[PuNcH]

Go read P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores, specifically the chapter titled "The Whiffle Life," and then tell me that the average American gives an airborne fornication about stopping drug smuggling.

I havent read this book but is the author hoping for more apathy? On this issue most Americans do want something done to stop illegal immigration.

[Poohbah]

I havent read this book but is the author hoping for more apathy?

No. He talks to DEA agents and everyone else involved in the War on Drugs, and the one refrain that comes through--sometimes from literally nowhere, the person he's talking to just starts ranting--is "the American people need to get serious about this."

On this issue most Americans do want something done to stop illegal immigration.

They want something done in the sense that they are against sin and for motherhood. It's an abstract. When you actually start talking specific ideas, enough splinters are opposed to one or another idea--for both noble and base reasons--that nothing gets done.

Like I said earlier, the first time I saw a pickup truck full of day laborers with an americanpatrol.com bumper sticker on the back, it was funny. It wasn't funny the second time.