Safe

What does our government need to do in order to make us safe?

Safety is both a fact and a feeling.

For factual safety, we need the government to defend the nation against foreign invasions, and to protect us from each other. The military and border patrol does the first, the police is responsible for the second.

Emotional safety is important, too, but like with happiness, it’s not a job for the government. That’s on us.

Policing

I think most normal people would agree that we want the government to prevent others from harming us, murdering us, and taking our stuff.

However, the waters have been muddied a bit lately.

I think it’s part game-playing hidden from most of the public, and part a conversation we can have about values and what we want the laws to be.

I’ve seen a lot of reports of Soros-funded District Attorneys who will not prosecute criminals. This means the police will arrest someone for committing a crime, and that person is put right back on the street. The criminals commit crime after crime, and nothing happens to them. The police get frustrated, because they cannot do anything if the criminal is not prosecuted. The citizens get harmed, either physically, or because their stuff gets stolen.

I’ve seen reports that in many drug stores in San Francisco, even something as pedestrian as toothpaste is locked away, because criminals just come in and take it. This is partly because of Soros DA’s, partly because a law that says stealing anything under $950 cannot be prosecuted. It’s not like the criminals can’t do math. They know that so long as they stay below that level, they can steal, and nothing will happen.

Who’s paying the price for this? Businesses pay, because they lose inventory. Even though they’re insured, these losses will be baked into the cost of insurance. Consumers pay, because they will have less choice, it’s more of a hassle to buy stuff, they’ll have to pay more to cover the cost to the businesses, and they’ll have to travel further as stores close because they cannot survive the added cost given their already low margins.

How is it fair that businesses and consumers pay for the theft of criminals? It is of course not fair at all.

I think we all agree in principle that theft is wrong and should be illegal.

So why do we let it happen?

I think for a couple of reasons.

I think some people feel bad for the thieves. They think the thieves are just poor, unlucky people who have gotten a little bit behind, and if they can just be allowed to take some clothes and some toothpaste, they’ll be okay.

Some people in power obviously want the crime. In NYC in the 1980s, crime was way up. Rudy Guiliani came in and enabled the “broken windows” approach where he’d prosecute even the smallest crime like riding the subway without paying, and crime went way down.

The reason it was called the “broken windows theory” is that if you leave a car on the street, it can sit there for a long time untouched. The moment someone breaks a window, though, in 24 hours, the car is stripped apart. Crack down on small crime, and it trickles up.

We’re doing the opposite right now, and it has to be intentional.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Why do they want this? A theory on the right is that when there’s high crime, people demand tougher measures from the government. High crime becomes a way that you get the people to demand a police state. Which is what the blob wants. Total control. Total tyranny.

There’s a term called anarcho-tyranny, which is a combination of anarchy and tyranny: You let criminals commit crime and act overly oppressively against law-abiding citizens.

This looks exactly like what we’re seeing in NYC. Jose Alba who was sent to Riker’s Island for defending himself against an armed robber. Daniel Penny is currently on trial for manslaughter after defending himself and innocent subway riders form a violent attacker. The DA is the same Alvin Bragg who has gone after Donald Trump in NY.

Even if you feel bad for the criminals, letting the crime go unpunished seems like a poor strategy, for at least two reasons.

One, the victims of the crime are not the reason for the criminal’s troubles, so why should they pay the price?

Two, teaching people that stealing or committing crime is a way to solve their problems is not setting them up for long term success. Crime is never a good career path.

Even if it never lands you in jail, living out of integrity like this will cause emotional and energetic harm.

Let’s teach people how to be prosperous and creative without committing crime.

Integrity is always the answer.

Wars

I’m talking about wars extensively in other places. I just want to reiterate that there’s no evidence that America’s long list of overseas wars does anything to make Americans safer or better off. Quite the contrary.

I agree with JFK that the government’s job should be to keep us out of wars, and to let other nations live how they want to live.

I don’t think it’s the job of America to be the world’s police.

