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Written by Hash
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Monday, 21 April 2008 11:30 |
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Just read a great article over at Classically Liberal, which neatly exposes the hypocrisy of those who claim to be "Libertarian" and yet favor immigration controls on the basis that as long as a welfare system exists, immigrants get something for nothing and so must be controlled and limited.
The article begins by pointing out the obvious, that further assaults on liberty are no solution for the problems caused precisely by previous statist assaults on liberty. It then takes off on a train of thought that blows away all the smoke and mirrors around the issue of immigrants and welfare, in much the same way as Bastiat puffed away the gaseous sophisms used to justify trade protectionism.
Of-course, anti-immigration is just racism in disguise. It's just fine to let those dirty 3rd-worlders die and rot in their 3rd world hellholes, where you can't see it happening, but it's so important to "be compassionate" to all the "less fortunate" within your own borders that you'll vote to make that happen at the point of a gun. The people outside your country are not human beings, after all, and deserve no compassion whatsoever. Forget the basic human right to travel or live anywhere on this shared rock we're all spinning through the void on, they should be locked up for their entire lives within the borders of whichever stinking tyranny they were stupid enough to be born in!
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