The Mexicans are unlike previous immigrants. This definitely needs to be read by everyone at least once! It should be linked on pertinent immigration threads. Here's an interesting link about Samuel Huntington:
Posted on 04/02/2006 8:40:51 PM PDT by Shermy
In his 1995 book "The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy," the late Christopher Lasch argued that America's political and cultural elites had opened up a gap between themselves and ordinary Americans. "Many of them have ceased to think of themselves as Americans in any important sense, implicated in America's destiny for better or worse," he wrote. They are increasingly detached from their fellow citizens and drawn to an international culture, Lasch said, or what we would today call a transnational culture.
Consider the current immigration debate in this light. In the transnational view, patriotism, assimilation and cultural cohesion are obsolete concerns. Borders and the nation-state are on the way out. Transnational flows of populations are inevitable. Workers will move in response to markets, not old-fashioned national policies on immigration. Norms set by internationalists will gradually replace national laws and standards. The world is becoming a single place. Trying to impede this unifying process is folly.
The term "transnationals" specifically refers to those working in and around international organizations and multinational corporations. More broadly, it indicates a cosmopolitan elite with a declining allegiance to the place where they live and work, and a feeling that nationalism and patriotism are part of the past.
To some extent, their worldview cuts across Democratic-Republican and liberal-conservative lines, and reinforces the other concerns that prevent immigration control: the desire for cheap labor and Hispanic votes. Old-line one-worlders and enthusiastic supporters of the United Nations hear the siren call. So do many academics, judges and journalists who attend international conferences and tend to adopt a common consciousness and world outlook.
The interplay between immigration and transnationalism is a flourishing subspecialty in the academic world. Ethnic studies departments, once conceived as a sop to campus minorities, increasingly stress transnationalism, though exactly what professors mean when they use the word is often not very clear. It is now common to hear that transnationalism will be to the first quarter of the 21st century what multiculturalism was to the last 25 years of the 20th.
The large-scale movement of populations is often seen as an indicator of the coming world society. To transnationalists, it is a positive development that reveals the weakness of the nation-state and adds to that weakness. Loyalties and commitments are diffused. One transnational scholar writes, "Traditional notions like citizenship, political activity, entrepreneurship and culture are de-linked from specific places and spaces."
This theme hums through some of the immigration debate, but transnationalists have hardly been frank in discussing their views. What appears to be primarily a problem of labor, border control and one particular failed economy -- Mexico's -- is to some people an inevitable and welcome stage in the decline of the nation-state. Besides, large-scale immigration helps to deconstruct the traditional historical narrative of the target nation, a traditional item on the multicultural agenda.
Partly because of immigration, the British government appointed a commission on the future of multiethnic Britain. It concluded that "Britishness" had "has systematic, largely unspoken, racial connotations." The report said Britain should be formally "recognized as a multicultural society" whose history must be "revised, rethought, or jettisoned."
John Fonte, of the Hudson Institute, notes that "transnationalism," like "global governance" and "multiculturalism," are presented by advocates as irresistible forces of history. Not so, he says. They are "ideological tools, championed by activist elites."
The astonishing aspect of the immigration debate is that the elites think they can override the clear and huge resistance of the American people. As columnist Tony Blankley wrote last week, the Senate was prepared to "legislate into the teeth of the will of the American public."
Lopsided majorities, which normally stay the hand of Congress, want the federal government to take charge and get tougher on illegal immigration. In last month's Quinnipiac University poll, 88 percent of all respondents said illegal immigration is a serious problem (57 percent "very serious," 31 percent "somewhat serious"). Among immigrants or their children and grandchildren, the figure was 83 percent. "Red state, blue state and purple state. Illegal immigration is a serious problem," said Maurice Carroll, the director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. If the majority really wants to win on this, all it has to do is raise the heat on Congress and defeat the amnesty-light non-reforms.
Everyone please contact your senators at the link below. It is very, very easy. Tell them NO amnesty, Yes to border enforcement. E-mail them everyday.
www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Excellent article.
nwo
The Mexicans are unlike previous immigrants. This definitely needs to be read by everyone at least once! It should be linked on pertinent immigration threads. Here's an interesting link about Samuel Huntington:
Very good article; I agree it does need to be read by everyone!!
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Consider the current immigration debate in this light. In the transnational view, patriotism, assimilation and cultural cohesion are obsolete concerns. Borders and the nation-state are on the way out. Transnational flows of populations are inevitable. Workers will move in response to markets, not old-fashioned national policies on immigration. Norms set by internationalists will gradually replace national laws and standards. The world is becoming a single place.The astonishing aspect of the immigration debate is that the elites think they can override the clear and huge resistance of the American people. As columnist Tony Blankley wrote last week, the Senate was prepared to "legislate into the teeth of the will of the American public."
