Another So-Called Border ‘Crisis.’

I know this comment may piss off a lot of readers, but it deserves to be said. So, I’ll get it out and what’s done is done.

I happen to believe that the whole Title 42 business is a lot of crap. I think it’s a totally artificial ‘crisis’ which gives the media something to talk about on the evening news and gives every politician an opportunity to shoot their mouth off on Twitter, or a 20-second interview on radio or TV.

The reason I think that Title 42 is a load of crap is because I happen not to believe in the concept or practice of national borders at all.

That’s right. All this nonsense about passports, proper documentation, illegal migrants and all the other stuff which creates and sustains all the media and political noise about borders is nothing more than the fact that at a certain point in time, two governments drew a line in the sand to define who controls what, and this line always reflects a certain relative strength of one government versus the other at the time the line is drawn.

So, for example, chiefs from the Brulé, Oglala, Minniconjou, Yankton Lakota and Arapaho tribes signed a treaty at Fort Laramie in 1868, which allegedly gave them control over most of the territory which is now Wyoming and South Dakota, along with chunks of Kansas and Nebraska which were separate holdings and hunting…