Ve vant to zee your papers…

XicanoPwr masterfully dissects the Owellianeque “Western Hemisphere Travel Iniative” (which seems designed to keep us from travelling in this hemisphere… “war is peace”, “freedom is bureaucrats” and all that) from those fun folks over at the Dept. of Homeland Stupidity Abtielung Heimat-Sicherheit (figure it out… it sounds a little less sinister in German, ja?, aka “SHOW US YOUR PAPERS (especially if you’ve got a tan). 

XP is looking at the broad picture. Some of us border ruffians comment on the specifics of OUR situation… coming soon, to a streetcorner near you. Seriously.

You folks in Iowa and North Carolina and Austin and Dallas seem damn quick to ask me to give up my freedom of assembly and movement — having to show papers to some armed bureaucrat at checkpoints (within my own country, and without even leaving my own country).

You’re dealing with bureaucrats here.  Folks who have to justify their existence and budgets somehow.  What’s happens once they “seal the border”?

The justification is that “terrorists” MIGHT, MAYBE, SOMEHOW, AT SOME POINT OR ANOTHER cross the border (God forbid you think it’s because so many folks are afraid they might lose what Jesus’ General calls “The War Against Brown People”). So, how long before the Abtielung Heimat-Sicherheit starts worrying about “terrorists” in Longview, or Des Moines, or Charlotte?

Be prepared to show your papers, folks.