Happy Socialist, Anarchist, Illegal Alien Day

I'm not going to get a chance to post much on this new day of arrogance. I've let my U.S. Senator from Cuba know I loathe him. I've ranted to a few friends who still don't see the threat that the interlopers pose to their children, and I wrote one comment on a blog.

That's what I'm copying over here. First, I'll repost the original pabulum:

howl

Count my voice among those who are today marching and asking for a path to citizenship for immigrants in this country. Look, I know they broke the law by coming here (I won't even get into how suspect it is for countries to set their own laws on immigration and expect citizens of another country to just follow them), but what right do we have to demand that they not enter our borders? For all America is doing wrong, it is still the most free country in the world and the one most able to provide a good life for its inhabitants. How can we expect people to not come to this country if we can offer them such a better life than the one they have in other countries? How can we, and especially myself and other Christians, tell people to not come to us even though we can help them? Since when is the saying on the Statue of Liberty about "bring me your huddled masses..." a epithet without meaning?

Too often we americans forget that our history is, in certain areas, largely one of breaking laws and theft and questionable citizenship. We stole land from the indians and just arbitrarily said it was ours; it's not like we Americans were the first ones on the scene here. We fought wars to gain our own independence because we believed that America could hold a better life. We welcomed immigrants from Europe from the thousands, laying the groundwork for the America we have today with our rich differing cultures and dialects and traditions. We are not a nation of indigenous peoples. We are a nation built on a history of huddled masses, immigrants, poverty-stricken farmers, religious freedom-seekers, soldiers, land-grabbers, and dreamers.

How can we deny anyone else in this whole world the same thing? Happy May Day, everyone.

Posted by Brother Joshua at 2:46:00 PM

There was just so much here that needs to be beaten, physically, from the squalid ideations that infest the minds of so many who feel that they must kowtow to all others from all nations in order to feel good about being American. The guy made my skin crawl with his matter-of-fact lunaticity. So, I replied thusly:

Katie's Dad said...

When Emma Lazarus rises from the dead and proves she was a founding father, not some PR-Stunt poetry contest winner, then I might have a thimble of compassion for an illegal alien. But probably not then, either. For she was nothing more than a foil for a newspaperman's quest for profit. No figure in American history is more over-promoted. It's just sick to base policy that determines who we are, and what sort of fate-in-nation awaits our ancestors, upon that blithering tripe of a poem. Really.

Being romantically distracted by baseless ideals while deadly serious issues like sovereignty and societal cohesiveness are at stake is the epitome of stupidity.

Instead, I'm informed by Thomas Jefferson who wrote:"In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass."

George Washington said, prescriptively: "Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles."

John Jay wrote, also prescriptively: "I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people -- a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.

"This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties."

As a Christian, you'd be better served by thinking about the plight of the people these interloping opportunists leave behind; the poverty they exacerbate back home; the broken families; the elderly with no youth to support them in a a community; the tacit support your compassion gives to despots who are relieved to see the departure of those who are most physically able to threaten their corrupt status quo; and, most importantly, the detrimental impact upon the futures of America's children that such an unprecedented influx surely portends. Do you ever think about that stuff? Or has the romanticism for the "needy other" completely made you blind to
the needs and best interests of your own?

Is it OK if one in five of our residents has no connection to, empathy for or sense of stewardship on behalf of those who fought and bled and died to start this grand experiment? Even if that assures that heritage is erased? And even if the loss of that heritage puts an end to the experiment?

If so, please send your kids to schools built in the shadow of your new Tower of Babel; but, please, make provisions for mine to go to schools in which english is the only language allowed to be spoken. While you're at it, give my little girl a place to grow up in which this nation's sense of Providence is allowed to thrive without being held hostage to the influence of those who would sell it all out on a whim.

I was tempted to beat the author up over his asinine "we stole the land from the indians" crap, but I figured he'd not be able to digest any additional de-programming thoughts in one post.

Technorati tags: illegal immigration, illegal alien, amnesty, immigration reform, immigration, employer sanctions, reconquista, MALDEF, La Raza, sovereignty

Something Bush Won't Ask an Iowan

I'm still amazed at the gutters into which this this rat-bastard we've elected President will slither to pander to people who do not belong here in his unceasing effort to transmogrify the nation of my ancestors into a third-world cesspool. And here it is reported that he's found some new pond scum to fertilize:

Bush seeks grads' help on immigration - Yahoo! News

Bush gave the commencement address at Miami Dade College, where more than half the students were raised speaking a language other than English. He gave the Class of 2007 an assignment: Tell their elected representatives in Washington to get going on immigration legislation. "You see every day the values of hard work, and family, and faith that immigrants bring," the president said. "This experience gives you a special responsibility to make your voices heard." Bush said the immigration system is deeply broken: Employers are not held accountable enough; borders are not secure enough; businesses need workers willing to do low-paying jobs; and the 12 million people estimated to be in the U.S. illegally cannot all be deported and so must be dealt with "without amnesty and without animosity."

Obviously, this son of a bitch would never give such a speech to youth at a community college in Iowa! Why is he asking first-generation Americans, those who have a Cubanisimo-warped sense of nation and almost zero exposure to people who are descended from American patriots, to play a pivotal role in immigration reform? Why will he not ask the same of people who have a sense of American stewardship? And, as Jake correctly points out, why will he not lead us an open and honest debate among all citizens to be the means of deciding the solution - with all real options placed on the table?

(Hint: It would take "leadership" and he wouldn't get what he wants)

Here's another nagging question: Why does this prickish waste of the "conservative" mantle get a free pass from the media to mouth garbage like the " they cannot all be deported" fallacy when every other utterance of his gets picked apart like road-kill beset upon by vultures? God forbid the media ever call him on it and let news consumers know about the effectiveness of "attrition through enforcement."

President Bush, what the f**k makes the poorly-Americanized offspring of immigrants more special to you than my child? What you are saying to these graduates is that they have more value to you than children in my family who share my ancestry.

Mr. President, you make me sick.

Technorati tags: hispanic vote, illegal immigration, illegal alien, amnesty, immigration reform, immigration, conservatism

The Ultimate Goal of Tolerance: Self Extinction?

From Lawrence Auster's View from the Right, a commenter posits this gem:

Is the Islamic takeover of Europe inevitable?

In the end, I think things are going to get much, much worse before they get better, precisely because liberals refuse to accept the most common sense limitations on the principle of tolerance. They risk discrediting tolerance altogether by making it synonymous with self-extinction. An outpouring of hatred and violence is almost certain to erupt at some stage, since nowhere do people gladly suffer replacement of their own people civilization by that of others. A tipping point must eventually be reached, and when it does, the reaction could be spasmodic and bloody. This can easily be avoided, but liberals are determined to see this suicidal path through to the bitter end, such is their devotion to a program which I think even they suspect is daily darkening the future of mankind.

I'd not considered the end game that comes part and parcel with today's politically-correct definition of the word tolerance. While I have to ponder it a bit, my initial thought is that this is probably true. While the post thread from which this comes is in regard to the Islamification of Europe, I think it equally applicable to the United States.


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McCain Wouldn't Know Conservatism If...

...it bit him on the ass.

This just doesn't square.

G.O.P. Candidates Lay Into Democrats, Not One Another - New York Times

“The Republican Party — and conservatism generally — are a philosophy of strength,” he said. “Military strength, economic strength, personal strength and family strength.”

-Senator John "I never met an amnesty I didn't love" McCain

How could a person with any scruples whatsoever fish for votes with such soaring language when what he says runs so contrary to his grandest desire as a politician: giving amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens and setting off an unprecedented chain migration?

Please bear with me as I parse this quote and expound on the double meanings:

1. "Conservatism is a philosophy of strength," but I believe our nation is weak and needs help from millions of indentured servants.
   
2. "Conservatism is a philosophy of military strength," but let's disregard the fact that America's political-philospher founders warned against submitting to or leveraging into too strong influences and alliances with foreign powers.
   
3. "Conservatism is a philosophy of economic strength," as long as the government is made stronger than the people through control of people's purse strings.
   
4. "Conservatism is a philosophy of personal strength," as long as people don't display it in the form of speech too close to an election.
   
5. "Conservatism is a philosophy of family strength," and we can't get enough of those strong Mexican families and we can't be deterred by mere citizens who because they want to keep their heritage will stand in the way .

It seems like every day Senator McAmnesty just keeps giving this Conservatives like me more reasons to despise him. Even if I didn't believe with all my heart and soul that the man truly wants to sell my child's future to the highest big-business bidder via amnesty, there's always his McCain-Feingold subversion of the First Amendment, his opposing tax cuts that work and his support for the gay agenda.

But even if none of those things were the case I'd still oppose him with all my being; my political gut and human instinct tell me that he is an evil person. When I see or hear him speak, it sets off alarms within me that have never been wrong in the 27 years I've been involved in political campaigns. It took an awful lot of working for candidates who set off my "creep-o-meter" before I started paying attention to my senses. The lesson has sunk in: I won't ever again vote for someone for whom I have such a visceral distrust.

The bottom line: I loathe John McCain and wouldn't vote for him if satan himself were on the other side - how would I choose between two equal evils?

Technorati tags: conservatism, John McCain, amnesty, gay agenda, antipathy,

Quote of the Day Double Header!

I'm a big fan of clarity, which is probably the element most lacking in this debate over mass and illegal immigration. If our ancestors could witness it, they'd think it was some bizarre case study in how not to govern the nation and the liberty for which they pined and bled and died.

