Report on UN conference on Internet and racism

[Jon Galt]

On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Mikhael Frieden wrote:

> At 08:12 PM 11/18/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
> >At 10:34 PM -0700 11/18/97, Mikhael Frieden wrote:
> >>At 06:53 PM 11/18/97 -0600, William H. Geiger III wrote:
> 
(Geiger)
> >>>I think that there is plenty of case law of extending constutional
> >>>protections to non-citizens. One that comes to mind were the rulings
> >>>against California inwhich the courts ruled the they were obligated to
> >>>provide schooling and social services to illegal aliens (a really fucked
> >>>rulling IMNSHO but if some good can come out of it no sense not making use
> >>>of it).
> 
(Frieden)
> >>        In a much more fundamental sense, if they were not given
> >>constitutional protections they really could be rounded up and bussed
> >>across the border.
> 
(May)
> >And what would be wrong with this?
> 
(Frieden)
>         Not a damned thing. While in this country they are in the act of
> committing a crime.

And who is it that gets to decide what is a "crime" and what is not?  The 
politicos, the bureaucrats, the hoodlums in DC and elsewhere who think 
they have the right to run the lives of everybody else.

Again I ask the question:
What gives the hoodlums in Washington DC the right to draw a line on a 
map and control people's travel across that line?

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