The astonishing aspect of the immigration debate is that the elites think they can override the clear and huge resistance of the American people. As columnist Tony Blankley wrote last week, the Senate was prepared to "legislate into the teeth of the will of the American public."
To some extent, their worldview cuts across Democratic-Republican and liberal-conservative lines, and reinforces the other concerns that prevent immigration control: the desire for cheap labor and Hispanic votes.
Eerily visionary by a 1995 author coming to fruition now.
It wouldn't be much of a stretch to presume the abortion issue and wars have been "wag-the-dog" techniques to distract from what's occurring under every American's nose.
The last issue left to impliment the take-over by the Internationalists is the subversion or repeal of the 2nd Amendment.
I predict the first stage will be a tax on rounds similar to that of cigarettes -- only far more outrageous.
Or another way to destroy the 2A is the already proposed proposition that each round is to be implanted with an ID chip.
"transnationalists"?
Do they want a UN passport?
Newsflash to transnationalists, without the USA transnationalists are totally disposable lives.
Ping
It'll be the internationalists' toughest battle, and perhaps the only one which actually puts their individual lives in danger. And lately the news has been all bad (for the one-worlders/globalists): Over the past 15 years American gun owners have made significant progress in the fight to carry firearms for their own defense.
In addition, the aftermath 9/11 and the Katrina disaster saw an immense surge in gun sales and NRA/SAF/GOA/JPFO (etc.) memberships. The gun lobby is stronger now than they've ever been, and more Americans than ever are aware of their 2nd Amendment rights. ....and thank God for that. The gun-grabbin' crowd has the fight of their life on their hands.
The biggest enemy of the "internationalists" is nationalistic/patriotic sentiments, so they do their best to eliminate them from our consciousness, using the public schools as a primary weapon. Patriots (most of whom are armed) want borders and culture protected, and they're hostile to every part of the internationalist agenda in general.
What recent event brought out more patriotic sentiments than any since the bombing of Pearl Harbor (even though the reaction was relatively short-lived)? 9/11, of course. The Islamofascists have thrown a huge monkeywrench to the internalionalist machinery, and the latter believes the only way to get back on track is to "democratize" the sheetheads and "win their hearts and minds."
So we have a rather strange situation -- the Islamofascists are the bitter enemies of both American patriots AND internationalists/globalists. Patriots know how to deal with 'em -- shoot the rags off their heads and they'll crawl back into their holes, "hearts and minds" be damned. The globalists' only option (if their agenda has any chance whatsoever of proceeding smoothly) is to convert the world's 1.3 billion Muslims to well-behaved little capitalists who are friendly to the West (and Israel). lol....good luck.
'It'll (repeal of the 2A) be the internationalists' toughest battle, and perhaps the only one which actually puts their individual lives in danger. And lately the news has been all bad (for the one-worlders/globalists'
Finally SOME good news.
'The biggest enemy of the "internationalists" is nationalistic/patriotic sentiments, so they do their best to eliminate them from our consciousness, using the public schools as a primary weapon. Patriots (most of whom are armed) want borders and culture protected, and they're hostile to every part of the internationalist agenda in general.'
True.
And oddly enough, the "internationalists/globalists" have managed to subvert the unofficial U.S. immigration policy as (purposely?) mismanaged by the President and the Republicans.
That presents an strange dichotomy of the GOP bucking their supposed party platform of conservatism (borders, language, culture, nationalism), doesn't it?
'What recent event brought out more patriotic sentiments than any since the bombing of Pearl Harbor (even though the reaction was relatively short-lived)? 9/11, of course. The Islamofascists have thrown a huge monkeywrench to the internalionalist machinery, and the latter believes the only way to get back on track is to "democratize" the sheetheads and "win their hearts and minds.'
If this is so, can it be presumed the President and the GOP Senate's motivation can be questioned regarding the war? That's assuming their agenda coincides with that of the internationals/globalists -- to "diversify" and blur the borders?
' 'So we have a rather strange situation -- the Islamofascists are the bitter enemies of both American patriots AND internationalists/globalists. Patriots know how to deal with 'em -- shoot the rags off their heads and they'll crawl back into their holes, "hearts and minds" be damned. The globalists' only option (if their agenda has any chance whatsoever of proceeding smoothly) is to convert the world's 1.3 billion Muslims to well-behaved little capitalists who are friendly to the West (and Israel). lol....good luck.'
Strange situation indeed.
Islamofascism is THE major threat to the internationist/globalist NWO. Well that besides a well-armed American populace of course.
Might the evidence suggest that this is the primary reason for the Iraq war and this pipe dream of converting them to capitalist thought and "nation-building" a 99% Mulslim country from scratch? It's going to be hard enough "rebuilding" a U.S. city (New Orleans.)
LOL, I DO prefer your solution of "shoot[ing] the rags off their heads [so] they'll crawl back into their holes."
THAT'S how to win the "hearts and minds" of nutballs.
Transnationalist huh? Sounds something like transexual.
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