Here are a couple of fantastic quotes from two equally important op-eds I found today:

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Bush's Immigration Defeatism

Bush’s failings at the border mirror his failings in Iraq. In both places, he underestimated the need for security and order and has undertaken a push for them only belatedly. In both places, he was motivated by a good-hearted belief in the essential fungibility of people. He thought that Iraqis naturally would have the same desires as Westerners; and on the border, he assumes that Mexicans are seamlessly interchangeable with Americans, since they seek employment here. In Iraq, he has tried to compensate for his mistakes. On the border, he seems hopeless.

Those who hold that there is any form of ethics, morality or human good in promoting "the fungibility of people" are probably the most evil people around these days. Lowering humanity to commodity status is a very subtle evil; there is little that would torture me more than having to associate with people who have no qualms that their path to enrichment subjugates the most vulnerable and helpless while displacing those just marginally less vulnerable and helpless.

And while I'm on the topic of subjugation...

An immigration bill for 'plantation owners' - Newsday.com

Now, we have neo-plantation owners, inheritors of the "Gone With the Wind" class, seeking to set national policy. Perhaps, in their greed and shortsightedness, those who depend on non-free labor - slaves back then, illegals and "guest workers" today - are so blindly eager for short-term profit they are willing to saddle the rest of the country with long-term problems of multiculturalism and balkanization, made all the worse by welfare-state dependency. Exploitative employers brought the whirlwind to this country once, and now they want to do it again.

Let me reiterate a portion of the immediately previous post:

How many American children must have their lives permanently altered for the worse before their plight starts to matter to those who misplace their compassion only with interlopers while ignoring the needs and futures of our native sons and daughters?

I rue the repurcussions of our having huge, slave-labor-class diasporas living adjacent to our neighborhoods when the next serious economic downturn happens or when the next inevitable well-coordinated attack comes courtesy "the religion of peace" and requires both our unified diligence and ability to communicate with each other clearly. We now have huge resident masses of other-tongued, foreign-allegiant peasants who think that and behave as if the United States exists solely for their convenience. Is it reasonable to think they will be easily pacified when their jobs, their access to the government teat and our tolerance for anyone lurking in the shadows disappears due to calamity?

I'm afraid it's going to get really, really ugly if we don't remove them fairly, incrementally, and soon.

Technorati tags:immigration reform, immigration, cleft society

Core Principles: Duty to our similars and our families

Today, I'm passing on a quote of mine from Jake's comments in response to a post about the Heritage Foundation's latest findings about the costs we all bear thanks to illegal aliensa and their enablers:

It's unconscionable that we have American kids being shortchanged by schools beset by the challenges imposed upon them by increasing numbers of illegal aliens. Perhaps the most lamentable travesties occur every time an American child is denied the opportunity to achieve the best results that his or her abilities might allow because the children of alien criminals forced costs shifts or social discordance in a public school.

How many American children must have their lives permanently altered for the worse before their plight starts to matter to those who misplace their compassion only with interlopers while ignoring the needs and futures of our native sons and daughters?

For me, this gets to the crux of the matter of both illegal and mass immigration. I believe that those who promote the mass movement of cheap labor and demand amnesty for huge masses of foreigners do so for reasons that have nothing to do with the best interests of today's American children or its future generations. Coincidentally, while human nature holds imperative the need for us to place our families, tribes and familiars first, we see similar self-defeating movements taking root in every nation that is a part of Western Civilization.

Why is this bizarre form of self-destruction not happening to any other set of brethren cultures on earth? Is the "white man's burden" so toxic that it demands our own end?

It takes an incredible amount of greed, ignorance and calculated misindoctrination of those susceptible for such a culturally-immolating set of ideas to become established and considered normal in common discourse. As I see it, these efforts to supplant the peoples of Western Civilization with people erroneously assumed to be "more compliant" to the desires of ruling elites are the most conspicuous evils ever perpetrated by groups of people against their similars and families.

I'd rather not think it of my fellow man, but can it really be that people raised in the crucible of liberty have become mere inconvenient obstacles to instant profit gratification now that elites have discovered that willing dupes are available for import?

Technorati tags: Western Civilization

Demographers Bassackward

This is laughable:

Census: Immigration helps big metros - 04/05/2007 - MiamiHerald.com

"Immigrants are filling the void as domestic migrants are seeking opportunities in other places," said Mark Mather, a demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, a private research organization.

Might it ever occur to demographers that a big reason for the "void" is the characteristic "otherness" of the very influx of immigrants they suggest that cities need? Here, and in most current dialog regarding immigrants and cities in America, demographic cause and effect are presented as ass-backwards as possible by "experts."

For a counter-example, here is my own experience: I truly loved my hometown while growing up and as a young adult in S. Florida as it morphed from a small city into part of a vital coastal megalopolis. But in recent years, thanks to bad immigration policy and lax enforcement of law, the character and culture of the growth factors took a turn for the worse. My family and I came to view the large foreign-born population infusion as not a healthy or neighborly benefit at all; rather, we learned it presented contrary belief system wedges that frequently made us uncomfortable in our own home. When culture, language and heritage are first challenged by others in a subtle manner and eventually overtly denigrated by ungrateful "wretched refuse," something has to give.

And in our case, it was us who gave in and fled. The rapid demographic shift fomented such a cultural arrogance on the part of the newcomers that living there became intolerable. Our reaction to mass immigration is not unique, it is prevalent and growing.

It only takes quick a look through my old MS Outlook contacts and retired Rolodex cards to see the obvious: I held out hope for my former home a lot longer than most of my high school classmates, college friends and former business associates. The exodus of my social and business cohort from South Florida was caused by the "otherness" of alien immigrants and our correct perception of their disrespect for our way of life, and that of our ancestors. Now our replacement population shows every intention of remaining allegiant-in-diaspora to their former homelands through the generations.

I'd like to tell the demographers where they can stick their asinine assumptions.

The article continues:

Advocates for stricter immigration laws question whether a stable, or even a shrinking population, is bad.

"Don't we have concerns about congestion and sprawl and pollution?" asked Steven A. Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for stricter immigration policies.

"Maybe those metro areas should think about what it would take to make Americans want to live there," Camarota said.

If only our leaders understood that this last point is far more important to cities' health than importing cheap labor that spurs the rancor that accompanies diversity and multiculturalism. I suppose the onerous aspects of mass immigration are felt more keenly by those of us who were raised to believe, correctly, that a nation exists to promote and strengthen its culture; that is has a duty to honor ancestral legacy; and that it carries a prescription for a pathway to assure that there remains a birthright legacy for future generations to cherish.

It is traditional Conservative impulses that lead people to flee cities inflicted with the results of the mass-immigrationist mentality, regardless of the evacuees' political persuasion. The unwelcomed replacement of Americans in metropolis should serve as a forewarning that all is not well with the status quo.

Screw political correctness. This invasion must end.


Technorati tags: white flight

Core Lessons: Dismissing The Liberal Naysayers

I wrote this as the introduction to the Politics Section of my original American Kernel site. As I recall, this took less than 15 minutes to write. As was my practice in the days before blogging made immediacy more important, I put this aside for a couple of days, made only a couple grammar tweaks and posted it.

"America's viability will forever depend upon its institutions, laws and leaders remaining mindful of the historical values and morality to which our forefathers were dedicated. While crafting the Constitution, then campaigning for its ratification, the framers knew that 'The People' would never adopt a system of government that lacked an irrevocable attachment to the Christian mores and ideals prevalent in and shared between the various contemporary denominations that dominated colonial and revolutionary era cultural discourse.

'During the 150 years preceding the revolution, the foundation for America's future success was forged by determined people who shared a very narrowly diverse set of morals, values and beliefs. This common consciousness paved the way for us to join together and create a whole new way of thinking about liberty that had not existed before on this earth. Had Madison, Hamilton and Jay written the Federalist Papers in denial that our freedom was won by Providence, or had our other founders neglected to humbly assume an appropriate Christian comportment in asking the several states to join as United States, this nation would not exist.

But modern liberals don't want you to know about any of this, and they don't want your children to be exposed to concepts or monuments that represent the facts. That's why the ACLU descends like locusts upon any public symbol that might remind Americans about the ideals that fertilized the fruits of our ancestor's labor.

'The secular left rabidly hates the fact that biblical ideals are so tightly woven into the intent of our Constitution, our culture, our values and everything that is or has ever been "good" in this land. Ongoing efforts by liberal, subversive, America-hating groups and misguided, activist jurists attempt to undermine the foundations of what we stand for as a nation and a people. The judicial bastardization of the establishment clause of the First Amendment is prima facie evidence of their intentions.

'Today, our Supreme Court spews forth one onerous ruling after another that infringes upon areas that are legally the purview of Congress and the states. They have even begun to cite the opinions of foreign courts as rationale for rulings that restrict the rights of Americans. Such decisions are a grave insult to the intentions, efforts and legacy of our founders.

"It is clear that the scheming naysayers on the left have had their way for far too long by misrepresenting the moral and cultural circumstances present at the time in which this nation was born. The left's modus operandi relies upon being able to divert the focus of debate toward bits of out-of-context minutiae, such as their stubbornly repeating a mantra that consists of one line from a politically motivated letter that Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists. Liberal thought offers nothing to America that doesn't require our abandoning the things that made us a great nation.

