Posted on 04/10/2005 11:43:00 AM PDT by TapTheSource
Edited on 04/10/2005 11:46:47 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Millions of Americans will be required to show passports when they reenter the United States from Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean by 2008 under new rules announced yesterday by the State and Homeland Security departments.
The new policy, designed to thwart terrorists from exploiting the relative ease of travel in North America, means that Americans who lack U.S. passports will have to obtain them to travel between the United States and neighboring nations. It also will require Mexicans and Canadians to present either passports or another official document to enter this country, with details to be determined.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
No, the irony is not lost on me. I especially dislike the current open borders policy that lets hundreds of thousands if not millions of diseased illegal aliens enter our country with no medical checks whatsoever. Does our esteemed president and congress want the US to suffer pandemic diseases? Where is the sanity in our so-called immigration policies?
Anti-immigration crowd? You sound a bit confused. Amnesty isn't given to immigrants. Amnesty is given to illegal aliens. So those who are opposed to amnesty are anti-illegal immigration.
==Response: "In declining States the leadership intuitively choses the most harmful course of action."-A Great Historian 1888
I would only add the following statement from Malcom Muggeridge:
"A ruling class which is on the run, as ours is, is capable of every fatuity. It makes the wrong decisions, chooses the wrong people, and is unable to recognise its enemies--if it does not actually prefer them to its friends."
Malcum Muggeridge, 'Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes'
This is a great idea. I will donate to a Fence Fund and happy to do it.
==Anti-immigration crowd? You sound a bit confused. Amnesty isn't given to immigrants. Amnesty is given to illegal aliens. So those who are opposed to amnesty are anti-illegal immigration.
Nicely put!
==The fear is overblown. Who's going to pay your SS benefits ? The 45 million aborted?
Are you kidding me??? BTW, I for one am not counting on SS benefits. As far as I'm concerned, they will be long gone when it is my time to retire. I am investing and saving for my retirement accordingly.
You sound like the kind of person who would buy a $10 rolex. "The president say's its not amnesty so therefore it must not be so"
Just before the attack on Pearl Harbor there was tremendous fear of an uprising among the Japanese living on Hawaii. The FBI head named Shriver(if I remember his name correctly was asked about the possibility, he stated in effect-if it happens about 5% will actively participate, about 5% will actively help resist, the remainder will sit on the fence and wait to see what happens. The general rule is up to about 5% of the population will revolt. If the aforementioned rule applies then about 5% of the Mexicans living here will rise up to take back the American Southwest. I have already been told by one Mexican lawyerette " We are taking over here!"
You are absolutely correct A. Paulus. And here is how such a tiny minority of Communists often succeed in overthrowing the targeted government:
(Taken from "We Are The Next Target", link below)
Wars of national liberation
Because open warfare against target governments would simply lead to defeat, the Communists always disguise their revolutions as civil wars. They camouflage their intentions by pretending to fight for the liberation of one class of people from another, using a divide-and-conquer technique against a nation's social structure. This method is referred to as a "war of national liberation," and it adapts its tactics to the unique circumstances of each country. Such a war can pit industrial workers against capitalists, as in Russia, Catholics against Protestants, as in Northern Ireland, blacks against whites, as in South Africa--or Arabs against Jews, as in Israel. The Communists do not openly identify themselves, acting instead as representatives of the supposedly "oppressed" class of people.
By painting their revolution as a spontaneous uprising of "oppressed masses," the Communists hope to convince the target population that it faces an unwinnable war rooted in fundamental social tensions. If the government is also paralyzed and cannot stop the terrorism, public morale quickly drops and the weakening government loses popular support. Believing that the revolution must eventually win, the population abandons active opposition to the terrorists and instead sues for peace at any cost. The perception ultimately becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as the government collapses altogether.
