USING THE LAW TO DESTROY THE LAW
In response to my recent post - ‘MARYLAND FATHER’ MISTAKENLY DEPORTED? - one reader responded with the following:
“They’re not following the law as far as due process is concerned…. Andy McCarthy has some very good articles on this.
“I can’t say I’m having too much heartburn over it all. Trump’s obligation is to keep Americans safe and he’s taking that seriously, but as Ben Franklin said, safety at the expense of liberty ends in tyranny - something akin to that.
“It’d be much better if Trump and team did everything legally, by the book. I can also see the brilliant strategy here though. Get the bad guys out, even if skirting the legal process and dupe the dems into supporting illegal immigrant murders, rapists, and gangsters and further tank their favorability ratings; they’re not paying attention to, or showing sympathy towards, the American citizen victims.”
I don't agree with you - or Andy McCarthy - that "they [the Trump team] are not following the law as far as due process is concerned". Nor do I agree that "it would be better if Trump and his team did everything legally, by the book."
Trump should do everything “by the book”?
Simply impossible - logistically impossible within any reasonable period of time - and the Democrats know it - which is exactly why they are demanding it.
"The book" here - or, more precisely, the distorted, lawless, treasonous Democrats' self-serving, anti-Trump, anti-American reading and interpretation of it - the suicidal view of the law they, via their media toadies, are trying to sell to the American people - is entirely inadequate to address the massive illegal alien problem before us. Demanding that every one of our 20 million illegal aliens must have lengthy “due process” before being deported - a grand enterprise that would take a century and cost untold billions of the people’s dollars - is the Democrats’ deceitful way of ensuring the invasion of illegals they lawlessly facilitated is never reversed.
Notwithstanding any twisted interpretation of law the Democrats seek to serve up, common sense screams that illegal aliens do not have the same due process rights that citizens do. In the case of an illegal alien, the only fact that needs to be determined by “due process” is the illegality of his or her presence in our country. Once that fact is indisputably in evidence, the only right remaining to the said illegal alien is the right to be immediately and safely deported.
Imagine you are a border guard on the US side of the border. You see someone illegally crossing the border. He actually makes it across the border and is now standing right in front of you, say 10 feet inside the border. Does his having successfully, albeit illegally, entered the country mean that you, as a law enforcement officer, are now obligated to take him into custody, put him in jail, feed him, cloth him, get him a public defender and thus prepare him for a lengthy legal proceeding that will take months and months and cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars? I think not - and please don’t insult my intelligence by attempting speciously to argue otherwise.
There is simply no possible rational common-sense interpretation of any law (more about common sense below) that would prevent that law enforcement officer from turning that illegal sucker right around and sending him or her summarily back across the river. Doing so would unquestionably be in the best interests of citizens of the country. This, again, just common sense.
Insulting the intelligence of every marginally sentient citizen possessed of a few firing synapses, the Democrats lied through their teeth about what they were doing at the border every step of the way - "Oh me, oh my! We're simply overwhelmed! We're doing everything we can! We don't have enough people! We don't have enough money! Our immigration system is broken! We need new laws! It's all YOUR fault!"
The truth is, as we have seen, we always had all the immigration laws and other resources necessary to secure the border. All that was lacking during the illegitimate, lawless, treasonous Biden regime was the will to enforce our laws, apply the available resources and protect the country. At his State of the Union address, while the Democrats wept, wailed and gnashed their teeth, Trump spoke the truth. We didn't need new laws, he said. We just needed a new president willing to enforce the existing laws.
There is here something I think worthy of special note - the stunning revelation of the thorough-going corruption of the Democrat Party. The mind-boggling magnitude of their outrageous, lawless deceit and treason at the border- the resulting monumental vicious fraud against the people and nation of America - all revealed and measured directly by the speed with which a patriotic president, taking seriously his sworn duty to defend the Constitution, enforce the law and protect the nation against invasion, was able to secure the country's borders, producing a level of security there never before seen. All this done in a few weeks.
The previous protestations of the Democrats that they were doing everything possible to control the border - that the flood of illegals was the Republicans' fault because they would not pass "immigration reform" (a legislative "reform" by which the Democrats sought to codify their fraud, make legal the millions of illegal invaders already in the country and allow thousands more in on a regular basis) - have been stripped of their deceitful camouflage, giving us a look, thanks to Trump, into the Democrats' "true faces and eyes" (真 面 目). Their bold-faced prevarications are now starkly revealed for what they always really were - outright lies.
Like Satan himself, the Democrats are liars. They were liars yesterday. They are liars today, and they will be liars tomorrow. Lying is what they do. They lie to us, and they lie to themselves. In the aftermath of their humiliating defeat last November, refusing to confront the cesspool of their own intellectual, moral and spiritual turpitude, they instead see their problem as one of "messaging" and talk of "re-messaging". How do you "re-message" a pack of lies, an intellectual, moral and spiritual sewer, a whole bone-deep worldview based on treason, evil and Godlessness?
