STRICKLAND: Immigrant activist is nanonuts

By PHIL STRICKLAND
December 2, 2009

So a UC San Diego professor has come up with a way to save the lives of illegal immigrants crossing the no-man's land at the border of Mexico on their way to the promised land.

Ricardo Dominguez, a visual arts prof, says he has developed an application known as the Transborder Immigrant Tool that can be loaded on cell phones to show illegals where to find water stashes as it guides them to our government services.

What a guy.

Dominguez, who describes himself as an "artivist," an oh-so-clever marriage of artist and activist, hopes to save the lives of the approximately 374 border jumpers a year who perish on their way to collecting their illegal largess.

As a savant of the visual arts, he might do better to stand at the border waving a sign that says "Stop, Go Back, You Will Die If You Continue."

Does he not understand that because the app will be usable by everyone, it opens the water stashes to tainting and the route to surveillance or worse?

Doesn't matter. He's one of the pro-illegal immigrant activists (one even forsook his given English name to go native ---- it's an ethnic purity thing) who find self-importance in violating the law while they avoid the real issue.

If these self-glorifying twits really want to do something for their people they should pack up and head to the homeland and work to stop the wholesale slaughter of innocents caught in the middle of a drug war that claims upward of 6,000 people a year.

Instead they cowardly shirk their duty as saviors and concentrate on sticking it to the tax-paying citizens in California who selfishly contribute only billions of dollars a year to the unentitled as we teeter on bankruptcy.

All this to their "glory."

It sure seems Dominguez has broken the law, aiding and abetting at the least, and ought to be fired and go to jail. And almost certainly the little connivance he has come up with is state property and thus cannot be distributed without our approval.

But the bottom line is they are cowards. They talk the "good fight," but shrink from the real battle for their people living in squalor, many in near slavery, in the motherland.

But bravery is not what they're about. Here's a quote from a Dominguez video on YouTube:

We are "pushing for open fabrication of endless objects. This is what we call the nanocommunist movement. ... So don't have any fears about the emergence of fascism, the end of capitalism or a new socialized national economy. Give your heart over to speed of dreams, the communism of objects, and leave the old speed culture behind."

The rest of the video is filled with multi-syllabic blather that one supposes is crafted to make him appear intelligent.

If he's really that smart perhaps he can make an app that will help him remove his cabeza from his nether region.

Probably not. No "glory" in that.

Phil Strickland writes from Temecula. Contact him at philipestrickland@yahoo.com

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