Revolting Elites and Their Pet Amnesty
The mass amnesty proposed by the Bush administration--the most discredited government to preside over this country since the late days of Richard Nixon--flies in the face of what most Americans want. The Center for Immigration Studies has shown that most Americans, regardless of race, creed, or political party, want to reduce the number of immigrants into the U.S., raise the skill and educational levels of those who are admitted, and secure this country’s borders.
The Bush bill accomplishes none of these popular goals, and instead offers a virtually free pass to legal status for 12 million illegal immigrants, along with half-hearted measures to secure a few hundred miles of our massively porous southern frontier. Criminal gangs have already used this border to smuggle dozens of Middle Easterners into the U.S.; indeed, as little old ladies get strip-searched in airports across the U.S., the entire cadre of Al-Qaeda could wade across the Rio Grande, unmolested.
With the approval, no doubt, of that bullying coward Rudolph Giuliani, who as mayor of New York forbade his police to turn in illegal immigrants to the feds--making the entire city a sanctuary for the likes of Mohammed Atta. This is why Rudolph “I heroically stood at a microphone on 9/11” tends to be opposed by the people who actually were affected by the Sept. 11 attacks—such as NYC firemen, and the families of 9/11 victims—even as he wins plaudits from gullible Republicans who watched the attacks on TV. As a native New Yorker who had close friends affected by the attacks—one narrowly escaped death, while another watched from the street as bodies fell from buildings a few hundred feet away—I cannot understand how Giuliani has become such an icon of “security” and “toughness” on Terror...except for the simple fact that Giuliani was visible on TV throughout that fateful day, even as Dick Cheney stared at oil maps of Iraq in an undisclosed location, and President Bush cowered in a bunker somewhere reading the rest of My Pet Goat.
In response to the massive grass-roots opposition to this amnesty swindle, the cashiered political hack Trent Lott is telling the New York Times: “Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.” I’m not sure how Lott plans to deal with the “problem” of voters expressing their opinion. Perhaps it will involve water-boarding.
The elites who dominate both the Republican party and the conservative movement will not let go of this amnesty bill, but will keep on twisting arms and pulling strings until they get it through the Senate. To them, cheap labor and bribes from business lobbies are vastly more important than the safety of our country or economic opportunity for native born Americans. These elites will have worse luck in the House, where the Republican congressmen who survived the 2006 bloodletting caused by Bush’s disastrous meddling in Iraq live in fear of their outraged constituents.
We need to keep that outrage good and hot, until this dishonest, double-dealing bill that’s longer than the Bible is buried with a stake through its heart. Its provisions represent a betrayal of government’s first and most sacred duty: to secure a nation’s borders against invasion. The bill also feeds into the abusive system of affirmative action which subjects millions of Americans to systematic discrimination.
Here’s one aspect of the amnesty which no one is talking about: The moment each of these illegals receives his walking papers, he will be eligible for affirmative action preferences over every white male in America. Including veterans of the Iraq war.
Instead of guarding the U.S. borders, our men are patrolling the frontier between Iraq and Syria, attempting to tamp down a civil war between two equally murderous sects of Islam. Meanwhile, bloodthirsty neocons like Joseph Lieberman are demanding that the U.S. launch a Pearl Harbor-style pre-emptive attack on a sovereign state, Iran, which poses no threat to us whatsoever. The pilots who (God willing) return from bombing Iranian cities into powder will find that lawbreakers who snuck into their homeland and used forged documents to work have more rights than Caucasian veterans.
The fault for this disgraceful administration and its policies lies not with the Left but with the Right. It wasn’t Michael Moore or Ward Churchill that handed the Republican nomination in 1999 to a dry-drunk incompetent frat boy who’d weaseled out of combat in Vietnam. It was lazy Republican primary voters, and the hacks who lead them. The same people who just might hand the nomination over to a pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro-gay marriage, cross-dressing open-borders adulterer. Unless, of course, the D.A. from “Law & Order” enters the race.
In that case, all bets are off. The Democrats will panic at the prospect of loyal NBC, USA, and TNT voters lining up behind a familiar face and trustworthy voice. The Democratic field will fade away, as party leaders see that they have no choice but to nominate Kiefer Sutherland.
John Zmirak is author of The Bad Catholic’s Guide to Wine, Whiskey and Song.
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Revolution & civil war—NOW!
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Mr. Zmirak has once again given satisfaction. I do wish, however, that when we on the Right attack the amnesty bill we talk more about the environmental impact of our population skyrocketing upwards and what that means for clean air, clean water, urban sprawl, preserving wilderness, et cetera.
And Trent Lott is moving hard to replace John McEgo as my most hated Senator.