"It is pleasing to see that most true conservatives no longer suffer lightly the lunacy espoused by liberal leaders and their dupes. Christian precepts are integral to the events that led to this nation's birth and they sustain us still. Every day, more true patriots are finding the resolve to restore truth to social discourse by vocally exposing political correctness for the socially corrupt lie that it is. To me, there is nothing more absurd than liberals who prattle on about "tolerance" as they plot the next step in their campaign to banish the Ten Commandments and other important symbols of our particular brand of freedom from public institutions."

Technorati tags: core lessons, politics,

Core Lessons: Unique American Culture

This piece was originally written either in the late 1990's or in 2000. It has existed in various versions, most of which were longer. When it came to writing something I wanted to leave for my kids to read, I decided to pare it down and tighten it up.

This is the result from early 2002:

Yes, there is a "unique American Culture"

Patriotic Americanism must continue to prevail over the desires of those who wish to deny that there is such a thing as "a unique American culture." Our ancestors anticipated attempts to lead our nation down a path to balkanization and expected us to stand fast against them. We must consistently refute lies that contend America was founded by and populated by people possessing broadly diverse perspectives and ideals. The ideas behind concepts like multiculturalism and diversity were anathema in the America of 1776 and for nearly 200 years thereafter.

In their faith, habits and principles, the first American citizens were a most narrowly diverse lot, separated only by slight variations in Christian denomination. In their ethics, morals and values, the first Americans could only be described as virtually homogenous. It was the similarity not the diversity of our forefathers and founders that set the stage for America to become a great nation.

Those who advocate diversity and multiculturalism as being historically important to this nation's greatness are dangerously wrong. Using their twisted logic, we are to believe that the ideals driving Islamic terrorists to fly planes into buildings are societally compatible with the motivations that drive Presbyterian women to have fundraising bake sales. Diversity theory places Christian Baptism on par with Animist ritual mutilation of baby girls' genitalia. Diversity theory blindly accepts into our midst hordes of incompatible, poorly educated, virtually aliterate(if not outright alingual) illegal alien border-jumpers from third-world Kleptocracies because it is supposedly in keeping with "the things for which this nation stands." There is no doubt that our founders would be nauseated by such absurd notions.

Thomas Jefferson expressed concern about this issue in "Notes on Virginia" (brackets added for clarity):

"…But are there no inconveniences to be thrown into the scale against the advantage expected from a multiplication of numbers by the importation of foreigners? It is for the happiness of those united in society to harmonize as much as possible in matters which they must of necessity transact together. Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. Every species of government has its specific principles.

Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. To these nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies [the equivalent of today's despots, tyrants and kleptocrats]. Yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass."

Jefferson chafed at the thought that we could, by inaction, surrender our homogeneity and he was greatly concerned that we might! All this banter about diversity and multiculturalism would have given him fits.

Nothing exemplifies how far we have strayed from the intentions and dreams of our founders more clearly than our current immigration policy. Yes, immigration is an important part of our history. But nobody from the pro-immigration camp wants to discuss the fact that the none of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were immigrants, they were colonist and British subjects. Every member of the Constitutional Convention of 1789 except Alexander Hamilton was born in the colonies. The absolute truth is that the vast majority of our first citizens were Americans by birth and the vast majority of Americans have always been "citizens by birth." We have never had as many as 15 percent of our residents being of foreign origin.

Cast in this proper light, the "nation of immigrants" mantra to which we are constantly subjected becomes tritely idiomatic. If we are to be strictly precise, our history is one forged by colonists who became the first American citizens via revolution. These originals were augmented by immigrants who were eager assimilants: All Americans. Before and until the immigration reforms of 1965, between one quarter and one third of all migrants to this land could not adapt and ended up leaving. Those who came here "seeking a better life" without possessing the all-important corollary "dream of becoming American" were roughly cast aside by a society that was decidedly intolerant of selfish opportunists who didn't want to "get with the program." Promoting diversity for the sake of diversity is as accepting of malignancies as it is of the benign; it will always be an utterly stupid practice.

The only way in which we can assure America's long-term continued success as a sovereign nation is to establish new policies promoting American cultural homogeneity via imposing strict limits on the number of immigrants, demanding rigorously-enforced visa and border laws and insisting that all new arrivals submit to and successfully complete compulsory "patriotic assimilation" courses soon after their arrival. Those who cannot accept our unique culture, mores and values as their own, forsaking all others, should be summarily returned to their countries of origin.

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Core Lessons: Introduction

In my dealings with a serial troll over at FreedomFolks, I've been challenging him to back up his rantings by writing expository pieces on where his so-seemingly muddled ideology comes from. Not giving in to the tempation to hunt snipes with him, or respond directly to his ad-hominem-dependent way of writing, I've attempted to nudge him into giving us a hint about what his core beliefs are and to explain to us what it was that led him to internalize them...and perhaps what possesses him to stalk bloggers.

Alas, he's just a troll. We can't expect him to skip out from under the bridge to write cogently about what stirs his soul, what drives his intellect or what truths he holds sacred. Surely if had the nerve, he'd be starting up loving conversations with the Kos-sacks.

But if I am to challenge him, perhaps I need to let it all hang about a bit more here. And so I shall.

The ideas that led to my creating what was first a web site that morphed into a blog obviously did not simply arrive as my ideology one day out of whole cloth. All of my early writings on this site - especially the pre-blog version - were of those things I deduced from experience, the ideals imparted to me by my family, those that emerged as I allowed my sense of stewardship to guide me toward the works of great Western Conservative minds, and, of course, what my exposure to people who stood for or promoted things with which I disagreed but piqued my curiosity to study despite my aversions.

With this in mind, because I think it's always good to revisit an earlier self and because there is just a lot of stuff I wrote before the Internet provided a broad and tag-word attracted audience, I'm going to start posting some of my older work and will continue to do so until I've picked through all of my older work that I'd like to re-examine. I'll post it unedited from it's original form. There will be things with which I now disagree, and there will be things I know more about now. Comments are welcome. Trolls are not; if you have something critical to offer, please include some background regarding how you came to your point.

What follows in this post is the original introduction to the old web site. While it is not close to being the earliest work I'm going to republish, I think it's the best place to start.

So, warts and all, here goes:


Introducing the Journal of The American Kernel

Dear Readers,

January 1, 2002 was no ordinary New Year's Day for me. It was life-changing! My wife woke me, a little white plastic stick in hand. A thin pink line was visible through its window. At 42, I was going to be a first-time father! Happy New Year! The first few days of 2002 were filled with a joy that allowed no intrusive deep thought. But soon I began to contemplate what kind of father I would be. And there were questions: What kind of life will she have? What will I do to nurture her growth? What kind of person will she grow up to be? In the aftermath of September 11th, what kind of world, and more importantly, what sort of America am I leaving for her? The questions came one after the other and they kept on coming for many days.

My daughter's ancestors had a hand in the sowing the seeds that grew into this great nation, not just in one, but all three of the major colonial groups: the northern, middle and southern colonies. All of her ancestors and relatives were duty-bound to carefully hand down family traditions with a sense of pride, responsibility and solemn stewardship.

I realized that this duty was now in my hands and that I had a long-standing commitment to take it very seriously.

So, I began to consider how I would handle my mission. What is the best way for me to make sure that I pass down the things I consider to make up my true "American soul?" My daughter is integrally connected to the blood, toil and sacrifice contained in each and every seminal event that made this great nation. It is important that this thread remain unbroken. How do I make sure this is so?

Well, one of the things that I think I do best is put words on a page. The advent of the Internet offers the opportunity and the means for me to establish a permanent record in a manner that my ancestors did not have. So, I have decided to keep an ongoing record of my thoughts about both my ancestry and current events viewed through the lens of what I know in my heart to be things true to the "real" American traditions.

What is "The American Kernel?"

I believe that there began a unique culture that sprang forth very early in the American colonial era. The people who were ancestors of those who fought to free this land and found a nation were diverse only in the narrowest of senses; they shared far more commonalities than differences. The hardships of frontier and geographic isolation from the nearby foreign influences common in the rest of the world soon produced a people who were more "American" than they were anything else. These hearty people cobbled together something different from anything that came before it in the history of the world. With a nod both to history and to technology I decided to call this essence "The American Kernel."

With all these things in mind, I dedicate this site to my daughter and, hopefully, the rest of my children and their descendants. I have decided to communicate to them in a series of letters. In addition, through this web site I will entertain and post the thoughts and ideas from others who share a similar desire to cherish and preserve the American Kernel.

So, let us begin.

Technorati tags: core beliefs, American Kernel

Bush's Mexican Sell-Out Redux

Bush's goal regarding "migration" for this hemisphere, as made crystal clear by his remarks the other day, can only result in the growth of a metastatic fifth-column of those who while being technically "American citizens" will pledge their allegiance to Mexico.

Linknzona (newly added to my blogroll) noted that several bloggers have posted Bush's promise to the Mexican people to do all he can to grant amnesty under the guise of "comprehensive immigration reform." I published an article on March 13 as did TBC here, and Linknzona here.

My comments on Linknzona's March 13 post are repeated, at his request, here, and at his site:

"Over at my blog, I've expressed similar outrage regarding Bush's commitments to Mexican citizens. As soon as I read what he said, it started the wheels turning; there was so much concern on the part of the founding fathers about the risks involved in allowing foreign interests to influence this nation's sovereign responsibilities.