The strategy and tactics of the left regarding the border invasion - the millions of illegals now present in the country - and the Trump Administration's current efforts to deport those who, under a lawless, treasonous Democrat regime, have illegally entered the country, are transparent and need to be understood by every decent, patriotic citizen - a category that, tragically for the country, excludes not only the leadership but virtually the entire membership of the Democrat Party.
Here is what they are up to:
First, in a great treasonous crime against the American people - a crime that has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of our citizens and cost hundreds of billions of our citizens' dollars - the seditious Democrats deliberately trampled underfoot the duly constituted immigration laws of the United States, lawlessly threw open the borders of the land, and both allowed and openly, outrageously facilitated with our money a flashflood of illegal immigrants - no border enforcement, cross-border airplane flights, in-country transportation, free food and accommodations, free medical treatment, free education, free cell phones, and on and on - virtually a tidal wave invasion of millions upon millions of unvetted illegal aliens that included terrorists, gang members, drug smugglers, murderers, robbers and rapists, in process inflicting a deadly wound on our people and, going forward, placing our society in deadly peril.
Next, with their sorry heinies having been preemptively ejected from power by an awakening electorate that realized they were being raped and pillaged by a subversive band of America-hating renegades who had stolen control of the government, the Democrats, in pursuit of their lawless, treasonous, power-hungry agenda, having previously outrageously trashed the law at the border, now, chameleon-like, magically changing color, presenting themselves as great defenders of the law, insist on a self-serving interpretation and rigorous enforcement of questionable, nitty-gritty, minutia of the law that, if their interpretation is allowed, guts the power of the President to protect the country and effectively, as previously noted, renders it impossible for the evil the Democrats have done to America ever to be undone.
As the Democrats well know, if all 20 million - or even a half, or just a quarter - of the lawbreakers - by definition criminals - who are in this country illegally, rather than being summarily deported, must be given individual, full-blown "due process" trials at government expense, as the "due process" Democrats now demand, it would take hundreds of years and untold billions of the peoples' dollars to thoroughly enforce the law, process the whole batch of illegals, and finish the task.
Realistically speaking, this will never happen, and the Democrats know it. They think, via their deceitful interpretations and manipulations of the law, they have cleverly snookered both the President and the overwhelming majority of the American people, 56% of whom believe ALL illegals should be deported.
President Trump has heretofore frequently made reference to "common sense" as the solution to many of the problems the country faces. This is obviously true with regard to such issues as unequal tariff schedules that victimize the US. It is only common sense to level that playing field. It is likewise "common sense" to insist NATO nations fulfill their financial commitments to the alliance, and so on.
So it is regarding the disposition of 20 million illegal aliens. Rather than a never-ending controversy over esoteric, debatable, politicized interpretations of law, this question - how to deal with the tens of millions of lawbreakers illegally present in our country - is glaringly, obviously one of simple common sense.
What is the common-sense remedy?
Obvious, isn't it?
Kick them the hell out.
Having first confirmed the illegal status of the illegal alien - something that won't be hard to do and will not require extended legal proceedings - deport that person immediately.
Which is, by the way, exactly what virtually every other civilized country in the world would do and does do.
It boils down to this question: will the problem of illegals be addressed on a common-sense basis and the nation be protected, or will the Democrats - whose goal, by means of this great lawless flood of illegal invaders, has always been to transform the American electorate in order to keep themselves in perpetual power - be allowed, in violation of every common sense principle, to get away with their monstrous fraud and treason against the American people?
Will the American people allow their rule of law nation to be destroyed by some tricky, perverse interpretation of the very laws meant to preserve them and their country?
Will we allow the law to be used to destroy the law?
The incomparably brilliant Thomas Jefferson had something profound and prescient to say about this:
"A strict observance of the written laws is one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us, thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means." - Quoted in "The Real Thomas Jefferson", p. 511
This is a superlative bullseye from Jefferson. The issue before us could not have been framed with greater clarity than he has in this quote. Truly, it is as if this brilliant man, risen from the grave, were living and breathing and among us today, observing our circumstances, applying his erudite, patriotic mind, giving us sage counsel.
Will America endure as a free nation governed by the just and common-sense rule of law?
Shall a perverse interpretation of the procedural minutia of the law be allowed, as the Democrats intend, to destroy the whole of the law and with it our free nation itself?
As for me and my house, not just no, but HELL NO!
How about you? I think we are all going to have to take sides on this issue.
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, knowledge vs. ignorance, order vs. chaos, law vs. lawlessness, patriotism vs. treason, liberty vs. tyranny, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, happiness vs. misery, God vs. the Godless...
The race goes on...
Torquemada