Immigration, a Modest Proposal

Immigration, a Modest Proposal

Since immigration is a major issue right now, I thought I would present my own personal thoughts on the subject, which of course I think are very logical but that is for you to decide. No plan will meet everyone's total consensus, but we can strive to make a plan that makes sense and is fair and has a chance to work.

* I am very much in favor of immigration for economic, humanitarian, population growth, and common sense. I am not an expert on the best number of immigrants that should enter this country each year, but I am comfortable with a number that is similar to the number of legal and illegal immigrants combined that enter our country each year.

* I believe that we should control our borders, as do most other countries in the world.

* we should be able to decide who enters this country and who does not. Those that should not be allowed to enter are people such as felons, bad people, suspected terrorist and terrorist, drug lords and their minions, those that wish to just live off our welfare system, gang members and similar types of people. We want good immigrants that want to become Americans, speak English, work to support themselves, and become an integral part of American society and good American citizens.

* the benefit to illegal immigrants is now they would come into this country as legal immigrants with all the rights that legal immigrants have. They would not be members of an underground society that is taken advantage of in so many ways and mistreated and abused. They would now be making a wage such as $15 an hour versus maybe four dollars an hour. Send their children to school without having to fear being caught, pay taxes, get a drivers license, go to college, become American citizens, etc. This is so much better than living in fear in an underground society and mistreated by so many.

* build a fence along the entire Mexican border to control and enforce illegal immigration, drug trafficking and human trafficking. Provide offices in Mexico and along the border so people can apply for immigration documents and become legal immigrants. By the way, I am for total legalizing of drugs to remove the criminal element. I am not naïve enough to believe that drug use would go down, but let's take out the criminal portion resulting in I believe huge benefits.

* after legal immigration is functioning properly, and illegal immigration is being held to a very minimal amount then let's embark upon a program of legalizing the current illegal immigrants under a program that is fair for both the United States and illegal immigrants. If the border is realistically controlled it should be our last amnesty program. We do not want an amnesty program like 1986 were amnesty happened but the rest did not happen. The rest must happen first, then amnesty. Then we are all Americans, all legal and no second-class society to be preyed upon. This is good for America, and what I would want if I desired to immigrate to the United States.

This concept will not satisfy everyone, but to find a solution there has to be some compromise. Some will not like controlling borders, a fence along the border or amnesty, but we have to have a solution that is practical, works, benefits existing Americans and immigrants entering the United States of America.

The debate really isn't about if Americans want immigration for most of us do, the real debate is whether we want immigration to be legal or illegal.

Thanks for your time

Larry Larsson

The Cost of Freedom

There are many reasons given for our non action in regards to nuclear proliferation such as we cannot go it alone, we do not have the resources, too expensive, and what right do we do have to say who should have nuclear weapons. Keeping those reasons in mind think about this scenario in which one automobile explodes containing a nuclear weapon in a major US city, I estimate the probable expense in both human lives lost and economic dollars would be greater than the cost of a hundred Iraq’s. Closer to home it would probably mean a 30 to 50% decrease in your investment portfolio and real estate holdings. We can pay now for security, or leave it to our children to pay. It appears to me as a nation we have decided to let our children pay a huge cost that we do not want to shoulder.

Nuclear Weapons

After the president’s State of the Union address in January, I believe it becomes apparent and we must deal with the reality that the Democratic Western and Asian Nations have abandoned the concept of stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. Our children in their lifetime will most likely have to deal with a world where dozens of countries and non government organizations such as Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah possess nuclear weapons and various means of delivery, with all the ramifications that this proliferation of nuclear weapons involves. It must be remembered that historically a successful weapon system has never been developed without being used over and over.

