The following correspondence originally took place upon my Facebook wall, after my friend, and fellow Autistic self-advocate, Jason Ross, shared graphic art from here…
Jason R.:
“Ann Frank’s visa application was turned down by the U.S. government. If she had been accepted, she could have been a 77-year-old woman living in Boston today. Remember that when you hear all this anti-refugee rhetoric.”
Rayn: But… Muh Borders! 😥
Rayn:
“Every national border in Europe marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others.” Robert Anton Wilson
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“Nations are basically geographic regions delimited by arbitrary lines on a map and run by criminal gangs with flags.”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“Government: forcing people to do shit like this since forever”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“Walls are not the cure. They are just another symptom of a totalitarian government hellbent on control.”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“Immigration control. It’s not about immigration. It’s about control.”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“What if immigration restrictions are really just limitations on freedom and the free market?”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“Every argument for immigration restrictions into the United States as a whole applies with equal validity for immigration controls between states, counties, cities, and even towns. And, yet, we do not have such controls. Why does it work so well? Because freedom works.”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“No defensible moral framework regards foreigners as less deserving of rights than people born in the right place at the right time.”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“No victim. No crime. Public space → public space”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“If you’re having trouble with the libertarian open borders policy, ask yourself this: are the principles of liberty universal, or geographically confined to one region of the world?”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“An undocumented immigrant is an illegal alien a human practicing anarchism”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“Nationalism: ’cause our humans are better than your humans!”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.” – Ludwig Von Mises
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“Unfortunately, most people are convinced that when control fails, it’s because they didn’t control enough.”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“Is this supposed to be the difference between legal and illegal migration?
A piece of paper?”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“The mind of the slaves asks, ‘Is it legal?’ The mind of the free man asks, ‘Is it right?'”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“Just remember: the path to freedom isn’t always a legal one. Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad”
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
“The only reason you think that government is the solution is because you think that freedom is the problem.” – Alan Lovejoy
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
Rayn:
(Artwork originally located here, upon the Facebook page, “Muh Borders“)
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