Safegarding Society from Liberals
In the follow up to a major Al-Qaida strike where millions of Americans die, it becomes painfully clear that the internal enemies who have aided and abettet the terrorists via actions such as the unilateral surrender they have engineered in Iraq, are as guilty as the illegal immigrant terrorist cells that committed the American Attrocity, as it came to be known.
Large segments of the population become extremely motivated to clean society of the overwhelming danger posed by liberals.
Now, how would one politically cleanse the American population of Socialists and Liberals? First of all, federal or state laws would need to make it a crime punishable by a $1,000 fine and one year in prison to contrribute to banned organizations, including the Democratic Party. Publications such as the NY Times, Newsweek and the Washington Post would be required to immediately cease daily publication, and leftist networks such as MSNBC and PBS would be taken off the air.
The population would then be given three months to turn in (or surrender in the case of compliant individuals)identified leftists. This would include political, social and leftist-cause leaders, and all prosteletizing homosexuals and other deviants.
It would certainly include nearly all Democratic politicians, and leading media figures.
Special panels of known and reliable conservatives drawn from organizations like local churches, the American Legion, and Operation Rescue would be formed to complete the local lists needed to implement the internment, as was done in WW2 with the Japanese.
Leftists would be able to deposit their leaders in a centrally located internment centers, heavily guarded, similar to those used to hold suspected Japanese in World War 2. The leaders and leftists would be able to visit family on special occassions in the case where the entire clan was not implicated in formenting Socialism in America.
The liberals would be required to be redeposited at the end of the allotted vistitation on pain of arrest.
When relatives submit a request for their leftist relations, federal, state, and local checks would be made to establish that they had not been convicted of a violent crime since the last time they withdrew their liberal relatives.
In the process, camp staff would take at least a quick look at each visitor to try to affirm that he was not obviously an undiscovered liberal.
It would have to be the case that the term "liberal leaning" did not include people who's primary support of liberalism was merely through volunteer efforts at organizations such as the Red Cross. Little effort would be made to spare union organizers, greenpeace style ecologists, persons supporting open borders, and first ammendmnet fetishists, however, from the charge of criminal liberal sedition and internment.
All antique or interesting socialist and liberal media collections, including the works of Marx, Mao and Clinton, would be required to be delivered to a local or regional museum, also to be under strict 24-hour-a-day guard. There they would be on display, if the owner desired, as part of an interesting exhibit of antique American propaganda, as family heirlooms from proud wars past or as part of collections.
Rare book dealers could continue their work, selling unique publications. They would be required to maintain very tight inventories. Any liberal publication sold would be delivered immediately by the dealer to the nearest limited circulation library or the museum, not to the buyer.
The cleansing process would begin after the initial three-month amnesty. Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling, and empty building. All liberals would be seized. Those harboring liberals found in the searches would be prosecuted: $1,000 and one year in prison for each person hidden from required internment.
Clearly, since such sweeps could not take place all across the country at the same time. But fairly quickly there would begin to be socialist-swept, liberal-free areas where there should be no remaining leftists. If pockets popped up, those hiding them would be subject to quick arrest and detainment.
On the streets it would be a question of stop-and-question anyone, even grandma with her walker, with the same penalties for "holding banned liberal beliefs"
The "free speech lobby" would no doubt try to head off in the courts the new laws and the actions to implement them. They might succeed in doing so, although the new approach would undoubtedly prompt new, vigorous debate on the subject. In any case, some jurisdictions would undoubtedly take the opportunity of the chronic slowness of the courts to begin implementing the new approach.
America's long land and sea borders present another kind of problem. It is easy to imagine continued attempts to smuggle leftists in from Mexico, along with banned types such as illegal aliens, and perhaps in more remote parts of the Canadian border area, to funnel socialists into the United States.
That would constitute a problem for American immigration authorities and the U.S. Coast Guard, but not an insurmountable one over time.
There could conceivably also be a rash of resistance when the internments began. Given the general nature of liberals and the fact that they have a known obsessive fear of guns and weapons, that seems a lesser sort of issue.
That is my idea of how it could be done. The desire to do so on the part of the American people is another question altogether, but one clearly raised again by the ongoing terrorist killings effecting our nation.
Wonder if the Toronto Blade would print THIS as a 'thought provoking piece'. I think not
Great job. I think someone should send it to dan.