...JB,<br /><br />Your examples overlook several provisos in my answer and make various assumptions about behavior that you should question.<br /><br />Briefly:<br /><br />(1) Regarding voting and subversion of proper government, were a nation to have a rational immigration policy, that would include measures to ensure that people who become citizens are at least somewhat assimilated. (Although this would not guarantee a slide into sharia, or some other form of improper government.)<br /><br />(2) And then, regarding immigrants somehow always voting a certain way, the question to ask is why. Discounting the Amerindians who were here before the European settlers, practically our whole country has an immigrant population, and became CLOSER to capitalism until about the late nineteenth century, when improper government power began expanding at the behest of America's own citizens.<br /><br />People (a) have free will, and (b) act according to the ideas they hold. It is people's minds that have to favor limited government. That instituition can neither exist in a vacuum nor perpetuate itself.<br /><br />I'll leave it at that for now, and point to some <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/treat-the-cause-not-the-symptom-welfare-state-is-draw-for-illegals/?singlepage=true" rel="nofollow">more thoughts on immigration and proper government</a>.<br /><br />GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-9475502659663885392014-09-27T10:00:40.342-06:002014-09-27T10:00:40.342-06:00I meant to say "entrench the welfare state an...I meant to say "entrench the welfare state and multiculturalism."<br /><br />I don't think there can be any doubt about that. Look at California - since it has become so immigrant heavy it became a one party state controlled by the Democrats and the unions.<br /><br />Is there any doubt that this would happen to state after state if immigration were expanded? How long would Texas last without an income tax if Mexicans become the majority. Poll after poll show that Hispanics are strongly in favor of big government and higher taxes on the rich.<br /><br />I can't think of a single country in Europe or state in the US that has become more free market oriented thanks to immigration.<br /><br />What if we weren't at war with Muslims. Assume that there was no such thing as Jihadist Islam. There were just Muslims who, when they become a majority would vote in Sharia.<br /><br />Why should Israel and Europe adopt an immigration policy that would turn them Muslim?<br /><br />As far as Rotherham goes, consider that Pakistanis are only three percent in that city. Imagine if there we no restrictions on immigration and Muslims were the majority of the judges, policemen and prosecutors.<br /><br />JBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-13327914039987478222014-09-27T05:43:18.453-06:002014-09-27T05:43:18.453-06:00Anon.,
Briefly:
(1) Your first sentence makes no...Anon.,<br /><br />Briefly:<br /><br />(1) Your first sentence makes no sense.<br /><br />(2) Although our governments haven't declared one, the Moslem world is at war with us, so barring people from Moslem countries would be appropriate. But if we weren't, I would place no limits, so long as our government made a proper distinction between actual citizens and other people who happen to be here. Part of such a distinction would be a major reform in the process of acquiring citizenship. (And, of course, our government should be protecting individual rights (vs., e.g., abetting rape) and not actively violating them (e.g., supporting people, including citizens, with looted funds).<br /><br />GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-2590936967327806052014-09-26T07:06:07.645-06:002014-09-26T07:06:07.645-06:00But isn't immigration entrancing multicultural...But isn't immigration entrancing multiculturalism and the welfarev state?<br /><br />Would you place any limits on the number of Muslims who could come to the west?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-15878884606326320412014-09-26T04:01:15.037-06:002014-09-26T04:01:15.037-06:00An anonymous commenter mentions the Rotherham rape...An anonymous commenter mentions the <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/the-unspeakable-truth-about-rotherham/article20335529/" rel="nofollow">Rotherham rapes</a>, which were ignored or abetted by authorities due to multiculturalism. (I object to aspects of the wording and will not publish the original comment here.)<br /><br />The commenter concludes, "Islamic immigration will be the death of Europe." I disagree: <i>Multiculturalism</i> and the welfare state will be the end of Europe, if nothing changes. <br /><br />What happened to rule of law, earning one's own keep, and, in the case of lawless foreigners, deportation?Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.com