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talkpoliticsBack in the day when orthodoxy was a minority sect of corrupt and despotic bishops, a heretical military commander was urged by orthodox advisers to practice corporal punishment on his own children. His response varies depending on who reported it. He refused to adopt the orthodox approach to child rearing because he felt it would have a deleterious effect on his children. An aphorism could be derived from this story along the lines of, "Employ the rod, ruin the child."
I witnessed the limited efficacy of corporal punishment as a wee lass. One of our family cats had a habit of walking around on the dining room table. In an attempt to break her of this habit we squirted water on her whenever she climbed up on the table. We soon discovered that it did not stop her from walking on the table when we were not around to hit her with the squirt gun. Rather than learning not to climb on the table, the cat learned not to be observed climbing on the table.
We can see a similar process at work with the effort to expand federal immigration enforcement into local law enforcement. When an immigrant community is hit with deportations they become alienated from the governing entity that does the hitting. This causes them to distrust the people responsible for the hitting. Local law enforcers become an enemy gang rather than a source of security. This enhances the power and prestige of ethnic protection organizations which prey on the vulnerability of insecure immigrants. It is ironic that proponents of the DHS Secure Communities program point to the Bologna case to justify a policy that enhances the power of the organization whose member was hired for the hit.
Here in San Francisco there is an effort under way to attempt to teach the Feds some manners by resisting the immigration law enforcers. City Supervisor John Avalos has proposed legislation that would bar city law enforcement from cooperating in the Secure Communities program. San Francisco is not alone in this boycott of federal big brotherism. Other municipalities with significant immigrant populations have already taken steps to resist the program.
Could there be a connection between the brutal policies of the US government and the orthodox mindset favoring corporal punishment as a disciplinary technique?
Links: Joshua Sabatini on Supervisor Avalos' efforts to isolate ICE. Resources on the Secure Communities program.
I witnessed the limited efficacy of corporal punishment as a wee lass. One of our family cats had a habit of walking around on the dining room table. In an attempt to break her of this habit we squirted water on her whenever she climbed up on the table. We soon discovered that it did not stop her from walking on the table when we were not around to hit her with the squirt gun. Rather than learning not to climb on the table, the cat learned not to be observed climbing on the table.
We can see a similar process at work with the effort to expand federal immigration enforcement into local law enforcement. When an immigrant community is hit with deportations they become alienated from the governing entity that does the hitting. This causes them to distrust the people responsible for the hitting. Local law enforcers become an enemy gang rather than a source of security. This enhances the power and prestige of ethnic protection organizations which prey on the vulnerability of insecure immigrants. It is ironic that proponents of the DHS Secure Communities program point to the Bologna case to justify a policy that enhances the power of the organization whose member was hired for the hit.
Here in San Francisco there is an effort under way to attempt to teach the Feds some manners by resisting the immigration law enforcers. City Supervisor John Avalos has proposed legislation that would bar city law enforcement from cooperating in the Secure Communities program. San Francisco is not alone in this boycott of federal big brotherism. Other municipalities with significant immigrant populations have already taken steps to resist the program.
Could there be a connection between the brutal policies of the US government and the orthodox mindset favoring corporal punishment as a disciplinary technique?
Links: Joshua Sabatini on Supervisor Avalos' efforts to isolate ICE. Resources on the Secure Communities program.
