Men leave their families behind every day, and as Christians, we should be against illegal immigration based on the following
biblical principles,
Our way of life is under attack, the border must be controlled at all cost.
Take action while there is still time!
Keep in mind that as the illegal population
has increased over the years, wages have decreased.
They typically they do not spend any excess funds they make here in this country, but send it
back to Mexico.
And now they have a training camp set up in Mexico designed to aid them in their
conquest, read below.
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/travel/04HeadsUp.html?8dpc
Run! Hide! The Illegal Border Crossing
Experience
CLAD in black clothes and moonlight, our guide Poncho adjusted his ski mask
and faced us to speak. The desert has claimed many lives, he said, but tonight
we would make it across the border.
The night was crisp and clear in the central Mexican highlands, the moon
illuminating mesquite trees, cactus and pastures. Our group of 13 was about to
set out on one of Mexico’s
more bizarre tourist attractions: a make-believe trip illegally crossing the
Rio Grande from Mexico into the United
States.
“Where are you going to, my friends?” Poncho asked the people clustered
around him.
“To Texas,”
a skinny Mexican teenager replied.
“And you?” he asked another man.
“California.”
The four-hour caminata nocturna — nighttime hike — traverses desert,
hills, brambles and riverbeds in the Parque EcoAlberto, an eco-park communally
owned by the Hñahñu Indians who live on some 3,000 acres of land in the
state of Hidalgo, about three hours northwest of Mexico
City (and roughly 700 miles from the border).
Organizers say they opened the park about two and a half years ago, with
financing from the Mexican government, and began the caminata as a way to
offer tourists a taste of life as an illegal immigrant.
The Hñahñus are people who know something about that life. Of the
approximately 2,200 Hñahñus from this area, 700 live in Mexico and 1,500
live “on the other side” — mostly in Las
Vegas and other parts of Nevada,
where they install drywall, drive trucks or work on farms, residents say. Many
of the tour guides here have crossed the real border several times.
“Being an immigrant isn’t a source of pride,” said Poncho, whose real
name is Alfonso Martinez. “We abandon the family, the language, the earth.
We lose our sense of community. The idea here is to raise people’s
consciousness about what immigrants go through.”
Of course, compared with actually crossing the border, the caminata is as
watered down as an airport cocktail. The guides don’t desert their groups,
and the most danger visitors face is twisting an ankle or walking into a
low-hanging tree branch.
The idea of tourists’ aping illegal immigrants can seem crass, like Marie
Antoinette playing peasant on the grounds of Versailles.
But the guides describe the caminata as an homage to the path immigrants have
beaten across the border. And the park’s approach to consciousness-raising
is novel, but not completely unique. In 2000, the humanitarian group Doctors
Without Borders set up a camp of tents, medical stations and latrines in
Central Park to recreate the setting of a refugee camp. Last year, the
refugee-camp project returned to New York and also traveled to Atlanta
and Nashville.
Park guides say about 3,000 tourists — mostly Mexican — have hiked the
caminata since it began in July 2004. It costs 200 pesos (about $18 at 11
pesos to the dollar), and tourists who want to stick around at the park can
also go river-rafting, rappel down a cliff and sleep in cabins with roofs of
maguey leaves. But guides say the mock border-crossing is the park’s main
draw.
“Of course it’s just a game, where you’re always safe and where there
are no real fights,” said Antonio Flores, a sociology professor from Querétaro,
in central Mexico, who hiked the caminata in November with a group of
students. “It was very interesting, very important. Often, immigration is a
subject so far away. This gave us a chance to experience it through our own
steps.”
My group’s hike began outside a white stucco church, where we huddled
around Poncho and another masked guide, Luís Santiago. About 10 Hñahñus
accompanied us on the walk, playing the role of fellow immigrants. The men
explained they were heading north to look for work. A woman carrying a
2-year-old girl slung in a shawl said she was seeking her boyfriend.
After unfurling the Mexican flag and singing the national anthem, the
guides organized us, telling us to walk in a file, strongest in back, weakest
and slowest in front.
“In the night, everyone is equal,” Poncho said. “Here, everyone wins,
not just the fastest or smartest. If we make it, we all make it; if they catch
one, they catch us all.”
They advised us to be brave, to remember our ancestors and to hit the
ground if we heard gunshots.
We’d been walking down a gravel road for 10 minutes when people started
shouting and tearing off into the dark. “Vamos rápido!” they shouted.
