Which Threat is worse: Crime or Illegal Immigration?
These Border Patrol checkpoints will probably become more common throughout the Olympic Peninsula because of increased funding from Homeland Security. Local opinion seems pretty mixed, judging by letters to the Peninsula Daily News.
Meanwhile, some high profile crimes have been committed lately. Two days ago there was a burglary in Joyce, which resulted in a 4-hour manhunt and a 3-hour lockdown of Crescent School. And the Corner House Restaurant (among other downtown Port Angeles businesses) was recently broken into.
It’s probably moot to argue about, since the increased funding for the Border Patrol is based on federal and not local decisions. Still:
Which are YOU more worried about — becoming a crime victim, or the possibility that an illegal immigrant might sneak in?
Meanwhile, some high profile crimes have been committed lately. Two days ago there was a burglary in Joyce, which resulted in a 4-hour manhunt and a 3-hour lockdown of Crescent School. And the Corner House Restaurant (among other downtown Port Angeles businesses) was recently broken into.
It’s probably moot to argue about, since the increased funding for the Border Patrol is based on federal and not local decisions. Still:
Which are YOU more worried about — becoming a crime victim, or the possibility that an illegal immigrant might sneak in?
Labels: Border Patrol Checkpoints Olympic Peninsula, Corner House Port Angeles, Crescent School lockdown Joyce, Joyce burglary manhunt
posted by Tom Harper at 5:56 PM
8 Comments:
The two issues are inextricably linked. These illegal aliens, they are not "immigrants", by their very nature are scofflaws and evil-doers. They have broken the law by their cowardly and dastardly actions: they are nothing more than invaders of our sovereign nation!
Thus, given as they are to criminality, is it any wonder that they rampage in our nation, breaking into homes and cars of law abiding Citizens and committing acts of Terror. These illegal aliens are nothing less than Terrorists, and possibly in the pay of Bin Laden!
Our liberal, mollycoddle "laws" merely encourage more of these alien invaders to penetrate our Nation's Borders! A strong Nation protects its borders by any means necessary.
wow, you bought into the fear, didn't you?
Maybe the illegals wouldn't be here in the first place if our government hadn't stopped enforcing businesses HIRING illegals, or the IRS stopped investigating "mismatch" SSN's, or the NAFTA hadn't had provisions for ILLEGALS to work in this country without documentation. (i.e. the new national highway policies regarding Mexican truckers, etc.)
Perhaps the problem with illegals is that the government WANTED to drive down wages? Perhaps the problem is our government works more for corporations than it does for us. Why else would the banking laws have been gutted, the usury laws overturned, and the credit card companies allowed to prey on the consumer? Why else would the FDA not test drugs or food but instead be BOUGHT with "GRAS" (generally recognized as safe) certifications on things which have studies which show otherwise.
No, this border patrol thing is something else. Who knows WHAT it is, but there is more afoot that we know about...our non-media propaganda machines have forgotten long ago how to cover "news" or investigate. I think the border patrol stuff has more to do with the nonsense elsewhere, and...making us "very afraid". Fear makes us slaves.....
Ya got that? Now back to breaking rocks, with the rest of us.
"molly coddle laws"
Wow. Listen to Rush much? Try getting a brain and thinking for yourself you knee-jerk dimwit.
Geez ... I didn't know Sarah Palin posted on this blog!
The Border Patrol has an important job to do- however- free people should not expect to stop and explain themselves as they go about their business far from the nearest international border.
Uber police, just what we need. bleh.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
I'll not be cooperating.
They are one in the same.
I'll keep my Sig cleaned and loaded.
Well, it is a bit like comparing apples and oranges at this point. However, the road blocks seem to be a success and, with the exception of a few bloggers, most people I’ve heard from are all for it… it does catch criminals after all.
So, I’m bowing to the inevitable. Border road blocks will continue, and the police will probably start their own. But, the thing is, if we’re going to do this, why are we doing it so half-assed?
Start pedestrian road blocks. Think of how many characters we’d catch going in and out of Wal-Mart. And police stops at the bus stop would catch some folk too, I’d wager. Where else?
For that matter, we could have neighborhood sweeps. Police could question occupants, peep in windows, and request entrance if necessary. If the occupants have nothing to hide, they shouldn’t object, right? We could flush out meth houses and child pornography rings like crazy!
Britain has cameras everywhere, but we don’t. Why not? With advancements in facial recognition software, we can compile a list of everyone’s movements, matched against known or wanted criminals. If the person is unknown, they might be here illegally. It would also aid law officials by showing who is meeting with whom. And the software could be programmed to set off alarms for suspicious behavior like loitering. Think this is science fiction? The brains behind the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative beg to differ.
And we can track who is buying what fairly easily. Already everyone’s purchases are being recorded (in aggregate) by Albertson’s and Safeway and anyone else with a club card. Open this up to law enforcement. As I understand it, book stores are supposed to keep track of who buys what book, why shouldn’t every other store? We’ll find out who’s buying material to make meth, or who’s getting components for a homemade bomb, or even whose daughter is being bought birth control, and needs special lessons on abstinence at school.
Speaking of high-tech solutions, use the internet to leverage the fight. The FBI needs to roll out Carnivore nation-wide. When certain keywords pop up in a given day, like “sex” and “children”, put that name on a watch list. Sure, there’ll be a lot of false readings, but it should be at least as easy to manage as the “do not fly” list. Soon we’ll have advanced enough voice and word recognition to do the same for cell phones.
Now, I realize these things touch on the privacy issue, but Americans have already accepted club cards, Internet snoopware, public cameras, and now they’re accepting the (minor) inconvenience of road blocks. “I have nothing to hide, and if it makes me feel more safe, why not?” they say. But none of these measures are effective because we’re still pussy-footing around. Like the ads say, just do it.
Then maybe we’ll finally be safe.
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