Any "war of national liberation" can be divided into seven steps:
Step 1) To establish themselves in the minds of the target population as a force to be reckoned with, the revolutionaries must first force a heavy-handed reaction by the government. Their tactics are based on a 1969 book by Brazilian Communist Carlos Marighella, the Mini-Manual for Urban Guerrillas, which has been translated and distributed to terrorists throughout the world. Marighella explained how to use such frightening violence that "the government has no alternative except to intensify repression. The police roundups, house searches, arrests of innocent people, make life in the city unbearable... The political situation is transformed into a military situation, in which the militarists appear more and more responsible for errors and violence... The urban guerrilla must become more aggressive and violent, resorting without letup to sabotage, terrorism, expropriations, assaults, kidnappings and executions, heightening the disastrous situation in which the government must act."[55]
Step 2) Having provoked a harsh reaction by the target government, the Communists now flood the Western news media with stories of government atrocities, real or fabricated. The goal is to begin isolating the government from Western, primarily American, support. The revolutionaries label convicted terrorists as "political prisoners"; they invent elaborate stories of secret prisons and "death squads"; and they hide among civilians during fighting, causing the government to kill innocent people accidentally. Such heads of state as Chiang Kai-shek of China, Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua, and the Shah of Iran have been portrayed as corrupt and repressive. The South African government has been painted as being violently racist, while the French colonial administration in Algeria and the British rule in Northern Ireland have been labeled as undemocratic. Similar publicity attacks have been used against South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Rhodesia, El Salvador, Argentina, and dozens of other nations. The news media has always cooperated in these smear campaigns, never allowing the target regime a fair chance to respond to the charges.
Step 3) The Communists can now count on the U.S. State Department to pressure the target government to begin giving in to the revolutionaries, supposedly for the sake of "human rights." The regime offers compromises, including political reforms, the release of captured terrorists, and military cease-fires, which allow the terrorists to regroup and seize territory. But the revolutionaries also increase their demands, taking advantage of the government's weakened image.
Step 4) As the government loses prestige, the Communists escalate the revolutionary violence and general unrest. They organize mass demonstrations, which agitators turn into riots. Labor unions go on strike, building toward a general labor strike that cripples the entire economy. Marxist professors in the universities indoctrinate and recruit naive youth, who join the growing ranks of Communists and terrorists. And some Communist agents even infiltrate local religious organizations, masquerading as priests or other clergy so as to neutralize opposition and recruit more people into the revolution. This can be seen, for example, in the Liberation Theology movement in the Catholic and Protestant churches, which teaches that Jesus was a Marxist revolutionary. Liberation Theology is active today in many parts of Latin America, Africa, and the far East.
Step 5) Since the Communists are only a tiny minority of the population, they must create the illusion of popular support. By waging terrorist warfare against the very people they claim to be liberating, the revolutionaries can frighten the people into passive or even active support of the revolution. In China and Nicaragua, the Communists murdered peasant farmers in rural villages; in Algeria, they maimed and killed Arab muslims; in Northern Ireland, they have killed thousands of Catholics while "kneecapping" thousands more with guns and electric drills;[56] in South Africa, they have burned to death many hundreds of blacks with "necklaces"--tires soaked in gasoline, placed around the victim's neck, and lit on fire.[57] The revolutionaries accuse the victims of "collaborating" with the government, sending a powerful message to the rest of the population not to resist.
Step 6) Now the Communists are ready to enter the final phase of their revolution. With the target government steadily losing control over the country, the revolutionaries step up general terrorist violence while simultaneously negotiating for a new government. To accomplish this, the Communists often must split their revolutionary movement into two wings: an extremely violent faction pretending to oppose any peace agreement, and a more political faction that projects an image of pragmatism. The two factions secretly coordinate their activities, carrying out a "good cop/bad cop" scenario. Frightened by the escalating terrorism of the revolutionaries, the government makes concessions to the seemingly moderate faction, hoping to discourage the forces of violence. As the Communists tighten the vise, the government bargains away its remaining strength.
Step 7) Finally, in the name of democracy and "human rights," the U.S. State Department withdraws its support from the embattled regime, using diplomatic pressure to force out the old government entirely and replace it with another. The Communists have by this time maneuvered themselves into position to join the new coalition government. Because this new regime is weak and divided, the Communists quickly move to consolidate total power for themselves. Their naive liberal allies are executed, followed by systematic mass terror against the whole population. A Communist regime has been imposed.
These seven steps describe the pattern of a war of national liberation. This strategy has been used, with slight variations, against almost every nation now under Communism, and is well under way for many remaining non-Communist nations.[58] As we have seen, terrorism is a cornerstone of this strategy.
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Settle down, we are not even close yet. The anti-christ hasn't taken power yet.
Isn't this swell.
It's all part of the plan, patience.
If you want to continue in english - press 1....
And what plan would that be?
==It's all part of the plan, patience.
That is the essence of Communist long-range strategy...PATIENT GRADUALISM.
"rise up to take back the American Southwest"
This slogan is repeated often but it is only rhetoric, since The only thing that they can take back from what they had is land, empty land....because that is all they had before the west was colonized.
If it were just about the land, they would be homesteading out the desert where vasts areas of empty land now lies, but somehow they seem to be more interested in settle into areas where the US have built civil works and cities, which from anybody history book were not around during the times when the west was uncultivated.
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