What The Arizona Police State Act (SB1070) Means To You

There are few subjects in America which cause tempers to become so flared as immigration, nor do many subjects cause so much infighting within ideological spectrum's. Even Libertarians fight amongst themselves on this subject, but I hope by the end of this article, people will understand that the law just passed in Arizona has about as much to do with immigration as the war in Iraq had to do with 9/11.

Government does this all the time, they do something that makes you angry, in this case leaving the borders wide open and giving your tax dollars to the foreigners who arrive, and when you get angry enough to demand action, the government then "Responds to the will of the people" by granting itself greater authority. Problem, Reaction, Solution, a cruel joke that the people play on themselves over, and over, and over again, throughout the entire course of human history.

This is exactly what happened with Health Care, the government granted special privileges to the pharmaceutical, insurance, and other "big medicine" industries, and guaranteed them business through welfare programs and various regulations, which skyrocketed the cost of health care, until a majority of Americans were so fed up that they were willing to take any solution the government would offer, ignoring the fact that government caused the problem in the first place.

The public response to the new problem created by the government? Vote Republican! Which I'm sure will work out just fine, given that Republicans aren't in the habit of growing government or violating the Constitution. Except for Medicare Part D of course, the Republican trillion dollar health care entitlement, there is also that small matter of completely unnecessary wars costing us a trillion dollars or so and counting, that Department of Homeland security thing, the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, secret watch lists, and skyrocketing debts, but I'm sure that won't be a problem, at least they will stop the queers from getting married right?

But I digress, the point here isn't a partisan Libertarian rant, only to point out that this perpetual circular logic is so pervasive that it boggles the mind when one really bothers to analyze it. Government creates problems, and then expands itself to solve the problem, thereby creating a new problem, and the cycle continues.

The immigration debate is no different, government caused this problem, and the answer? Remove the restrictions they are bound to by the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments!

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