Things I Don't Understand

I'm sorry, maybe it's just me, but I have a strong bias in favor of the rule of law.  An agreed-upon set of universal principles is the only proven way to maintain order and stability in any form of society.  Heck, even the larger universe (or multiverse, if you are a proponent of things such as membrane theory) has its own set of ordered rules and operations that dictate everything from the application of forces (electromagnetism, gravity) to the specific ways in which time and space become distorted in the presence of black holes.

So, why do our bureaucratic -- and largely Democratic -- overlords have such a fondness for chaos and disorder?

I don't know about you, but when I was hired at my current place of employment I had to pass an extensive background check, which included a look into my (nonexistent) criminal record and credit history.  Heck, when I apply to jobs to this day on places such as monster.com, there's usually a little questionnaire looking into matters of my background as a United States citizen, military history, and more.

So why does the federal Department of Justice not care if its employees actually, you know, belong in the country or not?

Employers who hire illegal immigrants can be fined, but the Obama administration warned this week that they also can be fined for asking legal immigrants to show their green cards before hiring them.

The Justice Department’s civil rights division sued the Maricopa County Community Colleges in Arizona, seeking damages from schools for having “intentionally committed document abuse discrimination.”

Prior to this year, the local colleges in the Phoenix area asked job applicants who were not U.S. citizens to show a driver’s license, a Social Security card and their permanent resident card, commonly called a green card.

The Justice Department said a valid driver’s license and a Social Security card are usually sufficient to show that a person is authorized to work. Requesting a green card amounts to “immigration-related employment discrimination,” said Thomas E. Perez, the assistant attorney general for civil rights.

Of course, in a world where the President of the United States is no longer required to prove conclusively that he meets the Constitutional requirements for office, why should the law apply to anyone else?

Just don't dare have the temerity to sell guns, though, because then even if you do all of your proper diligence it might not be enough.

One of the gun dealers of Austin’s Gun Show is sentenced to 6-months at a federal work camp for selling a weapon to an undocumented immigrant.  Independent firearms dealer-Paul Copeland says for years he has commonly sold handguns and antique weapons with no problems and prior to his arrest the illegal immigrant showed him what appeared to be a valid Texas driver’s license.

In January 2009, the ATF along with the Austin police department set up a sting operation targeting independent firearms dealers that were selling weapons to illegal immigrants, both inside the show and outside the Austin’s Gun Show’s parking lot.

Again, maybe this is just me being "me," but I find the phrase "federal work camp" beyond frightening.  Oh, and the rules also don't apply towards counting our military personnel's votes, either.

In Washington, politicians always like to release bad news on a Friday, as fewer people notice. Today, the Pentagon announced that it had granted the waiver requests of five states seeking to escape requirements to protect military voters.

I have written previously here at PJM that all waiver requests should be denied.  Unfortunately, if you are an overseas servicemember from Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington, the protections in the MOVE Act aren’t going to apply to you this year.  And if you are from one of the states who still aren’t in compliance with MOVE — like Colorado, Wisconsin, or Alaska — don’t be surprised if you get scant help from Attorney General Eric Holder.

Waivers can be granted from MOVE only if states find a way to make sure the votes of servicemembers are still counted.

Washington, despite having plenty of time after an August 17 primary to get the job done, received a waiver today. Washington was unwilling to change their schedule of ballot preparation to allow for 45 days mailing time. Though modern printing technology makes the Washington waiver unnecessary, it was granted.

I guess, in essence, it's not that Democrats and the federal government are not in favor of prosecuting the law to its exact and full extent, it's just that they only like to do so when it benefits them or hurts their political opponents.  And that, is perhaps the scariest reason to throw them all out of office in November as there is, lest one day I wind up taxed to write this blog or thrown into a reeducation camp for thinking the wrong things.

Links:

• Catch-22: Obama DoJ Now Telling Employers They Can’t Check Employees’ Immigration Status (Patterico's Pontifications)
• Gun Dealer Gets 6 Months For Selling To Illegal W/ Valid ID (Stop the ACLU)
• Obama's Pentagon: Why Of Course You Can Have Special Waivers Disobligating You From Protecting The Right of Our Troops To Vote In Elections (Ace of Spades HQ)
• Outrage: Pentagon Grants Five States Waivers from MOVE Act (Pajamas Media)
• Philadelphia Tax Code Sparks Big Controversy with Small Bloggers (Mashable)

Comments

[teejaycee]

You make the federal work camp sound like a concentration camp - its just prisoners who get paid an hourly wage to do work while they are serving their sentence. Quite the sensational blogger as of late :)