The libertarians hate the security state but don't get that their open borders policy invites the people who murder us. #JeSuisCharlie - Charles C. Johnson
The above quote was taken from the Twitter feed of the editor of GotNews.com, Charles C. Johnson. As you can see, Johnson has here decided to use the murderous assault on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo as a platform for attacking libertarianism and promoting "the security state". He makes it specifically about the borders. There is so much wrong in this little tweet that I just couldn't resist writing about it.
Johnson is too smart of a man to be saying such stupid things in a public forum. I actually own a copy of his book, Why Coolidge Matters. I thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it to anyone interested in the former president or the era. Johnson does shade his work with opinion, and I don't always agree with his opinion, but I wouldn't consider that a criticism. In the book, unlike this tweet, he comes off as very thoughtful when it comes to the subject about which he is writing. I'm seriously baffled how such a man could stuff so many ignorant and bad ideas into one sentence.
Who are "the people" who murder "us"? Clearly, he is referring to Islamic militants who would like to murder all Americans. Apparently, the only thing keeping them from doing exactly that is our current immigration policy. If only France were more picky about who they let in. Johnson's tweet which immediately preceded the one I quoted above read, "The only way to stop Muslim terrorism is to stop the mass settlement of Muslims. Wake up. #JeSuisCharlie". Yes, and the only way to stop black on black crime is to get rid of the blacks. The only way to stop white child molestation is to banish white people. And the only way to stop idiotic statements from red-headed journalists is to eliminate red headed journalists. Wake up.
I wonder if Charles knows that there are anywhere between 2 million and 7 million (depending on the source you use) Muslims currently living in the U.S. I wonder if he knows that this is not the first generation of Muslims to call America home. I wonder if he wonders why they haven't long ago started strapping bombs to their children and sending them to school to blow "us" up.
It was very disconcerting to find so many people in my Twitter feed, such as Johnson, laying these crimes at the collective feet of all Muslims. These, of course, were all people of a conservative bent. They don't always rush to blame billions of people for the actions of a few. When young white men shoot up an elementary school or a movie theater, there are no calls to reduce the white population. They even resist the left wing's arguments that taking guns out of the hands of these people will reduce gun violence. But put that same gun in a Muslim's hands, and they are ready for sweeping regulations from Big Brother. They want to know why Obama hasn't done more. They thirst for big government. They love it.
Johnson is right about one thing. Libertarians do indeed hate the security state. We hate the incessant unwarranted spying of the NSA. We hate the constant abuses and molestations carried out by the TSA. We hate the militarization of local police. We hate the CIA's policy of torture. We hate that the President of the United States has claimed that it is legal for him to use lethal force against American citizens who he considers a threat to the state (I wonder if Johnson is okay with that since Obama has only used this policy to murder American Muslims).
As fear grows, so does the government. Individual liberty was once the highest ideal of western civilization. Now the doltish electorate of Democracy's greatest empire unceasingly clamors for more tyranny to protect them from the savagery of a war that Washington itself has courted. As Randolph Bourne said, war is the health of the state. The bigger the threat, the bigger the cry for bigger government. The more frightened you are, the more money they will take.
I wanted to reply to Johnson's tweet with all of this and more. But you can only use 140 characters. So instead, I responded with this:
@ChuckCJohnson your enemies are inside the tower, Quasimodo
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