Immigration, Freedom, and the Price System by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2024 Rightwing proponents of America’s socialist system of immigration controls claim that foreign citizens should not be able to enter the United States without “permission.” They are referring to the need to secure “permission” from two entities — the federal government and the private sector. In making their “permission” argument to justify America’s socialist system of immigration controls, conservatives display their lack of understanding of the principles of freedom and free markets. When anyone needs to secure permission from the government to exercise fundamental, God-given rights, we automatically know that that is not a free society. Freedom and governmental permission are opposites. When you have to ask the government for permission to engage in a purely peaceful act, you are not free. You are a serf who is asking, “Master, may I?” As Thomas Jefferson pointed out in the Declaration of Independence, everyone in the world (that is, not only American citizens) has been endowed with natural, God-given rights. ...
Does Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Justify Border Controls? by Jacob G. Hornberger September 17, 2024 Donald Trump’s alleged would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, is an American citizen. Presumably he was born in the United States. He obviously traveled across state lines to get to Florida. That raises an important question: Should the U.S. Constitution be amended to enable each state to establish border controls around the state to protect the citizenry from violent people from other states? In other words, given the large number of American citizens who commit acts of violence, why not abolish America’s centuries-old policy of open borders between the states? Wouldn’t that help keep people safe within each state, just as border controls along our Southern border supposedly keep us safe from violent foreign criminals? After all, it is entirely possible that a Florida Border Patrol could have prevented Routh from entering the state to possibly inflict harm on Trump or anyone else. It’s also possible that state Border Patrols in every state could help keep violent Americans from other ...
Hornberger’s Blog, April 2008 by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2008 Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The Heroes at Guantanamo by Jacob G. Hornberger Just as Eastern European and Russian dissidents who opposed the Soviet Empire’s tyrannical system are today celebrated as heroes, so it will be with those Americans who have opposed the Pentagon’s system at Guantanamo Bay. Among the heroes will be Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who formerly served as the Defense Department’s chief prosecutor for terrorism cases. This week Davis took the witness stand under oath in a hearing at Guantanamo Bay involving Salim Ahmed Hamdan, an alleged driver for Osama bin Laden. Davis’s sworn testimony exposed how the Pentagon’s “judicial” system at Gitmo is nothing but an elaborate sham that has nothing to do with justice. According to the Washington Post, Davis’s testimony “offered a harsh insider's critique of how senior political officials have allegedly influenced the system created to try suspected terrorists outside existing military and civilian courts…. Davis told Navy Capt. Keith J. Allred, who presided over the ...
Hornberger’s Blog, April 2008 by Jacob G. Hornberger March 17, 2010 Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The Heroes at Guantanamo by Jacob G. Hornberger Just as Eastern European and Russian dissidents who opposed the Soviet Empire’s tyrannical system are today celebrated as heroes, so it will be with those Americans who have opposed the Pentagon’s system at Guantanamo Bay. Among the heroes will be Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who formerly served as the ...
Hornberger’s Blog, April 2008 by Jacob G. Hornberger March 17, 2010 Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The Heroes at Guantanamo by Jacob G. Hornberger Just as Eastern European and Russian dissidents who opposed the Soviet Empire’s tyrannical system are today celebrated as heroes, so it will be with those Americans who have opposed the Pentagon’s system at Guantanamo Bay. Among the heroes will be Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who formerly served as the ...
Hornberger’s Blog, April 2008 by Future of Freedom Foundation March 17, 2010 Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The Heroes at Guantanamo by Jacob G. Hornberger Just as Eastern European and Russian dissidents who opposed the Soviet Empire’s tyrannical system are today celebrated as heroes, so it will be with those Americans who have opposed the Pentagon’s system at Guantanamo Bay. Among the heroes will be Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who formerly served as the ...
Immigration Chaos by Jacob G. Hornberger April 17, 2013 All my life I have watched immigration controllers go through their periodic paroxysms of anxiety over the latest immigration “crisis” and then fight over what reforms to adopt to address the crisis. Of course, no reform has ever worked to resolve the latest immigration crisis. After reforms have been enacted, I have become accustomed to simply waiting for the ...
Bionic Mosquito’s Immigration Strawman by Jacob G. Hornberger March 10, 2017 The Bionic Mosquito has an article today that takes libertarian Sheldon Richman to task for what Bionic says is a strawman, one that, he says, Richman has constructed with respect to the concept of culture. In the process, Bionic defends the concept of private property by implying that the libertarian position favoring open borders violates the principle of private ...
Donald Trump, Immigration Central Planner by Jacob G. Hornberger May 21, 2019 Republicans are celebrating President Trump for his immigration proposal, which includes, among other things, admitting into the United State more highly skilled and educated foreigners. Wow! Why hasn’t anyone thought of that before now? Just think: America’s decades-long, ongoing immigration crisis is going to finally disappear because Donald Trump, central planner, has finally come up with his immigration plan. At ...
Immigration Death and Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger December 4, 2019 Whenever there is a government program or system that is producing deaths of innocent people as well as tyranny, that is a persuasive sign that that is a bad government program, one that needs to be eliminated. Yet, that is precisely what we have with America’s decades-long system of immigration controls — death and tyranny.
Another Immigration Crisis “Solution” by Jacob G. Hornberger April 14, 2021 REMINDER: Our Zoom conference "The National Security State and the JFK Assassination" continues tonight at 7 pm Eastern. To attend the conference, just register at our conference page. A zoom link will be sent to you. We continue tonight with the presentations regarding the autopsy that the U.S. national-security establishment conducted on the body of President Kennedy. Tonight our ...
More on America’s Culture of Immigration Death by Jacob G. Hornberger June 29, 2022 Yesterday, I wrote about the deaths of 46 immigrants, who died of dehydration in the back of a tractor-trailer in Texas. The immigrants had illegally entered the United States. They were being illegally transported when they died in the back of that tractor-trailer. As I wrote yesterday, those deaths are a direct consequence of the federal ...
