[mrblaine]

At first glance Frank, you make some sense. Unfortunately, that's only at first glance. The point you are missing greatly is the foot in the door aspect of this that is the mainstay of organizations that would both limit our rights under the constitution as in the ability to own and use weapons and the ecological terrorists.

Go back in time to the instant when some seemingly well intentioned moron stood up and waved a full blown assault weapon at a room full of his constituents and asked innocuously enough-"Who among us would feel badly about restricting the use of this weapon?" At that point in time had the repercussions of that one seemingly innocent question been able to be foreseen, we would have all fought it much harder to kill the snowball before it ever started rolling.

The same is with the ecological terrorists. Had we known the repercussions of the snowball started by the showing of the clubbing of baby seals, we all would have taken up seal batting as a hobby to stop the land grabbing organizations from denying access to land that should be rightfully travelled by folks in any form of transport.

It starts out on the right foot with only the toe peeking through the door, but eventually the whole foot of oppression sneaks through and you lose more freedom, rights and it always costs more for less.

What you are witnessing is a long suffering reaction to our infrastructure overwhelmed with the astounding numbers streaming across the border. I personally know several friends who have had their insurance go up because of claims with the uninsured non legalized drivers.

Would your reaction to this be to just open the border and do nothing to stem the flow?

We are merely reacting to symptom of a situation out of our individual control and not one that we find desireable. How does one solve that?

We see this as a foot in the door that will aid in the additional loads on our infrastructure that we cannot afford now.