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11/18/08
- The Insane Rage of the Same-Sex Marriage Mob, by
Michelle Malkin
11/18/08
- Make Yours A Patriotic Christmas, by Chuck Baldwin
11/17/08
- America’s Moronic Iraq Policy Means More Muslim
Immigration, by Paul Craig Roberts
11/17/08
- As GM Goes, So Goes the GOP, by Patrick J. Buchanan
11/16/08 - We’ve Got
Karl Rove to Kick Around Some More! by Steve Sailer
11/16/08
- The Crisis Has Hardly Begun, by Paul Craig Roberts
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11/15/08 - Saturday
Forum: A Former Marine In Texas Reports A Mexican
Teacher Caught Moonlighting—As A Drug Dealer; etc.
11/14/08 - The
World Series And Immigration, by Joe Guzzardi
11/14/08
- View From Lodi, CA
Pittsburgh, PA: If 83% Of Americans Think Country In
“Bad Shape”, Why Was 95.6% Of Congress Re-Elected? by
Joe Guzzardi
11/13/08 - Mexican
Gangsters Converting America's National Parks Into
Gigantic Marijuana Patches, by Brenda Walker
11/13/08
- The Paulson Putsch: Time For A Fiscal-Conservative
Counterinsurgency, by Michelle Malkin
11/13/08
- Bretton Woods II—No Way, by Patrick J. Buchanan
11/12/08 - Foreigners
Victorious In Obama’s Election, by Martin Kelly
11/12/08
- America’s Economic Crisis Is Beyond The Reach of
Traditional Solutions, by Paul Craig Roberts
11/11/08 - The
Knoxville Horror with a Twist—Four Black Marines Murder
Interracial Couple In Winchester, CA; MSM Censors
Details, Of Course, by Nicholas Stix
11/11/08
- Obama's Illegal Alien Auntie: The Rest of the Story
(Thanks, George W. Bush), by Michelle Malkin
11/10/08 - National
Data: The High Cost of Diversity—Due To Go Up Under
Obama, by Edwin S. Rubenstein
11/10/08
- China's Path to World Power, by Patrick J. Buchanan
11/09/08 - GOP Can Play
By McCain Rules And Lose, Or Sailer Rules And Win, by
Steve Sailer
11/09/08
- Conned Again, by Paul Craig Roberts
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11/08/08 - Saturday
Forum: Glenn Spencer Agrees: Chertoff Took Border
Security Seriously; etc.
11/07/08 - Racist
Western Pennsylvania Not Roiled By Immigration Wave—Yet,
by Joe Guzzardi
11/07/08
- View From Pittsburgh, PA: Bad Bush, Bad McCain, Bad
Campaign = Wipeout! by Joe Guzzardi
11/06/08 -
Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also… Witchcraft, Imported
By Immigration. (And, Yes, From Obama’s Kenya Too), by
Brenda Walker
11/06/08
- Conservatives Lost More Than An Election, by Chuck
Baldwin
11/06/08
- An Unnecessary Defeat? by Patrick J. Buchanan
11/06/08
- The Cowardly Character Assassination of Sarah Palin,
by Michelle Malkin
11/05/08 -
Election 2008: There's Got To Be A Pony In Here
Somewhere! by Marcus Epstein
11/04/08
- And the Winner Is … Peggy the Moocher, by Michelle
Malkin
11/04/08 - This
Appalling Election And Pat Buchanan’s 70th Birthday, by
Marcus Epstein
11/03/08 -
Immigration, Affirmative Action, Bucking The Bailout -
All Potential Election Winners For McCain, by Steve
Sailer
11/03/08
- But Where Did Bush Go Wrong? by Patrick J. Buchanan
11/02/08 - Sunday Forum:
A California Reader Says Obama Will Have No Room To Push
For Amnesty; etc.
