The Black Republican

Forkum's argument falls a apart when he claims that there is a "right" to immigrate into the USA. There is no such right, immigration is a priviledge. And, we are prudent to limit the exercise of that priviledge.

The argument he wants to make, but apparently doesn't have the sense to express, is that we enjoy a benefit by allowing foreign nationals to come here and work, and he should say, we need to have a program which will allow the number of workers allowed entry to correspond with the actual need at any given time.

This is also the concept which President Bush is attempting to address with his "guest worker" program; where W's proposal falls down is when he combines the temporary import of workers and a "path to citizenship". Forkum's seems to make the same mistake, there is no reason to insist that guest workers must be put on a path to citizenship, this is a mixing of apples and oranges. Even the use of the word "immigrant" when used to describe the foreigners who are invading this country is a misnomer.

When Forkum goes to the argument that our immigration rules are unjust, comparing them to Nazi rules, and Southern slavery, he sounds like an idiot. For only an idiot would be make such a baseless comparison. Our immigration laws only serve to protect our freedom, not to diminish the freedoms of any other group of people. To follow his argument one must assume that he is suggesting that we oppress the rest of the world by not permitting them free access to reside within out land; this is tantamount to arguing that one is oppressing the burglar when we pass and enforce laws against breaking and entering.

The cartoonists Cox and Forkum have done some really great work in the past, too bad that is over, for Forkum is clearly nucking futs now.

Proof of theorem. To degrade the discussion to the point of suggesting Cox & Forkum "have done some really great work in the past, too bad that is over," is equally "futs". I really cannot comprehend the level of vitriol this issue engenders in people.

Personally, I'd pay good tax money if we could find some way to permanantly exchange three blue-state Democrats for any random, hardworking Mexican.

It isn't just this issue. My vitriol would be just as great if we were discussing any number of other issues where the wing nuts invoke invented "rights", or Hitler, or slavery, in order to make an unsupportable contention.

I remember when you used to delight in Fisking them too.

And, as to my believe that the sald days are over at Cox and Forkum, once these folks get the derangement they never seem to get over it, we can expect more of the same liberal idiocy from C&F in the future.

Yup, that's it, Rick. Let the overblown rhetoric make you equally paranoid, forgetting who your friends are. That'll teach 'em.

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