[Vision2020] Legistlative update V from Rep. Trail - Feb 7-11

[lfalen]

The same reasoning applies to Bush's imigration policy
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From: "James Nelson" hammered at moscowmail.com
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:31:52 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Legistlative update V from Rep. Trail - Feb 7-11

> Visionaries,
> 
> Fiat Lux makes an excellent point that could apply to the shadowy 
> circumstances surrounding NSA. Lux observes, “Might we better serve 
> ourselves to enact laws that deny benefits to those who willfully 
> engage in such risky behaviors and suffer the injurious 
> consequences of their choices? . . . Simply enacting a helmet law 
> is not enough to make the die-hard, wind in their hair crowd 
> actually wear a helmet. Furthermore, issuance of a citation for the 
> violation of a helmet law seems irrelevant if the violator is brain 
> dead or deceased?”
> 
> I agree; we should enact laws that deny benefits to those who 
> willfully engage in crimes and misdemeanors. But more importantly, 
> we should exact the letter of the law in punishing those who 
> violate it. For example, if the City concludes that NSA’s 
> activities in the Verizon building are illegal, then NSA should be 
> compelled to immediately abate their operation, because re-zoning 
> Friendship Square to accommodate the Kirk’s breach will not prevent 
> them from breaking the law in the future. Indeed, if we change the 
> law to indulge criminals, then we will embolden them to commit more 
> crimes. This would positively encourage more lawlessness, which 
> would undermine the very foundation of our government.
> 
> Take the Sudetenland for an example, after all Hitler did. The 
> Allies thought that re-zoning Czechoslovakia would placate Hitler’s 
> quest for world domination. Indeed, we have all seen the 
> black-and-white footage of Neville Chamberlain promising “peace in 
> our time” as he waved the Munich Pact in the air. Eleven months 
> later, however, the Luftwaffe filled the air as German Stukas dive 
> bombed Poland.
> 
> History teaches an easy lesson: if you re-zone real estate because 
> you want to avoid conflict with an aggressive political power, then 
> rest assured that your cowardice only prolonged the inevitable. One 
> day you will have to engage the aggressor because his appetite 
> cannot be satisfied. He will want more, especially when his agenda 
> calls for it.
> 
> Lux asks rhetorically, “Are more and more ‘paternalistic laws’ the 
> solution?” And the answer is “no.” We should not set precedent by 
> coddling Doug Wilson and his ilk. If they broke the law, they 
> should be held accountable just like the rest of us. And if we do 
> not hold them to account, then we will be forced to learn a very 
> hard lesson: You get more of what you subsidize and less of what 
> you penalize.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> James Nelson
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