11/01/08 - Pat
Buchanan At 70: He Told You So, You F****ing Fools!, by
Tom Piatak
10/31/08 -
McCain, Obama—Who Cares? The Real Question: Who Replaces
Chertoff?, by Joe Guzzardi
10/31/08
- View From Lodi, CA Pittsburgh, PA: Reporting America’s
Immigration Suicide, by Joe Guzzardi
10/30/08 - Norbert
Schlei—Guilty of Malice Aforethought in America’s
Immigration Disaster?, by Peter Brimelow
10/30/08
- Comrade Obama? by Patrick J. Buchanan
10/30/08
- Plundering the Plumber's Records, by Michelle Malkin
10/29/08 - Steve
Sailer’s Obama Book, America’s Half-Blood Prince, Is
FINALLY Available!, by Peter Brimelow
10/29/08
- The World Tires of Dollar Hegemony, by Paul Craig
Roberts
10/28/08 - Memo From
Mexico: The World Votes For Obama. So What?, by Allan
Wall
10/28/08 -
Notorious Obamedia Moments of 2008, by Michelle Malkin
10/27/08 - Mexico
Meltdown Approaches Warp Speed, by Brenda Walker
10/27/08
- Obama's First 100 Days—Amnesty Will Just Be The Start,
by Patrick J. Buchanan
10/26/08 - How Angry
Are Americans? We’ll Soon Find Out!, by Joe Guzzardi
10/26/08
- Reality Overthrows “History’s Actors”, by Paul Craig Roberts
10/25/08 -
Conclusion Of First Knoxville Horror Trial Shows Legal
System Under Stress, by Nicholas Stix
10/25/08
- Democrat Scowls At His Former City's Mayor As
Anti-Sanctuary Lawsuit Reinstated, by Donald A. Collins
10/24/08 - The Riots
Next Time? Racial Violence Looms If Barack Obama
Loses—Or Wins, by Matthew Richer
10/24/08
- View From Lodi, CA
Pittsburgh, PA: The War on Halloween, by Joe Guzzardi
10/23/08
- Arizona’s Proposition 202—A New Low In Deception, by Rep. Tom Tancredo
10/23/08 - 9/11 Shows
Powell Endorsement Is Worthless, by Peter Gadiel
10/23/08
- The Media: Camp Followers For Barack Obama, by Patrick
J. Buchanan
10/23/08
- Boot Murtha—The Change America Deserves! by Michelle
Malkin
10/22/08 - Beyond
‘Taco Night’: Barack Obama And The Frightening Future of
"Critical Multicultural Education", by Cooper Sterling
10/21/08 - A Real
Greek Tragedy: Repeated Amnesties Fail There Too, by
Ioannis Kolovos
10/21/08
- The Increasingly Erratic, Super-Gaffetastic Joe Biden,
by Michelle Malkin
10/20/08 - Memo From
Mexico: Who Can Sell Out The U.S. Faster? McCain And
Obama Slug It Out—In Spanish, by Allan Wall
10/20/08
- Colin Powell’s Tribal Politics, by Patrick J. Buchanan
10/20/08
- Recession (Depression?) Won't Solve Our Immigration
Crisis, by Donald A Collins
10/19/08 - Black
Rule Brings Inevitable To South Africa. New York Times
Reports It, Sort Of, by Ilana Mercer
10/19/08
- Where Inflation Came From, by Paul Craig Roberts
10/18/08 - Saturday
Forum: A Texas Reader Says She’ll Trade The Economic
Downturn For Alien Deportation; etc.
10/17/08 - The
Condit Case Revisited: MSM Smeared Congressman—Ignored
Illegal Alien Suspect, by Joe Guzzardi
10/17/08
- View From Lodi, CA
Pittsburgh, PA: GOP Committed Suicide With McCain, by
Joe Guzzardi
10/16/08 - Canada’s
National Question: The Answer Is No, by Kevin Michael
Grace
10/16/08
- The Left Declares War On Joe the Plumber, by Michelle
Malkin
10/16/08
- Additional Thoughts on the Bailout, by Paul Craig
Roberts
10/15/08 - Judge Ricardo Urbina To Uighur Suspected
Jihadists: "Welcome to America!", by Brenda Walker
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11/18/08 - Memo From
Mexico: Mexicans Get The Message, Even If GOP
Doesn't—Race Is Destiny In American Politics, by Allan
Wall
11/17/08 - Why Aren’t
The H1-B Hogs Satisfied With The O-1 Extraordinary
Ability Visa? Oh, Wait A Minute…, by Ilana Mercer
Here It Comes: With Obama’s Victory, Treason Lobby Moves
To Suppress Free Speech
By
Brenda Walker
In
Obama's new improved
America, we will all be
a lot nicer—or else. In the interests of everyone's
self-esteem, all cultural beliefs and practices will
be celebrated rather than criticized. (The really
heinous ones, like
slavery, violent
witchcraft and
FGM
will be conveniently ignored.) All the
darker aspects of human nature—violence, greed,
hatred, etc—will be solved by the enforcement of a
kumbaya ideology of massive denial.
