October 6, 2011
October 5, 2011
Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
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Is America A "Proposition Nation"?
[Peter Brimelow writes: Former Congressman Tom Tancredo is an American hero. He makes here the point that America is not a “proposition nation” but (ahem) a nation, albeit assembled with unusual speed. (Which raises the possibility that it can be unassembled with equally unusual speed—so immigration policy must proceed with care.) This “proposition nation” nonsense is obviously something liberal intellectuals really want to believe. One of my first posts for VDARE.com was about what I believe is the earliest “Proposition Nation” sighting, absurdly imputed to Germany, although Germans have been stolidly on the Rhine since before Christ.
Tancredo’s column originally appeared on WorldNetDaily under the title Were the Founders pro-immigration? (September 30, 2011) but we think our trademark hyperlinks help a lot.]
Lynn Holland, who apparently teaches something called "comparative politics" at the University of Denver, says, "Tancredo misunderstands the fundamental nature of American citizenship."[U.S. Citizenship Is Based on Principles, Not Heritage, History News Service, September 8, 2011]
My offense? I urge Americans "to be proud of our Western civilization." I say "Western civilization is our history." And I warn that "The countries of Western Europe are being invaded by 'Islamo-fascists,' while here in the United States we face 'multiculturalism' that blocks immigrants from assimilating American values."
My plea: guilty–along with the overwhelming majority of the American people. For example, 87 percent of Americans told Rasmussen Reports last year that English should be the official language of the United States. How multicultural is that?
Holland [Email her] claims that "in this country, citizenship is not about cultural identity; it is about constitutional principles. From the beginning, Americans embraced a new definition of citizenship and a new process of naturalization that set the nation apart from its European heritage."
Bunk. This is simply a myth invented by anti-national liberal intellectuals
The Fulford File | “Ashland Man” Ferdaus? “American Citizen” al-Awlaki? American’s Emerging Assimilation Disaster
Rezwan Ferdaus, the Muslim would-be terrorist who allegedly planned to fly explosives-laden model airplanes at the Pentagon, is referred to in Main Stream Media as “ Ashland man”, ” Mass. terror suspect” “"a local boy from the Boston suburb of Ashland" and “a radicalized Boston youth.” Actually, he’s a guy named Ferdaus. That’s all you really need to know.[Suspect pleads not guilty to terrorism charges, By Akilah Johnson and John R. Ellement, Boston Globe, October 4, 2011 ]
Anwar al-Awlaki is (was, as of September 30) a Muslim terrorist, born in Las Cruces NM and possessor of an American passport, who
- Inspired the Fort Hood Massacre,
- Was connected to the Underpants Bomber
- Inspired the Fort Dix Six
- And wrote the fatwa that caused American cartoonist Molly Norris to go into hiding and change her name
The MSM referred to Anwar al-Awlaki is called an “American citizen” —although, if the usual PC rules applied, he should be “Yemeni man”, since that’s where he’s been living.
Ferdaus really is potentially dangerous—like a lot of Muslims in America, he’s very technically skilled.
The Macaca Media’s Attack On Rick Perry: Squeezing Blood from Stone
The Washington Post's stoning of Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry is journalistic malpractice. Instead of calling the newspaper to task, other national media outlets have joined in. And now, the Post is doubling down on slander.
Immigration Cartoon Of The Day
This daily cartoon contributed to VDare by Baloo. His site is HERE
“You Were All Here Before Us”: Joe Biden Takes Hispandering To New Lows
Joe Biden, the first part-time comedian elected to the U.S. vice-presidency, is at it again. Having manufactured a phony biography, insulted President Barack Obama and rewritten the teaching of his Roman Catholic Church on abortion, he has now rewritten the history of the United States. Guess who’s included out.
Speaking at the Naval Observatory to honor National Hispanic Heritage Month, Biden took Hispandering to new lows: he told the group of Hispanics that they a greater claim to the North American continent than anyone else. [Biden to Latinos: You were here first, Politico, By Julie Mason, September 30, 2011]
Biden’s remarks are just the latest in his long line of gaffes that embarrass thinking people—except this one was an explicit racial abasement before “Hispanics” who believe they “were here” before the pale faces.
Said Biden: “You were all here before us.” “Us,” presumably, means Americans of European ancestry. Biden then talked about his Irish roots. “We come from a similar circumstance. It’s about family, it’s about faith and it’s about basic things”, he reportedly said incomprehensibly. The he blundered on:
“The contributions being made to this country by Hispanic Americans is well over 400 years old. We are acting like somehow it is brand new, but you know that America is much richer and more vibrant because of these contributions.”
About 100 Hispanics, including military veterans and political activists, gathered at the vice president’s compound at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. for the fiesta.