The first five Federalist Papers were warnings against allowing alien interests too much say in our affairs. Jefferson expounded in Notes on Virginia similarly. I knew there was a lot of source material out there that would, when placed in juxtaposition to Bush's words in Mexico, reveal why this president has become a threat to our sovereignty and a possible scourge who will be reviled by future generations of Americans. If he gets his way on Amnesty, his legacy will be to be remembered as the man who forced us to take the first big step toward our nation's dissolution.

After looking through my favorite historical quotes, I decided that George ashington gave us the best example to use for determining what's wrong with this president. He said in his farewell address:

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial, else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests."

Bush sounds more like a man who thinks of himself as president of the Western Hemisphere, not of our sovereign nation. I believe that were Washington, Jay, Madison and Hamilton here today, they'd conclude that this man is behaving as a traitor and fight to have him removed from office.

It's tough to swallow, but his words and actions really have sunk to the depths of treason."

Others are expressing outrage in the Blogosphere, here, here, here, here and here, for a start. There are a lot of folks who are appalled by these comments. I imagine it's really hard to finally wake up and realize the president you supported and voted for doesn't care about you or your nation at all.


Technorati tags: Bush is a traitor

Quote of the Day

Heck, this could be the quote of the month and year:

"There is an emerging hierarchy in the world economy in which the best-paid jobs are clustered in certain nations. If America wants to be a sustainably rich nation with well-paid workers, we must explicitly compete for these jobs.

"This cannot possibbly be a matter of laissez-faire indifference in any society. The fundamental problem with laissez-faire is that it doesn't care who wins.

"And it is impossible to be too blunt about the fact that $5/hr. workers at McDonalds are not going to vote Republican. If we want a conservative society, we need to make sure we have the kind of economic base that will produce Republican voters. End of story."

-Robert Locke

Man, that's so right on.

Technorati tags: patriotism, economics

It's Official: Bush Is A Mexican Mole

Today, our President revealed quite clearly what he is actually up to; he is serving as an agent for a foreign power.

I just don't see any other way to view crap like this:

Calderon tells Bush Mexico needs more - Yahoo! News

My pledge to you and your government, but more important to the people of Mexico, is I'll work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform," Bush said during a sun-splashed arrival ceremony that opened two days of meetings with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in this Yucatan Peninsula tourist haven.

This immediately brings to mind something George Washington said in his farewell address:

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial, else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests.

I think what is happening in this nation in regard to its leaders' odious relations with foreign states, Mexico in particular, is an imminent threat to us all. Washington was right. The "real patriots" surely those who speak out, and act out, against the outright corruptions in which Bush & Co. engage with nations to our south. Minutemen and those who support them are surely being cast as "suspected and odious." And Bush is counting on their being an ample supply of "tools and dupes."

I hope and pray that the son of a bitch does not find them.


UPDATE: TBC has more good stuff on this here. I find it fascinating that if we account for the time zone differential , we posted within a minute of each other. And we both called Bush a traitor. Great minds think alike!

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Welcome to Another Cavalcade of Conservatism

Now, for another honor roll of Internet tidbits, blogging brilliance and other general Conservative crispness **:

LinknZona: From High Positions

At what point does [Bush's] stubbornness in disdain for his country and its supporters and in love for and support of a foreign power, Mexico, cause many American patriots to lose faith in their president? I don’t know, and I doubt if anyone does. But sometime between 9/11 and 2006 it happened. Many came to wonder how effective it was in protecting America to fight a war on terror in one part of the world and encourage everyone, including those same terrorists, to cross our borders at will.

Let's hope that enough people stop drinking the Kool Aid to stop this man of mundane intellect on a fools errand from ruining the nation we leave to our children.

Becoming American

The question of American national identity and the strength of our attachments to the American national community is, given our diversity, perhaps the most important domestic national question facing this country. Some dismiss these concerns as being based on “outdated theories.” Others urge Americans to accept other possible platforms for solidarity like “new diasporas, transnational civil society, and other identity groups” and the “thinning out of national ties” and argue that “it is time to accept an America . . . whose bonds are secondary to other forms of association.”

For the sake of the viability of this republic and its people and institutions, let us hope not.

There's a key point here: There are a lot of Americans - even a lot of Conservatives - who must be disabused of contemporary and too widely accepted leftists beliefs that diminish the importance of Citizens having primary and sole allegiance to this nation if they are to be truly American, and for America to continue to exist.

UN opposes proposed Nigerian ban on same-sex relationships - Africa

Four UN special rapporteurs on racism, violence against women, xenophobia and related intolerance said in a statement that the draft bill is 'an absolutely unjustified intrusion of individuals' right to privacy' and goes against the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The same folks who want to force the world to pay for global warming want to be the definers of what is morally proper. Nope, no global government aspirations to see here folks. Move along.

Free Trade and Funny Math by Patrick J. Buchanan - HUMAN EVENTS

Economic nationalism is the policy of rising powers, free trade the policy of declining powers. For great powers have ever regarded trade as an arena of struggle in the clash of nations. It is no accident all four presidents who made it to Mount Rushmore were protectionists.

That's powerful. Right now, being protectionist is not in favor. Why? Because those who control the information flow are pure, free-trade globalists who think the concept of a "soveriegn nation" is quaint.


Townhall.com::Prosecutor's discretion::By Debra J. Saunders

Last month, when Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean began serving 11-year and 12-year prison sentences, respectively, for shooting at a fleeing drug smuggler, many Americans were outraged that the federal government would prosecute two agents for doing their jobs. Their trial uncovered policies that seem designed to undermine success -- such as the rule that prohibits agents from pursuing a speeding suspected smuggler without a supervisor's authorization.

Drug smugglers know that if they speed to the border, they'll likely get away. Former U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Ham points toward the location at Fabens, Texas, on Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, where former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean shot drug smuggler Osvaldo Davila last year. The agents began serving prison sentences in January after their convictions in the incident.

But the real outrage in this story is how federal prosecutors used their discretion to shelter a drug smuggler and go after two men who, at the worst, should have been fired for shooting at the smuggler and then not reporting what they had done. The outrage is that this case ever came to trial.

Once this is cleared up, can we shoot the freaking prosecutor in the ass with salt-buckshot in the public square? When I was a kid, there was a kooky old lady in the neighborhood who would shoot kids in the ass with the stuff if they rode bikes on her property. While I was never hit, I recall seeing the results. Painful.


Atlas Shrugs: KENT STATE:IN THE NAME OF OBL. THE YEAR OF ISLAMIC VICTORY!" YourTaxdollars at Work

He was drawing a paycheck from the people of the State of Ohio while trying to launch a Jihad against people like me. In fact, just five minutes before I called he posted an entry under the title "Crusaders Can’t Take Anymore in Afghanistan!"

Two Word Solution: National Guard


Lincoln Tribune - Bank Boycott Coalition Releases List of Illegal Alien Banks - Politics - News

A coalition of over 100 anti-illegal immigration groups that are boycotting Bank of America are releasing a broader survey of banks, in order to assist consumers in relocating their money to banks that are not in the business of aiding and abetting illegal aliens!

They should at least change their name to Scumbank of America.


Muhammad Dressup

Praise Allah! It's the Prophet Muhammad riding his flying donkey up to heaven, and he wants you to dress him up in something special before he gets there! It's so easy! Just drag the items to him with your mouse and they'll snap right into place.

This is actually kind of fun to play around with!


blonde sagacity: A Rape Tree Grows Out West

It seems that when woman employ the "guides" that take you across the Mexican -U.S. border (called "Coyotes"), one thing these women must endure is the routine practice of being raped and as a visual reminder to all that come after --her bloodstains are left in the dirt and her panties are hung from the branches of a tree.

This was news to me. You've gotta see the pictures!


From My Position... On the way!: What Carren thinks of Senator McCain

Senator is not a word I would use for McCain. JERK (or asshat, as Chuck usually says) is more like it. When Chuck was in the hospital, Jerk came to "visit" us.

A quick story before I tell you what happened: A few weeks before Chuck was wounded I watched a TV movie that protrayed Jerk's time as a POW during Vietnam. I was intrigued by the story and developed a lot of respect for what he endured, and the fact that his wife waited all those years for him to return home. I knew bits and pieces of the story before watching the movie, and I knew his arms were badly damaged due to the torture he received. I had a lot of respect for the man... then I met him.

When he first walked in I was honored to meet him. He shook my hand and Alice's hand, then walked over to Chuck's bedside. After a lousy 5 minutes or so, the Jerk said (and I quote):

"Well, we all know what we're here for... let's do the photo op."

EXCUSE ME!!!??? The PHOTO OP???!!!!

What an effing loon...and he want's to be your president!


American Chronicle: Amnesty The Day Bush Killed America, If 30 million Ilegals are Good, Why Not 300 million?

President Bush, you defined your legacy well. Your name will live in perpetual infamy as the man that killed America. You have already replaced Benedict Arnold as the example of traitorous behavior but you have not gone as low as you can go. The ignoble day legislation granting amnesty or guest worker status to millions of illegals is passed, will go down in history with recognition equal to the day John Kennedy died, the Alamo, Pearl Harbor, 9-11, and Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time” declaration. All will remember where they were when Bush killed America. Mark that day well; you will need to explain to your children why you did nothing to stop it.

Bush is actually worse than all of those formerly breathing traitors put together. But let's not quibble about degree when we're so far immersed in Hell.


