This a re-post of an essay by Brad Thor, NYT Best Selling Author. It's too good not re-post again.
If Islam were a car company, there'd be a recall + a ban on imports by now:
What would we do as a nation if we learned that one out of every ten Nissans had a defect that caused them to dramatically accelerate and swerve into oncoming traffic, while simultaneously overriding their braking systems? What if this defect had already killed thousands in the United States, tens of thousands more around the globe, and continued killing on a daily basis?
In a sane and rational world, countries would immediately halt the importation of all Nissans until the problem was fixed. Strict consequences would also be put in place if it ever happened again.
Makes sense, right? One problem. We don’t live in a sane world. In
the world we live in it’s not Nissan’s problem to fix its own cars,
we’re told it’s ours. You and I must learn how to live with the defect.
And in order to look like it’s doing something, anything… our government will impose thousands of new restrictions on us. Every vehicle (whether built by Nissan or not) will be monitored around-the-clock, we’ll all be made to wait in long, inefficient checkpoint lines (with a 97% failure rate) so government employees can guess whether anyone is secretly driving a defective Nissan (even in cases when it’s obviously a Model T), and on and on and on. Oh, and by the way, the government will need billions of additional tax dollars out of your pockets to pay for this charade.
Why would we put up with this? Why wouldn’t we simply turn to Nissan and say, “You make some terrific cars, but the fact that 10% of them are killing people is absolutely unacceptable. Fix it. And until you do, we’re not importing any more.”
Why wouldn’t we do that? Why wouldn’t we put the onus on the manufacturer, rather than on us, the consumer/country that imports the product? Is it because we’re afraid of being called Nissanophobic?
The truth is that by doing nothing, Nissan would have no incentive to fix the defect, none, zero. And to make matters worse, Americans would get burned twice in this scenario – they’d have to accept deadly vehicles on their roads poised to kill them and their loved ones, and they’d be forced to shoulder the burden of incessant checkpoints, increased taxes, 24/7 monitoring, and the loss of their civil liberties – all because their government doesn’t have the guts to call Nissan on the carpet and force them (the only group actual capable) to repair their defective product.
Entry into the United States, whether for goods or people, is not a right, but a privilege. It is high time we start treating the threat of radical Islam from Muslim countries with the same degree of seriousness we do poisoned dog food or lead-based paint from China.
And in order to look like it’s doing something, anything… our government will impose thousands of new restrictions on us. Every vehicle (whether built by Nissan or not) will be monitored around-the-clock, we’ll all be made to wait in long, inefficient checkpoint lines (with a 97% failure rate) so government employees can guess whether anyone is secretly driving a defective Nissan (even in cases when it’s obviously a Model T), and on and on and on. Oh, and by the way, the government will need billions of additional tax dollars out of your pockets to pay for this charade.
Why would we put up with this? Why wouldn’t we simply turn to Nissan and say, “You make some terrific cars, but the fact that 10% of them are killing people is absolutely unacceptable. Fix it. And until you do, we’re not importing any more.”
Why wouldn’t we do that? Why wouldn’t we put the onus on the manufacturer, rather than on us, the consumer/country that imports the product? Is it because we’re afraid of being called Nissanophobic?
The truth is that by doing nothing, Nissan would have no incentive to fix the defect, none, zero. And to make matters worse, Americans would get burned twice in this scenario – they’d have to accept deadly vehicles on their roads poised to kill them and their loved ones, and they’d be forced to shoulder the burden of incessant checkpoints, increased taxes, 24/7 monitoring, and the loss of their civil liberties – all because their government doesn’t have the guts to call Nissan on the carpet and force them (the only group actual capable) to repair their defective product.
Entry into the United States, whether for goods or people, is not a right, but a privilege. It is high time we start treating the threat of radical Islam from Muslim countries with the same degree of seriousness we do poisoned dog food or lead-based paint from China.