Knuckle-draggers who can't get with the program of
universal peace and love will learn to regret their
stubbornness in vegetarian reprogramming camps.
(That’s
black
humor—if we’re still allowed to use the term).
We already can see a preview of things
to come. The leftists are on the warpath about what they
construe as "hate speech"—usually
just
reasoned debate about borders, culture and immigration.
According to protectors of lawbreaking foreigners from the
New
York Times to
La Raza, any suggestion of immigration law enforcement
unduly stirs the blood of Redstate citizens (you know, the
ones still clinging to religion and guns), driving them to
acts of violence and murder.
The New York Times in particular
has urged a crackdown on speech—which is a little odd,
considering how the press is
supposed
to venerate the First Amendment. The NYT’s'
attitude is typified by a November 14 editorial,
The High Cost of Harsh Words, which essentially
blamed the recent murder of Ecuadorean illegal immigrant
Marcello Lucero on the remarks of a local official,
Steve Levy, who has been a
stand-up guy for law and borders.
"Words have consequences. Steve Levy, the Suffolk County executive, is
learning that the hard way during a horrible week. Seven
teenagers were arrested and charged in the fatal stabbing
last Saturday of Marcello Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant,
on a street in the Long Island
village of
Patchogue. [...]
“Mr. Levy's past harsh words and actions against undocumented workers
have now left him cornered with a tragically limited ability
to lead the county in confronting a brutal act that surely
pains him as much as anyone. "
It is downright bizarre for an
editorialist to respond to a despicable crime by condemning
a public official for speaking out against immigration
chaos. A bunch of roughneck teens got drunk at a bar and
decided beat up a Mexican, with horrific results. There is
no evidence whatsoever that anything Levy said precipitated
the crime.
Worse (perhaps), the Times
insulted the many millions of Americans across the political
spectrum who
want their immigration laws enforced:
"[Levy] parroted extremist
talking points, going so far as to raise the alarm,
utterly false, that illegal immigrants' 'anchor
babies' were forcing
Southampton Hospital to close its maternity ward. He
denounces racist hatred, yet his words have made him a hero
in pockets of
Long Island where veins of racism run deep. "
It’s no wonder the Times stock
is in
the tank (hitting a
52-week low on November 14) when it calls some of its
readers "racists."
Insulting customers is not usually good for business.
Interestingly, another Times
article the same day [A
Killing in a Town Where Latinos Sense Hate, by Kirk
Semple] noted twice
that engaging in mugging was a regular pastime among
some students...
"PATCHOGUE, N.Y. — It was an occasional diversion among a certain crowd
at
Patchogue-Medford High School, students said: Drink a
few beers, then go looking for people to mug, whether for
money or just for kicks. [...]
“Acquaintances of the defendants said it was not unusual for groups of
students from the high school to go out looking for people
to mug. 'It was just for fun, or for money,' said Taylor
Fallica, 15, a student at the high school who said he was a
friend of Mr. Conroy and the other defendants."
Are robbery and assault no longer
crimes in New York State? If anything precipitated the
deadly violence, it was the apparent acceptance by
authorities that high school students get drunk and mug—an
attitude which encouraged kids to continue this amusing
activity.
And even assuming that the killing of
the Ecuadorean was rooted in
anger over community changes caused by
massive illegal immigration, what teenager would take
action based on the words of an adult authority figure? Ask
any parent how often that happens.
The major cause of the crime:
too
much drinking by stupid adolescents. It is simply a fact
that excessive drinking makes some people mean. Yet no one
is calling for another failed Prohibition.
In telling contrast, in another
instance of controversial speech, the NYT emitted a
full-throated defense of the First Amendment in an article
titled,
Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech
[June 12, 2008]. The subject was the
contentious censorship trial of columnist Mark Steyn for
a criticism of Muslims which appeared in the Canadian
magazine Macleans
[The
future belongs to Islam, October 20, 2006].
The Times piece was written by
Adam Liptak, [Email him]a
reporter who
attended the tribunal against Steyn in
British Columbia. It offered a
thoughtful explanation of the
American view on free speech, while comparing it to less
robust protections in every other society.
"Earlier this month, the actress Brigitte Bardot, an animal rights
activist, was fined $23,000 in
France
for provoking racial hatred by criticizing a Muslim ceremony
involving the slaughter of sheep.