American Chronicle: Approve Amnesty? Then Drop the White House American flag, Spit, Piss on it, and burn it.

If Bush, Specter, McCain, Kennedy, Reid and the other Bushite corrupt leaders in congress pass a bill that conforms to Mexico’s demands, they should sign it in front of the Capitol Building with a big background “Mission Accomplished’ banner. At the same time they can lower the American flag to the ground, spit and piss on it, burn it and replace it with a white flag of surrender along with a Mexican, North American Union and World Trade Organization flags. Let them all be there for the photo-op so we will know who is lying when they blame our country’s ruin on others.

I want to start a rock group in which all the performers wear masks of politicians who want amnesty. The name of the group? How's "Deep Fried Surrender Monkeys" sound?


Democrats Worried About Offending Illegal Aliens!

As if the Democrats' mad rush to remake America into a third-world colony of Mexico were not bad enough, now a mindless liberal actually wants to scrap the First Amendment by banning use of the term "Illegal Alien" in what used to be the Great state of Florida.

Fredericka Wilson, the bill's sponsor, is probably the dumbest ball of lint excuse for an elected official I've ever had the pleasure of avoiding meeting at a social event.


The Sun Sets in the West by Patrick J. Buchanan - HUMAN EVENTS

In the early years of World Wars I and II, Europeans implored us to come save them from the Germans. We did. In the early Cold War, Europeans welcomed returning GIs who stood guard in the Fulda Gap. Now, with the threat gone, the gratitude is gone. Now, with their welfare states eating up their wealth, their peoples aging, their cities filling up with militant migrants, they want America to continue defending them, as they sit in moral judgment on how we go about it. This isn't an alliance. This isn't a partnership. Time to split the blanket. If they won't defend themselves, let them, as weaker nations have done to stronger states down through the ages, pay tribute

Pay up, Euroweenies!


Globalism: Enemy of the Middle Class -- February 2007 Phyllis Schlafly Report

Globalism is the enemy of the middle class. Globalism preaches that the world is flat; that nations should have no borders; that labor, capital, goods and services should flow freely between countries. Globalism's mantras are "free trade" and "abolish protectionism." Globalism forces American workers to compete against people who work in other countries for 30 cents an hour without benefits. Competing with such low wages means the end of the American middle class. Americans relish competition, as our national fixation on sports contests proves every day. But global trade is not played on a level playing field — our opponents don't play by the rules and the umpire (the World Trade Organization) is biased against us.

That's the big thing that most middle class supporters of globalization don't get: If it really happens all the way, then there won't be a middle class anywhere on earth. Those who are currently are American middle class workers by default will fall to the bottom. Nobody at the top will look out for their interests.


Auto Graveyard by Patrick J. Buchanan - HUMAN EVENTS

The world is witnessing the passing of the United States as the greatest industrial power and the most self-sufficient republic the world had ever seen. Yet, no one acts. Why? Ideology is one reason. Free-trade fanatics are like those devout Christians who will not undergo surgery, even if their malady is killing them. Second, there are the obtuse who simply cannot see that our "trade partners" have found a way around the rules and are skinning us alive. Third, to gain and hold high office, candidates of both parties depend on the contributions of a monied elite, whose salaries, bonuses, stock options and golden parachutes depend on a rising share price, which means constantly cutting costs by moving production out of United States and getting rid of high-wage American workers. There are rewards for economic treason.

I hate it that we are being so badly hosed while most of my neighbors and friends remain ignorant to what is really going on.


Gates of Vienna: Running Scared in Red House

“Yeah, he used to be all gung-ho and say things like ‘we’re not going to put up with this crap’ — he was all ready to take ’em on. But not long ago he ran into one of those Muslims down at the convenience store [at the corner of Rolling Hill Road and SR 727] and got into an argument. And would you believe, that sucker went to his van and pulled an assault rifle on him. Ever since then he’s been keeping a low profile — he doesn’t want anything else to happen to him, so he’s laying low.” This is a textbook example of mau-mauing in action. But it’s the most hardcore example of mau-mauing I’ve ever personally heard of. The Great Jihad operates by stealth. The knife at the throat is not its primary weapon of aggression; it prefers to erode our defenses incrementally, using social pressure, legal action, media manipulation, subversion, and good old-fashioned intimidation.

There's some scary crap going on in rural Virginia. I kid you not.


The Freedom Fighter's Journal: American Traitor Of The Week: JULIO PINO

The Second Award of "American Traitor Of The Week" goes to the vile and disgusting Julio Pino, an alleged professor and intellectual, who somehow wormed his cowardly way into a job at Kent State in Ohio. A pity we can't send the Ohio National Guard to the Kent State campus for a military style execution at sunrise tomorrow, as this piece of subhuman scum so richly deserves. Are there any patriots active in this part of Ohio? I have the address of some trash that needs to be taken out and dumped at the county landfill.

Ah! Yes! The National Guard!


Liberty Counsel News Release March 2, 2007

The students gathered in the cafeteria before school to pray, but a Satanist student went to the school office and complained. As a result, Vice Principal Otoupal told the Christian students they could not pray in the cafeteria but would have to go outside. After the students insisted on praying in the cafeteria because of inclement weather, Otoupal suspended them for ten days.

So, a Satanist can walk into a principal's office and be taken seriously? We're in bigger trouble than I thought...

Technorati tags: Cavalcade of Conservatism


**WARNING - not intended for consumption by leftists, ignoramuses, anyone with a smarmy web moniker like "Hannitized," or anyone who thinks that AlGore deserves the Nobel Prize because he won an Oscar.

Immigration ignored by dogmatic left and corporatist right (again)

Don't get me wrong, I like Real Clear Politics. But sometimes I think they shill too much for the corporatist right that profits from the recruited invasion of illegal aliens. In a recent interview with Mitt Romney, RCP co-founder Tom Bevan entirely misses a point, and an opportunity to properly engage on a very telling point that Romney makes almost at the very start of their conversation. Why the following produced no follow-up question is beyond reason:

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Interview With Mitt Romney
RCP: What's the question you get asked most?
ROMNEY: From Republican crowds most often the question relates to immigration, then education and healthcare.

I'd like to know why this response did not intrigue Mr. Bevans enough to at least ask what sort of questions are being asked by the rank-and-file? I think I know the answer: He didn't ask because if he had, he'd have had to report that the vast majority of Republicans are telling Mr. Romney they are pissed off about their nation being invaded. This would be a repudiation of the Bush Dissolve The Nation Doctrine, and it might expose as frauds the other supposed "front-runners" for the GOP nomination.

A couple of months ago, I started tracking the New York Times' "most searched" content". Should I find it surprising that despite the topic "immigration" having never fallen below third place in the search rankings, it fails to show up as a blip on the radar in either the "most emailed" or "most blogged about" categories (also published at the link). What I think this should tell us is that people are searching for answers to our immigration quagmire, but the stories that the New York Times serves up are not deemed worthy of being emailed or being blogged about by those who look to the NYT for information. Could it be possible that even predominately liberal NYT readers are not in agreement with the amnesty-centric positions being promoted by the left's best friend?

I think so.

And I don't see a bit of difference between the disingenuous manner in which Bevan handled the Romney interview in regard to immigration and the anti-American manner in which the New York times handles the same subject matter.


Technorati tags: immigration reform, immigration, Real Clear Politics, New York Times, Tom Bevan, Mitt Romney,

Political correctness would have killed the colonists

I really enjoy Gates of Vienna. Each visit to this blog provides food for thought. Today, I'm just going to link to a comment that was elevated to the front page. It falls right in line with everything I hope, dream and fear for our nation. Brilliant!

Gates of Vienna: A Stirring in the Forest

The American spirit that our ancestors harnessed to conquer this continent lies
somewhat dormant today, especially in certain regions of America. Our ancestors woke up in a world every morning where there were other groups of humans in the woods with a uncompromising violent warrior ideology looking to butcher our families. In an environment like that you couldn’t afford to let political correctness dictate your responses. You couldn’t wait for the authorities to come protect you. You had to be willing to take responsibility for your family’s survival into your own hands, and if that meant you had to use your technological and tactical superiority in a preemptive use of locally organized violence, local law enforcement would understand. But the further the threat was pushed away from the backyards of the northeast political elite the easier it was for them to legislate a conscience.

Technorati tags: Political Correctness

UCLA CANCELS MINUTEMAN DEBATE

Here's a press release I just received:

FREEDOM OF SPEECH ONCE AGAIN THREATENED ON A UNIVERSITY CAMPUS LOS ANGELES, CA

The University of California Los Angeles rescinded an invitation yesterday issued to Carl Braun, California State Director for The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, to a debate scheduled for this evening with Dr. Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute regarding border security due to “security risks”. The event which has been planned for months, was sponsored by ClubLogic.org and the Ayn Rand Institute, was to have taken place this evening on the UCLA campus.

“Apparently the open border advocates will infringe upon our constitutional rights to free speech because they are worried that we will educate college students about the criminal elements that enter our country illegally while they simultaneously threaten the personal security of our members, stated Chris Simcox, founder and President of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. “The UCLA administration should ensure that free speech and honest debate regarding such an important topic is not void from their campus.”

