House of Sand and Fog

It would actually not be hard to read that movie as a commentary on the potential of the government to fuck people’s lives up.  The County should have filed a tax lien preventing the sale of the house without payment.  They can put themselves in first position, and given overall sales volume in California it would not be long before they had their money.  I wonder if the film reflected how things actually work, although there is little that is beyond the pale in Socialist utopias like California and New York.

And absent an entitled law enforcement officer, who broke the law, everything would have worked out. 

I suppose I was supposed to let my heart bleed at how immigrants are treated, but Kingsley was actually treated very fairly, and likely much more fairly than an American in Iran in a similar position would have been, even in the days of the Shah (and before the “People’s Revolution” created an dictatorship whose abuses made the Shah look like a model of tolerance and restraint.)

I could go the next step and blame Jimmy Carter for pushing Kingsley’s character out of Iran in the first place.  Nothing good came of it, and a very great deal of suffering.  The Shah was repressive, yes, but perhaps only to one one hundredth the extent the Mullahs are.  They kill people.  They torture people. They operate the same political prisons the Shah did.

As always with regimes Leftists support, a man who only wanted to stay in power was replaced by people who not only wanted power over every last detail of people’s lives–something the Shah never sought–but over their very minds and souls.

Leftism, and everything it touches and supports, is pure evil.