Posted on 09/29/2015 10:23:30 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
The original piece was published by FGF Books on their website.
FRONT ROYAL, VA Some 30 years ago, Mrs. Alice du Pont Mills invited me to visit her in her expansive Virginia horse farm several thousand acres of it about an hour west of Washington.
At the time, I was Staff Director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committees Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and Mrs. Mills told me that she was very concerned about the situation in Central America, where communist-inspired revolutionaries were creating chaos in several countries at the time.
Mrs. Mills was also an avid horsewoman. Since I had grown up around horses myself, I was glad to take the drive out into hunt country.
It quickly became clear that Mrs. Mills was not all that interested in the warring factions of Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador thousands of miles away; no, she had other fish to fry.
Mrs. Mills was worried. After the Vietnam War, ten percent of the Vietnamese population had become boat people, fleeing from communism and truly risking their lives in fact, thousands of them died trying to escape.
But they had to leave by boat. Theres no ocean between the US and Mexico just the Rio Grande.
I didnt know it until later, but Mrs. Mills was a longtime member of the National Board of Planned Parenthood. She was a generous supporter and even worked with local Planned Parenthood groups in Virginia.
That explains why she revealed to me a surprising fact that rather startled me thirty years ago: Mrs. Mills was also active in Mexico.
Aware that it was illegal to sterilize immigrants once they were in the United States, she told me that she contributed heavily to sterilization clinics that were on the Mexican side of the US Mexico border.
There, the poor Hispanic women coming towards the United States could be coaxed often with money to be conveniently mutilated without any untidy legal consequences. Sure, they could continue on into the States, but they couldnt reproduce. Thus, a great danger was prevented.
Mrs. Mills said this so matter-of-factly that she assumed that any American in his right mind would feel the same way.
As I took my leave, she generously showed me some beautiful paintings which, I remarked, I thought I had actually seen before.
No, she explained, I had seen reproductions everywhere. They were actually the gorgeous originals that her son-in-law, Jamie Wyeth, had painted. They were in a hallway, not prominently displayed museum-style, and there were several of them.
Mrs. Mills died in 2002 ago at a ripe old age of 89. She was a generation younger than Margaret Sanger, to be sure but Sanger lived until 1966, when Mrs. Mills was 54. If Mrs. Mills didnt know Sanger personally, she undoubtedly knew that Planned Parenthoods notorious foundress was a rabid racist and a grimly dedicated eugenicist.
Mrs. Mills was almost the personification of the highbrow super-rich Eastern secular elite (for the record, however, her obituary did state that she was an Episcopalian). She personified the searing-hot brand that P.J. ORourke had burned into the rump of the Population Controllers: theres just enough of me, and way too many of you.
Margaret Sangers eugenics crusade targeted brown and black people everywhere including Italians and Greeks and Spaniards, apparently.
Yes, she was the classic nativist.
And this might go far to explain the immigration policy of Americas Catholic bishops, led by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez. It might help us understand Cardinal Dolans recent outburst, branding opponents of amnesty for illegal aliens as nativists.
On reflection, this must explain how bishops today view every opponent of amnesty for illegal aliens. They think that those who disagree with them are all Margaret Sangers and Alice DuPont Mills.
At least they talk like it and so do their fellow bishops in Mexico.
After all, Archbishop Gomez was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico. He is a legal immigrant who became an American citizen the old-fashioned way he followed the law.
Undoubtedly, the good archbishop is aware of those horrific programs advocated by Sanger, DuPont Mills, and company.
Perhaps thats why he attributes Americas 54 million abortions and counting to American individualism and our legal traditions, not to the contraceptive mentality or racial hatred.
After all, an immigrant could easily get the impression that prominent elites like Mrs. DuPont Mills really do represent what America stands for.
No wonder Archbishop Gomez opposes assimilation of Hispanic immigrants in the United States!
It is no doubt true that there are Margaret Sangers and Alice DuPont Mills among us today. Moreover, they are still murdering the innocent and bragging about it.
But fortunately, they are few in number, although they possess cultural and political power greater than their numbers would suggest.
We should pray that our bishops recognize the difference, if you will, between us and them. If our shepherds were able to make that distinction, they would direct their fire at the real racists who run the abortion lobby.
One wonders why they havent done that already and here arises a contradiction that is hard to fathom for the average layman.
Many bishops have called on Congress to stop funding Planned Parenthood with taxpayer funding. Why cant the bishops call on Congress to defund A.I.D., a rich, defiant, and brazen ally of Planned Parenthood?
The answer is simple. The bishops receive no funding from Planned Parenthood, but they receive hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars a year from A.I.D. for their charitable work.
The elitists at A.I.D. are the cultural heirs of Margaret Sanger and Alice DuPont Mills. Our bishops need to direct their stinging rebukes at those enemies of the unborn, not at the faithful who love life, their Church, and their country.
If the hierarchys hands are tied and their lips are sealed because of the hundreds of millions in taxpayer funding they receive through A.I.D., then perhaps its time to renounce the government funding so they can announce the Good News of the Gospel to those in power without fear.
Christopher Manion served as a staff director on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for many years. He has taught in the departments of politics, religion, and international relations at Boston University, the Catholic University of America, and Christendom College.
What is wrong about being a nativist?
What’s A.I.D.?
I have the same question- Agency for International Development?
Agency for International Development. They dole out the foreign aid.
Thanks.
You are for mutilating women?
“What is wrong about being a nativist?”
It’s antiChristian and antiAmerican, for two.
Yeah, hard to get too upset at that policy.
Survival is a cultural imperative.
I will never apologize for surviving and helping my family survive.
I am a native born, native American nativist and proud of it. I am also a xenophobe so all you illegal aliens -GTFO!!!
Definitions of NATIVISM. 1. : a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants.
the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is anti-Christian or anti-American about that, especially as it pertains to illegal aliens?
Why isn't preserving the demography of this country a desirable goal? We bring in 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants a year, 87% of whom are minorities as defined by the USG and the vast majority come from Third World countries. Immigrants and minorities vote more than two to one Democrat.
We may be the first nation in history where the dominant racial or ethnic group made itself a minority willingly thru its immigration policies.
Tubal ligation, like Vasectomy, is not “mutilation”.
“What is wrong about being a nativist?”
Nothing as far as I’m concerned. How come we can’t have a homeland like every other protected and exalted ethnic group? We’re getting the full court press and the people behind it want nothing more than the destruction/genocide of white people. Oh, and we have to pay the living expenses of the invaders until they have sufficient numbers to get rid of us. Won’t that be a happy day.
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