Patrick Buchanan sounds alarm in 'State of Emergency' (Phyllis Schlafly)

Town Hall.com ^ | August 28, 2006 | Phyllis Schlafly

[beyond the sea]

What is the United States of America? Is it merely an accident of geography, or a job market for the world, or a multiethnic, multilingual lot of people who agreed (more or less, and probably temporarily) to live under a constitution? Those aren't goals to die for; yet many men for centuries have fought and died for America. Where did they get the courage, the stamina, and the perseverance to create and maintain America as an oasis of freedom and prosperity in a hostile world?

Patrick Buchanan believes that America is fundamentally a nation "held together by bonds of history and memory, tradition and custom, language and literature, birth and faith." Those bonds of brotherhood and ancestry existed before the U.S. Constitution was written, and sustained us through wars and economic depressions.

In his newest book, Buchanan challenges us to ponder our national identity, which already existed in the hearts of Americans when the Founding Fathers proclaimed the sovereignty of "we the people." Because we are now in critical danger of losing our identity, the apt title of his book is "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America"

Buchanan rejects the notion that American identity is merely "creedal," i.e., united only by a common commitment to the U.S. Constitution and a set of basic laws. Even if that were true, it clearly would exclude the illegal aliens who violate our laws every day.

Buchanan agrees with Harvard professor Samuel Huntington that the "central issue of our time" is the migration into America of millions of people who come from very different cultures and refuse to adapt to ours. Buchanan calls the unprecedented entry of legal and illegal foreign born during the last 10 years a tsunami ........

[beyond the sea]

"There was a time when our President, Theodore Roosevelt, could say: "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism ... a hyphenated American is not an American at all.... The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.""

[beyond the sea]

ping

[AngelesCrestHighway]

....In your heart you know what it is to be an American and you will die to protect that right for all who believe the same...

[familyop]

But Buchanan doesn't mind propagandizing for the Islamic fascist effort to conquer our country, as long as the Islamists want to destroy Israel, too. Patrick Buchanan is worse than irrelevant.

[backtothestreets]

If Buchanan runs for President in 08 there's a very good chance I'll vote for him. I don't see anyone else on the national political horizon that matches his knowledge of the problems we are facing, his commitment to our nation, nor his patriotism. He is one of the few prominent voices echoing the concerns the vast majority of US citizens are expressing about illegal immigration.

[rmlew]

One can be dead wrong on some issues and right on others.

[Treader]

One can also be dead wrong on all issues. Right?

[GarySpFc]

I believe America was not simply an accident of geography or a job market, but a people who were seeking a better place to worship the living God, but then deists, skeptics, deists, and Darwinists cannot accept that.

[Coldwater Creek]

Wasted vote!

[M-cubed]

One can also be dead wrong on all issues. Right?<<

Yup!...Have u found yourself that way alot lately?

[Treader]

Not just lately. So, who are you, lately?

[raybbr]

Closer to home, Los Angeles may be a model of what America is to become. Sixty-one percent in the City of Angels speak a language other than English at home, which means they don't listen to English-language radio and TV programs, don't get their news from English-language newspapers and magazines, and don't share our heroes, history or holidays.

In the "new America" the only common denominator needed is to be on U.S. soil.

THE "NEW AMERICAN"..........<

We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.

You can read the speech here.

Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:

In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster

The Path to National Suicide by Lawrence Auster (1990)

An essay on multi-culturalism and immigration.

Bet this get relegated to "Chat".

[rmlew]

Mr. Auster, like myself, supports Israel as well as American nationalism. Some people seem to find this confusing.

[Razz Barry]

Bump for later.

[raybbr]

Mr. Auster, like myself, supports Israel as well as American nationalism. Some people seem to find this confusing.

Personally, I am more concerned about the U.S. Israel will survive because they have to. It seems the survival of the traditional U.S. is either up for sale or trade by many today.

[Treader]

You could be on to something, Gary. Although, such a belief in thought & action will probably never catch on- here in the United States of America.

[Ben Ficklin]

The USA has a long history of immigration. There is also a long history of public opinion of immigration that is confirmed in today's public opinion of immigration(legal and illegal).

Americans don't like immigrants. Americans think that those immigrants who came in "earlier times" were "good people". While Americans may dislike immigrants as a group, they usually embrace the immigrants that they personally know.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I have no problem with legal aliens.
I have a problem with those who overstay their visas and those who just invade our Country.

I do have a big problem with those who pimp for these criminals!

[beyond the sea]

yes