“We have strong culture, and a powerful self-identity. But it is not immortal. It can be damaged. It can be destroyed. This is what is at stake. For its preservation, we must compromise. We must do what it takes, to dam the flood. And what it takes, I think, is compromise. Citizenship? They do not deserve it and ought not receive it. Legal status? It seems the give part, of give and take. Employer sanctions? Jobs are why they come, mostly. So yes, it is necessary. A wall. Yes, please – long and high. Not to fence anyone in. To fence unwanted, unnecessary, unwelcomed people out. Ours are not prison walls – they are bank walls. We must protect what is valuable, because not all greed is ours.

“Why don’t these people, these Congressmen of the Future Confederacy get it? I’m not a big believer in conspiracies. It’s not some vast plot to undermine the concept of national sovereignty. Rather, it’s has to do with a heart that has so much gooey, squishy softness to it that it’s spilled out of the ribcage, refluxed up the esophagus, through the sinuses and into the brain – turning it too into a sort of gingerbread dough. There must be a third half of the brain, somewhere, that they’re using, neither intuitive nor rational – just somehow magical, where nice things happen because you have a kind motive. Maybe that’s the brain the scarecrow got from the Wizard. ‘Cause that’s what it feels like. Oz. But even the Emerald City had a wall.

“Sanity is that state of mind that is most in harmony with reality. Let’s be sane.”

http://forgottenprophets.blogspot.com/2006/05/always-sane.html

It goes on – or rather, it *did* go on – but what else would you expect?

Best,

J