Reply #19: more questions for you [View All]

We had millions of "illegals" during Prohibition, did we not? People were breaking the law. Would you have called for ever-increasing law enforcement action, in complete disregard of civil liberties, habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights and so forth? If not, why not?

What caused the violence and problems during prohibition? The law and attempts at enforcing it, or the illegal drinkers? Should everyone have been given random tests to prove they had not been drinking? Should employers have been fined or arrested if they hired drinkers? Should they have been asked to police that? If not, why not?

When you have millions "breaking the law" - be it smoking pot or coming here to work - it is time to reconsider the law, not call for ever more police action. How is immigration different than prohibition or the war on drugs? Innocent poor people coming here to work - is that a bigger threat than drug and alcohol crimes?

Calling for snitching, snooping, spying on and being suspicious of each other, federalization of law enforcement, and the illegal rounding up and detention of people and the suspension of civil liberties, calling for people to be seen as guilty until proven innocent that is the very essence of a police state. Do you not agree? Would you deny that those things are exactly what is happening, and what you are encouraging and calling for?