"How to solve Illegal Immigration" The Pinky Show, found on YouTube November 17, 2007.

Besides Creating a second nation on top of the first, I wonder what might happen if we considered the opposite: What if we struck down the immigration laws that make these classes of people illegal? What if we could all suddenly be allowed to come and go across state or international borders at will? Why, that would mean becoming a free and open country. Wait, free?

Anybody remember the meaning of freedom? As it was explained to me as a child, freedom means being allowed to do anything I like so long as I do not hinder someone else from doing the same.

I am beginning to feel real "secure" in my homeland, I don't think it feels all that free anymore though. Didn't someone say once that "those who trade liberty for security, deserve neither?" Isn't this exact trade the ones the populations of Germany and the USSR gave in exchange for the now proven failed autocratic social systems when they got started? Will we fall down that same slippery slope with a capitalist federal democracy only to find its system added to the list of inevitable failures?

Doesn't anyone see the probable outcomes of this serious string of dangerous precedents we have been setting lately? Attacking foreign nations preemptively, Bill of Rights guarantees suspended by presidential decree (Patriot Act), and the monitoring of the domestic citizenry. These are actions our nations founder's specifically designed our system to protect against. It is the point behind separation of church and state as well as the separation of powers into  three branches.

I feel like we, as a nation, are sliding down the police state path too quickly and easily. We need to watch what we are doing and think about the reality we are rapidly creating. In diversity lies strength and if we centralize and homogonize ourselves, we will lose that advantage.

One of the things that propelled the US into its powerful status is the mixing of thoughts, cultures, traditions, and ideas born of a bunch of survivalist immigrants that just did what they had to do to survive.

I ask only that we all stop a moment and think about the long term consequences of our actions. Look for innovative solutions that may be against the current train of thought, but just might work. Then do that. It starts by opening our eyes and working out the true facts behind the events around us today.

This issue is one of those that are being over-dramatised to inflate patriotic ferver in an effort to gain public support for actions that would not otherwise be tolerated by the people of the United States. What is being gained? By whom? I ask that we think critically about all things in these unusual times and take great care in our decisions.

Enjoy the brain food.