Rocky Mountain Straight Talk

One of the Watergate men, G. Gordon Liddy, has written a book entitled "When I Was a Kid This Was A Free Country." Though I am younger than he by a few years, I, too, can remember when this was a free country. Almost.

Woodrow Wilson made some egregious inroads into our freedoms, then FDR, the Congress, and the Supreme Court made it worse, and have continued to do so. It seems as though Wilson forcibly opened the barn door, after which our freedoms began to be stolen, one by one, by the others previously mentioned.

It is possible that a rural Westerner would notice the steady erosion of our freedoms more than Eastern city people. They are used to being herded, penned, coerced and sold out by their elected representatives more than we are. Westerners used to be more willing to fire their politicians than Easterners, who tended to be owned outright by unions, big companies and crooked politicians.

We rural Westerners worked the land, grew and stored our own food, went without when necessary, struggled against the climate, the weather, and every pesky critter that threatened our survival and/or well-being.

Our school teachers were often related to us, and if we got out of line, you may rest assured our parents didn’t sue the school or the teacher. If Aunt Betsy told your father – who just happened to be Aunt Betsy’s brother – that you were ill-behaved at school, chances were very good that you, not the teacher or the school, would pay a price for your bad behavior.

This is all in the past. Even rural Westerners get most of their food at the grocery store, now, just as city people do. Very few get their milk and eggs from their own animals and make their own butter and cheese. Very few grow and store their own food. Even fewer Western kids have to do the milking and feed and water the stock before school. They, too, have become dependent upon the grocery store.

The loss of that lifestyle has made Americans a dependent people. The citizens of New Orleans were completely helpless after Katrina. Their lives depended upon commerce, and there was no commerce. Everything they needed to survive was under water, even though a goodly percentage of their houses were not destroyed.

When we gave away our material independence for convenience and ease, we gave away our freedom. Almost all the American people would be completely dependent upon the government in any such emergency. They live in apartments or high-rise buildings and can do absolutely nothing for themselves. After Katrina, only predators and thieves thrived. Decent people were helpless. In like circumstances that situation would be repeated all across this country.

Our various governments have consistently and persistently taken our freedoms away, and we have let them do it, because politicians have persuaded us that we would benefit by so doing. Various groups, especially environmentalists and the ACLU, have indoctrinated many of our people, convincing them that it is right and noble to take away others’ rights and freedoms, because those others are abusing Mother Earth. These groups have learned that suing any person, school, business or government for what they want is the way to go. The case may involve an outrageous theft of the rights of the innocent people involved, but it doesn’t matter; it works.

The victim often cannot afford the legal costs to defend himself, so a lawsuit effectively deprives him of his rights, even though he might have had a case that easily could have been won.

When a Montana rancher opened his door one night, because his stock were making a racket, a grizzly bear reared up in front of him, right on his porch. As any intelligent, grizzly-wise rancher would, he shot it. He was taken to court, charged with provoking the bear, and fined thousands of dollars. Why? Because common sense no longer applies. Environmentalists have taken over much of our legal system, rising to judgeships, and they have persistently deprived the common people of their most basic rights of self-protection. Thanks to their perverted value system, an enraged grizzly two feet from your nose has more rights than you do.

Can we stop this disastrous situation before we lose all our freedoms? We could, but most likely, we won’t. We would have to be willing to elect fighters who are aware of what has happened to this country, and who are as determined to reverse the situation as we must be, and we have a dearth of such, and one of the reasons we have that dearth is because we are too lazy to find good people, then get them elected to public office.

Unfortunately, we seem to have elected a large number of not-so-good Senators and Representatives who are willing to give our country to Mexico. Equally unfortunately, there seem to be a large number of illegal Mexicans with the will to take it from us by political force.

At least Mexico has sense enough to recognize a good thing when they see it. The number of dollars illegals send back to Mexico to their families is exceeded only by the dollars Mexico gets for selling their oil. That makes for a pretty good income for old Vicente, and why should he make changes that would reduce that income, when we don’t seem to be smart enough to put a stop to it?