The University Police and Minuteman Leadership were notified Monday morning of threats appearing on an anarchist website. The site was one of several calling for protests stating "Admission is free, so let’s do what they did at Columbia and shut it down! Hate speech is not free speech. No hate speech at UCLA." The postings gave instructions to protestors on how to defeat police efforts to control the mobs
if things got out of control: "Remember UCPD officers gleefully use tazers guns,
so wear heavy clothing with a thick plastic raincoat over it. Also Tazer prongs
are 2 inches long and can be short circuited by an(d) correctly placed insulated metal object or wire mesh. Plan ahead and avoid injury.”

The University Administration cited budgetary reasons for having to pay police overtime but private sources said there was quite a controversy amongst school administrators between those that wanted the event to proceed and those that wanted to do anything to prevent the Minuteman Leader from sharing his views on the topic. Billed as a civil discourse on the rationale of borders, Dr. Brook, a noted
"open borders advocate" and Mr. Braun, a proponent of strong border security
were prepared to conduct a philosophical debate on the subject for the students
and faculty.

Instead, the Students for A Democratic Society (SDS) on campus planned to disrupt the free exchange of ideas. Citing security concerns, Arthur Lechtholz-Zey, Chief Executive Officer of Club Logic, notified Mr. Braun at 6pm Monday evening (Pacific Time) that the event was cancelled. "Arthur was quite distressed at the last minute cancellation by the University Administration" stated Carl Braun California State Director for The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. "We both felt that freedom of speech was once again trumped by anarchists and students threatening to disrupt the event in a Columbia University type protest."

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) is a peaceful, law-abiding and citizen-led initiative organized to stand watch at our borders and in our neighborhoods, report illegal activities to the proper authorities, and build border fencing on private lands using private donations. Additionally, MCDC seeks to urge local and federal officials to enforce our immigration laws in order to keep our families and country safe. MCDC conducts border watch operations that assist the activities of the U.S. Border Patrol, reports employers of illegal aliens, and advocates to keeps tax dollars from being used for illegal alien benefits.

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You can go on believing all cutures are equal...

...but pardon me for thinking you're nuts.

WARNING

If you are squeamish, do not read further, and by all means don't click on the link and read more.

But if you do, I hope it gives you pause. If you believe that the Orwellian mantra "diversity is our strength" has even the smallest scintilla of truth, I feel sorry for you. You have been enslaved by the cult.

Cruellest cut in the name of Islam

Then the scissors went down between my legs and the man cut off my inner labia and clitoris. I heard it, like a butcher snipping the fat off a piece of meat. A piercing pain shot up between my legs, indescribable, and I howled. Then came the sewing: the long, blunt needle clumsily pushed into my bleeding outer labia, my loud and anguished protests, Grandma's words of comfort and encouragement. "It's just this once in your life, Ayaan. Be brave, he's almost finished." When the sewing was finished, the man cut the thread off with his teeth.

If you have a problem with my believing that a nation should have a predominate and dominating culture in order to survive, tough sh*t. If you want to experience the joy of learning about different cultures, please do so by traveling to distant lands, not by importing the toxic or even the exotic here. Imposing variety upon your neighbors because you think it will enrich them is not just un-neighborly, it's arrogantly evil.


Technorati tags: Islam, Islamism, political correctness, diversity, multiculturalism

On Cultural Marxism

I was reviewing some old comments and came across one of my off-the-cuff replies that led me to do a bit of Googling on memes related to cultural Marxism:

"The Marxists who started the push for a politically correct (thus stripped of meaning and ripe for the seeds of socialism) culture in the 1920's have intellectual allies today and many of them are neoconservatives building a GOP apparatchik that they can lord over. The John Podhoretz's of the world are counting on the world's fast pace and complexity making it likely that there will remain near majority of the electorate that remains only superficially informed, thus cognitively disconnected from the complexities of Corporatists' machinations.

Sometimes I wish I could just slide through life ignorant like many of my friends. It would be a far less painful existence to be free from the dread I have for my daughter's future. But I cannot be an ignoramus. My disdain for liars and obfuscators has cost me dearly in my career and in my relationships. But those things are ephemeral and I must put up with the occasional loss of position or friendship if it means that when I leave this earthly plane I will be comfortable in knowing I have done all I can to pass to my progeny the same great things that were placed in my care by birth. The increase in the number of not so clever argumentative methods in use by mass immigrationists is a good sign, a sign of desperation, I hope."

With that, I bring you a feature; perhaps I'll do it regularly. Perhaps I won't.

Cavalcade of Conservatism
Linked quotes to stuff you should read right now

"Again, until recently, anyone who questioned, however gently, multiculturalism or mass immigration was treated like a piece of dirt..."

"Disguising malignant intent behind code words such as multiculturalism, diversity, tolerance, safe schools/safe sex, same-sex marriage, ‘gay’ rights, choice, and peace, New Left revolutionaries began taking America and the West down the path to familial and cultural suicide".

"My point is: we became accustomed to being told that we must watch our terminology, and that we must change our vocabulary in order to accommodate or placate a group of people. The reason? Because they had been victims, and in fact, our ancestors were the victimizers".

"If language is used to assault Western culture, regaining control over it should constitute our first line of defense. We have a right to resist those who advocate our nation’s self-termination. A policy which deprives us of self-determination and maybe our children of self-preservation is evil, and we have not just a right, but a duty to oppose it, even if it is championed by our own government; in fact, especially then."

"Truth be told, cultural Marxism is now the "frame" (apologies to cultural Marxist George Lakoff) through which most apolitical Americans now see reality. Since much of the population does not vote, it's no stretch to say that cultural Marxism has almost achieved hegemony in the United States."

"If you’d like a preview of an American fascist state, look at higher education. If Hitlerism ever comes to America, it won’t be marching with crosses and Bibles, but mouthing the platitudes of multiculturalism (cultural Marxism), while goose-stepping to the beat of Sgt. Pelosi’s PC Band."

This is a war. It is a to-the-death struggle between those who properly seek to keep things certain about our Republic and those who would exchange it for something radically different, and certainly less "free." Arm yourself with knowledge; keep it locked and loaded.

Technorati tags: Cultural Marxism, political correctness, diversity, multiculturalism

One of These Things is Not Like The Others

One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you tell which thing is not like the others?

Class Assignment

1) Click on the first link.

2) Then read the story that brings us the moronic quote of the day:

Secrets of Obama family unlocked - World - Times Online

" 'I believe the American electorate is ready to support leaders who embody the American dream despite their differences. In doing so, we affirm ourselves as a tolerant people,' said William Galston, a senior fellow in public policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington."

3) Then click on the second link.

4) Select and read the biographical information about any 5 random presidents and make note of their heritage (that's a reference to his parents and ancestry, for those of you who are Democrats).

5) In 150 words or less, tell me how this guy ever gets elected President of the United States of America; if you use the term "racist," or "Nazi," you get an automatic "F" and are banished to the Godwin's Law closet forever.

If the origins of a candidate for President of the United States are somehow off-limits for discussion, then the nation is already too far gone. It cannot be saved from falling victim to whatever ideaology opposes it because it will no longer have any ideaology or moral absolutes of its own. While I believe we've been led down a radical and dangerous path by political correctness, multiculturalism, forced diversity and redefined "tolerance" for 40 years or so, I don't believe we've fallen to the point at which we'd elect someone president who represents the eradication of our traditions and our culture. The Hate America^TM crowd loves Obama primarily because he represents the antithesis of Americanism.

I hope the Dhimmicrats do nominate him. It will ensure a GOP victory in 2008, and likely a sweep of both Houses of Congress by true Conservatives. It will be the biggest-ever GOTV boost for those who oppose the dogma and semantics of cultural Marxism.


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The State of Our Unraveling Union

Tonight, Jefedente Bush will deliver his seventh annual State of His Progress Toward Unraveling the Union Address. Unfortunately for America, he has sunk to such a pathetically low stature in the minds of even his loyal Conservative base that he can offer no plan on any substantial issue with a chance of getting traction in Congress; that is, except for his onerous immigration plan. It sickens me that the man truly believes that he will be doing right by future generations if he takes radical action to revise the ancestral foundations of our culture. And he's staking his legacy upon a plan the Democrats lust over because they know it will lead to perpetual domination by the left of our Federal Government as today's illegal alien criminals become tomorrow's most-government-dependent classes.

I have to hand it to stubborn son of a bitch. He has Faith....all of it misplaced. If you care about this nation's future and desire it to be a better place for your kids and descendants, then the things in which Bush has Faith should scare you:

• He has Faith that adding 100 million people - becoming more than 20% of our population in my daughter's lifetime - from, mostly, a single-source alien culture will not radically alter or diminish ours.
• He has Faith that Meztizos are as culturally compatible with us as a the Europeans who made up the vast majority of all American immigrants prior to 1970 and that they won't pose the long-term problems that our Hmong, Bantu and other exotic ethnic imports pose.
• He has Faith that this nation will somehow become one with aliens we have not known through the ages despite our never having proved capable of assimilating large groups of newcomers who were not from folkways with which the majority of us and our ancestors could readily identify.
• He has Faith in bureaucracy to manage a plan substantially larger and infinitely more more complex than the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli reform, which up until now has been the most miserable bureaucratic failure since the programs of the Great Society.
• He has Faith that the numbers of illegal aliens currently here are lower than feared by many reasonable people and that it won't be soon learned the number granted initial amnesty is to be double the officially projected numbers, as it became known after the passage of Simpson-Mazzoli.
• He has Faith that his "No Foreign-Born Alien Left Behind" plan will not act as a magnet for additional waves of illegal aliens that will be larger and more desperate than this one.
• He has Faith that when these amnestied criminals leverage "family reunification" laws to bring four or five times more people from the third world it will not bankrupt us or impact our middle class in any negative way.
• He has Faith that creating a permanant cleft between citizens based on primary language preference will somehow enrich us, when history tells us that people that speak different languages cannot share a single culture...or a nation.
• He has Faith that America's current ethnic majority will not react to the the threat of being displaced in the franchise by joining together into groups to promote their own ethnic agendas, nor will any of these groups promote radical agendas to restore what Bush so ignorantly threw away.
• He has Faith that the anger sure to come, once it dawns on those who believed the spin, can be contained by political correctness and more blather about multiculturalism.

