There is an undeclared war being fought on our southern border. It is one that has no military build-up or armaments; it is without soldier-to-soldier conflict; and has no rehearsed military tactics. But it is a war as surely as if the tanks were rolling and the sorties were flying, and it has the same objective as any other war: the victory of one group at the expense of another one vanquished.
I touched on this subject in my January 27th post, The Compass of Our Founding Principles, and in my February 18th post, Uncle Tomfoolery. I made parody of this in my April 23rd post, Immigrant Invasion Invasion. I further discussed the problem in my May 2nd post, Not a Bit of Difference. So, I guess this has been on my mind for awhile.
And speaking of Not a Bit of Difference, I used a racist parody of a California driver's license in that posting, which I found on the Immigrant Solidarity Network. It depicted a fat, balding, angry-looking white guy as exploiting immigrant labor and reaping the benefits of illegal immigration while complaining endlessly about immigrants and denying them things like driver's licenses; so I thought it quid pro quo that I use an equally racist depiction of a dirty, greasy, fat, ugly Mexican in a sombrero hat with a never expiring "Mexifornia" license entitling him to drive, attend college, purchase handguns and vote.
After all, fair is fair.
The nature of this undeclared war was never more clearly defined in my mind when I recently read a speech made by Richard D. Lamm, a Democrat who served as governor of Colorado for twelve years from 1975 to 1987. He made this five minute speech in Washington DC in 2004. It is truly chilling:
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I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white bred, too self-satisfied, too rich, let’s destroy America. It is not that hard to do. History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that “an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide."
Here is my plan:
We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. One scholar, Seymour Martin Lipset, put it this way: “The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension and tragedy.” Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon – all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with its Basques, Bretons and Corsicans.
I would then invent “multiculturalism” and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal; that there are no cultural differences that are important. I would declare it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority; every other explanation is out-of-bounds.
We can make the United States a “Hispanic Quebec” without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwartz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: “…the apparent success of our own multi-ethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.”
I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the "melting pot" metaphor with a "salad bowl" metaphor. It is important to insure that we have various cultural sub-groups living in America reinforcing their differences rather than Americans, emphasizing their similarities.
Having done all this, I would make our fastest growing demographic the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from school.
I would then get the big foundations and big business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity and I would establish a cult of "victimology." I would get all minorities to think their lack of success was all the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry of blaming all minority failure on the majority population.
I would establish dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would “celebrate diversity.” “Diversity” is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other; that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent.
People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together, and we can take advantage of this myopia. Look at the ancient Greeks. Dorf’s World History tells us: “…the Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race. They possessed a common language and literature; and they worshiped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic Games in honor or Zeus and all Greeks venerated the shrine of Apollo at Delphi. A common enemy threatened their liberty. Yet, all of these bonds together were not strong enough to overcome two factors…. [that led to their demise]: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions."
If we can put the emphasis on the “Pluribus” instead of the “Unum,” we can Balkanize Americans as surely as Kosovo.
Then I would place all these subjects off limits; make it taboo to talk about. I would find a word similar to “heretic” in the sixteenth century that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking: words like “racist” and “xenophobe” that halts arguments and conversation.
Having made America a bilingual, bicultural country; having establish multiculturalism; having the large foundations fund the doctrine of “victimology,” I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra that [says]. "Because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good.” I would make every individual immigrant sympatric and ignore the cumulative impact.
Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson’s book, Mexifornia. This book is dangerous. It exposes my plan to destroy America so, please, please, if you feel that America deserves to be destroyed, please don’t buy this book. This guy is on to my plan.
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If that speech does not chill your blood, I don't know what would. Of course, the immigrant issue reaches a fevered pitch this weekend as Bush prepares to address the nation, having elevated this issue to a state of crisis. It would seem that W has at last heard the public plea (one that I also made in my May 2nd post) and will make a rare domestic-issue Oval Office nationally televised speech on Monday night. It is expected that Bush will deploy the national guard to secure the borders, something many presidents before him should have done a long time ago. My guess is that the national guard proposition will merely be a stop gap measure until more funds are allocated to the INS and additional man-power is added to the Border Patrol.
Now, the governor of the state that has arguably been most impacted by our lax immigration policies thinks that's sort of a bad idea. According to the Drudge Report, Arnie has come out against putting National Guard troops on the border, as President Bush may suggest on Monday night.” There is all kinds of talk about now that should we use the National Guard," Schwarzenegger explains. "I think that the key thing is that we secure our borders. Going the direction of the National Guard, I think is maybe not the right way to go because I think that the Bush administration and the federal government should put up the money to create the kind of protection that the federal government is responsible to provide."
Well, Arnie, why don't you wait for W to make his speech before you start criticizing it? And besides, didn't you say in 2005 that the nation's policy on preventing illegal immigration is too lax and told a group of newspaper publishers that the United States needs to "close the borders." Didn't you say, "This is a very important debate. I think it's necessary that we solve the problems rather than try to run the other way."
Thank god Article Two, Section One of the U.S. Constitution will prohibit Arnie from ever becoming president of our country. Aside from jumping the gun on criticizing Bush's speech before it is even given, his real concern here is not who closes the border, but who foots the bill for closing the borders. And that's kind of stupid, since his state's taxpayer are already footing an enormous bill, to the tune of an annual $9 billion bill to care for its illegal immigrant population. According to the Federation of American immigration Reform (FAIR), Californias pour billions into:
Education: based on estimates of the illegal immigrant population in California and documented costs of K-12 schooling, Californians spend approximately $7.7 billion annually on education for illegal immigrant children and for their U.S.-born siblings. Nearly 15 percent of the K-12 public school students in California are children of illegal aliens. Health Care: uncompensated medical outlays for health care provided to the state's illegal alien population amount to about $1.4 billion a year. Incarceration: the cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in California's prisons and jails amounts to about $1.4 billion a year (not including related law enforcement and judicial expenditures or the monetary costs of the crimes that led to their incarceration).
FAIR puts California's illegal immigration costs at a whopping $10,500,000,000 per year ($1,183 per household headed by a native born denizen). Even if you subtract the $1.6 billion paid in taxes by illegals, the cost to California's legal denizens is still $9 billion per year.
I hope I am as moved by W's speech on Monday as I was by reading the former Colorado governor's speech today. I hope this country's responsible, higher-thinking, well informed, "fuck the politically correct" population (and unfortunately that seems to be damn few of us) remains vocal about the assault on our country in an undeclared war with a corrupt and inept Mexican government.
Come to think of it, maybe my satire of invading Mexico and taking over their country in Immigrant Invasion Invasion should be no parody. Maybe it's a damn good idea.
posted by Inde at 4:16 AM
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