Yes, we could salvage our country. It is not too late. The only real question is: Do we have the will to both start and win the fight before it is too late?

In view of the running gun battle illegal aliens have perpetrated at Cortez, CO; the dragging death of a woman outside of Denver, CO, also by an illegal; and the death of our son-in-law three blocks from his home in Las Vegas, NV, perpetrated by a naturalized citizen from Mexico, who drove a car at 135 mph on a city street with stop lights and several lanes each way; and in view of the other crimes, too numerous to mention, that are perpetrated from one end of America to the other by illegal aliens each day, it is time America’s citizens took action.

Since we have almost no chance of getting a fence built on the border with Mexico; and since we have few legislators with the courage to take the necessary steps to shut off the flood of illegal aliens coming across that border; and since those illegal aliens who are caught are transported back to Mexico; and since it takes them approximately three days to sneak back across the border; and since any Border Patrol agent with the courage to do his job will be convicted of crimes he has not committed and sentenced to twenty years in jail; and since President Bush has not and may never pardon said agents; I propose we take another tack.

Let’s create a chain-gang detention facility using Cochise County, AZ, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s pattern, which would hold every illegal alien caught breaking any law at anytime, including lawbreaking committed in so-called "sanctuary cities." They would be shackled during mealtimes, shackled to their bunks each night, and shackled when they used the toilet. They would never have a chance to riot, escape nor attack their guards.

Those belonging to violent gangs would require especially tight security, and would require a special code on the computer identification chips inserted in all prisoners bodies. It would be essential for each prisoner to be iris scanned, facial structure scanned, and have computer identification chips inserted in their bodies. Chips should identify drug runners, coyotes, smugglers, etc.

Those detained in this facility would be nutritiously fed and their medical conditions treated, would be required to learn English, be educated and/or taught a trade, would be treated respectfully by carefully screened guards, but would have no contact with family members, especially they never would have opportunity to send their family the money Mexico so covets. They would have access to carefully screened non-activist priests and/or ministers, but no
access to either Muslim chaplains, representatives of their own government, nor activist organizations, nor lawyers, either foreign or domestic. They would do hard labor, labor
that would otherwise have to be done by hired laborers, including building a fence on the border, and would have one day of rest each week. They would have to wear clean clothes and bathe at the end of each day. They would have no other privileges.

These prisoners would continue in this state for a minimum number of years, which minimum would be specified, perhaps 10 or 15, but with no specific maximum.

Anyone showing violent or criminal tendencies would not be released unless or until those tendencies completely disappear. If that were never to happen, they would be incarcerated for the remainder of their natural lives.

Since so called "anchor babies" present a serious "daisy-chain" immigration problem, and since our legislators probably never will attempt to solve it, let us immediately take legal possession of every baby born to an illegal mother–a baby who will automatically be an American citizen–and place him/her for adoption to a previously qualified couple whose names would be on a computerized list available at every hospital in America. The couple would pay approximately $2000 to adopt the child, the money being split between the host hospital and the midwife who
delivers the baby, since the $10,000 that often is the fee is unconscionably extreme and disqualifies too many otherwise eligible couples.

Since these mothers would attempt to use phony or stolen Social Security numbers and birth certificates to prove citizenship, it would be imperative that data bases be made available to hospitals. Additionally, if documentation is questionable in any way, and if the mother speaks either poor English or no English at all, she would be presumed to be illegal, and her baby would be confiscated immediately.

If both of these practices were implemented –incarceration of all illegals who break any law and
confiscation and adoption of all babies born to illegals–our illegal immigration problem would diminish, at first slowly, then dramatically. In a very short period of time it would become non-existent. The only illegals we would have in the country would be law-abiding workers who would not ever be granted citizenship.

These things would only work if we first passed state laws that denied judges the power to interfere in this program. It would be hard, but could be done if we were sufficiently determined, especially to the extent of sending prisoners only to states that supported the program.

We’d better do something. If we don’t we can kiss our culture and even our country good-bye, because illegals are not only coming here faster than we can stop them, they are intentionally breeding themselves into a majority.

Originally published November 28, 2006