  A DEBATE CHALLENGE FROM JON TO "JUAN" Reader/contributor JonP writes to challenge the urlLink blogger / urlLink Patriot -writer /pseudonym-wrapped-in-a-pseudonym known sometimes as "petty bourgeois" and other times as "Juan Carl Leal Solis" to a debate: Dear petty bourgeois, I challenge you to a public debate between the two of us on the topic, Resolved: Immigration to the United States should be sharply reduced. You can take the affirmative, while I take the negative. The debate has to be in a public forum, not an Internet debate. If you feel you must maintain your anonymity, you may feel free to wear a mask to the debate. If you do not accept this challenge within two days, I will have to brand you a coward. Are you up to the challenge? Or are you yet another right-wing blowhard who can dish it out, but you can't take it?
Sincerely, Jon C. Pennington (aka "jonp") I actually bought a halfway-decent mask in October, for a Halloween costume I ended up scrapping, so I can donate if need be. As for the prospects of an agreement to debate coming about, I'll take the skeptical stance of "you'd have better odds getting Juan Valdez to agree to debate. " Though in that instance, at least there'd be refreshments. But don't worry, I'll keep "pleasantly surprised" in the proverbial on-deck circle.
On a side, side, side note, labelling Hitler a "socialist" is, well, a meaningless exercise. All of Europe circa WWI was using nationalism as a tool for political mobilization (you could even expand to say post-9/11 America does as well), so if that's the definition of "socialism" we are to accept, then boy are our faces red. 
