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Immigration Death and Tyranny

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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. For years, people have been dying, trying to get into the United States to better their lives through labor. Just recently, the mainstream press displayed a photograph of the bodies of a man and his two-year-old daughter on the shore of the Rio Grande in Texas. Father and daughter drowned trying to get into the United States. How can anyone who sees that photograph not be moved by it? They aren’t the only ones. For years, people have died of thirst and dehydration crossing the desert in the American ...

The Long Shadow of World War I and America’s War on Dissent, Part 1

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Part 2 “War is the health of the state.” So said the eerily prescient and uncompromising anti-war radical Randolph Bourne in the very midst of what Europeans called the Great War, a nihilistic conflict that eventually consumed the lives of at least 9 million soldiers, including some 50,000 Americans. He meant, ultimately, that wars — especially foreign wars — inevitably increase the punitive and regulatory power of government. He opposed what Americans commonly term the First World War on those principled grounds. Though he’d soon die a premature death, Bourne had correctly predicted the violations of civil liberties, deceptive propaganda, suppression of immigrants, vigilantism, and press restriction that would result on the home front, even as tens of thousands of American boys were slaughtered in the trenches of France. This, the war on the free press, free speech, and dissent more generally, is the true legacy of the American war in Europe (1917–18). More disturbing, in the wake of 9/11 ...

Empire, Intervention, and the Intentional Sacrifice of U.S. Soldiers

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On April 9, 1942, 12,000 U.S. troops paid the price of U.S. empire and intervention when they surrendered to Japanese forces at Bataan, Philippines. During the resulting “Bataan death march,” 600 of them died, and then another 1,000 died after they were transported to Japanese POW camps. The march of death. Taken during the March of Death from Bataan to Cabana Tuan prison camp. May 1942. (Defense depart., USMC 114538, # 127-GR-111-114538, National Archives). The Constitution called into existence a limited-government republic. No Pentagon, no CIA, and no NSA. Just a relatively small military force. No foreign military empire, no foreign colonies, and no U.S. military bases in foreign countries. That system lasted for more than a century. By the same token, the original foreign policy of the United States was one of non-intervention in the affairs of other nations. No coups, foreign wars ...