Former U.S. Treasurer Buchanan Details Arguments against Illegal Immigration

Tufts University Daily ^ | March 12, '08 | Alexandra Bogus

[T.L.Sink]

Right - but whether we’re unable or unwilling to build the fence the end result is the same: Indifference to our national security, national sovereignty, and the economic, political and social destruction of our culture which is being transformed into Third World status before our very eyes.

[T.L.Sink]

Absolutely! As you point out the massive illegal invasion is NOT a single issuue but one that affects every aspect of the economic, political and social segments of our culture. It’s like a matasticizing cancer.

[jnsun]

It’s like a matasticizing cancer.

(A few days later) - seems a good analogy. Corny as it may seem, I can't stop visualizing Goths and Lombards filling the roles of the Roman legions in the fifth century, with the citizens and even commanders saying, hey these guys are great soldiers, tough, brave, let's use them with impunity - just like the Mexicans are great laborers. Even Alaric, who later sacked the place, was a legitimate Roman general (an amnestied immigrant?). Hence in retrospect reflecting many disturbing similarities, e.g. the citizen apathy thing, the diversity thing, the isolation and aloofness of the Senate thing, the bread and circuses thing, the dictator thing, etc.

Amazing, repeating historical paradigms right before me own eyes.

[T.L.Sink]

I think your analogy is a good one. As Edward Gibbon pointed out in “Decline and Fall...,” the barbarization of the Roman army was instrumental in the collapse of the empire. Speaking of that great historical work, in the last volume Gibbon gives - in his own inimitable style - an unforgettble description of Mohammed and the Muslim conquests. He sardonically describes Mohammed as a semi-literate, epileptic, lecherous and savage barbarian. I’ve always wondered why the militant Muslims havn’t rioted and killed to ban that as they did a few much more harmless cartoons.