Posted on 04/18/2005 9:39:25 PM PDT by CHARLITE
President Bush’s big border blunder was calling a couple of hundred middle-aged citizens ‘vigilantes.’ The name-calling will blow up and destroy his presidency and Party if ever the Islamists attack again on his watch. The American People are forgiving and trusting, but ruthless and vindictive when ambushed or betrayed. If it’s found that attacking Islamists came through what used to be our southern border, what happened to President Nixon and the Republicans will look tame.
President Bush doesn’t see the irony in telling Israel to control their population within borders – point blank – while being unwilling to demand the same of Mexico. Why are some borders worth keeping and our own a sham? This open joke may become an open sore after another mass murder of Americans.
If a few civilians in lawn chairs with binoculars cause such an uproar, what would happen if one hundred-thousand armed Americans stood border watch? ‘Minuteman’ mania? Methinks they protesteth too much.
If a sixty-thousand soldier Mexican Army crossed our border, it’s a military invasion and act of war. Aren’t more than six million unarmed Mexicans illegally entering our country an immigrant invasion? Yet, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion” (U.S. Constitution. Article IV. Section 4). More than twelve million illegal immigrants from all over the world have already invaded and more than a million will follow this year. But, the Liberals and weak-it-doesn’t-matter-why-on-this-issue leaders can’t even call people by their proper names – illegal, let alone invaders.
It’s like they’re channeling Robert Frost mocking, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Even the poet asked, “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. And to whom I was like to give offence?” Excellent question.
America should wall out the few hundred, or thousand, Islamists who will slip in with the illegals and murder Americans for another, worse 9-11 attack.
The U.S. Government should keep out the millions of illegal workers who supposedly do jobs Americans won’t do. The excess labor keeps down the minimum wage the market maintains. Employers will pay working class Americans more or automate - which creates better paying high tech jobs. The national market will adjust, even if that drives up the cost of produce, infamous grapes and lettuce, or whatever. Only allow guest workers when you can actually regulate them.
The cities, counties, states, and federal governments will save billions of dollars paid for social services, education, medical and other benefits. Far more than what illegals pay in taxes, when they do.
The families of America will be protected from the criminal behavior of thousands of illegals.
There will be less internal security threat the day an economic shock or serious depression dumps millions of illegals out on the streets unemployed and desperate.
The U.S can either keep the goose that lays golden eggs, our capitalist economy, for a Munificent Destiny dedicated to foreign investment, or surrender to foreign invasion that ultimately will overload and destroy our economy. Either, the illegals build their own countries with our capital or kill our country because of the cowardice of our leaders.
Nations without borders die. It takes a generation for immigrants to fully master English as their first tongue, discard their un-American cultural baggage, and participate in American Civilization as Americans, not as aliens. A million or so legal immigrants every year can assimilate. Tens of millions of invaders make a minority into a competing culture.
The politicians need to fine, permanently deny citizenship, and put on probation the illegals or ship them out. Anything less allows the every illegal family to birth babies as American anchors to keep them in the country forever without consequences for flouting the laws. Either we’re a nation of laws or scofflaws.
The humanitarian excuses to pity the families who broke the law to come here but obeyed the rules since then are heart-wrenching. But, it’s time for either national tough love discipline or national disaster and dissolution. The immigrant invasion will only increase. Today’s excuses are tomorrow’s culpability.
Let a million or two immigrants come in legally to open arms. Give a huge preference to neighboring Mexico. Throw out the weak politicians, write stronger laws for state and federal governments, impeach meddlesome judges, or take action as needed.
If four million mourners rushed to Rome, how many patriots could surge to any spot where the U.S. Government fails its Constitutional duty?
About the Writer: James Atticus Bowden has specialized in inter-disciplinary long range "futures" studies for over a decade. Employed by a Defense Department contractor, he is a retired United States Army Infantry Officer, and a 1972 graduate of the United States Military Academy. He earned graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and holds three elected Republican Party offices in Virginia.
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Bush is so determined to have America invaded to the point of destruction, that if 49 million patroits showed up on his door step demanding he do something to stop immigration, he'd just smile and shut the door.
Bush listens to a higher power in the world, and not to the people who elected him.
Unfortunately, anything less that "close the borders" is a first step down the slippery slope with this administration.
As with any invasion, a complete stop has to happen, and the country needs to see where it is. Without that the human, cultural, and economic pressures will destroy huge parts of this country.
I just went down to Florida, where you can see the impact more growth is having. That area is no longer sustainable without more construction, growth, destruction of the area.
I'm ashamed of President Bush on this issue. I can't figure him out unless
He wants to put on his resume he was President of a country with 300 million people instead of 280.
Or His work hands in Crawford are all illegal.
Who knows..TANCREDO IN 2008 !
The poll currently active on this subject is misleading. KInd of a push poll.
True
Roger that ~ stop foreign invaders on all of our borders and coastlines ~ NOW!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Good Bless Our Patriotic Minutemen ~ Bump!
Great stuff CHARLITE ~ a picture is worth a thousand words!
Be Ever Vigilant!
God Bless our Patriotic Minutemen!
The Minutemen are there for one purpose--to advise the Border Patrol if they detect any illegals crossing into private property on the US side of the border, and a good distance (one mile), away from the border. The Minutemen do not arrest or otherwise stop the illegals and certainly do not enforce US laws or punish the intruders. Hence they cannot be called vigilantes. The Prez was wrong to call them that. How about calling them what they really are: US neighborhood watchers?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2005/04/20/cstillwell.DTL
I've come to the conclusion that Bush and his Open Border Buddies are simply criminals.
If such tactics don't show desperation, I don't know what you'd call them. But the fact remains that neither party wants to take bold, courageous and effective action on the out-of-control immigration invasion.
Hannity DID step through a hole in that fence last night on his Fox TV show, but he also clearly stated while doing the demonstration that there is a 3 ft. "no man's land" and that he'd stood on that terrain and never went into Mexico, but the AZ ACLU put out their "press release" about Hannity's "illegal" border crossing, anyway........just to see how many unobservant, ignorant people's attention they could get with it.
This president is usually portrayed as politically attuned. One terrorist attack killing or maiming one school child traced to an illegal border crossing would doom this president and perhaps the entire republican party to an ignominious end. They would be lucky to escape being tarred and feathered (with many rank and file republicans wielding the tar and feathers.) It is imperative for republicans in Congress who wish to escape this fate get on record as fiercely opposing the president and they must also get the democrats in congress on record as opposing any effort to control the borders.
Believe me, all normally conservative or republican spokesman in the media (Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Hume, etc.)will join in the attack on the president and those who left us unprotected at our borders.
I've seen/heard that somewhere around 80% of Americans want the borders secured...now if the MinutemanProject/Tancredo can get the President to listen to the majority of us instead of labeling good citizens "vigilanties" just maybe we'll make some progress.
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