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Two-tier Justice on Immigration
The Brits are all in a twist about two-tier justice. Muslim rape gangs barely get a mention. Brits complaining about anything get a visit from the local Bobby.
And here in the US we have two-tier justice over illegal immigration. In Compact Sam Munson writes about “How Immigration Created a Two-Tier Legal System.” He mentions Tou Lue Vang.
Vang arrived in America illegally as a child and later became a legal permanent resident. In 2006, he was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for long-running abuse of a ten-year-old girl. He lost his status and was ordered removed, yet remained in the United States for another twenty years under federal supervision.
And, of course there is Kilmar Abrego García.
Abrego, who entered the country illegally as a teen, first came to the attention of immigration authorities in 2019 after an arrest for loitering and marijuana possession in Maryland. He spent seven months in ICE custody. Before his release, he was denied asylum but granted a withholding of removal order to El Salvador on the grounds that he feared persecution by the country’s violent gangs.
Don’t we all fear those gangs! Why just last weekend in Seattle we had a shootout in which three people died, and police say it might have been gang-related. So let’s fix our gang problem here in the USA and let the Salvadoreans solve their own gang problem. Wait! They already did, by putting all the gang members in jail.
But what is really driving our liberal overlords to waive legal penalties for illegal aliens? Apart, of course, from Allyism, that we liberals are fighting for the oppressed against the oppressors until our dying day.
As usual, one of our liberal friends can be relied on to accidentally tell us the truth. Michelle Wu, mayor of the City of Boston.
“Every person, every single human being, has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter, and those policies have been in place for a long time”.
Notice that this is a moral statement. But Michelle Wu is a politician, a government official. The first job of a government is to defend the borders. The second job is to defend the streets. Everything else is just gifting the supporters. Morality and rights have nothing to do with the case.
I suppose that most Democratic politicians and activists are a little ashamed of the real grubby nature of their jobs. They would rather be bejeweled nobles, or devoted activists, benevolently ruling a grateful peasantry, and extending the hand to “everyone, everywhere, all at once.”
Of course, back in the day, Democrats were all-in to control immigration: President Obama in 2014. President Clinton in 1995. Bless their hearts.
So what changed? I’d like to be allowed to take a look under the blanket, and get to see all the nod, nod, wink, wink. But I suspect that the reason is partly that the easy path for a Democratic politician is to defer to devoted activists who always need a moral cause to demonstrate their goodness, and partly to understand that recent immigrants, since at least the mid-19th century, have voted Democrat, so what’s not to like.
But I think that our Democratic friends need to veer to the center on this. Defending the border is a human thing that goes back Before the Dawn. It’s the thing even for monkeys and apes. It’s in the jeans.
| Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:43:56 GMT |
Richard Hanania's Journey
The internet personality Richard Hanania has been on a journey. Wikipedia:
Between 2008 and the early 2010s, Hanania wrote for alt-right and white supremacist publications under the pseudonym Richard Hoste.
Now he is getting published in the Boston Globe. You can see why in his recent Substack post: “Why the Tech Right Failed.” Says he:
One of the most important political developments of recent years is the surge of the Tech Right. The conservative-leaning Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is pouring unprecedented sums into the midterm elections, helping to prop up a dangerous Trumpism at a moment when it is weak. The crypto industry is taking regulatory capture to new heights. And Elon Musk’s X is poisoning the public conversation.
And this:
I once believed that tech billionaires entering the Republican coalition would take it in a more fact-based and less populist direction. This did not happen. There is a bitter irony in the fact that adding smart people to the coalition did not raise the collective intelligence of the movement, and may have even made it dumber.
You can see why Hanania is getting published in The Boston Globe. He is telling its liberal editors and readers exactly what they want to hear.
Hey, Hanania has tried to steer the tech bros in the right direction.
I noticed that many members of the Tech Right, if not embracing the most extreme forms of misinformation, were still confident that there was something suspicious about the 2020 election and the scientific consensus on mRNA vaccines. Talking them out of such views was difficult.
But it didn’t work.
It is interesting that Hanania is still saying there is nothing to see here about the 2020 election and COVID vaccines. But maybe he wrote the article before the Fauci Diaries came out. I don’t think his narrative would sell any more outside The Boston Globe and The New York Times and CNN/MS-NOW axis.
Can he really believe the following:
[N]one of us are all that smart on our own. The only way one can expect to have reasonable opinions on political and social issues is to be embedded in a knowledge-producing ecosystem. That doesn’t mean only journalists and academics can be informed. But it does mean that those who reject educational and media institutions are destined to live in ignorance.
I mean: surely it is common knowledge that the Education Industrial Complex is utterly corrupted. And so is the Media Industrial Complex. And why? It’s really not about the characters of the educators and the journalists. They are corrupted because they are adjacent to political power and money. And power expects to hear what it wants to hear.
That’s why President Eisenhower coined the term “Military Industrial Complex.” Because he understood that the corporations getting contracts to supply the US military were necessarily corrupted by that adjacency. And, he went on to say that the same thing applied to scientific research.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Can you spell “climate change.”
And the opposite was true, he said, “that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
Yet Hanania thinks it is crazy. For him it makes a lot more sense to believe in “prestigious newspapers” and “scientific institutions” than “hysterical nobodies on social media.”
I have a different approach. It starts with “trust nobody” and it proceeds with comparing what I am reading with what I believe from other sources. And as for “hysterical nobodies,” I tend to assume it’s all rubbish unless there is an assertion interesting enough to warrant more research with other resources.
I am the most suspicious about things you are not allowed to disagree with. Like World War II. Like Churchill. Like climate change. Like January 6. My antennae are particularly tuned to receive new information on subjects where I am not allowed to disagree.
| Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:39:09 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
There is no religion without an Evil One
When you have dominated the oppressors, what do you get? Oppression or domination?
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: The Great Rebellion of the Commoners
