Saturday, December 30, 2006

Tinfoil Hatter Alert!

This has to be the most bizarre quote I've posted in 2006:
A Fork in the Road for Food - Alan Hall
"Record-setting enforcement of immigration laws is disturbing the food production system in rural New York State, and elsewhere."
This is so off the wall I have to rephrase it for clarity: Forty years of "record-setting non-enforcement of our nation's laws" has rendered many so addicted to illegally-obtained serf labor that our nation's agricultural special interest groups are impotent to leverage technology and bring to us not only cheaper food, but safer food. You can bet your sweet Taco Bell on it. American High school kids are building fusion reactors in their basements but Big Ag can't think its way out of the middle ages even when many farms are proving quite adept at it.

The whining and moaning of serf addicts spikes at the most meager and pathetic attempts at enforcement. And it usually brings some PhD'd doofus out of the woodwork to bestow victim status on everyone who is at the very least complicit in a vast wink-and-nod conspiracy to break the law. The only way current enforcement efforts are "unprecedented" is that there is a difference between a 0.00000% level and a 0.00001% level of adequate enforcement.

This "Alan Hall" person may very well be an "Associate Professor of Work, Criminology, Health, & Rural Sociology" at the University of Windsor. (I did a bit of Googling and found the professor has written on organic farming in the past, so this connection, I think, is fairly strong.) Please do read the whole article he wrote, it's good for a few laughs. He quotes freely from a New York Times article reposted at a notorious blog of record for moonbats, Truthout.org, but he does not give attribution in the article...when he is using quotations! Why am I not surprised this guy's a professor?

The web site this bizarre blather appears at is a strange one also. I wonder how many people actually read it? The site is a promoter of an oft-debunked economic theory called the "Elliot Wave Principle," which apparently undergoes modification every time it's prophesied calamity doesn't occur at the date it was supposed to occur. It appears to me that Elliot Wave's followers are sort of like Jehovah's witnesses, buying into new "reasons" devined within its dogma that just happen to be "discovered" as the time for armageddon passes.

Just to know that we've got guys like Alan Hall working for the enemy makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

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