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Originally posted by Wolf321
S&F for you. I agree with you on both accounts, that illegals are a VIRUS in the US, and politicians/government/elite are to blame.
It's funny that you should use the term virus, as describing this in medical terms seems to summarize things nicely. You see, there can be an underlying cause, but you cannot fail to treat both the symptom AND the cause. This is a war on two fronts, one with the illegals and the other the government. Perhaps it is better to have some confronting one and others the rest to focus their efforts, but let us not forget that they are both a problem and we cannot just accept one because the other bears more of the responsibility. If we do try to argue on who is to blame and the other side is wrong/ignorant/liberal/conservative, then we only allow both to continue and divide us further, just as they intend.
Originally posted by Wolf321
reply to post by SpectreDC
You most certainly do stop thugs by acting against thugs. If you apprehend and jail one thug, that's one less thug on the streets affecting the system, and one less thug for Capone to use.
Originally posted by SpectreDC
And the moment that thug is apprehended, two new ones hit the streets. Inevitably all you have done is flooded the system with thugs and wasted money that could have better been used dealing with Capone.
Originally posted by Wolf321
Originally posted by SpectreDC
And the moment that thug is apprehended, two new ones hit the streets. Inevitably all you have done is flooded the system with thugs and wasted money that could have better been used dealing with Capone.
If that were the case, law enforcement wouldn't stop criminals because there is always another two to take their place. You cannot operate a society on such a principle. You have to go after both, plain and simple.
I'm not saying jail illegals. I'm saying deport them. The people challenging the government are not spending their money confronting individual illegals. Yes they are spending tax dollars, but those tax dollars cannot be spent going after a corrupt and ineffective government. It's all a matter of time.
Originally posted by daskakik
reply to post by Wolf321
I applaud you desire to take a stand but as I said in my previous post who and, more importanly, how are you gonna fight?
Can't fight immigration cause you don't have jurisdiction. Even AZ can't deport only hold and hand over to ICE.
Vote them out? Just means voting in more of the same.
Originally posted by SpectreDC
Once again, the government is Capone and the thugs in ANY example are the means the government tyrannizes us. In this specific case, it's the facilitation of illegal immigrants. THEY have the responsibility of the border. THEY are in charge in dealing with the businesses. THEY are supposed to be doing this. Yet they perpetuate it. Thus when you deal with the thugs you aren't going to fix the problem what so ever. Again, you're trying to bail out water from a sinking ship before fixing the leak.
Originally posted by daskakik
I applaud you desire to take a stand but as I said in my previous post who and, more importanly, how are you gonna fight?
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Vote them out? Just means voting in more of the same.
Originally posted by SpectreDC
We were talking about this and while he thinks a violent revolution will never occur, the best sure fire way to deal with the government is to just disregard it.
Don't vote. Don't drive. Don't buy. Don't pay taxes. Don't pump gas.
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It's either deal with an increasingly horrible government, or collapse said government with our economy.
Originally posted by ladyinwaiting
I seem to have developed an aversion to the word "alien". "Aliens" are little grey creatures from deep space.
Can we say "immigrants", please?
Originally posted by Wolf321
Even if you addressed the leak, you have to deal with the fact that your up to your elbows in water. You have to get it out. We have enough people to address the leak and the water.
We do what we can at all levels of government. It means voting. It means constantly writing those we elect to address the issue, giving them ideas if necessary. It means combating the encroachment of illegals and the cultures they bring, from taking away local culture. It means taking note of businesses who facilitate illegal employment, non-english, and not patronizing those establishments, and letting them know why. If it gets really bad, good, hardcore patriots need to run for office. Even if it means they will most certainly lose, it if takes enough votes away from those who will do nothing, it might help.
We are being conditioned by political correctness and pacifist to think violent revolution is always out of the question. That mentality will have to chance if there is to be any actual conflict. I pray it doesn't have to come to that, but even our founders were aware that the free nature of our society and government would likely allow for the growth of tyrants and oppressive government, requiring armed revolution.
It might come down to passive revolution, such as you mentioned. I am all for not paying taxes and not feeding the beast, but on an individual level, one has to be prepared to essentially bunker down and support themselves long term, in physical isolation, and defend themselves from the government. I think if there were hundreds of cases around the nation of Ruby Ridge style stand-offs, someone would have to listen.
Originally posted by SpectreDC
But to many are ignoring the leak and only dealing with the water. Furthermore you still don't bail out the water when the leak is brining in more water than we can possibly bail out.
Please, you and me both know the system is what is the problem and not the workers tending to the system. And you should also know the people who want to keep the system will never allow you to fix the problem in the system through using the system itself to fix the system.
Trust me, I don't think violence shouldn't be used, but it needs to be done after they have taken the first shots.
Originally posted by ponyboyats
no, not violent revolution. peaceful resistance.