Posted on 05/24/2010 8:05:55 AM PDT by KeyLargo
We must protect our American identity
May 23, 2010
BY DIANA WEST
Excellent news: Most Americans approve of Arizona's new immigration law. And by wide margins.
According to Pew, the overall number is 59 percent. A New York Times poll came in at 60 percent. According to a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, that overall number is higher still: 64 percent.
These solid majorities show stirrings of a surprisingly resilient national survival instinct.
I say "surprisingly" because that instinct -- in some cases perhaps no more than a reflexive urge to hold the line -- has been subjected to decades of steady, acidic corrosion in the "politically correct" re-education camps we know as our nation's school systems. There, we all learn (or are all taught, anyway) that borders are "divisive" and immigration laws are "discriminatory."
In other words, it's either "We are the world" or you are a racist.
But if we think past it for a minute, the logical notion that borders necessarily divide (nations), and immigration laws necessarily discriminate (between citizen and noncitizen) is still likely to coalesce. And that's excellent news. Who knows? With Arizona as our shining state in a desert, the electorate might even come to realize that without borders and without immigration laws, there is no nation and there is no citizenship, and that we had better beef up both -- and fast.
No wonder our transnational elites and rowdy, open-border agitators are so unnerved by what's going on in Arizona. And they make a lot of noise telling us so. In fact, when I sat down to write this opinion piece, I falsely assumed Arizona was getting hammered from all sides. After all, headlines scream, municipalities in Northern California (the usual -- Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco), Boston, Seattle and Austin have voted to boycott Arizona businesses. Los Angeles, too.
Rumors of sports boycotts float.
Still, Arizona is really only getting it from one side. (As noted in the Pew poll, even a strong majority of Democrats favors essential provisions of the Arizona law, with almost half supporting the law itself.) The anti-Arizona side, however, is the one with mainstream media access and Washington political clout. It's the same side that almost reached critical mass under George W. Bush, with his "comprehensive immigration reform" -- shamnesty -- plan, and it hasn't leveled off under President Obama, now gunning for similar legislation.
"In the 21st century, we are defined not by our borders, but by our bonds," said the president of North America, I mean, the United States, in an appearance with Mexican President Felipe Calderon last week. We want "a border that will unite us instead of dividing us," Calderon said in turn. This was somewhat less imperialistic than Calderon's 2007 line, "Where there is a Mexican there is Mexico," but the gist is clear. Neither president wants a border, both want amnesty for millions of mainly Mexican illegal aliens, and Arizona makes them mad.
That's because nothing could be worse for such "citizens of the world" than Arizona's immigration law -- except, maybe, Arizona's other restorative new law. That new law furthers the principle that "public school pupils should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals and not be taught to resent or hate other races or classes of people," now prohibits courses, for example, that "promote resentment toward a race or class of people," or "advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals." (It will be almost amusing to watch leftists slam a law against teaching racial resentment and hatred as "racist.")
The fact is, the Arizona legislature is on to the multicultural masquerade -- the non-Western grievance industry pretending to be "education." The party's over.
It all fits, really. Arizona wants to protect American identity to ensure that all of its citizens, regardless of race or origin, have one.
Call it the Spirit of Arizona. And let's hope it's catching.
Diana West is the author of The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization.
I read that book a couple years ago...it describes the LIBs to a T. Maybe I should hit a LIB over the head with it? ...but such would be wrong and mean-spirited.
Hezbollah terrorists, and hundreds of Muslims have been identified crossing southwest border. Muslim prayer rug found on rancher’s property.
VIDEO:
http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html
Why Arizona Should “Racially Profile”
By Selwyn Duke, on May 21st, 2010
Given that more than 90 percent of the illegals in Arizona hail from Mexico and Latin America, isn’t “Hispanic” part of the relevant profile here?
When the Times Square bombing suspect was first reported to be a “white male,” I shook my head. I knew that, despite Mayor Bloomberg’s asinine musings about how the perpetrator was probably “homegrown” and perhaps someone upset about the healthcare bill, this was nonsense. “It’s about as likely as a story about Bill Clinton becoming a monk,” I thought.
Of course, this was no great insight. Given that 99 percent of the terrorists bedeviling us today are non-white Muslims, it was just common sense – otherwise known as profiling.
The critics of Arizona’s new immigration law complain that it will lead to “racial profiling.” In response, the law’s defenders point out that the legislation specifically forbids the practice.
Both groups are wrong.
Don't pro-teams in NBA and NFL share proceeds? Can you actually boycott a local team?
Ping!
Sounds like an interesting book.
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