In the 20th century we allowed about 170 million people can be killed either through war perpetrated by dictators or dictators exterminating their own population. The question is now with nuclear weapons possibly spreading to any nation or terrorist organization that desires these weapons; will the 21st century be as bloody as the 20th century? I sincerely hope for our children sake that my concerns are unfounded. Best regards, Larry

Nuclear Proliferation

For many decades our involvement in the Middle East was centered around oil, and I thought the driving force for our incursion into Iraq was also centered on oil. As time passes, I feel more strongly that our involvement in the Middle East is centered on the proliferation of nuclear weapons in Islamic nations. The oil reserves and production in nations such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran provide them with the monetary resources to develop nuclear arsenals which then will most likely be passed on to Islamic terrorists who wish to destroy Western civilization.

Think for a minute what the problems for our security in this country will be in 20 or 30 years when it is very likely that Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and several other Islamic countries will have nuclear weapons at their disposal. These weapons will most likely also find their way into the hands of Islamic terrorists whose goal is to destroy the Western World no matter what happens to them. Nuclear weapons can be delivered by car, truck, ship, boat, airplane, missile and wheelbarrows. We get very upset and rightly so when we lose 3000 wonderful men and women in Iraq, but we must realize that one nuclear explosion in this country can easily kill 500,000 people in one blast plus destroy an economy. This is a catastrophe waiting to happen and we are passing this problem on to our children and grandchildren which deeply disturbed me.

Currently it appears that the policy of the Western World is to complain and talk about nuclear proliferation, but to do nothing in real terms to stop this spread of nuclear weapons to Islamic countries and terrorist. Historically poor small countries and populations have searched for weapons to upset this balance, and to gain an edge. Nuclear weapons are relatively cheap and easy to obtained, and are the perfect weapon for small countries or organizations to defeat large affluent societies. This is their goal, and now they have the perfect weapon to accomplish their goals.

You may not agree with this thesis and I understand that, but please give it some thought before dismissing.

Best regards, Larry Larsson

Appeasement and History

About two years ago I went back and reread the chapter “The Road to War” in the book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich which is about 450 pages. Even being a World War II historian, I was surprised at how much I had forgotten or had been misled by revisionist history over the years. The rhetoric and appeasement towards Iran nears in many ways the rhetoric and appeasement to Germany in the 1930s. We say it is different now because Iran does not have a large military-industrial complex like Germany did, but we forget the atomic bomb is the great equalizer much as the colt revolver was in the old West. We lost about 450,000 soldiers in World War II, but one or two atomic bombs can easily equal or surpass that amount in a few seconds. It is unbelievable to me that nothing is being done to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to tyrannical dictatorships with most people now believing that nuclear war of some kind is inevitable in the next 10 to 30 years. If nothing is done then our populace is to blame for not demanding that tyrannical dictatorships do not have the atomic bomb. History has rarely been kind to the appeasers. Larry

My Slave Is Called a "Wife"

Women's Freedom
If all countries of the world were democracies when I wrote this article, I am sure it would not have been written. Democracies with the rule of law and respect for human rights do not allow this treatment of women. Larry Larsson
My Slave Is Called A "Wife"
By Larry Larsson
Published in The Washington Times
Sunday, November 16, 2001

