The Easy Parts
16th April 2025
First they came for Mahmoud Khalil, and I said nothing because I thought it was a damn good idea. He is a citizen of Syria who came to America to get a college degree. After graduating he stayed in America to be a leader in a group dedicated to supporting Hamas by disrupting normal activities at Columbia University, threatening and harassing Jewish students. Hamas is an organization that deliberately seeks out and murders as many Jewish babies, infants, and toddlers as it can. They came to deport him. Not imprison him; not kill him. They came to give him a free plane ride back to his home country. For reasons unknown, Democrats are outraged.
Then they came for Kilmar Garcia (a.k.a. “Maryland Man”), and again I said nothing because it was a damn good idea. Mr. Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who entered the USA illegally. He is also a member of a criminal gang known as MS-13. MS-13 murders people for fun and profit. An earlier attempt to deport Mr. Garcia was delayed by an immigration judge who was concerned that Mr. Garcia would be in danger if returned to El Salvador. This is due to rival gang enemies who wished him harm. They deported him anyway, perhaps by a paperwork mistake. Democrats are outraged again, for reasons unknown.
Next they came for others with MS-13 tattoos. Democrats are convinced that Trump is moving so fast to deport foreign gang members that innocent people must be getting swept up and deported by mistake. Democrats are particularly concerned for innocent people who happen to have tattoos that are gang-related. Apparently, Democrats have never spoken to anyone who knows anything about gang tattoos—you need permission to get a gang tattoo. It is a badge of honor that must be earned. If someone has an unauthorized gang tattoo, the gang will kill them. MS-13 has no American citizens as members. Wannabe members must earn membership by committing violent crimes. Deporting all MS-13 members appears to me to be a no-brainer. Again, for reasons unknown, Democrats are outraged.
Next they came for Tren de Aragua gang members. There is no dispute that they (1) entered the USA illegally, and (2) make their living by committing crimes. Democrats insist we slow things down to give each member a court hearing of some sort. Democrats are silent as to what evidence such people could possibly present at such a hearing that should prevent their deportation. Again, I am silent and my silence means approval.
This format, of course, echoes the “Als sie kamen” rhetoric of Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller about Nazi Germany, which proglodytes have perennially repurposed to complain about anybody anywhere holding them responsible for anything.
UPDATE: Jennifer Rubin tries this trick, as expected – Free Kilmar One of the oldest ploys in the proglodyte ploybook is taking the moral high ground and dragging it into the mud, hoping that people will be fooled. The error here, which they think with enough handwaving you won’t notice, is that socialists, trade unionists, an Jews aren’t ipso facto criminals–although a lot of them seem to turn out eventually to be criminals–but illegal immigrants, jihadist, and drug cartel thugs /murderers are ipso facto criminals. As Scott Adams never tires of saying, analogies can illustrate your point but cannot prove it. Analogies can’t prove anything, because they deal with a different situation, however much it might be similar, and however much you might wish it did.