Xenophobia, Religion, and Politics
John’s post below has me thinking. As I noted elsewhere, a writer named Vox Day, who is an ardent opponent of any approach to illegal immigration other than “deport them all, now,” and who describes himself as a “Christian libertarian,” wrote this today on WorldNetDaily:
[Bush] lied when he said: “Massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic – it’s just not going to work.”
Not only will it work, but one can easily estimate how long it would take. If it took the Germans less than four years to rid themselves of 6 million Jews, many of whom spoke German and were fully integrated into German society, it couldn’t possibly take more than eight years to deport 12 million illegal aliens, many of whom don’t speak English and are not integrated into American society.
Mr. Day charmingly refers to President Bush as “Dear Jorge.”
I have not heard about Vox Day until today, but WorldNetDaily is a fairly respectable conservative site. Am I alone in finding that kind of rhetoric disgusting and inconsistent with Christian values? Will anyone of influence in the Christian world (broadly defined) denounce Day’s rantings?
As John suggests below, this kind of perverse “thinking” is not altogether different from the mode of thought that dismisses a candidate because of his religion. It’s a problem worthy of some serious introspection by all of us who care about such matters
If you want to express your opinion of Vox Day’s column to WordNetDaily you may do so to letters@worldnetdaily.com.
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Zethris on 15 May 2006 at 11:28 pm #
I think his analogy was terrible and a poor choice to get his point across. So much so, that it takes away almost entirely of what he was trying to say.
My aproach isn’t all or nothing. That is obviously wrong. Nothing extreme is correct. Soemthing has to be done, yes. But not immediate mass deportation, or as Vox Day inferred, hopefully accidentaly, a mass genocidal deportation. Moderation is key. For you fellow LDS church members out there, you know what I mean.
This can be resolved in three easy steps:
Step 1: For anyone to get a job, they must have a valid and verifiable passport and/or birth certificate on file that is submitted to a database and checked before a job offere is extended. No more silly social security card/number garbadge outside of paying into SSI and paying taxes. The cards have always said “This is not an ID” so why do we stupidly keep using them as such?
An investment of about $250,000 to build the infrastructure would be all the cost it would need because most of the background checking software is already out there. It’s just a matter of adding an extra server and a database with all the valid birth certificates and passports out there.
Step 2: Heavily fine all businesses for hiring illegal immigrants. Unless they can show documented proof that each one of their employees can legaly work, they must pay a daily fine of $250 and it is garnished from their business bank accounts daily.
Step 3: Incentivise legal entry into the US by relaxing the horrid red tape and hoops that people have to go through to get here. There doesn’t need to be so much crap to move here!
Once step 3 is implemented, offer amnesty to those who volunteer to go through the legal process to become legal workers visa holders or taxpaying naturalized US citizens. Those who refuse, time to go home.