“Vamos corriendo! Hasta el puente! Apúrense!” (“Let’s get moving! To
the bridge! Get going!”) Behind us, headlights and the police drew nearer.
“Run!” Mr. Santiago shouted, frantically directing us toward a concrete
bridge at the bottom of the sloping road. “Shut off that light, they’re
coming. Fast, fast. Damn it, shut off that light!”
Sirens whooped. We scrambled down a hill of loose dirt, tripping and
stumbling over rocks and gouges in the ground. We ended up in a mire along the
Tula River, ankle-deep in mud and water.
A 5-year-old boy known as El Relleno showed up and guided us through the
brush.
“Come on, this way,” he said, jumping around moonlit puddles.
Poncho shooed us into a thicket of bush. We’d nearly been discovered by
the Border Patrol. We hid as men with flashlights roamed the field in front of
us, taunting us in Spanish and accented English.
“Come here, guys,” they said. “Ya sé que están escondidos. We know
you’re hiding. We’re going to send you back to Mexico.”
“Escuchen!” said another, telling us to listen up. “No van a cruzar
el rio. You’re not going to get across the river.”
Suddenly, someone from our group darted from the bushes and past the
guards.
“Stop! Stop!” yelled the guards, and fired a half-dozen shots (blanks,
of course). “Where you running, huh?”
About 70 Hñahñus make part of their living as guides, guards or fellow
immigrants on the hike. One of them, Purificación Álvarez, said that
visitors often walked away stunned.
“They learn to value the liberty they have in their own countries, that
they don’t have to run and be chased in their own lives,” she said.
When the smell of gunfire dissipated, we sneaked away, crossing cornfields,
passing drowsy mules and slipping under barbed-wire fences. Brown moths darted
in and out of the flashlight beams, and the guides philosophized about the
significance of the hike, the empathy it aims to teach.
At one point, we paused at the river’s edge, where Mr. Santiago told us
to cast a stone into the water to symbolically expel evil spirits. We did, and
then Poncho pointed up at the night sky.
“Look up,” he said. “A rain of stars. This is a magical place.”
Other links on this subject;
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0221/p01s04-woam.html
http://www.worldhum.com/weblog/item/mexican_migrant_theme_park_20070204/
The so called theme park website in english
http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://www.parqueecoalberto.com.mx/caminata.html&prev=/language_tools
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55025
Illegals
get $100,000 in damage lawsuit
Sheriff:
'I don't believe criminals are
entitled to compensation'
Posted: April 4, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
A damage lawsuit brought by
two illegal aliens injured by shell
fragments when Deputy Gilmer Hernandez
shot at the tires of the van in which
they escaped from a routine traffic
stop has been settled for $100,000,
but the sheriff is unhappy any payment
was made.
Sheriff Don G. Letsinger of
Rocksprings, Texas, has confirmed to
WND that the lawsuit brought by
Maricela Rodriquez-Garcia and Candio
Garcia-Perez, the two illegal
immigrants who were injured, has been
settled.
The $100,000 figure had been
recommended by the West Texas Rural
Counties Association, an insurance
pool that will pay the settlement, as
a result of a mediation meeting held
in Austin, Texas.
The plaintiffs had planned
to sue Hernandez and Letsinger
individually, as well as in their
official positions, plus Edwards
County, where both worked.
Letsinger told WND that the
West Texas Rural Counties Association
advice in the mediation meeting was to
accept the $100,000 settlement because
that amount would equal the cost of
litigation. But it was far from the
$1.5 million Rodriquez-Garcia and
Garcia-Perez demanded initially.
As part of the settlement,
Rodriquez-Garcia and Garcia-Perez
agreed to pursue no further litigation
against Hernandez, Letsinger, or
Edwards County.
"The settlement was
fair," Letsinger told WND.
"I'm happy about the settlement
in that we would have had to spend
$100,000 to litigate the case
anyway."
Still, Letsinger expressed
his unhappiness that the settlement
had to be paid at all.
"As far as these
people getting any money at all, I'm
not happy about that," Letsinger
commented. "I don't think they
deserve anything. I don't believe that
people who participate in a criminal
conspiracy to rob a bank and then get
shot trying to escape should be
entitled to compensation."
Letsinger explained to WND
that Rodriquez-Garcia and Garcia-Perez
were involved in a conspiracy to
import illegal immigrants into the
United States when they were injured.
