A Simple Solution: The Danger of liberal Ideas

Here's a Great Idea To Solve the Illegal Alien Problem:

Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling, and empty building. All illegal aliens would be seized and deported. The employers and landlords of the illegal aliens found in the searches would be prosecuted.

Fairly quickly there would begin to be illegal alien-swept, illegal alien-free areas where there should be no illegal aliens. If there were, those harboring them would be subject to quick prosecution. On the streets it would be a question of stop-and-search of anyone, even grandma with her walker, with the same penalties for harboring illegal aliens.

America's long land and sea borders present another kind of problem. It is easy to imagine mega-smuggling rings installing themselves in Mexico, to funnel illegal aliens into the United States. That would constitute a problem for American immigration authorities and the U.S. Coast Guard, but not an insurmountable one over time.

Sound a bit over the top? Well, this is actually a modified version of a proposal written by Dan Simpson for the Toledo Blade. Here is what he wants to really do:

[H]ow would one disarm the American population? First of all, federal or state laws would need to make it a crime punishable by a $1,000 fine and one year in prison per weapon to possess a firearm. The population would then be given three months to turn in their guns, without penalty.

Hunters would be able to deposit their hunting weapons in a centrally located arsenal, heavily guarded, from which they would be able to withdraw them each hunting season upon presentation of a valid hunting license. The weapons would be required to be redeposited at the end of the season on pain of arrest.

The disarmament process would begin after the initial three-month amnesty. Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling, and empty building. All firearms would be seized. The owners of weapons found in the searches would be prosecuted: $1,000 and one year in prison for each firearm.

Clearly, since such sweeps could not take place all across the country at the same time. But fairly quickly there would begin to be gun-swept, gun-free areas where there should be no firearms. If there were, those carrying them would be subject to quick confiscation and prosecution. On the streets it would be a question of stop-and-search of anyone, even grandma with her walker, with the same penalties for "carrying." ...

America's long land and sea borders present another kind of problem. It is easy to imagine mega-gun dealerships installing themselves in Mexico, and perhaps in more remote parts of the Canadian border area, to funnel guns into the United States. That would constitute a problem for American immigration authorities and the U.S. Coast Guard, but not an insurmountable one over time....

Sign me up! Can't wait for this much government control.