I also think it’s obvious if you look honestly that today’s US is the world’s thug, not the world’s police.

Borders

I believe we can all agree that we need secure borders.

We need to have rules for and control the flow of people coming into our country.

We can argue what the rules should be, and that’s a completely legitimate conversation, but it shouldn’t be a free-for-all.
I also think most of us can agree that we want the government and the media to be honest and transparent and tell us the truth about what’s happening at the border. Don’t sugarcoat, don’t exaggerate, just tell it like it is, so we know. Like JFK said.

I think we can agree that we don’t want criminals, terrorists, and human traffickers to freely enter the country. They can stay home where they are, thank you very much.

We also want to make sure we prevent drugs and trafficked children from entering the country.

And we can probably agree that we want some combination of merit-based and humanitarian immigration.

In merit-based immigration, we get to set criteria for who we think would best contribute to our economy and our country.

In humanitarian immigration, we help people who are being persecuted or with other special needs.

We won’t ever get 100% secure borders, but every policy can either take us closer to a secure border or further away. The more steps we take to make the border more secure, at a fair cost, the more secure it will be.

Immigration is Good

I think everyone agrees that immigration is a desirable thing, as long as the right rules are applied.

I also think everyone agrees that immigrants or migrants, whether legal or not, aren’t bad people just by the fact they’re migrants, or because of their skin color, religion, or country of origin.

I think we can also agree that we shouldn’t treat immigrants, especially illegal immigrants, better than citizens who’ve lived here and paid their taxes.

We also don’t want the government to use immigration as a way to intentionally change the outcome of elections by placing migrants who they believe will vote for them over the other party in swing states where they can determine the outcome of critical future elections.

And yet, I, along with most people on the right, believe this is exactly what’s happening. And the government is lying, thousands of NGOs and individuals are profiting from this, and the media is covering it up.

That’s wild.

Immigration Cabal

I watched James O’Keefe’s documentary Line in the Sand the other night, and it points to a deep rot in our immigration industrial complex.

Migrants, drugs, and unaccompanied children are streaming across the border, being transported all over the country, and border patrol isn’t effectively stemming the tide. And I don’t think it’s their fault.

If you look at the official CBP statistics, border encounters along the southwest land border were up dramatically immediately after Biden took office. Here’s FY 2021, which starts October 2020:

See how that shoots up right after Biden took office January 22, 2021? Curious!

It remains high trough 2022 (lighter) and 2023 (darker):

Then, as the election approaches, it drops down again. Here’s 2024:

If you didn’t know better, you might think this was intentional. They wanted a lot more people to enter the country, so they reversed Trump’s border policies through executive orders, told the world that the border was open, and floods of people showed up.

Then as the election neared, because they knew it was unpopular, they cut it back from the crazy highs, so they could claim that they “have seen illegal immigration reduced by half,” as Kamala said recently.

Half compared to what? Oh, you mean compared to after you dramatically increased it? Definitely not compared to during the Trump years, because as we can see it’s still at least 60% more than it was then.

This is a classic way to lie. It’s not an outright lie, but it’s also not truthful. And the media will run cover.

Another question that I don’t know is, are these the right numbers to look at? What does “border encounters” mean exactly? How are they counted? How accurate are the numbers? What about all the people who are never encountered? Are we intentionally avoiding “encountering” people to hide how many really enter? Does the “southwest land border” leave out any important stretches of the border where other migrants cross, or is it the entire land border with Mexico? Did anything change in how we count these numbers?

As COVID taught us, we cannot trust our government or our media to present numbers honestly. “With COVID” vs “of COVID,” infection fatality rates vs case fatality rates, counting people as “unvaccinated” after they received their first of a two-shot vaccine, which we know lowers their immunity. On and on, our government is the biggest purveyor of misinformation. They’re working hard to avoid transparency.

I don’t trust them to tell the truth on immigration. A lot of people on the right feel the same.

