{"id":11597,"date":"2010-05-17T19:41:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T19:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/17\/the-upside-of-the-arizona-bashing\/"},"modified":"2010-05-17T19:41:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T19:41:48","slug":"the-upside-of-the-arizona-bashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/17\/the-upside-of-the-arizona-bashing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Upside of the Arizona Bashing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Ed-abbey\"<\/p>\n

The <\/span><\/span>ACLU<\/span><\/span><\/a> and — are you ready for this? — China have joined the bash Arizona band wagon.  The upside is that many liberals and illegals will leave or not come here in the first place. And that makes Cactus Ed very happy.  He recommends <\/span><\/span>Arizona: How Big is Big Enough?<\/span><\/span><\/a>  and <\/span><\/span>Immigration and Liberal Taboos.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

From the first piece:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

. . . the religion of endless growth — like any religion based on blind faith rather than reason– is a kind of mania, a form of lunacy, indeed a disease. And the one disease to which the growth mania bears an exact analogical resemblance is cancer. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Cancer has no purpose but growth; but it does have another result — the death of the host.<\/span> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Cactus Ed here provides us with the makings of an 'environmental' argument against illegal immigration.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ACLU and — are you ready for this? — China have joined the bash Arizona band wagon.  The upside is that many liberals and illegals will leave or not come here in the first place. And that makes Cactus Ed very happy.  He recommends Arizona: How Big is Big Enough?  and Immigration and Liberal Taboos. From the … Continue reading “The Upside of the Arizona Bashing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}