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[COMMENT: I suspect that some "vigorous discussion" will break loose when the annexation of the Southwest becomes an openly contested issue, which is almost inevitable, given the drive of the radicals. That is clearly their intent. I doubt that they will be able to pull it off. Too many Americans will grab their rifles and take to the streets. The potential for civil strife is enormous.
Or maybe even, if worst comes to worse, our population will actually vote our present government out of office. Or, maybe too many Americans will sit home with their six-pack and TV. We will see.
I suspect that the outcome will depend mostly on what the border states do, as the Fed is paralyzed by socialist-globalism. If we have strong governors who will stand for truth, honesty, and rule of law (yes, done with compassion), America will be preserved. If not, I doubt it.
But let's get on our knees and pray it does not come to that, and get our marching orders from God. Only if the Federal Government, all three branches, can be shaken to its core and forced to repent of its cowardliness, and of its deceit and collusion with forces which seek to undermine America as an independent nation will the US of A be returned to sanity.
We are watching another chapter in the long history of human strife and warfare. Only a return to our Biblical foundations can accomplish the renewal of America. Nothing but God, and our trust and obedience to Him, has the capacity to stand against the terribly misguided secular/pagan tide. They are locked into this pattern of strife. Faithful Biblical societies are not. So, if we lose America, it will be our well-deserved punishment. See Illegal Immigration
For
readers that might want to take action, go to Michelle Malkin’s web site:
deportthemnow.com
and John Vizzi’s
victimsofillegaliens.org
and
usillegalaliens.com.
E. Fox]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060405-091814-1458r.htm
By Ronald F. Maxwell
Published April 6, 2006
Dear President Bush,
Perhaps you know me
from my work. I wrote and directed the movies "Gettysburg" and "Gods and
Generals." Walking Civil War battlefields, soaking up the letters and diaries of
that generation, re-creating the world of our ancestors -- all this has given me
a deep appreciation for our country. My dad was with the Army Air Corps in North
Africa while your dad was in the Pacific. My French mother was liberated in
Tunisia and became a lawful immigrant to the United States. For an American, my
story is unique and typical at the same time.
You probably don't need to be reminded of the hostility and animus directed
your way by most of the Hollywood community. Then again, I'm sure you don't take
it personally. After all, they held Ronald Reagan in equal contempt. As one of
the very few directors of major motion pictures who sees you in a different
light, I implore you to listen seriously to what I have to say.
What is happening on the southern border is unprecedented. Not only in our
own history, but in the history of the world. No country at any time anywhere
has sustained the influx of tens of millions of foreigners across its borders. A
wave of anti-American leftism is sweeping Latin America. A socialist radical may
soon be elected as the president of Mexico, a country which officially
encourages its emigrants to vote in Mexican elections, urging them to think of
themselves as Mexican first and perhaps only. The eventual outcome is plain for
anyone with eyes to see. This is invasion masquerading as immigration.
It may already be too late to avoid a future annexation of the Southwest by
Mexico or the evolution of a Mexican-dominated satellite state. This is not to
say Mexican people are better or worse than any of God's children. It is to say
that millions of ethnically and culturally homogeneous people will seek
self-determination in a land they will increasingly feel justified in claiming
as their own. Especially when the natural weight of demographic change is
accompanied by the soundtrack of radical demagoguery which seeks to legitimize
and moralize this phenomenon as a "reconquista." Many pundits claim you will be
remembered in history as the president who won (or lost) the war in Iraq. I see
it differently. I believe you will come to be seen, in the years and decades to
come, as the President who saved (or lost) the Southwest of the United States.
Mr. President, this is a time for candor. Your immigration policy is viewed
as captive to the cheap labor -- big business lobby and inimical to the survival
of our country. It is splitting the party and draining away support for your
presidency. We who understand the vital stakes will not be placated by rhetoric
or slogans. The failure to recognize this growing and deep disaffection among
Republicans, conservatives, independents and, indeed, many Reagan Democrats, is,
in the short run, going to lead to a monumental defeat for your party at the
polls in November.
The last two years of your presidency will be plagued with impeachment
hearings, with pressures to diminish the war against terrorism, with the cutting
off of funds for the war of liberation in Iraq for which so many of our brothers
in uniform have paid the ultimate price. The American people will once again be
forced to endure a painful repetition of the humiliating withdrawal from
Vietnam. We will be dedicating yet another monument to brave men who gave their
lives for honor, country and a lost cause.
I understand that in your heart you want to believe that the border should
be an open place where goods and people can move freely back and forth for the
good of all. I do not question your integrity or the goodness and decency of
your motivations. Dear Mr. President, this is a utopian creed, which must be
discarded before it is too late.
