Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security and the War on Terror
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by: J. D. Hayworth
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Congressman J. D. Hayworth claims to expose "the ongoing battle where terrorists seek ways to exploit our porous borders and attack our homeland as well as the hypocrisy, greed, and political correctness that could literally destroy our nation." This book is garbage.
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Immigrant bashing is good for business: General Smedley Butler wrote a book called "War is a Racket." He saw first hand how keeping people at each other's throats was good for some businesses and kept the elites in power. The war on immigrants is also a racket. Billions of our tax dollars will be spent for a high-tech wall, aerial drones, night goggles, detention centers, motion detectors and all manner of police state accoutrements. There's a rumor going around that corporate interests are spending a bunch of money to corrupt our politicians and to get policies passed that will enrich them. I imagine if we could surveil the activities of J. D. Hayworth and Tom Tancredo, we'd see them receiving large amounts of cash and other favors from the companies that will be profiting from the hysteria over immigration. There are plenty of alternatives to "getting tough" on immigrants, like fair trade, reforming NAFTA and the WTO, ending US support for the suppression of labor here and abroad, and compensatory funding for poorer nations; but none of those approaches will bring revenues to the industries our politicians are owned by. On top of that, some US citizens just seem to get bored if they aren't filled with fear and resentment of poor, brown people. Notice how much attention the Minute Men get, while there are all sorts of unarmed civic groups working on the issues of immigration, like Border Links, which addresses issues of global trade and neoliberal economics, and also understands the history of the border. In fact, whatever Latin Americans are getting from travelling to the US should be viewed as reparations for the US stealing half of Mexico in 1846. Ulysses Grant called the US invasion of Mexico "the most unjust war ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation." Not surprisingly, Hayworth's book doesn't spend anytime on this history. It's amazing how much resentment some US citizens have for people who pick their food, take care of their children, take care of their lawns and do other work while we experience a shrinking domestic labor supply with the retirement of baby-boomers. Immigrants also enrich our country's culture in so many ways, by practicing the faith and family values our corrupt politicians like to preach about. Additionally, we have some immigrants taking the risks to provide marijuana to a pot-hungry nation. Intensifying the war on pot is another aspect of this war on immigrants. Big Pharma doesn't like any competition for the drugs they sell like zoloft and prozac, so putting immigrants in cages for years on end for smuggling pot will increase their business, and provide more money for our growing prison industry. In fact, Lehman Brothers and other investment firms have invested a lot in our prison system, and they're going to need bodies in those cages to get a return on their investment; hence, the immigrant scare. Maybe we should tear down the Statue of Liberty since she advocates all that stuff about "bring me your tired, your poor" and so forth. This new generation of US natives if very frightened, and wants a big government fortress to protect them, and maybe give them a well-paying job as an ICE agent or detention center guard. It's all quite pathetic.
A Great Book for the Gullible: Some say everybody loves a mystery, but this book wasn't supposed to be one. It struck me as a buffoonish rant by an unbridled ego gone wild. The book's logic was so wildly disconnected as to leave me wondering exactly where the author was ultimately headed. The real mystery was whether or not someone could truly pontificate for two hundred pages without saying something of substance. The problem was that if there was any value in what was being said, it was masterfully disguised in a shroud of name-calling, racism, and non-sequitur. It was a pompous diatribe rooted in such shallow thinking that any reader with a hint of common sense runs aground long before arriving in port - wherever that was supposed to be. In this work of art, all those who disagree are evil "liberals", even Bush! If the world were truly as black and white as this uneducated and vitriolic assault on the spirit of humanity, it might be a worthwhile read. However, you'd get more out of reading "The Chronicles of Pee Wee Herman". The book's greatest merit would be as a study guide in a seventh grade class on the fallacies of logical thought. Newscasters are renown for having big voices, huge egos and pretty faces. Deep thought is not normally something associated with these "readers of the wire". This book presents no evidence to the contrary. If there is to be another effort by Mr. Hayworth, I'd suggest more substance and less simple-minded name calling and chest pounding. If the rest of the world is as dumb as he paints it, we're all in trouble. He reminds me of the under-achieving student in the back of the class throwing tantrums to to call attention to himself. Try studying more and talking less.
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