"These people were
involved in a conspiracy to break the
law," Letsinger said. "They
assaulted an officer of the law and
these two women got wounded as a
result. I'm not happy they got
compensated."
"Still, I'm happy the
case is over," Letsinger
concluded, "and the main thing is
that they signed an agreement that
they wouldn't sue Gilmer. That gets
Gilmer and his wife out from under any
kind of judgment from them."
Hernandez has been
sentenced to one year plus one day in
federal prison for criminally
violating the civil
rights of the illegal aliens who
were in a van that attempted to run
over Hernandez after a traffic stop
April 14, 2005, in Rocksprings, Texas.
As WND
reported, the federal
government had recommended a
seven-year prison term.
Rodriguez-Garcia was
injured in the face and Garcia-Perez
on the arm by shell fragments from
Hernandez's weapon.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54243
Mexico
demanded U.S. prosecute sheriff,
agents
Documents
show role of consulate in cases of
Gilmer Hernandez and Ramos-Compean
Posted: February 13,
2007
6:28 p.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
The Mexican Consulate played
a previously undisclosed role in the
events leading to U.S. Attorney Johnny
Sutton's high-profile prosecution of
Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and
Jose Compean, who are serving 11 and
12 year sentences for their role in
the shooting of a drug smuggler,
according to documents obtained by WND.
And Mexican consular
officials also demanded the
prosecution of Texas Sheriff's Deputy
Guillermo "Gilmer"
Hernandez, who subsequently was
brought to trial by Sutton, the
documents reveal.
Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas
– among a number of congressman who
have fiercely opposed the prosecution
of Ramos and Compean – told WND he
has "long suspected that Mexican
government officials ordered the
prosecution of our law enforcement
agents."
"Mexico wants to
intimidate our law enforcement into
leaving our border unprotected, and we
now have confirmation of it in
writing," Culberson said.
Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, was
equally outraged.
"The Mexican government
should do more to keep illegals from
Mexico from crossing into the United
States, especially drug dealers,
rather than be concerned about our
border agents," he told WND.
"The U.S. Justice Department
should not be working for the Mexican
government."
The
White House and Sutton's office in
El Paso, Texas, did not respond to
calls from WND asking for comment.
Hernandez's attorney Jimmy
Parks of San Antonio, Texas, told WND
the documents "prove that it is
wrong for my client to be in
jail."
"The prosecution of my
client sends a wrong message to
criminal illegal immigrants who are
being tempted to cross our borders
with impunity," he said.
Mexico intervenes
WND has obtained a copy of
a letter written April 18, 2005, by Mexican
Consul Jorge Ernesto Espejel Montes
in Eagle Pass, Texas, demanding
Hernandez be prosecuted for injuring a
Mexican national, Marciela Rodriguez
Garcia.
[Page 1 of the letter
can be seen here
and page 2 here.]
The first two paragraphs of
the letter set out the facts of the
case as understood by the Mexican
consul. The letter is reproduced here
as written:
I am addressing to you, regarding
the case of the Mexican national,
Ms. MARICELA RODRIGUEZ GARCIA (DOB
4-11-1979), who based on the
information obtained by this
Consulate, received a gunshot wound
by an agent of the Sheriff
Department of Edward County, that
caused injuries in her face.
As far aw we know, last
April 15, 2005, the Mexican national
was transported in first insistence
to Val Verde Hospital in Del Rio, Tx,
and then to San Antonio, Tx., where
she was attended at the University
Hospital. Today, Mr. Gabriel Salas a
member of the staff of this office
had the opportunity of interviewed
Ms. RODRIGUEZ who confirms the facts
of the incident.
The final two paragraphs
contain the demands of the Mexican
consul:
Based on the Consular Convention
between Mexico and the United States
and the Vienna Convention on
Consular Relations, the Consulate of
Mexico is entitled to represent,
protect and defend the rights of
Mexican nationals in this country.
Therefore, I would like to point
out, that is the care of my Country
that this kind of incidents against
our nationals, do not remain
unpunished.
According to the
information provided above, I would
appreciate your kind assistance, so
this Consulate can be informed of
the current investigation, and your
support, so you present and file a
complaint with the necessaries
arraignments.
