That "Danged" Fence

A Shameful Paper Tiger

Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of the United States--second only in the world to Bogota, Columbia! Phoenix suffers under a crime wave of kidnapping, drug trafficking, murder and mayhem--because of illegal immigration from Mexico. For over thirty years, successive US federal governments have failed to secure the US southern border: the respective administrations of Clinton, Bush, and Obama have been derelict in what is a fundamental duty of civil government.

As Ronald Reagan observed a nation that is unable to secure its borders is not a nation in any meaningful sense of the term. The US is showing all the signs a failed nation-state. Arizona recently passed a carefully crafted law requiring its own state police to identify illegal immigrants and hand them over to Federal authorities for prosecution. This has created a political storm-in-a-teacup, with President Obama right on down to auntie Sophie weighing in. Obama has been duplicitous in his criticisms--disappointingly so. Consider carefully this response from the Governor of Arizona:



An irony in all of this is that Arizona's new state law replicates almost exactly the language of a Federal statute empowering the Federal government to investigate and catch illegal immigrants--a law the Feds have never applied. So, threatened legal action against Arizona's new law will prove far too much, if upheld. We believe legal action against the law is stupid.

We have a bit of free advice for the politicos in Arizona--not that they need it. We recommend that every illegal alien they find in Arizona be handed over to the Federal authorities under the following protocol: they should be put in a secure bus and transported to Washington DC, then formally handed over to the Boarder Guard-in-Chief, President Obama by handcuffing them to the White House fence, and giving the keys to the local cops. That should bring the problem home to Washington elites.

Why can't the US secure its border? Well, it's such a long border, say the cavillers. It's impossible to police. Under Bush, the federal authorities started to build a fence: this has now been stopped. The argument against a fence? It's alleged that it is ineffectual in stopping illegals. No matter how high the fence, you can always get a higher ladder.

Now, we may be a bit simple, but it occurs to us that ancient civilizations were able to build walls to keep out undesirables (even those with ladders). There was a chap called Hadrian that built a few walls in his time, and we understand that they were very effective in securing borders. And then there is something called the Great Wall of China--a rather trifling undertaking, but very effective nevertheless. The point is this: if ancient nations and civilizations could marshall the technology, political will, and funding to build walls to protect borders, why cannot the allegedly most powerful and wealthy nation in human history  do the same?

The inability of the United States to protect its borders makes it a laughing stock, holding it up to global derision. While all to often it presents itself as a lecturing, pontificating bully on the world stage, constantly hectoring other nations about what they ought or ought not to be doing, and it cannot even secure its own borders! What a paper tiger.

In fact, it is only a lack of political will that has made the United States so pathetic--there is no longer fire in the belly, nor steel in the bones. This is effete, bleeding heart liberalism at its worst. The Federal Government is no longer a defender of its people, and so it must wear the shameful mantle of a failed state. Full marks, however, to the people of Arizona. We salute and respect you. Time to consider secession, guys.