What they do makes a weird sort of coherency, if you keep in mind that they want freedom ~for~ aggression; but no bourgeois freedom ~from~ aggression. If they defended the Nazis in Skokie, it would be because the ACLU believed that this would lead to more freedom ~for~ aggression. They identify who they believe is the aggressor, and support him if his getting off will lead to more aggression. Their idea would be: smash the bourgeoisie, whose reality prevents the depraved scholars' otherwise-powerful wishing-faculty from being actualized, through official discretion. Suppression of the government schools as such, would bring this irrationality to a deep quieting.

All you guys better hope that other nations adopt free immigration policies as well. That way you will be able to flee when the Immigrant Horde makes life here as unbearable as you expect it to.

It's always fun to invoke the principle of universality.

Randall, I agree with you 100%. But why doesn't this conviction of yours count with Australia?

Drew,

You guys seem to be missing my point about Australia. If a Mexican illegal breaks the law in the United States then that person should be jailed here and made to serve out their full sentence before being deported. That, in fact, is how it works (except that they are not always deported). A foreigner should not be able to skate away from being punished for violating a law in the US just because they are a foreigner.

Also, in the case of Australia: Here is a woman who has built up a huge track record as a criminal. The Australians know she is a criminal. Imagine, in the extreme, she was a serial killer. Would it be fair to another country to deport a serial killer to that country? If the person had been in that other country in the first place all that time then they would have established their serial killing record there and therefore be punishable there. But since they were in a different country they established the record that demonstrated with they were like by doing things in that different country.

But I am also making an aside point about Australia that their legal system is pretty screwed up if this woman was still free to walk the streets after getting sentenced so many times. What if the women had been Australian at birth? Deportation would not have been an option to use to protect the citizens of Australia (unless a certain small island penal colony could be reactivated). Australia ought to have better protections for its citizens.

T.J., See my later post about the Dutch fleeing the Netherlands. But if there is not some filter on the receiving end then what is being fled will just follow to the new destination.