Semper fi,
Chris in Sedona
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The concluding paragraph perfectly captures the absurdity of American democracy, allowing us to smile, even laugh, as the hard truths that precede it sink in.
The primary purpose behind the amnesty, in all its guises, is to provide endless cheap labor to drive down wages so that the economic Elites get even richer. The inevitable main result is that all heterosexual Gentile white males whose families are NOT filthy rich will become marginalized even more, as tens of millions more people get Affirmative Action preferences. At some point, that marginalization will be complete, with the majority of Gentile whites forced into a status of permanent serfdom due to lack of money and declaration by various cultural Marxist affirmative action laws and rulings that declare them to be All-Powerful Oppressors.
Kulak status awaits us and our sons and grandsons, and the American Trotskys, who are almost as numerous among Republicans as Democrats, can’t wait for the purifying blood-letting.
The good-hearted simpleminded middle Americans, bewitched as St. Paul could have predicted, will continue to serve in the US military and die for the rights of filthy rich Elites to import tens of millions of foreigners; for the rights of American Feminism - abortion as sacrament, homosexual marriage as inalienable right, faith in hating the traditional Christian family - to expand around the globe; for Israel, supported by the tax slaves of the US, to bully the entire Middle East and, indeed, the world.
As Walker Percy’s Colonel Pelham, a Confederate soldier brought back to life to witness the putrid degradation of Modern liberal American life, says after witnessing The Last Phil Donohue Show, “‘We’re not sorry we fought.’”
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Millions of new “citizens” with no vested interest in our
laws or culture will kill the republic. They do not intend
to assimilate. Multicult brainwashing has prepped
Americans to be usurped. Illegals will work, live, fight,
and vote for la raza, not America. This is clear to
even joe six pack who does not want this and is finally
becoming aware that politicians do not represent US
any longer.
You can call it coincidence, I call it conspiracy.
Either way, our national sovereignty is GONE.
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He’s a cross dresser too?
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The talk must stop. We must secure our borders now. A nation without secure borders is no nation at all. It makes no sense to fight terrorists abroad when our own front door is left unlocked. This is my six point plan:
Physically secure our borders and coastlines. We must do whatever it takes to control entry into our country before we undertake complicated immigration reform proposals.
Enforce visa rules. Immigration officials must track visa holders and deport anyone who overstays their visa or otherwise violates U.S. law. This is especially important when we recall that a number of 9/11 terrorists had expired visas.
No amnesty. Estimates suggest that 10 to 20 million people are in our country illegally. That’s a lot of people to reward for breaking our laws.
No welfare for illegal aliens. Americans have welcomed immigrants who seek opportunity, work hard, and play by the rules. But taxpayers should not pay for illegal immigrants who use hospitals, clinics, schools, roads, and social services.
End birthright citizenship. As long as illegal immigrants know their children born here will be citizens, the incentive to enter the U.S. illegally will remain strong.
Pass true immigration reform. The current system is incoherent and unfair. But current reform proposals would allow up to 60 million more immigrants into our country, according to the Heritage Foundation. This is insanity. Legal immigrants from all countries should face the same rules and waiting periods.UNQUOTE
- Rep. Ron Paul
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Ron Paul for President
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Another perceptive article by Mr. Zmirak and I appreciate it. Even my pro-Iraqi War friends (who are few) see the contradiction between the so-called war against terrorism and the policy of open borders. If Congressman Ron Paul should obtain the Republican nomination for the presidency, I might find myself registering to vote. Otherwise, the election process would be nothing more than a sad repeat of choosing between the lesser of two evils—and how can that be good for America?
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The choice isn’t between levels of evil; both political parties are in their banality profoundly evil.
This is not a failure of our rulers to understand what their policies have wrought.
This is a failure of the American helot to understand the perfidy of those people whom he has elected.
This is manifest in the conscious effort to marginalize and eliminate middle class white males. they want to destroy you, and they won’t stop until their goal is realized.
Your only function is to fuel the war machine. You are expected to wage war for those who hold you in the utmost contempt.
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This is an outright third-world invasion and complete divestment of the ruling European natives. In any sane time or place, any abetters in this invasion would be tried for treason.
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John Zmirak is as refreshing as Jon Stewart with the bite of a literary satirist. Even when I disagreed on some points, I found myself giggling. My first visit to TAKI
and I will recommend the site to my chums
on the liberal political boards. I do agree with his position on immigration, though it is not only a white Anglo/American issue; it is an American issue pure and simple.
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I agree on most of the subject matter. The people cannot and should not allow any type of oppression. Sacrifice yourselves for the cause of good and it will be well for all in the end.
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