Yes, the OAS speech laid things out pretty starkly. Every Freeper should listen to it or find a transcript. It's clear GWB's attitudes are formed mostly by his "good intentions" and south-of-the-border in-laws and not the law.
Say what you will about the EU, but at least the Eurocrats allowed the people to vote on their sovereignty and future. It seems pretty clear to me American citizens will not be allowed a similar vote on the illegal dissolution of our own borders. The borders in Korea and Iraq seem far more important to the elitists and this administration than our own.
If you find the transcript, could you ping me, please? I'll keep looking.
WHEN in the Course of human Events,
it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation. WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great- Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World . . . They have taxed us far more than the colonialist were taxed. Sure we have representatation. But so many nincompoop socialist keep voting the same losers in and they keep enacting more, and worse tax laws.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416716/posts?page=63#63
I think the alternative...invading Mexico at some point to straighten them out before their problems spill over the border, and it's way too late for that, is what impelled GW to igore our leaky borders. Then those two thousand Costa Ricans said they were walking north...two years ago...arrived and promptly said they weren't leaving...which also got GW's attention. What do you do with Central America and South America's poor, mal-nourished, ill-educated population, etc., esp. with Chavez in Venezuela, playing footsie with Castro, at the bottom of all this.
I understand GW's motives and logic, but resent the lack of honest disclosure. GW and the country are taking a huge risk, and he knew if given a vote, we'd say NO. We gave away our manufacturing base and then outsourced everything but the kitchen sink, and they're coming for that. Plus, the ugly truth is there are too many this time for assimilation.