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Title: Buchanan: A Strike Against America
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Creators Syndicate Inc
URL Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50009
Published: May 2, 2006
Author: Pat Buchanan
Post Date: 2006-05-02 11:11:03 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 111
Comments: 14
It was billed as "A Day Without Immigrants." According to its propagandists, official and media, the purpose of the May Day walkout from schools and jobs and boycott of shops and stores was to show how much immigrants contribute and how they deserve appreciation and respect, and not to be treated like criminals. But if this was all it was about, there would have been no need to go on strike. Americans have always welcomed immigrants. They are better treated here than anywhere on earth. While most Americans believe we now need a timeout to assimilate the 36 million here and their children – like the moratorium we had in the Roosevelt-Truman-Eisenhower-Kennedy years – no one urges any denial of rights to legal immigrants. What, then, was May Day really all about? May Day was a strike against America. It was a show of force, a demonstration of raw street power to force the government of the United States into granting to 12 million illegal aliens, who have broken our laws and broken into our country, not only the full benefits of U.S. citizenship, but full citizenship. It was brazen act of extortion to coerce Congress to grant amnesty now, and not to enforce our immigration laws or secure the Mexican border – or to be ready for big trouble in the streets. Congress cannot capitulate. The response of any Congress that calls itself American to such extortion should be a direct one: "We are not intimidated. There is going to be no amnesty. The border fence goes up this summer. Those are our non-negotiable answers to your non-negotiable demands. Demonstrate all you want. We're not capitulating." The message that would go out to the world would be electric: Congress will have said, first, that the United States will not be cowed by strikes or boycotts by law-breakers. Second, America intends to re-establish control of her border. Third, the invasion route from Mexico is going to be closed, forever. Fourth, those who come to America henceforth will be those we invite in. And, as guests, they will behave as guests – or they will be going back home. As for businesses that cannot get along without illegal foreign labor, if some of their CEOs are prosecuted and put to work in Arizona building that security fence, they will rapidly rediscover how to make a buck without colluding in an invasion of their country for commercial purposes. We are at a turning point in American history. In July of 1954, President Eisenhower, discovering that illegal aliens were pouring into the Southern United States at a rate of a million a year, put in motion Operation Wetback, which halted the invasion and sent back scores of thousands of illegals to Mexico. Many more returned voluntarily. Thirty years later, Ronald Reagan declared an amnesty for 3 million illegal aliens, conditioned on sanctions on U.S. businesses that did not cease to hire them. Following that amnesty, the flood began. Now we have 12 million illegals here. Between 2000 and 2005, 4.5 million were caught at the border. Four million are believed to have gotten in. No one knows exactly how many. Even Bush concedes that, among the illegals, one in 12 has a criminal record. If we have 12 million illegals here now, that means the U.S. government, in dereliction of its duty, has let into this nation in the last 20 years 1 million criminals – like Beltway sniper John Lee Malvo – to prey on American citizens. While almost half of all Mexicans, in a national poll, indicated a desire to move to the United States, the rest of the Third World has gotten the message. One in every 10 citizens of Central America and the Caribbean countries has already arrived. During the War on Terror, the number of those coming into the United States illegally from countries "other than Mexico" (OTM) has tripled. These OTMs are coming from as far away as China and Iraq. Fifteen years ago, when this writer ran in the California GOP primary against the first President Bush, calling for a border fence along the crucial 70 miles where illegals were massing and coming in by the thousands every day, there were 3 million to 4 million illegals here. Nothing was done. There are now 12 million. If these 12 million are amnestied and the border fence is not built along all 2,000 miles, the next amnesty will be for 20 million or 30 million. During the "Generals' Revolt," when half a dozen senior officers called for the firing of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, President Bush saw a challenge to his authority and had to throw it back. If Congress does not throw back this challenge, if Congress now capitulates to this extortion, America should start shopping for a new Congress in November – an American Congress.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
¿Quiere ponerse en contacto con miembros del Congreso en Español? http://www.visi.com/juan/ congress/index.es.html ¿O en Inglés?
"An American Congress"...LOL! A revolutionary idea, Mr. Buchanan. Proud to have supported you in Republican primaries back in the 90's, Pat.
...and they are breeding like frickin' rabbits.
El Congreso is going to have its shit rocked in November.
I agree...I don't think those idiots in Congress have any idea how angry people are.
Good article. Screw the bastards; they could have picked up trash in the parks and along the highways, or mowed the lawns of the elderly. Instead, they tried to passively harm America. Es Los Estados Unidos de America; no es Norte Mexico! P.S. Our "Mexican" roofing crew took an extra day off, added to yesterday.
Hope you're right. It would be a first.
A friend of mine, who works at a corporation that hires a lot of latins and blacks, was told by HR not to sanction anyone that called in on May Day. WTF is going on? (BTW, there only one employee called out at his location yesterday.)
Cockroaches is more like it.
'94 in reverse? Not that replacing Repukes with Demoncrats is a good thing, but I like the idea of taking out the trash, and the message that it sends.
You're right...a MUCH BETTER analogy.
It'd be interesting to watch them try the rabbit approach in China. The clips I've seen indicate they are very proud of themselves for having double-digit families. Obviously this tribe does not know of such economic concepts as the allocation of scarce resources.
Now there's an understatement.
My hunch is that the effort only drew the race-line in the sand that much deeper. "...su es un terroristo Latino, eh?" The test is "Cinco de Mayo." If the so-called Latinos didn't get the reaction that they wanted, "Cinco de Mayo" may be a violent day of reaction. We'll see. It's hard to say. Personally, I'd like to see an effort toward Americans driving by various areas along the border & dropping off a section of concertina wire. Let them crawl through that! "Homeland Security," my ass!
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
If Congress does not throw back this challenge, if Congress now capitulates to this extortion, America should start shopping for a new Congress in November – an American Congress.
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
There are now 12 million.
#4. To: who knows what evil (#2)
#5. To: randge (#4)
El Congreso is going to have its shit rocked in November.
#6. To: Brian S, Christine, Diana, Zipporah, robin, Zoroaster, BTP Holdings, Arator, Bayonne, A K A Stone, Steppenwolf, Bub, mugwort, bluegrass, Bill D Berger, FormerLurker, Uncle Bill, Dakmar, Flintlock, Neil McIver, tom007, aristeides, Burkeman1, Diana, (#0)
#7. To: who knows what evil (#5)
I agree...I don't think those idiots in Congress have any idea how angry people are.
#8. To: SKYDRIFTER (#6)
#9. To: who knows what evil (#3)
..and they are breeding like frickin' rabbits.
Hey, Meester,wanna meet my seester?
#10. To: Phaedrus (#7)
Hope you're right. It would be a first.
#11. To: Flintlock (#9)
Cockroaches is more like it.
#12. To: who knows what evil (#3)
...and they are breeding like frickin' rabbits.
#13. To: Sam Houston (#12)
Obviously this tribe does not know of such economic concepts as the allocation of scarce resources.
#14. To: randge, All (#8)
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