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For a long time now I've been for increased legal immigration and ease of legal immigration and just as strongly against illegal immigration. So you can see how I would be pretty big on border patrol being relatively heavy handed. That ended this afternoon.
I'm still just as strongly against illegal immigration but the border patrol being too aggressive is infringing on one of the most fundamental rights of the Mexican folks. Which is to say, catching the bigass flathead catfish that live in the Rio Grande. There's a lot of things I'm willing to allow for a solid border and rule of law but fucking with the pursuit of huge, delicious flathead is not among them. I'm going to have to revisit my views on river policy.
For them of you what ain't aware, most catfish over five pounds start getting unfortunate amounts of yellow, fatty meat that is other than the light, flaky, delicious meat that you expect to enjoy when experienced on a dinner plate. Now you can cut it out but that always seems wasteful, which is part of why a lot of catfish folks throw back anything over a certain size. Flatheads taste better than blues and channels (what you eat if you order catfish at a restaurant) to start with because they eat live bait almost exclusively and hardly have the yellow fat issue at all; if you catch an eighty pound flathead, you can expect to enjoy every bit of meat on it. They're also the most challenging to catch of the catfish in the US.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 19 2019, @08:17PM (3 children)
One quarter of an acre or a hundred million makes no difference.
Sorry, it does. You take your property by force. Only by force can you claim exclusivity to natural resources. You will lose them the same way. You are only entitled to whatever you produce or extract from that property.
By the way, you're projecting on the emotional silliness. Just thought I'd let you know since you seem to be unaware. :-)
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 20 2019, @01:48AM (2 children)
No, civilized people (and even most uncivilized ones) acquire property via voluntary contract and retain it via social agreement to respect the property rights of others in exchange for your own being respected. Since pretty much the entire world works this way, saying silly bullshit like "you can't own land" with a straight face is only going to have people looking at you like you ride the short bus.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 20 2019, @02:10AM (1 child)
So you don't really own anything then, unless your neighbors agree? A bit communist, but ok, I can accept that.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 20 2019, @02:42AM
You thought ownership had an independent existence outside social contract? Huh...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.