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The 2nd Amendment and the Slaves
Among Us William Lolli Gun News Daily Contributing Editor Friday, March 16, 2007 Anyone familiar with my previous editorials will recall that I intimately
associate the right to bear arms with other foundational civil rights. In my
view, people who do not have the right to bear arms are little more than
slaves. In totalitarian societies, the vacuum created by the forced removal of the
right to self defense is typically filled by other forms of oppression. To
the person who is used to freedom or living in a free society, the
totalitarian regimes stand in stark contrast to their own familiarities with
freedom’s practices and lifestyles. To the people that live in totalitarian societies, however depending upon
the success of their regimes’ conditioning practices upon their own people,
awareness of the oppression is typically replaced by the obedience to it.
Thusly, oppressed peoples adapt to their own oppression, because they know
little difference. It is also possible that in a free society that free people, in the
pursuit of their own convenience, can condition themselves into a blindness
to an oppression that they may see every day—and even congratulate themselves
on their ignorance of it. In our modern American free
society, there lives among us a class of people whose numeric population is
increasing and who for about a generation have lived as slaves among us. They are the class known as illegal
aliens. I can well imagine your reaction to this assertion: “Slaves? Here in Yes, that You see, illegal aliens have no right to vote. They have no representation
in government. Just like a slave, they have no say in the government that
rules them. They cannot obtain drivers licenses, insurances, and up until
recently, bank accounts and credit cards. Illegal aliens cannot call the police when set upon by criminals,
extortionists, sexual predators, robbers, rapists, or murders. They live in
fear of all manner of government authorities. They cannot resolve civil
disputes. They have no recourse in our legal system to redress a grievance.
They live in fear of others even like themselves. They cannot drive cars. They cannot file tax returns. Although they may
pay taxes [like slaves] they can derive no benefit from it, legally. They can
pay into Social Security, but cannot make any claim against their
contributions. In terms of the most basic of human rights, the right to self-defense,
illegal aliens cannot legally possess firearms; therefore they cannot legally
defend themselves from predators, nor can they use those firearms to
accomplish the great commission of the 2nd Amendment—that is, the individual
right to bear arms to provide for the “security of a free state”. The fact is the opposite is true. The very presence of illegal aliens
erodes the security of a Because illegal aliens cannot bear arms [and because they have no civil
rights], they increase crime, by default. Aside from the fact that the
estimated 10 to 20 million illegal aliens are already defacto
criminals because they have broken US laws just being here; their ubiquitous
saturation into the American heartland has acted as a magnet for all of the
other ills that follow an enslaved people: 1. Increased poverty, These are the conditions which will eventually lead to societal violence
and these conditions must be opposed by every free American. It is immaterial to the illegal immigration argument to bring up the fact that these slaves are among us voluntarily. The only materiality you can conclude from their willingness to engage in this behavior lies in to two areas: a) the greatness of America, in that oppressed people without opportunity are willing to risk life and limb to come here to escape their native conditions, and b) that these people are willing to live as disenfranchised slaves for generations, and yet break our laws at the same time. But what are we to do? What is the solution? Will simply granting amnesty
or changing the laws to redefine “what is legal” quell the tide and bring
equity? No. Making a driver’s license legal to obtain for someone already here
illegally is like saying that making bank robbery legal will decrease the
crime of robbing banks. We cannot reduce the uniqueness and
greatness that is What up to now has been viewed as “compassion” for the illegal immigrant must
be seen for what it really is: the
encouragement of slavery for convenience sake. There is no alternative solution except that the shadow-society of slavery
must end through a combination of punitive actions against those who would
exploit the slaves among us. This would include those who offer employment without legal documentation,
easy credit [making the slaves easy-debtors], taxpayer supported medical
care, taxpayer supported education, taxpayer supported child care programs,
and the abolition of the “anchor baby clause” interpreted as Constitutional
by federal judges. We must urge those in our liberal media, who have expressed care for the
unfortunate plight of the illegal alien, to instead rally and fight against
the immorality of corporate entities that would exploit these poor people, condemning
them to work for un-American wages, while encouraging them to live in the
filth and disease-ridden stench of outlying shanty towns or slums created by
profiteering landlords. We must no longer turn a blind eye to the slaves who live among us simply
because it is “good” [cheap] for our economy. Nor can we gaze at the problem
through the blind eye of “amnesty”, nor fail to
enforce our existing laws and encourage yet another generation of dependent
slaves, simply because it is convenient. Our laws must apply to all, or we will have no law. For our American society to endure, we must discern between compassion and
convenience. Our borders must be secured and this slavery must end or its moral bankruptcy will destroy us all. Was it something I said? If this
commentary has effected you to respond, you can send your reactions directly
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