Glenn Beck Interviews Giuliani
Glenn Beck conducted an interview with Rudolph Giuliani. You can read the transcript yourself, here. A couple of things popped out for me. Initially I was attracted to the interview by this exchange:
GLENN: Right. But isn’t illegal immigration a crime in and of itself?
GIULIANI: Glenn, it’s not a crime. I know that’s very hard for people to understand, but it’s not a federal crime.
GLENN: It’s a misdemeanor but if you’ve been nailed, it is a crime. If you’ve been nailed, ship back and come back, it is a crime.
GIULIANI: Glenn, being an illegal immigrant, the 400,000 were not prosecuted for crimes by the federal government, nor could they be. I was U.S. attorney in the southern district of New York. So believe me, I know this. In fact, when you throw an immigrant out of the country, it’s not a criminal proceeding. It’s a civil proceeding.
GLENN: Is it –
GIULIANI: One of the things that congress wanted to do a year ago is to make it a crime, which indicates that it isn’t.
GLENN: Should it be?
GIULIANI: Should it be? No, it shouldn’t be because the government wouldn’t be able to prosecute it. We couldn’t prosecute 12 million people. We have only 2 million people in jail right now for all the crimes that are committed in the country, 2.5 million. If you were to make it a crime, you would have to take the resources of the criminal justice system and increase it by about 6. In other words, you’d have to take all the 800,000 police, and who knows how many police we would have to have.
So if it is not a federal crime, why do we call them illegal aliens? Seems the federal government, then, is acting illegally by not protecting the borders. Basically, I liked what Giuliani had to say about the Islamist threat to the safety of this country. He realizes that we are under attack, but we part company on the role of the FED. Here’s what he said:
GIULIANI: To a very large extend, that’s correct, particularly from the point of view of the federal government and the President. The President has to focus on the pillars of our economy and make sure that those are being handled correctly and if they are, the market will straighten out the rest. The pillars of our economy are low taxes, smaller government, moderate regulation, and a sound monetary policy. So on this question of how much help should the market in general be given, that should really be determined by the Fed through the supply of money, and they have shown that they can do a pretty darn good job of that. That should not be the function of the congress and the President. (my emphasis added)
The Constitution gave the power over the creation of money only to Congress and even defined money in subsequent legislation. Then in 1913, Congress gave away that power by creating the Federal Reserve, a cartel of banks, and since then, the hidden tax of inflation the FED created has deflated the value of the USD by over 95%.
What is a cartel? Google defines the word as:
- A group of producers who enter a collusive agreement to restrict output in order to raise prices and profits
- An organization of producers that work together to maximize joint profits.
- a group of firms formally agreeing to control the price and output of a product
Maybe Giuliani is economically naive. Maybe, he is Bush light. Could even be Bush dark! We know there is no hope from the statists on the Democrat side. Please, can we find a Libertarian, that is electable on the Republican side?
Rudolph Giuliani
“a Libertarian, that is electable…”
I would argue that no Libertarian is electable in the current political environment. Look at what the two parties + MSM are doing to Ron Paul - he’s being framed and hung as a crackpot. Hypothetical: if Mitt Romney held the same Libertarian ideals as Ron Paul, he would be marginalized, too. The GOP has removed the Liberty plank from their platform and replaced it with the Global Imperialism plank.
So the question then becomes ‘how can the Libertarian party/movement evolve beyond fringe status and step into the political mainstream where it belongs?’. My answer would be 1) start local and build credibility at a local and state level (a long term strategy that is long overdue), and 2) convince the Ron Paul, Jeff Flake et al. to abandon the Republican party entirely and leverage power as a coalition partner b/t the two major parties.
The problem isn’t the un-electability of Ron Paul… the problem is successive generations of americans being taught/brainwashed that the constitution is no longer important.
MP