It's All The Same Problem, Says Fox
Published by BG on Thursday, July 05, 2007 at 2:41 PM.Watching Philly Fox news this morning, they had a reporter from the network (Doug Luzader, if that makes a difference) reporting on the UK car bombs. Conveniently, this Fox reporter found a way to tie two major demonic Dem policies to terrorism by pointing at the Brits like this:
"Its socialized health care system relies heavily on immigrant doctors..."
Is the terrorism problem an outgrowth of immigration or socialized health care? Really? While Luzader's statement isn't necessarily false on its face, the implicit assertion that the British terrorist problem is because they don't have closed borders and open markets is an explicit lie. How is this any different from saying, "the public school system serves fish on Fridays" when mentioning Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer and Manson all went to public school? One doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other, but you'd be well served to make sure your kids don't eat that haddock, if you know what's good for you.
Are there immigrants? Yes. Are there immigrants who move to the UK specifically to practice medicine? Yes. Are there bad people who are immigrants who have moved to the UK specifically to practice medicine? Looks like it, yeah.
But what could possibly stop six Saudi-based doctors from earning enough of a living to take a vacation to London and Glasgow in order to blow some cars up? Not a one of these guys had a prior record, not a one would have been flagged for anything but nationality in any reasonable or unreasonable background check. Why then, is the problem some combination of socialized medicine and immigration policy?
Bad people are bad people. If an upper-middle class doctor of any nationality without a criminal record wants to blow up a car at Heathrow, he doesn't have to be working in London on a visa to do so. He can pretend he's on holiday, rent a car, buy some gas cans (brilliant plan, by the way), and do what he's going to do instead of snapping pictures of Big Ben.
Let's not kid ourselves into thinking that the intersection of immigration and government-issued health care coverage is a cause of terrorism. That's just stupid.
"Its socialized health care system relies heavily on immigrant doctors..."
Is the terrorism problem an outgrowth of immigration or socialized health care? Really? While Luzader's statement isn't necessarily false on its face, the implicit assertion that the British terrorist problem is because they don't have closed borders and open markets is an explicit lie. How is this any different from saying, "the public school system serves fish on Fridays" when mentioning Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer and Manson all went to public school? One doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other, but you'd be well served to make sure your kids don't eat that haddock, if you know what's good for you.
Are there immigrants? Yes. Are there immigrants who move to the UK specifically to practice medicine? Yes. Are there bad people who are immigrants who have moved to the UK specifically to practice medicine? Looks like it, yeah.
But what could possibly stop six Saudi-based doctors from earning enough of a living to take a vacation to London and Glasgow in order to blow some cars up? Not a one of these guys had a prior record, not a one would have been flagged for anything but nationality in any reasonable or unreasonable background check. Why then, is the problem some combination of socialized medicine and immigration policy?
Bad people are bad people. If an upper-middle class doctor of any nationality without a criminal record wants to blow up a car at Heathrow, he doesn't have to be working in London on a visa to do so. He can pretend he's on holiday, rent a car, buy some gas cans (brilliant plan, by the way), and do what he's going to do instead of snapping pictures of Big Ben.
Let's not kid ourselves into thinking that the intersection of immigration and government-issued health care coverage is a cause of terrorism. That's just stupid.
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