Posted on 08/20/2006 4:57:47 PM PDT by VU4G10
“As Rome passed away, so, the West is passing away, from the same causes and in much the same way. What the Danube and Rhine were to Rome, the Rio Grande and Mediterranean are to America and Europe, the frontiers of a civilization no longer defended.”
So begins a new work of warning from Pat Buchanan.
And this time Buchanan goes all the way.
STATE OF EMERGENCY: THIRD WORLD INVASION AND CONQUEST OF AMERICA hit the streets this week and it's designed to jolt readers with stats and analysis of illegal immigration gone dangerously wild.
Buchanan warns: “The children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West."
One in every twelve people breaking into America has a criminal record.
By 2050, there will be 100 million Hispanics concentrated in the U.S. Southwest.
Between 10 and 20 percent of all Mexicans, Central Americans and Caribbean people have already moved to the United States.
Every month, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehends more illegal aliens breaking into our country, 150,000, than the number of troops we have in Iraq.
[The book was ranked #571 on AMAZON's sales chart Sunday evening.]
Buchanan slams the president: “Concerned about his legacy, George W. Bush may yet live to see his name entered into the history of his country as the president who lost the American Southwest that James K. Polk won for the United States."
In EMERGENCY, Pat Buchanan charges the Mexican regime with an Aztlan Plot, a conscious campaign to use America as a dumping ground for its poor and unemployed, both to relieve social pressure and effect a cultural re-annexation of the American Southwest. La Reconquista, the reconquest of the lands lost by Mexico in the Mexican-American War, Buchanan charges, is underway.
The Republican Party, a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is in the grip of a cult called “Economism.” It is all about money now. The GOP worships at the “Church of GDP”
• Both parties are paralyzed by guilt over American past racial sins.
• Powerful Mexican and U.S. elites seek to erase America’s borders and merge the United States and Mexico into a “North American Union.”
In his controversial final chapter, “Last Chance,” Buchanan lays out a national plan to deal with the State of Emergency, before it makes an end of America:
• An Eisenhower-type deportation program, beginning with all illegal aliens convicted of felonies and every gang member not a U.S. citizen.
• A ten-year moratorium on all legal immigration, at the level JFK favored in 1958 -- 150,000 to 250,000 a year.
• A $10-billion, 2000-mile double-line security fence between the United States and Mexico, built with no apologies to Mexico City.
Developing...
"...he wanted to turn the country back over to Great Britain."
Never heard that one, but it does sound Bucananesk.
I must be honest though. 20 years ago I though Bucanan was a first class nut case. He is starting to make sense now. Scary though.
Bump.
SPOT ON!
There are others who are just as right.
Pat has way too many other flaws to be given serious consideration.
This has been a bad week for me! I have agreed with John McCain about the War on Terrorism and now, I agree with Pat Buchanan. Makes me wonder if I am losing my moral compass.
We just need more Arabs to vote for Pat. That'll make up for all those alien Catholic Mexicans.
By Tony Blankley
Editorial Page Editor, The Washington Times
August 16, 2006
On page 240 of Pat Buchanan's stunningly logical new book, "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America" appear the following words: "One of the truly major issue with which America must deal [is] the vast tidal wave of human beings coming from the Third World. There is a fragmentation going on in this country. At what point does cultural, racial diversity become a kind of social anarchy? How do you get national cohesion this way?"
But those are not the words of my friend and political sparring partner Pat Buchanan. They are words he quoted from a 1987 interview in the Christian Science Monitor with Eric Sevaried, the CBS correspondent and close associate of Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow.
Only 19 years ago, one of the nation's most respected public liberals could unself-consciously utter words that today could be a scandalous career ender for a public figure.
And it is around that issue -- race, ethnicity, language, culture and immigration and the problem of talking honestly about it -- that Mr. Buchanan has constructed his most important book to date.
Most people will be familiar with Mr. Buchanan's view on immigration. But even those who have read his earlier books and read his columns, as I have, will not be prepared for the remorseless presentation of unimpeachable facts with which he makes his convincing case for the reality of his book's subtitle: "the third world invasion and conquest of America." Here he deepens his case against illegal immigration (and his case for a moratorium on even legal immigration) with statistic after statistic concerning, among many topics, the shockingly disproportionate degree of disease and crime that illegal Mexican and other immigrants are transmitting into the country.
