WFB plays the reductio ad Hitlerum card on immigration control

In July 2006 I wrote:

Buckley’s indescribable decadence

William F. Buckley has written that the deportation of illegal aliens would be “as wrenching as the uprooting of the blacks from Africa 300 years ago.” Michelle Malkin is sickened and outraged by the comment, which she describes as “idiocy.” Good for her. How many establishment conservatives would say the same?

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Alex Kranz writes:

Following your flashback link to “Buckley’s indescribable decadence,” I reread the Dole convention address excerpt. Mark Helprin wrote that speech, didn’t he? I wonder if he wrote that disgusting part specifically. His recent stupid writings on immigration are actually an improvement in that light.

Here’s another lovely Buckley quote:

“The border is too long, and the osmotic processes by which it is penetrated are too varied to oversee except by the kind of Bolshevik exercises used by East Germany before 1989.”

LA replies:

So Buckley used both the reductio ad Hitlerum AND the reductio ad Leninum against those who would secure our borders, enforce our laws, and preserve our sovereignty.

Also, re the Dole speech, see the note I’ve added to my 2006 entry, concerning the ambiguousness of Dole’s “the exits are clearly marked” comment, in which he read out of the Republican party anyone who fails to support non-discrimination as the ruling principle of American society.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 29, 2008 12:37 PM | Send