Safegaurding our borders

 Nigella Lawson denied entry to the United States

God forbid we allow a television personality who occasionally snorts a little coke to enter the country.  We don't need people like that coming to our country.  After all, we already have Tony Bourdain.

I wouldn't be outraged by this if the CBP/Border Patrol had stopped the massive flow of illegal immigrants into this country.  If we had solved THAT problem maybe we could, with good conscience, focus on the lawful traveler with some moral blemishes in their past.  But we don't.  We give lip service to protecting our borders while harassing the friggin' British equivalent of Martha Stewart.

This is what a bloated bureaucracy does.  It is completely incapable of confronting real problems but is perfectly suited to harassing the law abiding citizens just trying to go about their lives without having the hand of government around their neck.  The 'shoe bomber', the 'panty bomber', the Boston marathon bombers all got on planes to the United States with no problem.  Hell, the government even got advanced warning for the panty bomber and the Tsarnaev brothers, but did nothing to keep them from coming to America.  Tons of drugs and hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants-many of them dangerous criminals-stream across our border every year and the head of DHS tells us that the the border has never been more secure.  And even after capturing dangerous criminal aliens the DHS just releases them back into the population rather than deporting them.

Bureaucratic inertia, political correctness and the wrong-headed policies of an incompetent, liberal administration all create an environment where the DHS is unable to identify and act on on real threats; however, like all giant bureaucracies, it is more than capable of inflicting an insufferable regulatory stranglehold on the average citizen.  Bureaucracies are great at regulating the life and vitality out of any population.  They work great at making the law-abiding, compliant citizenship follow the rules.  They are highly effective at surviving and expanding.  Got a real problem?  Look elsewhere for your answer.