I agree. And when quoting the pre-2006 Will Grigg, it's good to keep in mind that he subsequently changed his mind, and that his more mature perspective is not the older one that he repudiated, but the later one that he maintained until his death.
Being biased toward that opinion, you assume that is more "mature"...you assign worth to it because you agree.
My evaluation is neutral.
It's true that we can't say for sure if he would have changed his mind again. But since the situation today is no different than it was when he died, or in 2006 when he left JBS, I see no reason to think that the many wonderful pro-immigration and anti-police-state editorials he wrote over the course of that decade would be any less relevant and instructive now than they were when he wrote them.
I disagree. I think the situation and especially the goals and tone of the opposition has radically changed and has clearly shown, to me at least, what the real goals of the opposition are, and the future that the opposition has planned for me and mine.
I still fully agree with those opinions that he held and that I posted so frequently.
Allowing millions of illegal invaders from nations and cultures immersed in police tyranny, abuse, murder and corruption many times worse than what we are already suffering under now,
here, will
not improve the situation. As they become embedded in the body politic and start making their political will known, you will lose freedom even more rapidly.
Exhibit A: California.
If there's one thing Will Grigg was most consistent on, it's also the one thing Donald Trump is most consistent on, which is his evaluation of the police-state that is worshiped by "law-and-order conservatives." Trump and his pro-DHS pro-ICE pro-wall pro-E-verify pro-deportation followers epitomize it, and Grigg was its nemesis.
Yet it was Trump that picked up the flag of prison and sentencing reform...something Grigg and I both have been railing about for years.
This excuse-making reminds me of a recent thread where you lamented the more consistent libertarians and the liberties they wished to afford fellow Americans and immigrants for the way you felt compelled in your responses to them to defend the cops, and you complained with essentially a variation of the wife-beater's accusation, "Look what you made me do," as if you still imagined yourself to be the same anti-police-state champion you once were back when you shared the late great Will Grigg's openness to immigration and weren't prepared to recognize your own cognitive dissonance.
Pull the thread and we'll discuss it.
Like I have stated numerous times, I have changed my mind regarding the seriousness of the current migrant invasion...current events and things that have been made clear to me have forced me to re-evaluate.
I
still have no love of police, I still do not recommend that they ever be called for anything, I still advise to avoid them at all costs.
What have I significantly changed in that regard?
ETA - Just like I have re-evaluated my position on "gay marriage".
Sadly, I had people close to me warn me about taking a "live and let live" position on this, that it would degenerate into something much more than just two homosexuals being allowed to register their bonds with the state...who I still maintain should not be involved at all in any kind of marriage.
But if I had known ten years ago that the effort to legitimize gay marriage as a means to remove the state from something it should not have been involved with in the first place would morph into this hateful, fascist, authoritarian, fagggot mafia of insane wierdosexuals and normalizing kiddie diddlers, I would have told them all to fuck off, get back into the fucking closet you came out of, you bunch of fucking sodomites.
