Insane Asylum
John was born into a level of poverty that few Americans have ever witnessed. Bereft of opportunities to improve the conditions of his life and his family, he decides to take the extraordinary step of leaving the confines of his own existence and seize upon an opportunity to secure a better life for himself, in a place where food and warmth and drink are plenty, where sanitation exists and where access to medicines are readily available…so he forces his way into a neighbor’s home, fixes himself a sandwich, helps himself to a bottle of beer, takes a long-needed hot shower, changes his clothes into what he can find in the master bedroom’s closet, and rifles through the medicine cabinet to find some medications that will ease his pain. When the homeowner returns from their workaday job to find this trespasser making himself at home, does the homeowner:
1. Call the police to report the trespasser who has broken into his home?
or
2. Invite the trespasser to remain in his home indefinitely and continue to avail himself of all that the homeowner has worked so hard to attain?
While any sane person faced with the prospects of encountering such a trespasser would obviously select the first option, there are loads of sanctimonious people not having to deal with the ramifications of such an invasion, who would lecture the homeowner about the need to share his fortune, to share his living space along with the fruits of his labor and continue to provide comfort and lodging to someone who has broken into his home.
Such is the dilemma facing the United States today when many thousands of young men and, perhaps, hundreds of women and children are massing outside our southern border and attempting to enter this country by whatever means necessary- knowing that if past policy is any indication, they will be able to remain as long as they want. They are coached by American lawyers who advocate open borders, to say just the right things so as to be able to claim asylum and parlay that claim into permanent residence. Bolstered by the rulings of a Ninth Circuit Court which stymies each and every effort by the current President of the United States to defend our nation from such an onslaught, the interloper knows that he can wait out the President’s threat to close the border because, eventually, that border will reopen once the tempest of the moment dies down. Once inside this country, he will be afforded the Constitutional protections, its rights of due process and be given the benefits of free legal counsel to fend off any and all efforts by the federal government to have him deported back to the country of his origin. The fact that his specious claims of asylum and his request for refugee status are fraudulent are beside the point, especially if he fails to show up for a court hearing scheduled many months or even years down the road. He’s here and that’s it…end of story.
Such is the insane asylum that Americans face today and the media, along with their allies in the Democrat party, are oh-so-willing to play the part of the sanctimonious, socialist sycophants who wag their collective fingers at the President and his supporters and accuse them of racism, intolerance and at day’s end, inhumanity…
…and this insane asylum isn’t exclusively an American problem, as very similar conundrums have been played out in Europe, where so-called refugees from Syria and other middle eastern countries have entered European nations in huge numbers, particularly in Germany. Again, the vast majority of these immigrants are young men between the ages of 18 and 45 who seek not the protection of a host democracy, but who rather seek to appropriate the largesse provided by governments who have embraced varying levels of socialism and wealth redistribution. Like all too many of their counterparts in the Western Hemisphere, they have no desire to assimilate, no intent to learn English (or the language of their host country), and certainly no inclination to adopt the culture and values that are the mainstays of western civilization. Further, once they have amassed enough of their fellow “refugees” into specific areas within urban communities, they establish “no-go” territorial boundaries where native-born populations dare not enter.
Think that it cannot happen here? Think again.
-Drew Nickell, 27 November 2018
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