Biden has repeatedly proven that he doesn’t know much history, and the latest Politically
Was Awlaki an American?
Friday morning, Predator drones operated by the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command rendezvoused over Yemen and launched Hellfire missiles that blew to pieces the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
A declared enemy in the war on terror was eliminated.
Yet Awlaki was a U.S. citizen.
Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul denounced the action. Kucinich said President Obama "trampled on the Constitution." Paul said Awlaki had never been convicted. "Nobody knows if he killed anybody." Paul described what was done as "assassinating" an American.
Did we have the right to target and kill Awlaki?
According to U.S. intelligence, Awlaki inspired or incited the Fort Hood massacre and Times Square bomber. Intelligence officials say he played a direct role in the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit at Christmas 2009. That would make him an accomplice in attempted mass murder.
Indeed, there is more hard evidence tying Awlaki to acts of terror against the United States than there ever was tying Saddam Hussein to acts of terror against us.
Yet it is also true that Awlaki was never convicted of these crimes. What, then, is the legal case for killing him?
Answer: America is at war with al-Qaida—a war authorized and funded by Congress. In that war, Awlaki, hiding in a foreign country, has been inspiring and inciting Muslims to massacre U.S. citizens who are noncombatants—a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Adds Obama, Awlaki was the "external operations" chief for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
And even if Awlaki were not an operations officer in al-Qaida, only a propagandist, his actions would seem to constitute wartime treason.
When killed, he was traveling with 25-year-old Saudi-born Samir Khan, another American, who edited and wrote Inspire, the English-language magazine of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Khan, who had proclaimed, "I am proud to be a traitor in America," was also killed in the drone attack.
Do we have a right to target enemy propagandists who do not carry out acts of mass murder but encourage or instigate them?
Ezra Pound, the American poet and expatriate who
Sailer on Unz: Immigration, The Minimum Wage, And The Rule Of Law
In his The American Conservative magazine, physicist-turned-entrepreneur Ron Unz has just offered a lengthy critique of what he kindly identifies as the Sailer Strategy: the idea that the GOP can only and could easily win by mobilizing its white base, by championing issues that would actually benefit working class whites, such as an immigration moratorium. (Immigration, the Republicans, and the End of White America, American Conservative, September 21, 2011]. We’ve been writing about this for years on VDARE.com: one post-Obama discussion is here.
Ron also treats respectfully VDARE.com’s central contention: there are mass immigration is causing problems, both politically (especially for the GOP) and economically (for example, worsening income inequality.) And he has succeeded in getting this concept discussed on national television, in Counterpunch [The Republicans, Immigration and the Minimum Wage, By Alexander Cockburn, September 30, 2011] and in National Review: Ron Unz on Immigration Part I,II,III,IV,V,etc (none of which acknowledged us, of course). Quite an achievement.
While I quite enjoy being depicted as the evil brains behind the operation, rather like how Cardinal Richelieu is portrayed in The Three Musketeers, I must say that I was more struck by the second section of Ron's article, in which he offers a fairly novel policy proposal.
But on the Sailer Strategy: my perspective is far less triumphalist than Ron makes it sound. I merely argue that the short-term electoral costs of taking steps to deal with the long-term electoral threats to the GOP posed by decades of mass immigration and Affirmative Action are more bearable than the eventual electoral costs of doing nothing ... or of doing what the Democrats recommend.
The Democrats' intention, as they've made clear in countless public venues, is literally
Obama’s Totalitarianism And The Last Days of Indian Sovereignty
[Recently by David Yeagley: An Indian Patriot Sues The People Who Shut Down American Renaissance’s 2010 Conference]
American Indian sovereignty is over—at least for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. On September 21, 2011, the U.S. federal government told the Cherokee Nation who was Indian and who was not. District of Columbia District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. ordered the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma to include Negroes as citizens.[Court order PDF]
Wouldn’t you know it? The Obama Administration puts the Negro at the center of all racial issues. The white Oedipal liberals have been happy to dilute, displace, and otherwise denigrate their own race, and they’re not about to let Indians be Indians—in peace, anyway. No, the Negro must be included in the Indian Nations, too.
Actually, the federal government has been declaring Negroes as Indians since the 1980s, when Negroes claiming to be Indians appealed to Washington for recognition so they could obtain a tax-free casino on “Indian” land.
But Judge Kennedy’s decision to declare Negroes citizens of an Indian nation represents the first act of the U.S. government that directly abrogates Indian sovereignty.
The casino bit, which involved the collusion of local and national politicians and other dubious characters, had really very little to do with real Indians. The casino “pop-up” tribes simply declared Negroes Indians.
