The Men from Atlantis Communiqués

Joe King says …

Although unobserved by air breathers, the city of Atlantis is the frequent destination of visitors from many worlds.  Too many have sought unauthorized commerce.  We call these unregistered visitors “Illegal Aliens”.  When caught, (and they always are), we have strong measures of dealing with them: landing fees, entrance taxes, import fines, customs costs, court access fees, court incarceration taxes,  sales taxes, income taxes, income evasion fines, registration costs, and  finally a broad range of citizenship acquisition  costs, fees,  and taxes.  Once within our city they will serve to make the city the thriving metropolis it is.  And I do mean serve.  Those imaginative, industrious, talented or otherwise capable of creating a prosperous life, are encouraged to do so, through a schedule of ever increasing taxes.  Those without this ability are guided towards serving the useful functions that are required for such a vibrant municipality.  Filling these service  positions, while continuing to pay their full share of all Atlantean taxes, prevents consideration of sending for family, and other resource consuming relatives.  Atlantis in her wisdom bestows citizenship on all illegal aliens, and with her multiple levels of citizenship within several generations, the succeeding generations may slowly rise through the multiple forms, flavors, and variations of citizenship.

Hugh Mann view:

Although i agree with good ol’ Joe King to a greater extent, the rosy picture  he paints of the dire illegal alien crisis currently sweeping both our mutual homeland and also the young kingdom in which we currently reside leaves out many real points of the failed border policies of both lands. Yes, we don’t turn away our unregistered invaders like the United States is supposed to, but actually FAILS to do, but neither do we let them return to their homeland. In addition to the crushing taxation and relentless tyranny of our wonderfully omnipresent and well-meaning government, new immigrants are unable to escape these horrors by fleeing back to their homelands. What Joe doesn’t tell you is that due to lax Alantean border defenses and an incomplete border retention fence, some few of these illegal immigrants have actually escaped to their various points of origin to report to their countrymen on the sad state of Atlantis treatment of those poor souls who, having fled tyranny and oppression in their homeland, were so unfortunate as to have chosen Atlantis as  the lesser of two evils. Now, because of this lapse in security, our government and the sovereign Kingdom of Atlantis can no longer attract any illegal immigrants to help prop up our economy with their taxes and labor. Atlantis faces a recession, possibly even a depression thanks to this loss to our tax base! the only silver lining in this black cloud is that Atlantis doesn’t issue paper currency and uses gold coins instead; also, with no interlopers from other worlds crossing our borders, we no longer have to live in fear of the inevitable outbreaks of the plague that have occurred at regular intervals due to unquarantined and unchecked alien visitors mingling with our citizens.