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You’ll Never See It Coming

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History shows that it is not the people that you worry about that will get you – it’s the folks that act behind the scenes, in places that you never heard of before, that will end up getting you killed.

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” Donald Rumsfeld

The U.S Civil War began in 1861 when cannon fire from Confederate artillery rained down on Fort Sumter, a small island in Charleston Harbor. Over 618,000 Americans died.

World War I was sparked in 1914 when Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. 17 million died.

The Ebola virus was first seen in 1976 in a dying storekeeper at a cotton factory in South Sudan. Tens of thousands have since died.

The world’s worst nuclear disaster happened at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, outside of Pripyat, USSR, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of miles.

The Black Death of Europe started when a ship landed at Messina, Sicily, in 1347 carrying dead and dying Genoese sailors. 20 million Europeans died over the following five years.

And prior to December 7, 1941, few people had heard of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.


Whatever it will be that gets us, we will probably never see it coming.

With that in mind, enjoy every day to the fullest. Sleep well, my friends, for tomorrow holds unknowable surprises.

INTERNATIONAL TRESPASSERS!

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“Undocumented Houseguest“

The liberals have perfected the science of doublespeak, and have become experts at choosing words favorable to their cause to define issues. For example, killing an unborn fetus is a “woman’s right to choose,” wasting taxpayer money on failing solar companies or bridges to nowhere is an “investment,” gifts of tax money to poor people is a “credit,” robbing Peter to pay Paul is “income redistribution,” and denying citizens their Second Amendment rights is “gun control.” The obfuscation of the descriptor assures that the debate always begins lopsided in the favor of the left, and they never miss an opportunity to muddy the waters from the outset.   And so it is with the fight over “immigration.”
Persons who make a wrongful entry onto the property of another are properly defined as “trespassers,” and the civil and criminal law has been clear for centuries that you don’t go onto somebody else’s land without the owner’s permission. Just two weeks ago, police in the liberal bastion of Massachusetts cited and threatened to arrest an 11 year-old girl for cutting across her neighbors’ lawns on the way to the school bus stop. Trespassing is serious stuff – unless, of course, you are a liberal talking about an international trespasser.
Clearly, people who sneak into the United States are TRESPASSERS. They are not “undocumented aliens,” not “illegal immigrants,” and they are certainly not “immigrants.” They are simply common “trespassers,” and should be referred to as such.  If a stranger climbed over the fence in your back yard and built a shed to live in, would he be an “immigrant”? Nope. I daresay even a liberal would call the cops and tell them to get that guy the hell off their property. He has no right to be there.  (Proof? That soon-to-be-a-criminal youngster who was cutting across the lawns in Massachusetts.  Oh, the hypocrisy!)  To include lawbreakers under the descriptor of “immigrant” demeans the millions of persons who obey our laws and are welcomed into our country legitimately.
So, let’s reframe the discussion. Folks who are in the U.S. without authority are trespassers. Every discussion about what to do about them should reinforce the foundational fact that they are violators of law. It is what it is.

The debate can continue as to whether or not international trespassers should be given squatters rights, or granted retroactive permission, or awarded citizenship of some form, but let’s be clear on one thing: these people are TRESPASSERS, and to refer to them as anything else ignores the reality.

I would say “call a spade a spade,” but since that 19th century figure of speech has become a racist hackle-raiser these days, how about we just say “call a shovel a shovel”?

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