But the Kennedy decision says real Indians can’t say who’s Indian anymore. Indian Nationhood is degraded to the level of a social club—which must include Negroes.
Back in March, 2007, the Cherokee Nation amended its constitution, d
“Haitian Youth” Raymond Herisse And Urban Beach Week: Coming To An America Near You—Unless There’s An Immigration Moratorium
At 4 a.m. on May 30—Memorial Day—in the middle of “Urban Beach Week”— Raymond Herisse, 22, of Boynton Beach, Florida, was shot dead by police in the South Beach area of Miami Beach.
One of Haitian-American Herisse’s many mug shots.
[VDARE.com note: As usual, none of the mainstream media has published anything useful about Raymond Herisse's citizenship status, where he was born, et cetera.However, leftwing blogger Axis of Logic describes him this way: Miami Police Assassinate Character of Haitian Youth After Taking His Life]
“Urban Beach Week,” aka “Hip-Hop Weekend” has come to mean anarchy in Miami Beach. Up to 300,000 black “hip-hop” fans, many intent on wreaking havoc, descend upon a city with fewer than 90,000 residents, only four percent of whom
Democrat Decries “Highly Unusual” Federal Attacks On State Immigration Enforcement
In addition to not enforcing existing immigration laws, the Obama Administration has launched a full charge against embattled states seeking to protect themselves from massive illegal alien invasions.
If this doesn’t make your blood boil, you might as well emigrate! Of course where to, in our increasingly shattered world, is a good question.
Your constitutional rights, under Article IV, section 4, which requires the Federal government to protect the citizens from invasion, are under attack—as they have been throughout this president’s administration.
Now even the Open Borders Washington Post is having to report this anti-states policy on its front page: Justice targets laws like Arizona’s: US vs. States on immigration; Obama administration may file new suits,[ By Jerry Markon, September 29, 2011]
“The Obama administration is escalating its crackdown on tough immigration laws, with lawyers reviewing four new state statutes to determine whether
National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein | Blacks (And Other Americans) Lose Employment Ground On Obama’s Watch
An extraordinary ninety-five percent of black voters cast their ballots for Barack Obama. But, funny thing, blacks have suffered more than any other group during the Obama years. The winners: immigrants.
Just look at unemployment rates. While Black unemployment has for decades exceeded that of other groups, and was notably slow to improve after the 2001-2002 recession, the gap widened noticeably during the Obama years in spite of the fact that the Federal Government, and especially the Obama Administration has de facto discrimination in favor of black employment:
In words: at the start of Obama administration (January 2009),
- The unemployment rate for African Americans was 12.7%. In August 2011 (
“Hitler’s Revenge” Paralyzing GOP Hopefuls As Obama Plays Race Card
Real Clear Politics is described at Wikipedia as being a
“…political news and polling data aggregator …the site includes columns and commentary from both sides of the political spectrum.”
I find that to be accurate (and the site very valuable).
Once in a while, there is a house commentary—presumably on an issue the management finds insufficiently ventilated by the MSM. Such a one is The GOP and Race: The Perils of Unseating a Black President, By Erin McPike, September 28, 2011
Management is right. McPike raises a question of enormous importance: do the GOP aspirants have the steel to deal with defeating Obama?
It is the key question.
As I wrote back in March:
“The 2012 election is liable to be the most racially polarized in American history. President Obama has made this inevitable. I believe this explains the widely reported pessimism and defeatism amongst prospective GOP nominees. It is not that they don’t think Obama can be defeated. It is that they know the hatred and rage such a victory will generate in the MSM and the Inside-the-Beltway establishment will make the next President’s life very stressful. Think Watergate!”
This is an extremely serious matter. As I noted in June (Defeating Obama: Could GOP Prospects Stand The Rage):
“Over at View From The Right “James P.” wrote
… rage, hate, and insanity… will emerge full-force against the candidate who takes on Obama, and will be doubled if he wins. The Republican candidate will have to have a very strong character to withstand that hate and to govern effectively. Does Romney want to win badly enough to go down in history as "the man who defeated the First Black President"? If he wins, will Romney spend his entire time trying to appease liberal
Washington Monument Closed For Cracks—How Symbolic Can You Get?
Talk about symbolism! The Washington Monument is closing indefinitely because of cracks caused by the recent earthquake. How symbolic can you get of the U.S. decline?
The Fulford File By James Fulford | Kevin Williamson and NRO vs. Federale (And The American People)
Federale, who blogs at federaleagent86.blogspot.com and also on VDARE.com, is an anonymous member of the Federal immigration enforcement bureaucracy who—unlike John Morton and the President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama—actually believes in immigration enforcement.
