America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people

From 1845-1849, the Irish fleeing the famine. From 1890-1920, the Germans. Then the Italians, Poles, Jews and other Eastern Europeans. Then, immigration was suspended in 1924.

From 1925 to 1965, the children and grandchildren of those immigrants were assimilated, Americanized. In strong public schools, they were taught our language, literature and history, and celebrated our holidays and heroes. We endured together through the Depression and sacrificed together in World War II and the Cold War.

We no longer speak the same language, worship the same God, honor the same heroes or share the same holidays. Christmas and Easter have been privatized. Columbus is reviled. Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee are out of the pantheon. Cesar Chavez is in.

Our politics have become poisonous. Our political parties are at each other’s throats.

Christianity is in decline. Traditional churches are sundering over moral issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. Islam is surging.

Our society seems to be disintegrating. Over 40 percent of all births now are illegitimate. Among Hispanics, the figure is 52 percent. Among African-Americans, 73 percent.

And among children born to single moms, the drug use rate and the dropout rate, the crime rate and the incarceration rate, are many times higher than among children born to married parents.

If a country is a land of defined and defended borders, within which resides a people of a common ancestry, history, language, faith, culture and traditions, in what sense are we Americans one nation and one people today?

.... As for what our founding documents mean, even the Supreme Court does not agree.

More and more, 21st-century America seems to meet rather well Metternich’s depiction of Italy – [we're just] “a geographic expression.”

Pat Buchanan: Anti-Semite
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/ben-shapiro/pat-buchanan-anti-semite/

Pat Buchanan was recently fired from MSNBC over his latest book. It is not as if MSNBC suddenly realized that it had an anti-Semite on staff. If they really cared about that, they would have fired him years ago. As I’ve written, they only hired him in order to use him as the cardboard cut-out conservative

Last week, Buchanan proved that point in full color. He did an interview on Russia Today – the Kremlin-sponsored channel that features radical leftists like Thom Hartmann – in which he tackled the issue of Israel and Iran. “There are people that want a war,” Buchanan said. He continued:

I mean, do not think no one wants a war. You don’t have wars unless someone wants it. And quite clearly the Israeli government would like to see the United States smash Iran’s nuclear program, which they think is creating the additions where Iran could, with one leap forward, get a bomb. The Israeli lobby would like to see a war. They support the Israeli government. Neoconservatives do. Many Republicans do. There are many Americans who genuinely believe that if Iran — they believe Iran is moving toward a weapon; and if it is, they would favor military action to prevent it. There are a number of people who want a war.

He went on to suggest that Israel’s position on this was a greater threat to the United States than Iranian nuclear weapons.

Now, Pat Buchanan has long been an anti-Semite. His repulsive publication, The American Conservative, is an isolationist tract featuring the writings of magazine co-founder and open Jew-hater Taki Theodoracopulos, who calls himself a “soi-disant antisemite.” He once characterized Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld as a “very homely, simian-looking Jew who couldn’t punch his way out of a nursery,” and remarked that the United States was in danger of becoming “Israel-occupied territory,” meaning that it would be controlled by “those nice guys who attack rock-throwing youth with armour-piercing missiles.” Said Theodoracopulos, “the way to Uncle Sam’s heart runs through Tel Aviv and Israeli-occupied territory.”

Buchanan himself is little better. He has engaged in Holocaust denial, stating that diesel exhaust couldn’t have killed 850,000 Jews at Treblinka; he’s criticized the U.S. government for its apology for sheltering Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. William F. Buckley wrote of Buchanan: ”I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism.” As White House Communications Director, Buchanan urged President Reagan to visit the SS cemetery at Bitburg in Germany, providing an excellent photo-op for neo-Nazis everywhere. According to reports from the time, Buchanan had the unmitigated gall to lecture Jewish leaders who protested that they were “Americans first” and wrote over and over in his notebook one phrase: “Succumbing to the pressure of the Jews.” He wrote Reagan’s line that the SS officers were “victims just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps” – easily one of the most sickening presidential lines in American history. Buchanan wanted the Department of Justice’s Office of Special Investigations closed down because it was “running down 70-year-old camp guards.”

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“Then, immigration was suspended in 1924.”

