"Chip Anderson" <b_anders*NOSP…@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> by Thomas Sowell
> Thank heaven for the massive marches across the country by those favoring
> illegal immigrants. These marches revealed the ugly truth behind the fog
of
> pious words and clever political spin from the media and from both
> Democrats and Republicans in Washington.
> "Guest workers"? Did any of the strident speakers, with their in-your-face
> bombast in Spanish, sound like guests? Did they sound like people who
> wanted to become Americans?
> Were they even asking for amnesty? They didn’t sound like they were asking
> for anything. They sounded like they were telling. Demanding. Threatening.
> Somebody must have told them that their Mexican flags that dominated the
> earlier marches were not making a good impression on television, so they
> started flying American flags. But such cosmetic changes did not keep the
> ugly reality from coming through in their hostile speeches.
> These were not the speeches of people who wanted to join American society
> but people who wanted their own turf on American soil — in disregard and
> defiance of what American citizens want.
> Europe has already been through this "guest worker" policy that we are
> being urged to follow. They have learned the hard way what it means to
have
> a growing foreign population in their midst — a population that insists
on
> remaining foreign and hostile to the culture, values and people around
> them.
> Some European countries have learned this lesson at the cost of riots and
> bloodshed in the streets and lives lost in terrorist attacks. Others have
> only had to contend with national polarization — thus far — but
> polarization is not a small thing.
> In this country, however, there are still people who refuse to learn any
> lesson at all. Some business interests see only an opportunity to get
cheap
> labor. Some intellectuals see only abstract principles about abstract
> people crossing an abstract border.
> Some tell us loftily that earlier generations of immigrants who were once
> thought to be unassimilable turned out over time to become as American as
> anyone else and patriotic citizens.
> That might well be true of immigrants from Mexico, both legal and illegal,
> if the circumstances of today were the same as the circumstances during an
> earlier era of immigration from Europe. But circumstances are not the same
> — and those circumstances are not going to become the same by pretending
> that they are.
> The ugly display of grievance-mongering bombast at the illegal immigrant
> marches is just one of those circumstances that are not the same as in an
> earlier era.
> When people came here from Europe, they came here to become Americans.
> There was no prouder title for them.
> American generals of German ancestry led the fight against Germany in both
> World Wars. The Irish "Fighting 69th" earned its fame on the battlefields
> of the First World War and Japanese American fighting units were among the
> most highly decorated in World War II. They proved they were Americans.
> The underlying tragedy of the present situation is that it is doubtful
> whether the activist loudmouths, who were too contemptuous of this country
> to even speak its language while demanding its benefits, represent most
> immigrants from Mexico.
> Both legal and illegal immigrants have come here primarily to work and
make
> a better life for themselves and their families. But a country requires
> more than workers. It requires people who are citizens not only in name
but
> in commitment.
> Americanization did not happen automatically in earlier times and it will
> not happen automatically today. Immigrants in an earlier era had leaders
> and organizations actively working to transform them into Americans — the
> Catholic Church with the Irish and numerous organizations among the Jews,
> for example.
> Today’s immigrant activists and the politicians who kowtow to them have
> just the opposite agenda, to keep foreigners foreign and to make other
> Americans accept and adjust to that. It will be a national tragedy if they
> succeed.
> Just what problem will amnesty solve? Illegal aliens will benefit and
> politicians will benefit by sweeping the illegality under the rug by
making
> it legal. But how will American citizens benefit? America can lose big
> time.
<http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/04/18/19398…
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> Chip
> Oderint dum metuant
> -Lucius Accius
Even if your Senator is a creep like John McCain or Ted Kennedy, email them
and state your opposition to the "Guest Worker" fraud. Contact via:
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