Posted on 05/02/2006 12:58:26 PM PDT by Spiff
A strike against America
Patrick J. Buchanan Posted: May 2, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 Creators Syndicate Inc.
It was billed as "A Day Without Immigrants."
According to its propagandists, official and media, the purpose of the May Day walkout from schools and jobs and boycott of shops and stores was to show how much immigrants contribute and how they deserve appreciation and respect, and not to be treated like criminals.
But if this was all it was about, there would have been no need to go on strike. Americans have always welcomed immigrants. They are better treated here than anywhere on earth. While most Americans believe we now need a timeout to assimilate the 36 million here and their children – like the moratorium we had in the Roosevelt-Truman-Eisenhower-Kennedy years – no one urges any denial of rights to legal immigrants.
What, then, was May Day really all about?
May Day was a strike against America. It was a show of force, a demonstration of raw street power to force the government of the United States into granting to 12 million illegal aliens, who have broken our laws and broken into our country, not only the full benefits of U.S. citizenship, but full citizenship.
It was brazen act of extortion to coerce Congress to grant amnesty now, and not to enforce our immigration laws or secure the Mexican border – or to be ready for big trouble in the streets.
Congress cannot capitulate. The response of any Congress that calls itself American to such extortion should be a direct one:
"We are not intimidated. There is going to be no amnesty. The border fence goes up this summer. Those are our non-negotiable answers to your non-negotiable demands. Demonstrate all you want. We're not capitulating."
The message that would go out to the world would be electric: Congress will have said, first, that the United States will not be cowed by strikes or boycotts by law-breakers. Second, America intends to re-establish control of her border. Third, the invasion route from Mexico is going to be closed, forever.
Fourth, those who come to America henceforth will be those we invite in. And, as guests, they will behave as guests – or they will be going back home. As for businesses that cannot get along without illegal foreign labor, if some of their CEOs are prosecuted and put to work in Arizona building that security fence, they will rapidly rediscover how to make a buck without colluding in an invasion of their country for commercial purposes.
We are at a turning point in American history. In July of 1954, President Eisenhower, discovering that illegal aliens were pouring into the Southern United States at a rate of a million a year, put in motion Operation Wetback, which halted the invasion and sent back scores of thousands of illegals to Mexico. Many more returned voluntarily.
Thirty years later, Ronald Reagan declared an amnesty for 3 million illegal aliens, conditioned on sanctions on U.S. businesses that did not cease to hire them. Following that amnesty, the flood began. Now we have 12 million illegals here.
Between 2000 and 2005, 4.5 million were caught at the border. Four million are believed to have gotten in. No one knows exactly how many. Even Bush concedes that, among the illegals, one in 12 has a criminal record. If we have 12 million illegals here now, that means the U.S. government, in dereliction of its duty, has let into this nation in the last 20 years 1 million criminals – like Beltway sniper John Lee Malvo – to prey on American citizens.
While almost half of all Mexicans, in a national poll, indicated a desire to move to the United States, the rest of the Third World has gotten the message. One in every 10 citizens of Central America and the Caribbean countries has already arrived. During the War on Terror, the number of those coming into the United States illegally from countries "other than Mexico" (OTM) has tripled.
These OTMs are coming from as far away as China and Iraq.
Fifteen years ago, when this writer ran in the California GOP primary against the first President Bush, calling for a border fence along the crucial 70 miles where illegals were massing and coming in by the thousands every day, there were 3 million to 4 million illegals here.
Nothing was done. There are now 12 million. If these 12 million are amnestied and the border fence is not built along all 2,000 miles, the next amnesty will be for 20 million or 30 million.
During the "Generals' Revolt," when half a dozen senior officers called for the firing of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, President Bush saw a challenge to his authority and had to throw it back. If Congress does not throw back this challenge, if Congress now capitulates to this extortion, America should start shopping for a new Congress in November – an American Congress.
Pat's a tool. But he's right on this subject.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1625378/posts
Not a real fan of Mr. Buchanan, but totally agree with him on this.
Pat is right more often than he is wrong. But when he's wrong, he's really wrong. In this case he is right on.
The only thing I can criticize in this is that he is limiting this to a US/Mexico border issue. We have a big problem up north too.
Pat is a raving lunatic. He’s right here, but for the most part, he’s lost all credibility on just about everything, especially Middle East issues, so the impact of anything good he writes or says is minimal.
If the Airlines went on a massive strike like this Bush would have called out the National Guard to stop it. But here we have a few million criminals flaunting themselves in the streets and the government does nothing. It's not about 'we-the-people' anymore, it's about PC, money and votes. "We" don't seem to exist in their eyes.
A day without illegal immigrants is like a day without fleas to a dog.
Teddy Roosevelt said it right:
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American ... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag ... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Anything less contributes to the rise of individualism and multiculturalism, and with that contributes to
the diminishment of our national security and personal freedoms,
the degradation of our structures of education, science and technology, jurisprudence and legislation, and
the disintegration of the American culture and its values, which have created both
the most effective system of equal freedom and justice for all, and
the most productive and advanced civilization in the history of the world.
When we apply new ideas to anything that's already working well, we either improve it still further, or injure its ability to function. It's undeniable to even a casual observer who is not agenda-driven that our country and the pillars of our society have taken some serious hits over the last half century. In spite of some spectacular achievements in science and technology, our country is falling apart and we are falling behind other nations in various areas --especially that of education in general and in science and math in particular.
Now we are engaged in a war for the survival of our civilization and freedom, and we're giving ground to the enemy while we fight bureaucratic and political turf battles and worry about being politically correct. This is insanity.
I say it's time to debunk individualism, personal nonresponsibility, multicultural diversity and political correctness, and get back to what we know works. We need to teach our children what makes American democracy work, and to restore the values that support our families, our communities and our culture.
If all you do doesn't work and you're falling behind, get back to the basics! There will always be problems to be worked out, but you never succeed in fixing them by sacrificing the basics!
Teddy Roosevelt as quoted in an editorial in The Washington Times, April 10, 2006
http://www.washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060409-101254-2257r
Ditto that! This is one issue he seems to have down "pat". ;-)
again, buchanan proves himself to be a broken clock. usually i don't agree with the guy but once in a while he nails it.
Loved your response!
I see, so you are saying because he is wrong on other issues we shouldn't pay attention when he is right on something? Is that right? Kind of a biased attitude on your part isn't it?
Pat's right on...and we can thank Clinton and Bush, and their NAFTA and CAFTA twins for a lot of it!
Immigration is a legal process by which nations afford non-citizens a path to establish residency & eventual citizenship.
Illegal aliens are those that have either (a) entered the country unlawfully, or (b) overstayed their visit/visa and are now in the country unlawfully.
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