I've hardly scratched the surface with this. But I hope you, dear reader, get my point. I wish it were as simple as saying "we don't know what will happen if Bush gets his way on immigration." That wouldn't be half as bad as the truth. The truth is, we do know a lot about what will happen, and none of it is good for anyone on the right who isn't a corporatist desirous of instant financial gratification at the expense of the future. Nor is is good for anyone on the left who isn't politically motivated to create a permanent underclass of compliant, government-dependent serfs. Or is there something I don't understand about what happens when the nation with the largest per-capita carbon footprint grows by 25% in a single generation.

Have you noticed that Bush never talks about history, except when he is attempting to argue the validity of a logical fallacy? He only mentions the word assimilation in passing, but he is quick to mention the family values of our never-successful-at-republican-democracy neighbors to the south. If the family values of Mexico or Venezuela or Colombia are so compatible with ours, then why aren't they already living in nations and cultures with rich histories of stable liberty, like ours? If the family values of those with whom Bush wants to share our ancestral franchise, forever, are so admirable, then why aren't their nations doing so well that almost nobody wants to leave?

I've come to the conclusion that Bush either does not believe that there is a unique American culture, or does not believe that there should be a unique American culture. Either way, he must dislike something very fundamental about the ethnic majority or he would not be doing this to us.

With that, I'll leave you with one of the very first pieces I wrote for this web site, long before it had a blog:

Yes, there is a "unique American Culture"

Patriotic Americanism must continue to prevail over the desires of those who wish to deny that there is such a thing as "a unique American culture." Our ancestors anticipated attempts to lead our nation down a path to balkanization and expected us to stand fast against them. We must consistently refute lies that contend America was founded by and populated by people possessing broadly diverse perspectives and ideals. The ideas behind concepts like multiculturalism and diversity were anathema in the America of 1776 and for nearly 200 years thereafter.In their faith, habits and principles, the first American citizens were a most narrowly diverse lot, separated only by slight variations in Christian denomination. In their ethics, morals and values, the first Americans could only be described as virtually homogenous. It was the similarity not the diversity of our forefathers and founders that set the stage for America to become a great nation.

Those who advocate diversity and multiculturalism as being historically important to this nation's greatness are dangerously wrong. Using their twisted logic, we are to believe that the ideals driving Islamic terrorists to fly planes into buildings are societally compatible with the motivations that drive Presbyterian women to have fundraising bake sales. Diversity theory places Christian Baptism on par with Animist ritual mutilation of baby girls' genitalia. Diversity theory blindly accepts into our midst hordes of incompatible, poorly educated, virtually aliterate (if not outright alingual) illegal alien border-jumpers from third-world Kleptocracies because it is supposedly in keeping with "the things for which this nation stands." There is no doubt that our founders would be nauseated by such absurd notions.

Thomas Jefferson expressed concern about this issue in "Notes
on Virginia" (brackets added for clarity):

"…But are there no inconveniences to be thrown into the scale against the advantage expected from a multiplication of numbers by the importation of foreigners? It is for the happiness of those united in society to harmonize as much as possible in matters which they must of necessity transact together. Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. To these nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies [the equivalent of today's despots, tyrants and kleptocrats]. yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass."

Jefferson chafed at the thought that we could, by inaction, surrender our homogeneity and he was greatly concerned that we might! All this banter about diversity and multiculturalism would have given him fits.

Nothing exemplifies how far we have strayed from the intentions and dreams of our founders more clearly than our current immigration policy. Yes, immigration is an important part of our history. But nobody from the pro-immigration camp wants to discuss the fact that the none of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were immigrants, they were colonist and British subjects. Every member of the Constitutional Convention of 1789 except Alexander Hamilton was born in the colonies. The absolute truth is that the vast majority of our first citizens were Americans by birth and the vast majority of Americans have always been "citizens by birth." We have never had as many as 15 percent of our residents being of foreign origin.

Cast in this proper light, the "nation of immigrants" mantra to which we are constantly subjected becomes tritely idiomatic. If we are to be strictly precise, our history is one forged by colonists who became the first American citizens via revolution. These originals were augmented by immigrants who were eager assimilants: All Americans. Before and until the immigration reforms of 1965, between one quarter and one third of all migrants to this land could not adapt and ended up leaving. Those who came here "seeking a better life" without possessing the all-important corollary "dream of becoming American" were roughly cast aside by a society that was decidedly intolerant of selfish opportunists who didn't want to "get with the program." Promoting diversity for the sake of diversity is as accepting of malignancies as it is of the benign; it will always be an utterly stupid practice.

The only way in which we can assure America's long-term continued success as a sovereign nation is to establish new policies promoting American cultural homogeneity via imposing strict limits on the number of immigrants, demanding rigorously-enforced visa and border laws and insisting that all new arrivals submit to and successfully complete compulsory "patriotic assimilation" courses soon after their arrival. Those who cannot accept our unique culture, mores and values as their own, forsaking all others, should be summarily returned to their countries of origin.

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Fourth Circuit affirms Christian Clubs' free speech rights

I've spent a bit of time reading the thoughts of some atheist leftists in the blogosphere in an attempt to gain some perspective on why they seem to hate Christians so much. It occurs to me that there probably is no such thing as a "conservative athiest" because conservatism requires thought based on the premise that there are moral absolutes to which a culture and a nation must defer, in all instances.

I'll bullet point out my observations after bringing you some yuletide cheer:

Liberty Counsel: Doors Now Wide Open for Christian Clubs at Nation's Schools

"I think it's ironic as these schools hassle the Good News Clubs, because they're great organizations," Staver shares. "They teach character, they teach morality, they teach right and wrong, they teach respect, and they do it all from a Christian viewpoint -- and the kids' lives are literally changed."

• Athiests are afraid. Only fear can raise such bile and vitriol in opposition to the very things that are the undisputable starting point for the culture and the freedoms they have.
  
• Athiests must not be very deep thinkers, despite whatever conflated inflation of their own selves they might believe. Seriously. Try as I might, I cannot find an instance of an athiest even pondering an explanation for "first cause." Do they ever go down this path, or do they consider the starting point for the universe to be truly uninteresting and so devoid of merit that they won't discuss it?
  
• Athiests approach arguments with a markedly adolescent point of view. Whenver I read their rants against religion I always get the feeling that some part of them is stuck in their teen years. The tone of their mocking is a spot-on rendition of the all-knowing everyteen lament that parents are backward and don't know anything that might be of value to them for the future.
  
• Athiests are among the most intolerant of all people. They've made up their minds that anyone who believes in God isn't worthy of respect. I'll grant that some of them don't wear their scorn on their sleeves so clearly, but I'm convinced that those who athiests who don't immediately start mocking theists for their faith immediately brand the faithful as idiots as soon as a person's faith persuasion is determined. Maybe they don't say so, but they think less of us.
  
• Theists, at least those who come from Christian upbringings, generally don't have such automatic feelings when they learn of someone's athiesm. And I think that's because there is nary a Christian who hasn't suffered a crisis of faith and recovered; the default thinking mode that a Christian assumes when confronted by the athiest is "well, there is hope that this one might come around."

That said, hooray for the Fourth Circuit. I know I'll probably never be able to say that for the Ninth!

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Compatibility of Hispanic "family values" proved laughable

Heather McDonald dares posit a truth and dares open-borders lunatics to consider it.

Hispanic Family Values? by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal Autumn 2006

"Since conservative open-borders advocates have yet to acknowledge the facts of Hispanic family breakdown, there is no way to know what their solution to it is. But they had better come up with one quickly, because the problem is here—and growing."

Are they listening? Probably not. It's hard to hear the outside when you live in a gated community and don't have the "pleasure" of listening to the malignant drum-beat of multiculturalism. Good Conservatives need to begin an inquisition into just who started trying to sell them on the idea that 20 years from now this legion of government-largesse-dependent illegitimates will somehow become Republican voters.

Heads should roll. But I'm not counting on it as long as folks like me are berated and badgered (in a sickeningly politically correct manner) for pointing out that Mexico's support for reconquista isn't a fantasy.

Technorati tags: hispanic vote,illegal immigration,illegal alien,reconquista, We Need a Wall, multiculturalism,

Speaking truth to borders

Last week I had a conversation with a friend who is deeply committed to the immigration reform movement and who has become a public figure of sorts on the issue in his state. He informed me that because of some information of which he's been made aware recently he will be taking more time to work on opposition to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). I've been aware of the SPP for several months now and, as time has allowed, I've been trying to become better informed about it.

The thing I find most amazing...and alarming...about the SPP is that there have been virturally no news stories about it in the MSM and detailed inside information from my usual sources has been spotty. But I'm beginning to believe this is changing. Why? Well, this little comment by Congressman Tom Tancredo...

WorldNetDaily: 'Bush doesn't think America should be an actual place'

"Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country,' he said. 'You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country.'