"Why can't I leave my house?"
"Because you are my wife, which means you are my slave for life!"
Slavery requires the total control of the movements of another person. When men control a person's movements and call her a wife or daughter, they may deceive the rest of the world, but the truth is, these women are slaves and men are their masters.
Throughout history, in civilizations where slavery has existed, one of the main cornerstones was that a slave could not leave the master's house or property without the master's permission. Today, in the Islamic world, the slave population includes one-half of their total population: women. The result is at least 200 million Muslim women cannot leave their homes without their husband's, fathers or nearest male relative's permission. Male members of the Islamic world say that a woman should only leave her home three times in her life: when she is born, when she is married, and when she is buried. Any other time a woman is allowed to leave the house, she must wear a veil, hijab, chador or burqa and be accompanied by a male relative, for women cannot be alone outside the house. In many countries, such as Saudi Arabia, a woman cannot travel out of her town or country without the written permission of her nearest male relative, and she must also be accompanied by a male relative when she is permitted to travel.
These practices allow total male dominance and control; these practices allow slavery. Yet we in America are silent. We accept the slave masters' justification of slavery, because it is hidden under the cover of culture and religion. We buy into this deception because it is politically incorrect for us to say anything negative about a culture or religion. All religions and cultures are equal, aren't they? I say they are not - not if they promote the enslavement of women.
What is enslavement, if not the boring, unfulfilling, degrading world these women must endure? They are generally not allowed to be educated, simply because they are women. If they do become educated, a husband can prohibit his wife from working. If she cannot work, she loses all freedom, for she becomes completely dependent on the man for food and shelter. Women are commonly murdered to preserve the "honor" of the husband or his family. Add to these horrors the practices of polygamy, wife beating, wearing of the burqa, genital mutilation and forced sex. A rape victim, not the rapist, is punished. A divorced woman automatically loses her children and the right to see them. The list goes on. No wonder so many Muslim women commit suicide.
In 1985, the president of Pakistan established a commission to investigate the status of women. The commission's report, quoted from the book, Price of Honor by Jan Goodwin, states "the average woman is born into near slavery, leads a life of drudgery, and dies invariably in oblivion. This grim condition is the stark reality of half our population simply because they happen to be female." Not surprisingly, the government suppressed the findings, and conditions have deteriorated since this report.
The moment an Islamic woman is forced to marry (as early as nine years old) and move into a man's family home, she becomes his slave. For her, life becomes a new series of injustices because she had the audacity to born a woman. It begins with the payment of a dowry. This alone shows that she is simply property - much as a TV set is in this country. In the first few months of marriage, her husband's family might decide that the dowry they received was not enough or to their liking. For the crime of an insufficient dowry, the young wife will likely be burned to death by the husband or a male family member, unless the young wife's family is able to increase the dowry. Since law or tradition permits this despicable act, the perpetrators are very seldom arrested or punished. This barbaric practice, called dowry burning, is a common practice in Pakistan and other areas.
As you read this, perhaps you are thinking that you know Muslim women who are not treated this way, and that is true. Approximately 300 million Muslim women are not treated in this manner. But this still leaves at least 200 million Muslim women who are treated as slaves - more women than live in America.
Why are these crimes against Muslim women so prevalent and savage? There is an old saying that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Over the last 200 years, and especially during the last few decades, the Islamic clerics, Wahhabism, organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hizballah, and other male-dominated groups have used their power, religion, culture and the lack of education for women to control women and therefore control entire societies. The subjugation of women is about power and control. When you control and dominate the Islamic women who raise the children, you in essence control future generations.
In these modern times of the 21st century, how can there be slavery on such a massive scale? In the United States, if one person was considered a slave, the media would go nuts and the world would be in an uproar, so how can there be at least 200 million women slaves spread throughout an entire religion and culture while the rest of the world simply turns its back and walks away? The simple reason is that we allow and condone slavery as long as slavery is said to be "Islamic tradition." How many articles do you see written in newspapers, how many programs on television, about the slavery of Islamic women? How many demonstrations in the streets do you see again slavery? The answer is almost none. Perhaps the reason Islamic women are slaves (and treated worse than most slaves were treated historically) is that we don't care, or we choose to ignore it, or we consider it politically incorrect to challenge a religion or culture, or we are afraid to say anything because it is hidden under the guise of religion or culture. The Islamic world and Islamic clerics are running a very successful scam, and the rest of the world is buying this scam. It's time we do something about this injustice. The question is what can we do? Here are some ideas.
Write letters to your congressperson, senator, and the president. Write articles such as this for newspapers and magazines expressing your objection to slavery. Organize demonstrations against slavery. Call into radio talk shows and express your views about slavery. Send e-mails to all your friends expressing how you feel about this despicable practice. What is important is we need to stop doing nothing, and start taking action now against the enslavement of 200 million women. Larry