Comments on: Thoughts from a border patrol agent http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/05/20/thoughts-from-a-border-patrol-agent/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: staghounds http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/05/20/thoughts-from-a-border-patrol-agent/#comment-301558 staghounds Tue, 22 May 2007 01:20:15 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/05/20/thoughts-from-a-border-patrol-agent/#comment-301558 Once upon a time, President Carter said that "Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself." Everybody laughed at the fatuous stupidity expressed there. People who invade the United States do so at the risk of their very lives. Why not? If I were stuck in Chiapas or Shanghai or Dacca, I'd do WHATEVER IT TOOK to get hhere. If the worst that can possibly happen to an invader after arrival is to be sent back, that's no deterrent at all. The only way to enforce any law is to deter its violators. That means the penalty has to be fairly certain and worse than the thing that drives the violation. Unless we start shooting them, all this enforcement talk is just wasted breath and bogus posturing. Once upon a time, President Carter said that “Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.”

Everybody laughed at the fatuous stupidity expressed there.

People who invade the United States do so at the risk of their very lives. Why not? If I were stuck in Chiapas or Shanghai or Dacca, I’d do WHATEVER IT TOOK to get hhere.

If the worst that can possibly happen to an invader after arrival is to be sent back, that’s no deterrent at all.

The only way to enforce any law is to deter its violators. That means the penalty has to be fairly certain and worse than the thing that drives the violation.

Unless we start shooting them, all this enforcement talk is just wasted breath and bogus posturing.

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