By Tom Anthony | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice
I see students did a “walk out” protest at 180 public schools in commencement of the new school year. I myself had perfect attendance in high school up until Senior Ditch Day, but I was paying tuition. The fact it happened at 180 public schools on the same day suggests a slightly better organizational format than when I studied geometry, which indicates either a supremely dedicated student leadership or adult involvement.
The walkout was “protesting ICE,” or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the arm of government charged with enforcing immigration law inside the country, from those who slipped past Customs and Border Protection to those who overstayed a visa.
During my high school years a number of protests of the Vietnam War took place, but to be fair some of us understood that many Vietnamese saw Ho Chi Minh as their George Washington for kicking the French out of French Indo-China. Not only that, in the ’60’s we had a selfish interest in staying alive (as in, for my case, girls were actually girls.)
The walkouts feed the notion that the up and coming generation means to take down the southern border, since not only can we agree we don’t want too many terrorists coming in from Bahrain (or Canadians from Toronto,) but demographics tell us that over half of kids attending Denver Public Schools (and many other school districts in Colorado) are Latino.
Since Denver has 192 schools the entire walkout could have happened there, but no doubt it was spread around a bit, and if you were at a school where one in five of you is white, you probably went along with the majority. We won’t call it bullying, since grokipedia calls it “80% minorities.”
Democrats quit enforcing the border when Joe Biden took the reins of the national donkey and so the official policy of caring who comes into the country and what they’re bringing with them only re-commenced with those redneck Trumpers.
My first lesson in boundaries came at the age of four when my cousin’s hand reached into my plate and took my hot dog. I began crying and pointing and her mother came and gave me another one, didn’t even scold her. Next to go were my potato chips. I kept watching for that hand, not knowing what would happen if I started a tussle at the dinner table.
Do public school graduates desire the blue collar jobs that are left after all the white collar workforce goes begging for some way to pay off their student loan due to job off-shoring and AI?
Our schools seem less about preparing willing (and able!) hands to take up the load so much as indoctrinating children to vote Democrat, which I deduce 80% of public school teachers and 92% of college professors do, a factoid we learn by reason of who is donating to which Party.
Of course, I’m generalizing a bit since we do have the “secret ballot” (although that is a sort of tripwire for each and every election) and your profession only makes the register when you send money to a politician and mark your job description truthfully which, of course, not everyone does. But I’m also double-checking against my anecdotal experience.
Obviously the protesters desire the “jobs nobody wants” and “excess” public services monies to get absorbed by yet more tens of millions than the “official” 14 million migrants illegally inhabiting our nation already.
It’s hard to overstate the lack of self-interest involved in demanding an end to borders. I’m a Christian, but I still have trouble with Matthew 5:40; “If he sues for your coat, give him your cloak as well.” How about your kids’ food?
Practically, you can’t have a nation without borders because without them the rule of law is unenforceable; no border, no law. For instance, neither Canada nor Mexico have a “Bill of Rights” and so beyond certain precincts you are subject to random searches and seizures, detention without charges, confiscation of what, in the US, would be legal possessions, and a raft of difficulties that only money, if that, will solve.
Without law we have anarchy, and anarchy happens to be a form of government naturally embraced by cartels, which take the extended family to a new and broader regime (the Cosa Nostra, say) in which courts mostly don’t count (as punishment takes place within the organization; see The Godfather, No Country for Old Men, The Mule, etc.) My daughter’s friend and long time school mate took to the liberal activist role in high school and began protesting immigration enforcement, and later wound up at a mixed-race party in which the cocaine had been laced with fentanyl, the proper administration of which eases date rape. However, a number of the participants including her never woke up, joining hundreds of thousands of others (73,000 fentanyl deaths in 2023 alone.) Trump promised enforcement and lo and behold, fentanyl deaths started declining in 2024 (a little before he was actually elected but, with the huge number of deaths in 2023 even the Democrats began thinking “this looks bad” and somehow got the cartels to stop muling pure fentanyl, apparently.)
See also: the New Yorker on teen fentanyl deaths, the Denver Post on the Commerce City overdoses, and USAFacts on the fentanyl trend.
My daughter’s friend never woke up. Hopefully, Colorado students (and teachers) will.
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