Reply #3: What a shock

[primavera]

People in the immigration community have been complaining about this for years, but everyone's been on such a 9/11, wave-the-flag, seal-the-borders-at-any-cost kick over the last eight years, no one's paid the slightest attention to the fact that we're now habitually incarcerating large numbers of people whose only crime is having presented themselves at our borders and requested admission. Better to shoot first and ask questions later, right, realists? Due process? We don't need no stinking due process, now do we, realists? Well, this is the omelette that recipe predictably makes: a whole shitload of broken eggs and no measurable improvement in national security. Are we learning yet? Or do we need to ruin a few more tens of thousands of innocent lives before the lesson begins to finally penetrate our stone skulls? Ben Franklin had it right: those who will forfeit liberty for security deserve neither liberty nor security. Wouldn't our founding fathers and all of the heroes who gladly sacrificed their lives for the sake of liberty over the centuries be proud if they could see us now. I'm so ashamed of us.