Grannies Against Liberty November 8, 2005
Posted by Resident Egoist in : Culture, Politics , comments closedVia FEE, I just learned of this story from the Washington Times — which so far I can only dub as “interesting.” It is about a group of grandmothers from Arizona who voluntarily patrol the U.S-Mexico border in order to keep out illegal immigrants:
NACO, Ariz. — The “Granny Brigade,” Carmen Mercer and Connie Foust, sits silently in the pitch-black desert night at their Minuteman observation post just a few yards from the dirt road and four-strand barbed-wire fence that separates the United States and Mexico.
With the temperature dropping into the low 40s and the wind whipping across the high desert, they wrap their legs in warm blankets. As sector bosses for more than two dozen Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers on the night shift along what is known as the Naco line, the women, who have a combined eight grandchildren, scan the area with a night-vision scope.
I have heard quite a few arguments in favor of restricted immigration [all of them faulty] but I don’t believe to have had heard the one advanced by one of these grannies — who happens to be herself an immigrant:
Mrs. Mercer who is divorced, met and married a U.S. serviceman stationed in her native Germany in 1979, later coming with him to the United States and becoming a U.S. citizen. She said the U.S. government’s inability to keep massive numbers of illegal aliens out of the country is unfair to those legal immigrants who spend years trying to become U.S. citizens.
“I love America and all that it stands for,” she said. “For those of us who stood in line and waited to become a part of this great country, it is unfair that others can ignore the process and the government doesn’t seem to care.”
What an incredible sense of justice, she has!! That she had to go through a maze of bureaucratic regulation in order to get naturalized does not lead her to the conclusion that such a bureaucracy should be abolished, but rather, that it should expanded and rendered more effective so that others have to suffer through her ordeal — i.e., that injustice [the violation of the freedom of association] should be perpetrated in the name of “fairness”!!
So much for the monstrous slogan: “Justice as Fairness“. And what on earth does she think “America … stands for”? Bigotry?
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