Posted on 03/29/2006 11:52:58 AM PST by Congressman Billybob
There are hornets in the siding of my home. Every time I smoke them out, they set up shop elsewhere. But today’s tale is about the ones inside. A few get in through the bathroom vent. They wear themselves out against the plate glass window, trying to escape. Eventually, they fall to the floor and die.
I realized this week that there is a lot in common between those dying hornets and civilization in the United States.
The dying hornets first lose their ability to fly, and then their ability to walk. But driven by ancient memories, they try to function until life fails. Isn’t that the bottom line of the immigration demonstrations in Los Angeles and elsewhere around the nation in the last week?
The ancient mantra for US civilization is that “we are a nation of immigrants.” That’s true. However, never before have millions of immigrants flooded across our borders, violating the law. To pretend that today is no different from yesterday on immigration is a lie. It is a lie intended to keep the borders open until the destruction of American civilization is beyond repair.
If half a million murderers and their supporters had rallied in Los Angeles in favor of amnesty for murderers, would anyone have taken that seriously? What if the murderers redefined themselves as “undocumented morticians?”
What if it was a half million bank robbers, who called themselves “undocumented depositors”? What about half a million rapists, who called themselves “undocumented suitors”?
The whole movement to keep the borders open, and to provide amnesty for illegal aliens already in the US, is a direct and deliberate attack on American civilization. And, how have American leaders responded? More than a few have given in, and joined the opposition. Such “leaders” are either fools, or cowards, or both.
They are fools if they think that Hispanic-Americans think alike on this subject. Those who live in the US legally, and are on the path to citizenship, or have become citizens, do NOT generally approve of open borders and amnesty. Hispanic-Americans are not monolithic on this subject. And connected to that is political fear. These “leaders” are pandering to the growing Hispanic vote; they are afraid to tell the truth in public.
I don’t believe the tide of illegal immigrants is the sole or even the principal cause of the decline – and eventual fall – of American civilization. A “mass demonstration” of just five Supreme Court Justices is capable of savaging the US Constitution. They’ve done it many times. The US will not fall until its Constitution is either overturned, or merely damaged beyond repair.
A “mass demonstration” of millions of union-allied teachers, who never even leave their classrooms, is capable of destroying the education of the next generation of Americans. They are in the process of doing it now. The messy way to destroy a nation is to attack and defeat it militarily. The slow but steady way is to destroy the education which should be passed down to the next generation, and the one after that. After all, education is the means of passing on a civilization. Break that link, and a civilization will die of starvation.
A “mass demonstration” of millions of “youths” who are glued to their TVs, or wired into their I-Pods anywhere in the known universe, are the crest of the tidal wave that is sweeping over America. Many, not all, of these youths have no real knowledge of where America came from, or where it is headed. Worst of all, these youths sabotage themselves with their belief that the world owes them a living.
Mind you, I’m not looking down my nose at these youths. There was a time when my knowledge of this nation was a sparse as theirs. There was also a time I thought the world owed me a living. It didn’t, and it promptly taught me that lesson.
The problem comes when millions of Americans, or would-be Americans, come to believe that because they are so many, they do not have to obey the laws. A jail break is still a jail break, even if the “criminals” are not trying to escape, but trying to keep from being jailed in the first place.
A nation which cannot control its borders, cannot control its future. That’s why the demonstrations in Los Angeles reminded me of that hornet, dying on my bathroom floor. American civilization is dying before our eyes. The question is whether enough people will care enough, to pull us back from the brink.
About the Author: John Armor is candidate for Congress in the 11th District of North Carolina. John_Armor@aya.yale.edu
John / Billybob
And that is indeed the problem.
You think right. Outstanding piece.
I agree. And I like the article. Thanks.
I prefer to think of them as fire ants, but good analogy nonetheless.
If illegal Hispanics get everything they demand, then legal Hispanics will go along to get along...join in with demands for special treatment, Aztlan, La Raza, whatever. Why not? What's not to like? (Just like moderate Muslims and Jihadists. Same methodology at work.) Or more simply, the creaking wheel gets the grease, and every other wheel knows it.
The article is spot on and extremely depressing. But nothing's accomplished by denial.
I think the analogy he's trying to draw is between the hornet's doomed efforts at escape and the belief in the US that immigration is a good thing. We keep reacting to stimuli in a time honored fashion, just as the hornet seeks the light through a window that ultimately dooms it, and in our case accept the argument that this recent wave of immigration is just like all the rest in our history when in fact it will kill our civilization.
"I prefer to think of them as fire ants, but good analogy nonetheless."
Termites.
Thanks for the post. Nice job and accurate.
YES
This is where we must be careful, and not be governed by our passions. We have to think about the short-and-long term ramifications of our actions. Losing the majority is the absolute worst thing that can happen, because not only do you lose this issue, you lose EVERY issue. Especially when we are just ONE NAME AWAY on the Supreme Court from turning the clock back on 45 years of Liberal policies.
Of course, we must enforce the borders, but not by turning people who have been here 5-10-20 years into felons. I cant think of an easier way to send Republicans back into the dark ages.
Great article, as usual.
"American civilization is dying before our eyes"
That is so chicken sh*t; What is dying is liberalism- that is why it is so loud.
The problem is in the open and is on everyones' tongue. There are 300 million Americans. Mexico is what has to change. The Mexican government has to begin taking responsibility for its citizens and should be forced.
American Businesses have to be held respobsible. If their are no jobs for illegals their own families will force them home.
We have a lot of power to take control. Let the losers scream. At least we know where and who they are.
I was thinking the exact thoughts this morning.
The Pubbies in the Senate have a chance to lead, and are punting as usual.
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