When I watched the Senate Judiciary Committee's one-day public session on
immigration reform (I suppose we should be grateful that Sen. Arlen Specter
devoted one whole day out of his busy schedule for the public discussion of a
problem regarding 20 million illegal aliens) it was remarkable for the near
absence of any senator speaking on behalf of the American people or their own
constituents. It seems the overriding concern of most senators of both parties
is for the illegal immigrant population. Perhaps these senators should be
reminded that they are supposed to represent and defend American citizens, not
foreign nationals, illegal aliens or indeed anyone else. Listening to the
self-serving and pandering speeches, you'd think the senators were elected in
Mexico or any other country on the globe except America.
Where was the concern for American schoolchildren forced to sit in
overcrowded classes, for American patients forced to wait in overcrowded
hospitals, for American workers whose wages are being undercut, for American
drivers forced to sit in interminable traffic jams in over-whelmed freeway
systems, for the victims of organized gangs, for the American college students
who are turned away from publicly funded state universities, for many African
Americans who are being literally displaced from their neighborhoods while being
moved figuratively, once again, to the back of the bus, for those
environmentalists and conservationists who want to protect open space and slow
down urban sprawl, for the American taxpayers who have had to bear the burden of
billions of dollars in increased welfare costs, over-burdened prisons, extra
police and security and even, adding insult to injury, for bilingual education?
Where was the concern that we as a people are compelled to deal with these
"in your face" issues which have been imposed upon us by external forces,
instead of focusing our time, energies and capital on our own indigenous, urgent
concerns, like for instance, the medical care for our own countrymen and women.
Might it be irresponsible to mislead the 20 million illegal foreigners already
here and might it be immoral to encourage the yearly arrival of millions more
when we cannot even take care of our own millions of poor and sick and hungry
and, yes, dare I say it, our unemployed?
Working as I do in Civil War history, I have had to explore the ugly depths
of the American institution of slavery, and have been privileged to work
alongside civil rights leaders and specialists in African-American history. For
this reason it troubles me that we appear today to be importing a second virtual
slave class of low-wage workers who are hired to replace or displace
less-educated or privileged Americans -- including the very descendants of
American slaves.
I agree with you that "no child should be left behind." But that is
precisely what immigration advocates are doing to the children of America's
working class -- by flooding the market with workers from a desperately poor
country, who depress the wages of high school and even college graduates.
Little in the current situation resembles the immigration we knew and
cherished while growing up in America prior to the '80s. The new and radically
dislocating phenomenon we are enduring is not the old, familiar immigration of
yesteryear -- gradual, orderly, assimilating and lawful. The numbers alone are
unprecedented. The American people have been made the victims of monumental
social engineering perpetuated upon them without their consent and against their
will by an arrogant governing elite. Those who try to neutralize their
justifiable instincts of self-preservation as a people and a sovereign nation by
constantly invoking the mantra of "a nation of immigrants" are trying to pull
the wool over their eyes.
The House immigration bill isn't perfect, but it is a firm and realistic
place from which to build an effective policy for the survival of our country.
The McCain-Kennedy bill looks like it was drafted by bureaucrats at the United
Nations, not by representatives of the United States.
To do the right thing, to take the safe course for protecting our country,
you will have to endure even more vilification from the left, you will have to
watch large and increasingly violent rallies by those who don't want to abide by
our laws or the will of the American people -- who think they are entitled --
who believe this country already belongs to them -- who believe the rest of us
should just move aside, shut up and smile. To pretend this problem will go away
by pandering to the illegal population, or to leave it for the next generation
to solve is national suicide.
The moment has arrived. The Senate has already begun its bloviations and
self-aggrandizing platitudes, its morality play of good and evil wherein they
the noble senators are cast as the redeemers of the entire world population
seeking only to "live the American dream." We know by their coded words they
will do nothing meaningful to really solve the problem or to defend America. If
their actions of the past 20 years are a guide, they will only take the pose of
pretending to do so. As a movie director I can see bad acting a mile away.
Today there are two Republican Parties. One is now seen correctly by most
Americans as responsive first and foremost to the demands of multinational
corporations, the agro-business and the Chamber of Commerce. The other, best
represented by the embattled members of the House, represents grass-roots
America -- we the people. In this debate you have the opportunity to make the
party one and whole again, to regain its soul and return it to the service and
the sovereignty of the American people.
Dear Mr. President, you must disenthrall yourself from the failed policies
of the present. I implore you to rethink this issue and to change course.
Millions of Americans, a great majority of your fellow citizens will be with
you. Start speaking and doing the sensible, courageous and right thing. You will
see your poll numbers turn dramatically around. You will save your country.
Ronald F. Maxwell, a writer and director, is
currently working on a satirical motion picture about immigration into America.
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