He said quickly changing demographics can cause big problems, and specifically cited the "Islamization of Europe" in recent years which has led to conflict across the continent."

...has started a firestorm in some of the more conservative blogs. The problem facing Conservatives attempting to come to grips with the likely realities enmeshed with the issue of the SPP is that they have no historical peer with which to compare them. The prospects brought to mind in the study of what actually might be driving the SPP are so appalling and so dangerous to our future as United States that it is hard to imagine that even someone as feckless as Bush would take part in them. Bush's intentions with the SPP may well be the most treasonous expressed intent of any sitting president in this nation's history.

The more I learn, the more alarmed I'm becoming about this SPP threat to our sovereignty. If you examine Bush's actions to date on illegal immigration and consider his lack of enforcement of our existing immigration laws, it doesn't appear to be much of a stretch to suspect his actions come from an inner conviction that the issue is moot: He believes that it is his legacy to leave us with no factual nation, only an idealogical one that he thinks can be imported and impressed via template upon all cultures, no matter how intransigent to influence by traditional Western values each culture may be.

This is scary stuff, and those who dare to question the legitimacy of the SPP will likely be branded as lunatics by various elites who would rather we not have a nation. That's my guess here. I've read plenty that gives me pause about the SPP and nothing that convincingly indicates that the organization is benign.


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A Traditional Nation, not a Creedal Nation: What say you, Columbia U?

Some of the events of the past few days have disturbed me a lot.

We have Democrats demonizing a Congressman for his electronic dalliances with a minor (or maybe not a minor) claiming we must protect particpants in the Congressional Page Program from sexual advances from gay Congressmen. These are the very same lunatics who demand that The Boy Scouts subject their members to camping excursions with homosexuals under threat of support from any government institution being prohibited. I find a great deal of irony in the rhetoric of Pelosi and company: There is no non-hypocritical way in which to spin this double standard. Are mere Boy Scouts somehow less worthy of being protected from homosexual pedophiles and pederasts than the children of those with the means to leverage their child into a spot in the Congressional Page Program?

Even more disturbing this week, despite its being ignored by the MSM, is the asinine, violent behavior of a group of misindoctrinated, ignorant, America-hating students at Columbia University. And I call them America-hating with the strongest level of conviction. I've seen the videos (look below), read the comments from both sides, and I've come to the conclusion that at the very least, Columbia University is a pox on the prospect of continued liberty in our nation's future. The institution is in dire need of an adminstrative and faculty housecleaning. And there are some students who should be easily identifiable by the videos and photos of their attacks on representatives of The Minuteman Project who should be purged from the student body; I'd imagine that deportation proceedings would necessarily follow in the case of many who rushed the stage and violated Jim Gilchrist's First Amendement rights.

Before learning of the goon squad tactics by the Stalinistas at Columbia, I was fortunate to have read a Pat Buchanan column (excerpt below) regarding whether America is a nation or a concept. Being able to intellectually juxtapose Columbia U events with Bucahnan's words provided me with some level of insulation, so the incident only served to affirm what Buchanan contends and what I learned from my extended family as a youth. While, I'm a big fan of Professor Sam Huntington's work, particularly his most recent contribution to the immigration debate, I have had a hard-to-define quarrel with his contention that America is a "creedal" nation; that is, I don't believe that just any Joe Schmoe or Mohammed Smithaminijad can "become" American simply by subscribing to some set of ideas or ideals.

Why?

America, like every other nation, is unique because it has a shared historical, genealogical story that has been passed down through generations. Perhaps a small number of those who come from non-Eurocentric cultures in which the words "freedom" and "liberty" are defined differently from the way we define the concepts, if the concepts exist at all in those cultures, may be able to assimilate and become fully Americanized, but it is more likely that it won't be until the birth of the new immigrants' grandchildren or great grandchildren that their descendants will be born with the prospect of growing up to be full-fledged Americans. Even this second and third generation scenario is unlikely if the numbers of Smithaminijads who are allowed to come is large enough to form an insular diaspora in which intermarriage is the rule, rather than broad coupling with the children of those who have a richer American heritage. I've finally come to a way to express my disagreement with Huntington's contention that it is the creed that matters: Aspiring to an America in which adopting a creed is the delineator of a true American is settling for a "the glass is two-thirds empty" definition of what it means to be a sovereign nation.

With that, I'll share with you Buchanan's thoughts on the matter:

Nation or Notion? - Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website

"In his first inaugural address, George W. Bush endorsed the creedal-nation concept: “America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests, and teach us what it means to be citizens.”

To this idea of America as a creedal nation bound together not “by blood or birth or soil” but by “ideals,” there is a corollary that has driven immigration policy for 40 years—that people of any culture or continent can be assimilated with equal ease, depending only upon whether they assent to the tenets of our creed.

Demonstrably, this is false. Human beings are not blank slates. Nor can they be easily separated from the abiding attachments of the tribe, race, nation, culture, community whence they came. Any man or woman, of any color or creed, can be a good American. But when it comes to the ability to assimilate into the United States, all nationalities, creeds, and cultures are not equal."

OK. Now that I've covered what I feel to be an vital prerequisite to our being able to keep the republic that Ben Franklin suggested we might, or might not, let's take a look at what went on at Columbia U earlier this week.

Watch this video:

Thanks to the Minuteman Project site, we can see and hear that Lou Dobbs commented, as did Bill O'Reilly.

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Tribute to Oriana

It has been noted with sadness across much of the conservative Blogosphere the passing of the courageous Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci. I've only included her comments in this blog on a few occasions, but I have read much of what she wrote. She will be sorely missed. Persecuted, ostracized and villified for daring to speak and write the truth about Islam in a modern Western Civilization emasculated by the vile propagation of all things politically correct by various elements and allies of the political left in our nations, she would today be on trial for offending Islam. But cancer took her from us before that could happen. I think we will end up being worse off for her not being able to mount a defense.

In her honor, I'm republishing my post from August 04, 2005:

The introduction to the remarks linked here is important:

On October 22, 2002, Oriana Fallaci addressed an audience at the American Enterprise Institute. Following are short excerpts from her talk. Ms. Fallaci, a native of Florence, Italy and a life-long journalist, caused turmoil across Europe with the publication of her book The Rage and the Pride, calling the West to stand up to the Islamic world.

How the West Was Won, and How It Will Be Lost
Oriana Fallaci, Remarks to The American Enterprise Institute

"From Afghanistan to Sudan, from Palestine to Pakistan, from Malaysia to Iran, from Egypt to Iraq, from Algeria to Senegal, from Syria to Kenya, from Libya to Chad, from Lebanon to Morocco, from Indonesia to Yemen, from Saudi Arabia to Somalia, the hate for the West swells like a fire fed by the wind. And the followers of Islamic fundamentalism multiply like a protozoa of a cell which splits to become two cells then four then eight then sixteen then thirty-two to infinity. Those who are not aware of it only have to look at the images that the TV brings us every day. The multitudes that impregnate the streets of Islamabad, the squares of Nairobi, the mosques of Tehran. The ferocious faces, the threatening fists. The fires that burn the American flag and the photos of Bush.

“The clash between us and them is not a military clash. Oh, no. It is a cultural one, a religious one. And our military victories do not solve the offensive of Islamic terrorism. On the contrary, they encourage it. They exacerbate it, they multiply it. The worst is still to come.”

President Bush has said, “We refuse to live in fear.”

Beautiful sentence, very beautiful. I loved it! But inexact, Mr. President, because the West does live in fear. People are afraid to speak against the Islamic world. Afraid to offend, and to be punished for offending, the sons of Allah. You can insult the Christians, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Jews. You can slander the Catholics, you can spit on the Madonna and Jesus Christ. But, woe betide the citizen who pronounces a word against the Islamic religion."

As a broad, but well-defined culture/civilization it is becoming ever more clear that we Westerners must put aside this silly PC nonsense, stuff multiculturalism out with the trash and stop worshiping it's pimply bastard stepbrother, diversity. When the future of our nations is at stake it makes no sense to spend time talking around the problem. Some crises require blunt, direct, honest - even painful - communication. We're in the midst of one.

Oriana, and many others who are unabashedly speaking the truth, will likely be considered bellwether.

Rest in peace, Oriana. Your light will be sorely missed.

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Taking Ecclesiastes 3: 1,3,8 Seriously: A Time To Hate

David Yeagley of BadEagle has written a fire and brimstone sermon against the evidence of the liberal emasculation of this nation in the post 9|11 era. I don't have a thing to add except for my total agreement with his brilliant essay:

Journal Weblog: A Time To Mourn

"Resolve, the conservatives say. We have shown resolve!

I disagree. We have shown a very weak response. We have been too considerate, too kind, too unwilling to hate, too unwilling to kill.

Every Arab Muslim in this country should have been deported immediately. Every Pakistani Muslim should have been shipped home that day. The American public should have been allowed to show it's true feelings! Instead, laws were made against us! We were disallowed to show our discontent. Any indication of our true feeling was called 'prejudice,' 'bias,' 'mean-spirited,' or whatever the false, self-righteous liberal deceivers could call it. The liberals were more righteous than us. They were the true, spiritual leaders. They had replaced Christ. They were the fathers of the public soul. They were the pastors of the people."

Read the whole piece. If you have one drop of conservative patriotism coursing through your veins it will strike a nerve - one that probably needs desperately to be struck.

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