Mark Steyn nails is...
I was chugging along buying Jack Dunphy’s
argument on the NSA business, 'A
Small Price To Pay,' until I got to this bit:
There
are people living in the United States right now, many, many of them, who are
no less committed to jihad than the Tsarnaev brothers or Nidal Hassan.
Well,
how’d that happen? How did all these Tsarnaevs-in-waiting wind up living in the
United States? They were let in by the Government, and many of them were let in
in the years since 9/11, when we were supposedly on permanent “orange alert”.
The same bureaucracy that takes the terror threat so seriously that it needs
the phone and Internet records of hundreds of millions of law-abiding persons
would never dream of doing a little more pre-screening in its immigration
system – by, say, according a graduate of a Yemeni madrassah a little more
scrutiny than a Slovene or Fijian. The President has unilaterally suspended the
immigration laws of the United States, and his Attorney-General prosecutes
those states such as Arizona who remain quaintly attached to them. The ID three
of the 9/11 hijackers acquired in the 7-Eleven parking lot in Falls Church,
Virginia and used to board the plane that day is part of a vast ongoing
subversion of American sovereignty with which many states and so-called
“sanctuary cities” actively collude.
As
for Major Hasan, who needs surveillance? He put “Soldier of Allah” on his
business card and gave a PowerPoint presentation to his military colleagues on
what he’d like to do to infidels – and nobody said a word, lest they got tied
up in sensitivity-training hell for six months.
Jack
will forgive me when I say this is less good cop/bad cop than no cop/bad cop.
Because the formal, visible state has been neutered by political correctness,
the dark, furtive shadow state has to expand massively to make, in secret, the
judgment calls that can no longer be made in public. That’s not an arrangement
that is likely to end well.
Yeppers!
I’m supposed to be fine with letting the Federal government collect data
on me in the name of national security because it is racist, nativist, and
xenophobic to expect the government to uphold immigration laws, for example. No sale.
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