For example, in Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide, which total 1,200-1,500, are for illegal aliens. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, California now has almost 40,000 cases of tuberculosis (a disease only recently thought to be virtually extinct in America). He presents compelling evidence that the "Reconquista" of southwestern United States is not merely the silly conceit of a few extremists, but is widely desired by Mexicans (he cites a 2002 Zogby poll showing that by 58 percent to 28 percent, Mexicans believe the American Southwest belongs to Mexico).
New to me was his citation to the fact that all 47 Mexican consulates in the United States are mandated to provide textbooks to U.S. schools with significant Hispanic populations, which textbooks teach history from the point of view of General Santa Ana -- in which America stole the Southwest. The Los Angeles consulate, alone, has distributed 100,000 such textbooks just this year to the L.A. Unified School District.
Mr. Buchanan recounts the observation that "every great truth begins in blasphemy." In that sense this book is one extended blasphemy against not only liberal proprieties, but even against received wisdom about the nature of America believed by many conservatives.
I have particularly in mind his chapter 9: "What Is A Nation," in which he rejects the argument that America is fundamentally defined as a "creedal nation" of democracy, equality and the institutions formed by our constitution.
Rather, Mr. Buchanan argues, "The Constitution did not create the nation; the nation adopted the Constitution." While the founding fathers did believe in universal principles and rights, "they were loyal to a particular nation and to kinfolk with whom they shared ties of blood, soil, and memory." In this elegantly crafted chapter, he weaves into a thought-provoking tapestry on the nature of nationhood and patriotism the writings of George Washington, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Alexander Hamilton, Psalms and Genesis, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph De Maistre, Abraham Lincoln, Charles DeGaulle and Israel Zangwill (Jewish author of the 1908 play, "The Melting Pot") among others.
Of course, there is nothing more dangerously controversial than trying to define the ethnic, language and cultural nature and desirability of America.
But until we as a country come to terms publicly with what kind of a country we think America is and should be, we can never have a rational and full debate about what kind of immigration policy we should try to enforce.
Mr. Buchanan quotes the French poet, Charles Peguy: "It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of looking insufficiently progressive." By that standard, Mr. Buchanan, in this book, is positively fearless. He is also right. Americans, from what ever nation or ethnicity we originated, have formed a common culture worth preserving, and a common history worth continuing.
I am convinced a large majority of Americans agree. This book -- "State of Emergency" -- will give its readers both the facts and the backbone to powerfully make that case.
I think that he has an interesting take on this. His arguement that the "balkanization" of the Roman Empire by letting in foreigners caused it to fall. That lack of a national language and identity caused it to split apart. Much like what happened to Yugoslavia after Marshal Tito died. He an historical point.
Everyone has flaws.
"Buchanan seems to have a fixation with the Roman Empire. Rome never fell; it just changed it's form of governance"
While there is no single date the western empire 'fell,' there is no doubt that it did whatsoever. The power exercised by the western church, usually from rome except when they had dual popes claiming the papacy, is an entirely different matter than direct colonial administration, taxation, and military control of the vast parts of europe, north africa and asia minor Rome had at one point.
If you're a moron, maybe.
Alter Kaker's handy guide for telling a Middle Easterner from a Mexican:
1. Mexicans generally speak Spanish. Middle Easterners generally speak languages other than Spanish.
2. Mexicans eat carne de cerdo. Middle Easterners do not eat carne de cerdo.
3. Mexicans venerate the Virgin of Guadalupe. Middle Easterners do not venerate the Virgin of Guadalupe.
4. Mexicans are unlikely to know much about Izz ad-Din al-Qassam. Middle Easterners are unlikely to know much about Benito Juárez.
Good List!!
Marshall Tito was a dictator you moron...
"Why?
There was a big hoopla when our government said it would start to build a wall. A few weeks ago it was barely mentioned that Congress voted down the money.
They got the initial press that they were finally going to do something then silently voted it down."
the author is dead on when he says the GOP is a chamber of commerce party on this topic.
Yep and Buchanan has more than enough that people can find a less stained source with the same opinions on illegals.
Sometimes Pat's right.
Sometimes Pat's wrong.
Pat's always weird though...
Uh that constituency would include pat buchanan.
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