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A Land of Selective Laws
Steyn Online ^ | 21 Sep 2022 | Mak Steyn

Posted on 09/25/2022 7:43:02 AM PDT by Rummyfan

The southern border of the United States is wide open to millions of persons per year, equivalent to the entire population of Northern New England annually, for those of you excited about abolishing the electoral college and having a straight up-or-down vote for president.

However, if you like selective application of the law, you'll be thrilled to hear that in recent days two foreign visitors headed to Steyn HQ to tape a couple of interviews were both fingerprinted by the crazed fanatics of US Immigration.

Fingerprinting is something you do to criminals. My guests were traveling for business on passports of two prosperous western nations that happen to be, both formally and more broadly, "allies" of the United States. But, in the crapped-out Oppositeland that is today's America, the southern border is open 24/7 to human traffickers, drug cartels, child sex-slavers, terrorists, bearers of viruses, and illegal immigrants with no verifiable identity, while respectable travelers without criminal records are treated as low-life scum by the perverts of US officialdom. Neither of my guests enjoyed the experience, and, notwithstanding the efforts of my hospitality to compensate, neither has any desire to set foot in the United States ever again.

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1 posted on 09/25/2022 7:43:02 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Anarcho-tyranny: applying the law only to those who follow it, while intentionally ignoring those who completely ignore it.


2 posted on 09/25/2022 7:46:02 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Rummyfan

later


3 posted on 09/25/2022 7:51:45 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: Rummyfan

“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”


4 posted on 09/25/2022 7:52:34 AM PDT by null and void (Can't hear the Rod Serling narration? You are not in the audience. You are a part of the story.)
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To: Rummyfan

“A Land of Selective Laws”

A party (Democrats) of Selective Laws

There, fixed it


5 posted on 09/25/2022 7:55:59 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (.)
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To: null and void

An apt excerpt to quote, FRiend.


6 posted on 09/25/2022 8:01:15 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: null and void

An apt excerpt to quote, FRiend.


7 posted on 09/25/2022 8:01:16 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Rummyfan
LEFTism is cognitively equivalent to Statism and authoritarianism. Every little step towards such routine infringements on individual rights, if done in small incremental steps, is that legendary camel creeping into the tent.

Friedrich Gustav Martin Niemöller's famous post-Nazi statement on how liberal Weinmar Germany morphed into Nazi Germany speaks to just this incremental move into a newer level of STATEism here in the "Land of the Free"!

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

8 posted on 09/25/2022 8:01:48 AM PDT by SES1066 (More & more it looks like Brandon's best decision was Kamala! UGH!)
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To: Rummyfan

That’s not selective laws, that’s selective application if the laws.


9 posted on 09/25/2022 8:25:31 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: Rummyfan

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice.......


10 posted on 09/25/2022 8:52:33 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: null and void

For the record:

https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Taxes/JohnGalt/Excerpt2.htm


11 posted on 09/25/2022 9:02:02 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

Thanks.

A new continent, if we can keep it.


12 posted on 09/25/2022 9:17:27 AM PDT by null and void (Can't hear the Rod Serling narration? You are not in the audience. You are a part of the story.)
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To: Rummyfan

I can think of at least seven tiers to our injustice non-system:

1) Foreign invaders aka “migrants”
2) Democrats
3) LGBTZRSTUVWXYZ+ regardless of party
4) “People of Color” regardless of party
5) Muslims
6) Republicans in general
7) White, Christian, straight men


13 posted on 09/25/2022 10:50:50 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Rummyfan

The democrat party uses government in the form of lawfare to attacks its enemies.


14 posted on 09/25/2022 12:39:12 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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