No, that’s not what happened. The immigration act of 1924 merely sought to lower total immigration rates and limit immigration percentages from given nations to match the demographics of America at that time the act was written. For example, as a set percentage of Americans in 1924 were Irish-American, that preexisting demographic percentage would set the percentage of the annual quota of immigrations allowed from Ireland in the years after the act was passed. The goal was to match future immigration to the same kind and nature of immigrants as we had in 1924, while limiting the overall rate of immigration.

This is an important element to understand clearly; the act’s purpose was not to stop immigration, the purpose was to LIMIT immigration to low-enough levels and of the right demographic mix so that neither the natural-born Americans nor the immigrants were significantly harmed by said immigration. The purpose was not to halt immigration, or to “keep America white”, the purpose was to keep America simply American.

The act was drafted and passed with the understanding that rapidly and radically altering the cultural, ethnic, linguistic or religious character of the nation would be damaging to both native-born Americans as well as immigrants. Perhaps so damaging that the nation might cease to exist.

The act was an incredibly reasonable response to the social ills caused by almost entirely unconstrained immigration. By this I mean the poverty, crime, misery and rising sectarianism that fed into the anarchist movement of the day, and the radical socialist movements, as well as racist organizations among natives as well as immigrants. These social ills conspired to reduce our republican form of government to an uncivil war at the ballot box between competing tribes, or spark into outright warfare in the streets.

Despite the basic humanitarian and inherently just nature of the act, the act and its supporters were derided as racists — paradoxically enough they were called racists by virulently racist Hyphenated-Americans who really sought to subvert the legislative process in order to benefit their minority groups over the nation as a whole. Reading over the congressional records of the debates surrounding this act one is simply taken aback by the absolute hatred and venom spewing from the detractors, and the eminently reasonable and humanitarian concerns of the act’s supporters.

Within a few short years after the passage of the act, after we turned off the fire-hose of immigration, the immigrant slums in New York and elsewhere underwent a miraculous transformation: without a constant influx of poor, uneducated, unassimilated immigrants competing for limited jobs, the immigrants that were here had the opportunity to work, to accumulate wealth, to attend American schools and send their children to the same, to learn our language and our customs, and eventually assimilate. By turning off the flood of immigration, the slums ceased being immigrant slums and started becoming working-class American neighborhoods; something that would never have been possible if we’d kept importing huge quantities of unskilled, uneducated, virtually expendable human beings to scrabble around in the muck knifing each other for the few economic opportunities available.

By taking a trickle of immigrants, not so much of an influx that unskilled labor becomes prohibitively competitive, the immigrants already here in this nation and the small number that arrived after were able to be culturally, linguistically, and politically assimilated into the wider American identity.

That is a VERY important distinction to understand, that immigration is a benefit only so long as it is kept to a trickle and only as much as it matches the wider demographics of America. It’s important to understand those key points whenever you see crony capitalists trying to muck with immigration laws and visa requirements in the hopes that they can import a continuous flow of cheap, disposable laborers. It’s important to understand those things when you see America-hating progressives trying to drum up division and hatred in this country in the hopes of fomenting revolution. It’s important to understand those things when you hear race-baiting minority activists demanding we change our laws to give their race or tribe more votes.

” As White House Communications Director, Buchanan urged President Reagan to visit the SS cemetery at Bitburg in Germany, providing an excellent photo-op for neo-Nazis everywhere” - Ben Shapiro

That might be a good point if it were true. But it isn’t.

In fact the Bitburg visit was set up by Reagan’s media director Michael Deaver.

Deaver visited the cemetery while it was covered in snow and didn’t bother to see if any of the grave markers might prove embarrassing. It was sloppy advance work. Deaver’s role was well known at the time and isn’t hidden, the NY Times even mentions it in his obit:

“But on one occasion, Mr. Deaver’s advice and advance work failed Reagan. That was a visit to a German military cemetery in Bitburg in 1985, where 49 of Hitler’s elite SS troops were buried. Many Jewish leaders were furious, but Reagan would not alter the schedule, so Mr. Deaver added a stop at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.”

But a witch hunter like little Ben Shapiro isn’t really concerned with who did what, his real goal is to label his target a Nazi. Which he does. Didn’t a guy named Goebbels perfect this technique some years ago? The irony is priceless.

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