Evil Never Dies; It Just Goes To Hell To Regroup
By Ann Huggett (01/20/04)
That title and thought is courtesy of a good friend of mine who goes by the nickname “Basti”. Conversely, his saying is also a neat repackaging of Thomas Jefferson’s “The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.”
Considering what’s been popping up in the news lately both sayings are germane especially since President Bush’s ill-conceived and possibly seditious offering of “No-matter-how-you-spin-it-it’s-still-amnesty-for-illegals” Guest Worker program, the Institute of Medicine calling for nationalized health care by 2010, and Al Gore banging that old “Global Warming” drum all hit the national scene in the space of one week.
Just when I’d calmed down from the successful attack on our First Amendment right of free speech, which is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, and the massive Medicare expansion into the drug industry, these items pop up on the nations’ radar screen. To say that Bush’s surrender of our national sovereignty to hordes of invading illegals got my Spider Senses tingling is an understatement. I, and just about every other conservative in the USA, have been howling at the Moon in anger and frustration over Bush’s capitulation to Mexico’s President Vincente “They aren’t illegals” Fox on Mexico’s covert, Albanian style invasion of America. (The liberals are howling at the Moon too but they’re angry that Bush beat them to the punch on Hispanic vote pandering.)
Look, one of the few legitimate excuses for federal power in our Constitution is to protect, secure, and defend our borders. To quote that august, but rapidly fraying document, “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.” (Article IV, Section 4)
President Bush took an oath to uphold the Constitution and that means enforcing our immigration laws in order to protect the states from foreign invasion. Never mind that former Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton didn’t do it either. It’s George Bush’s watch now and he can’t just throw up his hands in the air and rely on the honesty of fundamentally dishonest illegal immigrants, who broke federal law to begin with, to honor and observe a 3 year Guest Worker visa program, reapply once for another 3 year extension, then return home to wait patiently to immigrate legally. No wonder he wants to go to Mars; Bush is already from another planet when it comes to understanding human behavior and motivations. Hint: illegal aliens are lawbreakers no matter if they’re from Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico or Gorgonum Chaos, Mars and by rewarding illegality all you‘ll accomplish is encourage others to do the same.
Even President Reagan, who granted 3 million illegals amnesty in 1986 with his Immigration and Control Reform Act, considered that act the worst thing he did while President. Mexico promised, but never did, any of the things Reagan requested in cooperation for this amnesty either and that country still sees the US as a convenient dumping ground for its unwanted poor. Per Vincente Fox, “"We're going for more. We're going for more, I'm talking about a community of North America, an integrated agreement of Canada, the United States and Mexico in the long term, 20, 30, 40 years from now. That may mean in 10 years we can open up that border when we have reduced the gap in salaries and income."
Erm…the average salary in Mexico is around $8,900.00 while the average salary in the US is around $36,300.00 and Canada’s is at $29,300.00. Could you live on less than $25,000.00 a year in the US 20, 30, 40 years from now especially after inflation, rent increases due to housing shortages, and taxes have raped you? Because of the onslaught of illegals incomes in L.A., Brooklyn, and Miami have already fallen by 18% since 1989.
The smug assurance from our politicos that illegals are necessary to “do the jobs Americans won’t do” is a load of horse feathers. Just who the heck were doing these jobs prior to 1976? Americans and legal immigrants, that’s who at rates that reflected the proper labor-wage rates for a functioning, free market economy. It is simply not up to America to provide jobs for the rest of the world especially if we have a 6%+ rate of unemployment. The hordes of casual day laborers that plague local city centers attests to the fact that steady jobs are scarce due to an over-supply of black market workers.
Furthermore, the calculated disregard for US immigration laws that illegals show also gets translated into a real contempt for our civil laws and there is a massive crime epidemic in this country with 25% of our prison population illegals. During the Rodney King riots in L.A., it was discovered that 40% of the rioters arrested were illegals from Mexico. Evidently besides cleaning bathrooms and mowing lawns, rape, robbery, drug dealing, identity theft, fraud, murder, and terrorism are some of the jobs Americans won’t do too.
Then there’s the real strain on our local hospitals because illegals use the emergency rooms as their primary care physicians. My friend Leslye in L.A. had to go to 5 local area hospitals’ emergency rooms before she could find one with a slot open to care for her neighbor, who had just suffered a minor heart attack. If illegals are bankrupting hospitals now demanding free services, just what do you think American Nationalized Health Care would look like once Vicente Fox gets rid of our borders?
Just think: the same smiling, friendly, efficient people who developed the Department of Motor Vehicles and the IRS will be administering what will literally be life and death issues for us. Under the “tender mercies” of socialized medicine as proposed by the Institute of Medicine for 2010, which, by some nasty coincidence is the same year in which Medicare is slated to go bankrupt, we’ll wake up from comas in hospitals, if we’re lucky, to find tags on our big toes with instructions not to resuscitate. Or if we’re female and in our 70s we’ll be told that treatment for breast cancer is no longer an option. Why not? Both those scenarios have already happened with the Nationalized Health Service in the UK.
Then there’s Continental European health care in the Netherlands where crippled or handicapped infants are routinely murdered through euthanasia because there lives are not deemed worth living. Is it any wonder that the aged over there refuse to enter hospitals? We’ve already got assisted physician suicide in Oregon. How soon under socialized medicine, which is nothing more than rationed medicine, will the elderly or handicapped be told that it’s their duty to die?
Besides, we can’t nationalize what’s left of our health services. If we do that, where will the Canadians go when they need medical care?
Last, but not least, well, maybe least considering the source, that leaves us with the spectacle of Al Gore harping about global warming right during some of the bitterest cold ever on record in the tri-state area. It was laughable sure but just the day before saw Vice President Cheney in Los Angeles being asked by a reporter about why the US hadn’t signed on to the Kyoto Treaty. For such an outright attack on capitalist markets and economies, the Kyoto Treaty has more lives than a cat. Russia won’t even sign on yet here it is surfacing at a question and answer session in Los Angeles.
Vice President Cheney very wisely said about the treaty’s rejection, “That doesn't mean global warming is not a problem, but we think it ought to be addressed through the development of hard science. We've spent a fair amount of time on the issue since, and we'll continue to work on it. It's an issue that does need to be addressed. But we need to address it based upon facts and not just emotion. And that's the process that we're involved in now.”
Those are the words of reason but the people who say “No to Kyoto” seem to be vastly outnumbered by the people who have swallowed global warming wholeheartedly. If that miserable exercise in First World destruction ever does get ratified, then our quality of life, whatever of it is left after massive immigration and socialized killer medicine get through with it, will be flushed down the same low capacity toilets good old Al Gore foisted on us when he was Vice President.
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