WND has learned the Mexican
consul addressed separate copies of
the letter to the following parties:
- Don Lettsinger, Sheriff,
Edward County, Rocksprings, Texas
- Norman Townsent,
Supervisor Senior Special Agent,
FBI, Laredo, Texas
- Bobby Smith, Texas
Rangers, Del Rio, Texas
- Fred Hernandez, District
Attorney, Del Rio, Texas
- J.A. Garcia, Attorney at
Law, San Antonio,Texas
- Lieutenant Gerónimo
Gutiérrez Fernández,
Subsecretario para América del
Norte
- Minister Miguel Gutiérrez
Tinoco, Director General de
Protección y Asuntos Consulares
- Emb. Arturo Aquiles Dáger
Gómez, Consultor Juridico
- Emb. Carlos de Leaza,
Embajador de México, Washington,
D.C.
- Emb. Martha I. Lara, Cónsul
General de México, San Antonio,
Texas
WND also has learned that
on April 29, 2005, Sheriff Lettsinger
in Edwards County advised that the
Texas Rangers met with the district
attorney in Del Rio and was told the
state of Texas had been removed from
the Hernandez case because the FBI and
the federal government were taking
over.
The Mexican national
Rodriguez was in a Chevrolet Suburban
van full of illegals that attempted to
run over Hernandez after he had
stopped the vehicle for running a stop
sign April 14, 2005, in Rocksprings,
Texas. Firing his weapon at the rear
tires, a bullet fragment hit Rodriguez
in the mouth, cutting her lip and
breaking two teeth.
Hernandez, convicted of
felony civil rights violations, is
incarcerated in a Del Rio prison
waiting sentencing.
In the case of agents Ramos
and Compean, WND has obtained notes
made by a congressional staff member
who attended the Sept. 26, 2006,
meeting with three investigators from
the Department of Homeland
Security's Inspector General's
office.
The staff member's notes
indicate the Inspector General's
office briefed the congressmen that
the Mexican consul had also intervened
in the Ramos and Compean case.
According to the notes
obtained by WND, the congressmen were
told:
Several weeks later (after the
February 17, 2005 event near Fabens,
Texas), the Mexican Consulate
contacted the U.S. Consulate in
Mexico saying that they have a
person who claims to have been shot
by a Border Patrol agent. On March
4, 2005, the U.S. Consulate
contacted the U.S. attorney.
DHS investigative reports
filed by Special Agent Christopher
Sanchez document that March 4, 2005,
is the date on which DHS initiated the
Ramos-Compean investigation.
WND can find no evidence
the Border Patrol, DHS, or U.S.
Attorney Sutton had started any
investigation of Ramos or Compean
concerning the events of Feb. 17,
2005, prior to March 4, 2005.
'Dictating' policy
"The Mexican
government should not be dictating
United States border policy," Poe
told WND after learning of the Mexican
consul's involvement in both cases.
Culberson agreed.
"We have it in
writing," he told WND, "a
letter from the Mexican Consulate in
the case of the deputy sheriff from
Edwards County and verbal confirmation
of the Mexican Consulate's complaint
in the case of Border Patrol agents
Ramos and Compean."
Culberson told WND it is
"outrageous and unacceptable that
our government is prosecuting U.S. law
enforcement officials at the request
of the Mexican government."
The congressman said the
revelations suggest national security
may be at risk:
"U.S. national
security interests in the war on
terror must determine how we protect
our border, not the opinions of the
Mexican government," he said.
Culberson called for a
congressional investigation, telling
WND, "We've now got to find out
how many other Mexican government
complaints have led to the
prosecutions of our law enforcement
officers on the border, and this
intimidation must stop."
Previous accounts in question
Sutton's claim he learned
about the identity of the drug
smuggler in the Ramos-Compean case,
Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, through
consular contacts originating in
Mexico apparently contradicts his
explanation in an exclusive
interview with WND Jan. 19, Sutton
said his office learned the identity
of Aldrete-Davila from a lawyer in
Mexico representing the drug smuggler.
WND: So, Aldrete-Davila ran
away, and as you say, at the time
you didn't have any basis to know
who he was and there were no
fingerprints. But yet, you found the
guy. If you found the guy to give
him immunity, why couldn't you have
found the guy to punish him?
SUTTON: The way we
found him is that he came forward
and was in Mexico with a lawyer. So,
the only way to get him to testify
was to give him immunity from being
prosecuted. He wasn't going to agree
to come to the United States, he
wasn't going to agree to talk,
unless he had some kind of immunity
from being prosecuted for that load.
