The editorial writers are having some fun with the Arizona law. BTW-Arizona passed a law giving police officers the right, based on “reasonable suspicion,” to stop someone and ask them for identification. The law provides another tool for our police to enforce our current laws. I am in favor of it.
People that I discuss my position with say I am in favor of the “reasonable suspicion” law because I am an old-white person. People who are against this tool say it is a “slippery slope.” The slippery slope argument is that if we give our police offers the right to stop us based on a reasonable suspicion that we are an illegal immigrant; we will soon be giving them the right to stop us for something else-like weaving on the highway late at night. Wait they can do that now! By the way the other side of the slope is a situation where we have many laws, but we prevent the police from enforcing any of them.
The last slippery slope editorial I read inferred that there will be more Rodney King incidents with the Arizona reasonable suspicion law. The proximity causation stretch by this commentator breaks all records for a leap of imagination.
The slippery slope argument is fallacious. It is known in many logic books as a classic fallacy. In simplest terms, the argument goes like this: 1 is close to 2, 2 is close to 3, 3 is close to 4, 4 is close to 5 and therefore 1 is close to 5. And based on this logic and more time, we can eventually arrive at 1 is close to 100. You get it. Slippery slopes are the playground of the liberal mind. Everything can lead to something worse. Who are these people that slide down these left-leaning slippery slopes like little lemmings pushing each other over a cliff? Not conservatives.
I can recognize a slippery slope and I can recognize a reasonable law that provides our police officers with tools to enforce laws against illegal immigrants.
Two decades ago the slippery slope argument was known as the domino theory. An infamous theory postulated by Henry Kissinger circa Richard Nixon. Kissinger theorized that if we did not fight in Vietnam, it would fall to communism and like dominoes, every other country would fall too.
Nations are not dominoes and enabling police officers to enforce the laws, with the reasonable suspicion tool, is not a slippery slope. If you have worked hard to become an American citizen and enjoy the benefits that such citizenship offers, then you should be rejoicing at the Arizona law, no matter what color your skin is.
It is just common sense.
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