Fight the Future II
January 25th, 2006 - 9:49 pm
From the Vae-Victus blog comes this news from Amsterdam:
From 1 March onwards people who want to settle in the Netherlands (e.g. to join family members or to marry someone living there) will have to pass a preliminary test at the Dutch embassy in their country of origin. In this so-called
Amen.
This is absolutely correct and what I’ve been telling people for a while now. I don’t fear the “slippery slope”; I fear an alavanche.
I am quite certain that if the
Islamist terrorists manage to hurt us severely- a nuclear weapon, dirty bomb, or biological attack-
the result will likely scare most of the world. It won’t be easy to channell the resulting tidal wave of anger, and the Anglo-sphere is
still a “sleeping dragon” . Waking the dragon may result in a new form of global warming.
As for our Constitution, I greatly fear that it may be gravely injured in the process. Wars of survival tend to render the fine points of law irrelevant to those trying to keep their kin and country unharmed.
“We even accepted seeing Ted Kennedy singing
A bio/chemo/nuke attack here at home will probably lead to several big changes in our lives: a national ID card. Extensive government infiltration and monitoring of Islamic organizations, including mosques. A possible end to Muslim immigration to this country. Possible deportation of Muslims with green cards who are suspicious in any way. Not pretty, but neither is another whole in Manhattan. The sobering thing about all this is that I could support it all. I refuse to lose. I refuse to be PC about my civilization’s destruction.
…HOLE in Manhattan. Sorry.
Bang on – in WW II the US government took numerous steps that were probably unconstitutional (or at least would be deemed so today) to protect the security of the US and its allies. In retrospect, some of them were excessive (internment of Japanese) but were consistent with norms of the day (google Changi) and were only prudent given the extent of the threat and the inability to detirmine enemy intelligence penetration.
The 30 year period following WW II saw the greatest expansion in individual rights and constitutional liberties since the emancipation proclomation. As long as (1) the integrity of the democratic / electoral process is maintained and (2) the American people continue to desire liberty, I have no fear of temporary wartime curtailment of certain civil rights.
–some of them were excessive (internment of Japanese)–
except for the safehouses in Mexico and Charlie Chaplin’s driver, yada, yada.
I thought CW was 20% would side w/Japan.
No more dual passports.
Iran wants direct flights, the Iranians here are inconvenienced by lost luggage, etc., via LGF.
Surely you don’t mean to imply that if there’s another major terrorist attack, we might have to see Ted Kennedy singing “God Bless America” while drunk and pantsless?
Because, my GOD, if that’s the case, let’s warm up the nukes before it comes to that.
As for our Constitution, I greatly fear that it may be gravely injured in the process
Our Constitution has been in grave jeopardy for the last 60 years. Look no further than the ridiculous stretching of the Commerce Clause and the application of an amorphous and only selectively applied “Right to Privacy” to understand why I say that.
Wait a second, the two halves of that post don’t go together at all. If we’re talking about immigration reform and tightening borders (which I’m all for), Pelosi and Bush are two peas in a pod. Bush wants a guest worker program, for crying out loud. That’s a slippery slope in an entirely different direction.
As for the stuff about security and liberty, I don’t lose much sleep over Bush bending the rules in the wake of 9-11, but I think we need to reaffirm Congressional oversight and where the boundaries are pretty quickly, because somebody is going to abuse the hell out of it in the not-too-distant future.