Posted on 04/06/2006 9:51:59 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
What Bush fails to see at the border
By Ronald F. Maxwell
Published April 6, 2006
Dear President Bush, Perhaps you know me from my work. I wrote and directed the movies "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals." Walking Civil War battlefields, soaking up the letters and diaries of that generation, re-creating the world of our ancestors -- all this has given me a deep appreciation for our country. My dad was with the Army Air Corps in North Africa while your dad was in the Pacific. My French mother was liberated in Tunisia and became a lawful immigrant to the United States. For an American, my story is unique and typical at the same time.
You probably don't need to be reminded of the hostility and animus directed your way by most of the Hollywood community. Then again, I'm sure you don't take it personally. After all, they held Ronald Reagan in equal contempt. As one of the very few directors of major motion pictures who sees you in a different light, I implore you to listen seriously to what I have to say.
What is happening on the southern border is unprecedented. Not only in our own history, but in the history of the world. No country at any time anywhere has sustained the influx of tens of millions of foreigners across its borders. A wave of anti-American leftism is sweeping Latin America. A socialist radical may soon be elected as the president of Mexico, a country which officially encourages its emigrants to vote in Mexican elections, urging them to think of themselves as Mexican first and perhaps only.
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Billybud you are right on target!
You're absolutely right, and if this had been discussed openly with the American voter, it would never have happened. So they decided to do it dishonestly. (Notice that Turkey still isn't part of the EU, which in any case has pretty well foundered under the weight of stupidity. Meanwhile, Mexico's been pretty well depopulated and Fox is telling whoever's left to head to Canada as fast as their legs can carry them.) My skin is crawling with rage.
Absolutely. You nailed it.
BTTT
My problem with the President is that he didn't begin an open and honest discussion with the US about One Happy Hemisphere, NAFTA, CAFTA, the CFR, what they were really up to...and give the US voter a say in this. It was dishonest and illegal, if done for what they considered the best of reasons. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and we along with US sovereignty are roadkill.
Actually, the fact that GW is President doesn't matter. He and the VP are about to be flambeed, fricaseed, and fried alive by the MSM over the Plame leak with impeachment as dessert. It's already started, and we'll probably see two solid years of MSM coverage of this 'outrage'. If they manage to drive both from office before '08, we'll certainly have a dem in the White House for the forseeable future. In any case, if Kerry had won in '04, he'd have done more for illegals. He'd have surrendered publicly to the UN.
Meanwhile, we have to do something extremely violent to Iran. No one's denying GW's Presidency has been difficult in the extreme, but his worst sin has been dishonesty about the border issue. That's not venial, it's mortal.
Well, it cannot be said any better than that.
BTTT
I believe the first part of this sentence deserves even more emphasis because it says that our Congress shall guarentee a REPUBLICAN form of government which means self-government.
Our elected leaders are demonstrating that they no longer believe in the central accomplishment of the American Revolution -- self-government -- and defer not one whit to the overwhelming will of the people. They have no intention of supporting "republican" government in America. They are about overturning the American project of self-government and replacing it with the arbitrary rule of a political, business and media elite. This is by definition a tyranny.
They have reserved to themselves the right to impose on us an open borders policy that we have overwhelmingly rejected time and again for decades and they have arrogantly chosen to not enforce our democratically enacted laws against illegal immigration. To them, a law is just something they or may not enforce -- its their choice based on whether it supports their private interests and the interests of the people who give them money that decides, not the overwhelming will of the people.
All of the arguments about whether illegal workers are needed, whether they cost more than they contribute, whether they want to assimilate are really irrelevant in deciding this issue because "we the people" have already decided in overwhelming numbers -- we don't want open borders or the presence of millions of illegal workers in our country. This decision has been reflected in our democratically enacted laws against illegal immigration for decades. In a "republican" form of government the people get to decide these issues. If that is not the case then we no longer have a self-governing system based on the sovereignty of the people.
Benjamin Franklin observed just such a corrupt system in which the interests of a wealthy elite prevail over and against the interests of the people in England and Europe. He warned us that it would be up to the people to maintain our right to self-government. The question now is whether "we the people" collectively value self-government enough to try to reinstate it or whether we will allow it to slip away and become subjects rather than citizens.
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Is this what you're thinking of?
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
If Mr. Maxwell wants to know what hate is he needs to mingle with the new "conservatives" and find out what they think of old stock Americans. In the last forty years or so a bunch of globalists who think more of Sigmund Freud and his cult of neurosis than they do of the old cavalier George Washington have come to dominate "conservatism."
Great Article. America badly needs more people who can articulate this argument. We have to stop the political whores in Washington.
Its all about the greedy pigs and slobs being able to supress wages and keep the middle class in its place.
GWB will not go down in history positively. He will be looked at like LBJ.
All they did was blast the boogie man Buchannan, who was right about NAFTA and right about this immigration disaster.
LBJ stands for El BJ right?
That article truly nailed it.
Oh please. By all measures he has used all his "political capital" for what?????????
1. Tax reform? Nope
2. Spending Control? Nope
3. Cultural Values? Nope
4. Reducing the size and scope of Uncle Sam? Nope
5. Reducing our reliance upon the ME for oil? Nope
6. Gay Marriage? Nope.
What has he used all his "capital" on?
Advocating for a scamnesty not even Clintigula could have dreamed of.
And don't try to scare me from Hillary, she is all for this garbage too. Were Kerry president, the GOP Senate would never let this thing go forward.
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