So, that puts the prosecutor in the
terrible choice of everyone goes
free, we got no case against the
dope dealer, we cannot make a case
against the dope dealer because
there's no evidence, thanks to
agents and other factors.
Sutton's account also
appears to contradict the March 14,
2005, memo from Special Agent
Christopher Sanchez which claimed the
government learned Aldrete-Davila's
identity from Border Patrol Agent Rene
Sanchez in Willcox, Ariz.
As WND
reported, Christopher Sanchez's
memo had claimed Rene Sanchez and
Aldrete-Davila grew up together in
Mexico. Rene Sanchez, the memo said,
learned Aldrete-Davila was the drug
smuggler involved in the incident with
agents Ramos and Compean after his
mother-in-law had a phone call with
Aldrete-Davila's mother in Mexico.
The memo also indicates the
shooting was reported to the Mexican
Consulate.
Rene Sanchez said that his
mother-in-law Gregoria Toquinto went
to Mexico to help her friend
Marcadia take her son Osbaldo to the
Mexican Consulate to report the
shooting incident. However, Osbaldo
declined to go. Marcadia advised
Toquinto that Osbaldo did not want
to report the incident, because he
had actually been transporting a
load of marijuana and was afraid the
Mexican and/or U.S. authorities
would put him in jail.
Staff notes WND obtained
from the Sept.
26, 2006, meeting Poe, Culberson and
two other Texas Republican congressmen
had with three investigators in the
Inspector General's office
indicate the Mexican Consulate knew
all about Aldrete-Davila. That
conflicts with Sutton's claim the drug
smuggler was so concerned about
prosecution he was afraid to talk to
the Mexican Consulate.
It also contradicts the DHS
Report of Investigation
released by Assistant Inspector
General Elizabeth Redman to Congress in
response to a Freedom of Information
Act request by Poe. On a page
numbered as "4 of 33," the
DHS report appears to have a heavily
redacted version of the Rene Sanchez
mother-in-law story.
Redman was one of three DHS
investigators who attended the Sept.
26, 2006, meeting with the four Texas
Republican congressman. The other two
investigators were identified to WND
as Tamara Faulkner and James Taylor.
As WND
reported, DHS Inspector General
Richard L. Skinner admitted under oath
Feb. 6 that Redman and the other
investigators had misled the Texas
congressmen. Skinner was responding to
questioning by Culberson before the
Homeland Security Subcommittee of the
House Appropriations Committee.
Skinner admitted, contrary
to previous claims, DHS did not have
investigative reports that would prove
Ramos and Compean were rogue Border
Patrol agents who told investigators
they were "out to shoot some
Mexicans" the day of the incident
with Aldrete-Davila.
Culberson since has called
for the resignation of the
investigators.
Ramos-Compean trial
The Mexican consul's role
in revealing the identity of Aldrete-Davila
also conflicts with prosecutor Debra
Kanof's opening statement to the jury
in the Ramos-Compean trial.
According to a copy of the
statement obtained by WND, Kanof
explained the following to the jury
Feb. 21, 2006:
Rene Sanchez is stationed in Willcox,
Arizona. He's actually from El Paso.
And sometime in the last couple of
days of February he got a phone call
from his mother-in-law. And his
mother-in-law lives in Mexico, in a
little town on the outskirts of
Juarez. And she told him that she
had been talking to a friend of
hers, a girlfriend of hers, and that
that girlfriend had told her that
her son, the girlfriend's son, had
been shot in back by a Border Patrol
agent outside of El Paso, Texas,
somewhere near San Elizario.
From there, Kanof explained
how Rene Sanchez investigated.
So Rene Sanchez investigated. He
made some phone calls to people he
knew in El Paso and asked if there
was a shooting.
First he needed to find
out, however, when that occurred and
approximately where it occurred. So
he immediately reported it to his
supervisor in Willcox, Arizona, who
told him to get more information,
which he did by calling his
mother-in-law. And he instructed his
mother-in-law to take a cell phone
– his mother-in-law actually lives
in El Paso – to take a cell phone
to Mexico, give that cell phone to
the individual who was shot, and
have them call me, so I can get some
facts. And that, he did.
The individual who shot
is an individual by the name of
Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila. And Rene
Sanchez spoke with him on the phone,
and he gave him information about
what occurred that day.