Using Immigrants to Subvert Democracy

The big claim of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and others around them, is that the Democrats are using illegal and questionable immigration to subvert democracy and turn America into a one party nation, like what happened with California after the 1986 amnesty.

One of the stories that have made the rounds lately was an article from MarketWatch with this data table:

I know these migrants aren’t entitled to vote in the 2024 election, and probably not the next one either.

But we do know that Harris promises an “earned pathway to citizenship.” She hasn’t detailed what that means, but let’s say that over 5-10 years, these migrants become naturalized citizens, and let’s assume they vote Democrat by only a margin of ⅔ to ⅓, then it would be enough to solidify a significant margin of victory.

State	2020 margin	Unauth. migr.	2/3rd Dem	¾ Dem
Georgia	11,800	45,747	15,249	22,873
Arizona	10,500	24,563	8,187	12,281
Wisconsin	20,700	10,768	3,589	5,384
Nevada	33,600	15,931	5,310	7,965
Pennsylvania	80,500	25,721	8,573	12,860
Michigan	154,000	13,162	4,387	6,581

Given how small the margins are in some of these states, you can see how this could effectively swing the elections for decades to come. Especially if the Democrats keep allowing migrants to bring their families and providing them with handouts to buy their loyalty.

I don’t know how accurate these numbers are. Might be a complete fabrication. To be honest, if the number of 8 million border encounters indicates that a total of 8 million migrants entered during the Biden admin, that would be 160k average per state. But in reality, they’re probably not evenly distributed. I’m guessing there are fewer in Alaska and Hawaii, for example. In that light, these numbers look low.

There’s also the question of how many people have entered the country that we have no idea of because they were never encountered in the first place.

My point is not to argue about the specifics. My point is to point out this is a legitimate concern on the right, and I think we can all agree that this is not a fair way to play the game of politics. Importing new voters because you don’t like the ones you have. That’s not how we do things.

And I think we can all agree it’s the job of our government and our media to be 100% transparent and honest about what’s happening.

And the fact that all of these migrants have come here, and that we don’t know the true number, or how many are criminals, or the amount of drugs, is a massive problem in itself.

I’d argue it’s intentional.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Humanitarian Immigration

People on the left believe that people on the right are inhumane, that they call immigrants “animals“ and “rapists” and “criminals”, and that the right is racist.

I think those people on the left are being misled.

We all want a humane immigration process.

But what sounds humane and what is humane isn’t the same thing.

It sounds humane to let people come here. They’re suffering. They have no economic opportunity where they are. Maybe there’s crime or cartels. Let them come here. They just want a good life.

But it’s not so clear. The trip here is grueling. There’s rape and death. Children are trafficked. The Biden admin has lost track of at least 300,000 children.

Is this really what the people want? I doubt it.

How many of the countries they come from are broken because the US has been undermining them and propping up corrupt dictators for decades so they could exploit their natural resources?

We cannot realistically house all eight billion people in the world in this country. Not even half. Or a third.

Wouldn’t it be a lot better to support them in creating healthy, thriving societies in their homelands?

Every country is led by people. Those people are not powerless pawns. They can choose their own future, but only if they realize their neighbor is not their enemy, if they come together with honesty and compassion and integrity and decide the future they want together.
2% of a population involved in nonviolent civil disobedience is enough to topple a regime. The Soviet Union fell.

People have power.

They can do this.

So can we.

Just Doing My Job

One of the things that James O’Keefe shows in his documentary Line in the Sand, is how many individuals and non-profit organizations profit off of the current flow of migrants.

Some powerful people are pulling the strings, yes.

Most people involved are just doing their jobs.

This brings us back to the central theme of this book: Integrity.

We’ve created a culture of prostitutes. People who just go along with the madness, even though they know it’s wrong.

“Everybody does it.”

“What can I do?”

“I’m just doing my job.”

We’ve become a society of cowards and prostitutes.

I’m not saying this to shame or guilt. It’s been done to us intentionally.

I’m saying it to make you face reality.

We can do better.

We must do better.