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Take home points:

  1. If you're going into the US, make damn sure you have someone back home who can raise Hell with your foreign ministry if you don't call them within 6 hours of your scheduled arrival.

  2. The comments thread at least shows that common decency is not lost among the American citizens, even if it is gone from their government.

- Jake

Ceterum censeo Chicago esse delendam
by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Dec 24th, 2007 at 01:02:24 AM EST
American citizens may be ashamed, but a lot of them are recommending Ron Paul as the solution, a man whose attitudes to wards visitors andimmigration are plainly written on his website

Border Security and Immigration Reform
The talk must stop. We must secure our borders now. A nation without secure borders is no nation at all. It makes no sense to fight terrorists abroad when our own front door is left unlocked.

Physically secure our borders and coastlines. We must do whatever it takes to control entry into our country before we undertake complicated immigration reform proposals.

Enforce visa rules.  Immigration officials must track visa holders and deport anyone who overstays their visa or otherwise violates U.S. law.  This is especially important when we recall that a number of 9/11 terrorists had expired visas.

No amnesty.  Estimates suggest that 10 to 20 million people are in our country illegally. That's a lot of people to reward for breaking our laws.

Quite how this would have made that woman's plight any better I don't know. To be honest, any incoming president has an awful lot to do to fix all of the things that are wrong with America (and have been increasingly wrong for decades). I have my doubts if any of them give a shit what the rest of us think of the USA, so solving this problem will be the lowest (non-existent) priority.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 07:41:52 AM EST
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Ron Paul's overarching theme is nobody is above the law, which would be a refreshing change, as much as we may dislike his attitudes to, say, immigration, economics, or abortion. And, on the latter, as an obstetrician he's entitled to a non-PC opinion on the matter.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 07:50:35 AM EST
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Nobody is above the law

But he's a libertarian. Who gets to enforce the law when the police aren't paid cos the IRS has been scrapped ? Or indeed any of his other dipstick childish emotionalism that pass for policy.

Libertarians are authoritarians who can't count.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 09:12:19 AM EST
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