Dear Subscriber,Well, it's time for me to make some more enemies.So much of most peoples' political beliefs, including among peoplewho consider themselves to be pro-freedom, stems from falseassumptions, and from the belief in that mythical beast called"authority."We now scoff at the old belief in the "divine right of kings": thenotion that, by an accident of birth, someone had more rights thanother people, and had the right to forcibly control those otherpeople. Silly, huh? Well, that ridiculous belief is back, and it'scalled "illegal immigration."How, exactly, does someone born several THOUSANDS miles away, inAlaska, have an inherent RIGHT to stand in El Paso, Texas, butsomeone born in Ciudad Juarez, just across the river, doesn't(without special permission from the tyrants in Washington)?A lot changes when you lose the self-contradictory belief in"government." A lot of concepts you accepted as self-evidentevaporate, such as country borders, citizenship, patriotism, andnationalism. Take, for example, that imaginary line between Mexicoand the U.S. What is it? How did it get there? It is the boundarybetween the dirt which one set of tyrants claims the right to rule,and the dirt which another set of tyrants claims the right to rule.You can wave the flag all you want, and talk about "your" countryand "patriotism," but the fact is, country boundaries are basedentirely upon the inherently bogus, arbitrary claims of the RIGHTTO RULE made by various megalomaniacs.You have no more "right" to be here than someone born in Zimbabwe,or Budapest, or anywhere else. Therefore, you have no right to useforce to stop them from coming here, nor can you delegate tosomeone ELSE the right to do so. To put it as bluntly as I can, ALL"immigration laws" are 100% illegitimate, unjustifiable violence--all of them, in every country, under any circumstances.You can wave "laws" around, wave the Constitution around, and makegeneralizations all you want, but if you forcibly stop someone whoonly wants to walk from one piece of dirt to another, YOU are theone initiating violence; YOU are the bad guy. (If, on the otherhand, the piece of dirt he wants to walk on is your own personalproperty, you have the right to keep him off. But unless youbelieve you personally own this entire COUNTRY, that cannotpossibly justify any "immigration" laws.)Oddly, as often happens, in the case of immigration, FREEDOM getsthe blame for problems caused by TYRANNY. "But those dang Mexicanscome over here and get public benefits, and welfare, and freeschooling!" So which is the problem: them walking over an invisibleline, or YOUR "government"--consisting entirely of Americans--forcibly robbing one person to give a handout to someone else?If someone accepts stolen property, that's bad. And it's badregardless of where the person was born, or what imaginary lines hehas walked over. So why do Americans whine about "illegals" gettinggovernment benefits more than they do about the millions ofAmerican parasites doing the same thing? (I won't even bothergetting into the actual statistics on which demographic groups getmore government goodies, and which produce more for the economy,because it's beside the point.)And how backwards and fascist is it to have the attitude of: "Well,you MIGHT apply for government handouts, so we're going to useforce to keep you out of this country"? Guilty until proveninnocent? Yep. Those who want to come here "legally" have to go togreat lengths to prove that they will be productive, and not adrain on society. (Hilariously, they have to prove this to peoplein "government," who themselves are nothing BUT a drain onsociety.)Mind you, I'm not saying I agree with "amnesty" for "illegals." Theonly reason I don't, however, is that the people who have no rightto STOP people from coming here also have no right to give themPERMISSION to come here, which is what "amnesty" means. People bornon this planet (or on any others, for that matter) have the rightto come here, just as much as you have the right to be here. It's alittle funny that so many people whose grandparents came here fromEurope, Africa, Asia, and so on, are now whining that Mexicans haveno right to be on this piece of dirt. (The Americans indians areprobably getting a chuckle out of that.) And don't whine about somedoing it "legally," because that makes exactly NO difference whenit comes to morality. The morality of an act does NOT depend uponwhether politicians have given it their blessing via "legislation."As I've said before, the world looks very different when not viewedthrough "authority"-colored glasses. On one hand, many things get alot simpler. On the other hand, you lose the intellectual cop-outof mass violence via "government" intervention as the defaultsolution to all problems, whether it be poverty, crime, illiteracy,substance abuse, or even those dadburn "furriners" coming here.Deal with them WITHOUT initiating violence, or stop pretending tobe pro-freedom.Sincerely,Larken Rose