Kanof said nothing to the
jury suggesting the information about
Aldrete-Davila actually came from the
Mexican consul, who contacted the
American Consulate in Mexico, who in
turn contacted DHS and prosecutor
Sutton's office.
While Ramos and Compean are
in federal prison, Aldrete-Davila has
found an American lawyer and plans to
sue the Border Patrol for $5 million
for allegedly violating his civil
rights.
“On page 240 of Pat Buchanan’s stunningly logical new book,
State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of
America, appear
the following words: ‘One of the truly major issues with which America must deal [is] the vast tidal wave of
human beings coming from the Third World. There is a
fragmentation going on in this country. At what point does cultural, racial diversity become a kind of social anarchy? How do you get
national cohesion this way?’
“But those are not the words of my friend and political
sparring partner Pat Buchanan. They are words he quoted from a 1987 interview in the
Christian
Science Monitor with
Eric Sevaried, the CBS correspondent and close associate of Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow.
“Only 19 years ago, one of the nation’s most respected
public liberals could unselfconsciously utter words that today could be a scandalous career ender for a public figure.
“And it is around that issue—race, ethnicity, language,
culture and immigration and the problem of talking honestly about it—that Mr. Buchanan has constructed his most important book
to date.
“Most people will be familiar with Mr. Buchanan’s view on immigration. But even those who have read his earlier books and
read his columns, as I have, will not be prepared for the
remorseless presentation of unimpeachable facts with which he makes his convincing case for the reality of his book’s subtitle:
‘the third world invasion and conquest of America.’ Here he deepens his case against illegal immigration (and his case for a
moratorium on even legal immigration) with statistic after statistic
concerning, among many topics, the shockingly disproportionate degree of disease and crime that illegal Mexican and other
immigrants are transmitting into the country.
“For example, in Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide, which total 1,200-l,500, are for illegal
aliens. According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, California now has almost 40,000 cases of tuberculosis (a disease only recently thought to be virtually extinct in
America).
He presents compelling evidence that the “Reconquista” of
southwestern United States is not merely the silly conceit of a few extremists, but is widely desired by Mexicans (he cites a 2002
Zogby poll showing that by 58 percent to 28 percent, Mexicans believe the American Southwest belongs to Mexico).
“New to me was his citation to the fact that all 47 Mexican consulates in the United States are mandated to provide
textbooks to U.S. schools with significant Hispanic populations, which textbooks teach history from the point of view of General Santa
Ana—in which America stole the Southwest. The Los Angeles consulate, alone, has distributed 100,000 such textbooks just
this year to the L.A. Unified School District.
“Mr. Buchanan recounts the observation that ‘every great truth begins in blasphemy.’ In that sense this book is one
extended blasphemy against not only liberal proprieties, but even against received wisdom about the nature of America believed by
many conservatives.
“I have particularly in mind his chapter 9, ‘What Is A
Nation,’ in which he rejects the argument that America is fundamentally defined as a ‘creedal nation’ of democracy, equality and
the institutions formed by our constitution.
“Rather, Mr. Buchanan argues, ‘The Constitution did not create the nation; the nation adopted the Constitution.’ While
the founding fathers did believe in universal principles and rights,
‘they were loyal to a particular nation and to kinfolk with
whom they shared ties of blood, soil, and memory.’ In this
elegantly crafted chapter, he weaves into a thought-provoking tapestry on the nature of nationhood and patriotism the writings of George
Washington, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Alexander Hamilton, Psalms and Genesis, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, Joseph De Maistre, Abraham Lincoln, Charles DeGaulle and Israel Zangwill (Jewish author of the 1908 play, ‘The Melting Pot’)
among others.
“Of course, there is nothing more dangerously controversial than trying to define the ethnic, language and cultural nature
and desirability of America. “But until we as a country come to terms publicly with what
kind of a country we think America is and should be, we can never have a rational and full debate about what kind of
immigration policy we should try to enforce.
“Mr. Buchanan quotes the French poet, Charles Peguy: ‘It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been motivated
by the fear of looking insufficiently progressive.’ By that standard, Mr. Buchanan, in this book, is positively fearless. He
is also right. Americans, from what ever nation or ethnicity we originated, have formed a common culture worth preserving,
and a common history worth continuing.
“I am convinced a large majority of Americans agree. This book—State of Emergency—will give its readers both
the facts and the backbone to powerfully make that case.”
—Tony Blankley, The Washington Times, August 16, 2006,
News that does not
make it into the liberal media