“By contrast, American courts would not stop a planned march by the
American Nazi Party in
Skokie,
Ill., in 1977, though a march
would have been deeply distressing to the many Holocaust
survivors there.
“Six years later, a state court judge in New York dismissed a libel case brought by
several Puerto Rican groups against a business executive who
had called food stamps 'basically a Puerto Rican program.'
The First Amendment, Justice Eve M. Preminger wrote [PDF],
does not allow even false statements about racial or ethnic
groups to be suppressed or punished just because they may
increase 'the general level of prejudice.' "
Well, no one has accused the New
York Times of intellectual rigor of late, particularly
when the subject is immigrants. Telling the truth about
immigration—that decades of unskilled,
unassimilating foreigners have harmed American society
deeply—is threatening to elite liberals like those at the
Times who are invested in the ideology of multicultural
utopianism. The paper is therefore happy to smack down
speech with which it doesn't agree, in the larger effort to
dissolve the American nation.
The underlying problem: for all the
elites' enormous power in business, education and media,
there was still enough representative government in place
for an aroused citizenry to
defeat amnesty last year.
Unquestionably, the Open Borders
brigade believes that a verbally inhibited electorate will
be better for their side. And that means lots more
accusations of racism—and worse.
The big escalation this round: the
attack on free speech by connecting it with violence against
non-Americans. Saying that illegal aliens, ahem, are
"breaking the law"
is apparently too upsetting for
America's marketplace of
ideas.
Hence the Main Stream Media’s treatment
of the Lucero murder. As usual, the New York Times
leads and others follow. The Associated Press had this
headline November 10:
Advocates say rhetoric fuels anti-Hispanic crime.
"Observers and Hispanic advocates blame a climate of harsh rhetoric
surrounding the national immigration debate.
“'I don't think it's merely coincidence that these hate crimes are going
up at the same time there's a violent at times debate over
immigration,' said Kevin [Johnson,]
[email him]
dean of the law school at the University of
California-Davis.
“'We talk about immigration, we're not particularly careful in the
terminology,' he said. 'Inflammatory
terminology is frequently used, that helps to sort of
rile people up.' "
But what are citizens supposed to do
when the truth is inflammatory? Shut up to please La Raza
and the New York Times?
This is the reality: Millions of
foreigners routinely cross the border illegally, buy
stolen identification and unlawfully take jobs that by
law are supposed to be held by citizens and legal
immigrants. Employers' use of exploitable foreign workers
has figured largely in the loss of the blue-collar middle
class: occupations like
construction and
meatpacking no longer support families as they have in
the past.
A
century of labor progress in terms of wages and
workplace safety has been wiped out by open borders.
In areas of high influx, the social
service system designed for citizens is strained to the
breaking point.
Schools and the
healthcare system are buckling under the needs of
foreign families that are
poor, unskilled and uneducated.
These are facts. It is the ruination America for
profit and
ethnic transformation that is inflammatory, not the
words used to describe it. Anti-sovereignty activists' focus
on shutting down free speech is a strategy to suppress
opposition. If they can repress Americans' outspoken
condemnation of border anarchy, then the possibility for a
massive amnesty is much enhanced. Only the high-decibel fury
of citizens stopped the last attempt.
The MSM's supposed concern about the
death of Mr. Lucero would be easier take seriously if there
were any comparable attention to the many
crime victims of illegal aliens and immigrants
generally.
But there isn't. With very few exceptions, crime victims
of illegal aliens and immigrants are noted in
local
media only. For information about
victims of criminal aliens you have to read
VDARE.com and
other internet sites dedicated to telling the truth about
immigration anarchy.
One-Worldism
is the goal of elites and utopian leftists.
Censorship of dissenting views is a means to that end.
Friends of American sovereignty and
culture don’t need name calling and epithets. The truth
about America’s immigration disaster is
harsh enough.
Brenda
Walker (email
her) lives in Northern California and publishes two websites,
LimitsToGrowth.org
and
ImmigrationsHumanCost.org. She recently added a fine new
John Stuart Mill quote to the files:
"Free institutions
are next to impossible in a country made up of different
nationalities. Among a people without fellow-feeling,
especially if they read and speak different languages, the
united public opinion, necessary to the working of
representative government, cannot exist." (From
Chapter 16 of Representative Government)
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