Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Immigration Policy and the Roseburg massacre

It seems that the shooter in yesterday's campus massacre in Roseburg, OR is a disaffected Brit yob, one who had great admiration for the IRA, and, presumably, their ultra-violence.

When my grandfather immigrated to the USA in the 1880's, he would have been closely questioned at his port of entry, Houston, about why he wanted to come here. Does our immigration policy even allow such an inquiry these days?

BTW, considering that the IRA was/is a terrorist outfit, let's chalk this one up to domestic terrorism, even if Sinn Fein doesn't make that claim. I have a right to protect myself against domestic terrorism, and I will. The world is on notice that I have assumed this protective attitude.

You may resume your sheeply lives now, one more sheepdog has come on duty.

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu says..

New category today: selections from the bare translation of Chinese philosopher-General Sun Tsu (or, Sun Tzi, depending on your translator) and his masterwork, On the Art of War:

On the Strategy of Warfare (Section Three): (Apologies for the underlining, the text editor does that & I don't know how to turn it off)

17. Thus we may know that there are five essentials
    for victory:
    (1) He will win who knows when to fight and when
        not to fight.
    (2) He will win who knows how to handle both superior
        and inferior forces.
    (3) He will win whose army is animated by the same
        spirit throughout all its ranks.
    (4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take
        the enemy unprepared.
    (5) He will win who has military capacity and is
        not interfered with by the sovereign.

18. Hence the saying:  If you know the enemy
    and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a
    hundred battles.  If you know yourself but not the enemy,
    for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. 
    If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will
    succumb in every battle.