Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Opuscula

Mollycoddle criminals
But make soldiers suffer

I’m a great fan of cartoons. One of the first things I do in the morning (I’m retired) is view a selected view on Gocomics.com. I occasionally add a comic as a “one shot” addition to the regulars.

Today (September 13 2017) I opened La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz.

Interesting cartoon, and interesting comments as well.


Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha

It was the comments that got me thinking.

Americans, especially Americans who are leftists, liberals, seem to think it is wrong to house criminals in less than 5-star hotel accommodations, yet they are silent about soldiers living in worse conditions while protecting the leftists.

This “pity everyone but the soldier” mentality is nothing new.

At one point the U.S. government sent draftees (youngsters can look up military draft on the Internet) from Florida, southern California, and Hawaii to Alaska, Greenland, and other “icebox” areas. Complain? Surely, but complaints fell on deaf ears (located in warmer climes).

AT THE SAME TIME, the same government tried to relocate Cuban refugees to the upper midwestern states where there was lots of space to accommodate them. They were clustering in south Florida and New York City. In south Florida, signs went from Si Habla Espanol to We Speak English … and eventually even those signs disappeared.

The Cubans found liberal lawyers who took the issue to the courts; courts that ruled it would be inhumane to make the poor warm-weather refugees relocate to a cold climate. (New York City is OK, but Minnesota — now home to Muslims who want to institute shira law — is too cold?)

Why is it OK to send warm-weather Americans (and some non-American volunteers as well) to icebox areas, to live in what the courts determined were "inhumane” conditions, sometimes in tents, often eating MREs, but criminals in Arizona need 5-star quarters.

Anyone old enough to remember the Korean “policing action” knows it gets pretty cold in Korea and living in tents was no walk in the park. Most of the Americans who served in Korea did so under duress — few WANTED to go to Korea.

    Yes, I know it’s hot in parts of Arizona — I spent time in Phoenix in the summer — and I know living in a tent can be less than comfortable, especially in the rainy season and the tent leaks (been there, done that — and I didn’t commit a crime, not even a misdemeanor).

    I went from south Florida (average LOW temperature 60oF to San Antonio TX (average HIGH temperature 62oF) in January as a guest of our favorite uncle (Sam) and I got up at 5 a.m.. every morning for calisthenics outside on the hard earth. Before breakfast. (Had I joined the Navy instead of the Air Force I could have enjoyed the balmy weather of Great Lakes Naval Training Stationwhere the January high is 30oF. )

    The Navy eventually took over Orlando AFB and made it a training center for a few years, but closed it because it was “too hot” for the sailors-to-be. I was stationed at Orlando AFB and know it can get warm in Orlando — so why do tourists flock to the area’s theme parks in the heat of summer? — and I also know about hurricanes crossing the state via Orlando.

Prisons used to be places of punishment. Criminals “paid” for their crime by working while incarcerated. On the county level, there were road gangs — short sentence prisoners who used hand tools to maintain the roadways. Because chain gangs — prisoners chained together at the ankles — were determined to be either inhumane or unconstitutional or whatever, the only prisoners working outside the prison fence are “trustees,” short-timers.

If the weather is too hot or too cold or rainy or just about anything less than optimal, no outside work.

At the state level, prisoners worked inside the walls making things the state could sell — the prisoners got a small percentage — to help defray the cost of feeding, housing, clothing, educating, and providing health care to the inmates. (One of the few remaining jobs with “benefits.”)

However, prisoners cannot be required to work. They still get their meals, clothing, etc., but usually are confined to quarters — not “solitary confinement” — while other prisoners do their assigned jobs.

Of course a soldier, sailor, or airman also cannot be forced to work; he (or she) can spend time in jail or be released from the service with a BCD – Bad Conduct Discharge — a label that once stigmatized the bearer, now a badge of honor in leftists circles.

I am not suggesting that prisoners — in gaol for any reason — be mistreated, but I AM suggesting, most strongly, that the leftists/liberals want to mollycoddle prisoners while law abiding citizens serving the country are suffering what is considered to be inhumane treatment of criminals.

Undocumented aliens and illegal aliens. They are criminals.

The people who employ illegal aliens also are criminals and they should be severely punished. They are violating federal employment laws. They probably also are violating local and state laws. If there are no jobs, there is no advantage of illegal entry and risk of deportation.

As far as the children of illegal aliens brought to the states by parents, the U.S. must find a way to absorb the ones who have shown good citizenship and deport the ones — with their parents; we can’t break apart a family — to any place that will accept them. (Afraid to go back to their homeland? Allow them to relocate to a country of their choice assuming that country will accept them.)

The U.S. should put an end to “anchor baby” immigration. Unless the parents are here by invitation, e.g., Vietnamese who came here to escape the Viet Cong; set both the parents and the baby “anchor” adrift; again, let them relocate to any country that will accept them.

Bottom lines:

    Criminals do NOT deserve 5-star accommodations. If U.S. service men and women can survive in tents in extreme temperatures, so can criminals.

    Refugees need to be relocated as the needs of the country require. If U.S. service men and women can be sent to areas environmentally opposite of their place of residence, refugees also should be relocated as the needs of the government demand. (Spreading out ethnic groups helps integration into, and acceptance by, communities.)

    Illegal immigrants are criminals and should be incarcerated until deported to a county of their choice.

    People who employ illegals need to be penalized severely; jail time is appropriate for recidivists. State and federal employment laws should be strictly enforced.

    Anchor babies need to be set adrift, with both parents and children deported to a county of their choice.

I know, based on past experience with the left, that the foregoing will be classified as inhumane, racist, and other such foolishness. I would counter how can it be inhumane when we do the same thing to the men and women who serve the country; how can it be racist when race plays no part in the issue? An illegal is an illegal regardless of race, nationality, religion, or any other attribute.

PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.

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