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MEXICAN SUPREMACY SPREADING FROM OVER OCCUPIED “RECONQUISTA” LANDS.
Mormon-owned paper stands with illegal immigrants
By JEREMY W. PETERS
The New York Times
SALT LAKE CITY — Joseph Cannon is nobody's liberal. His résumé reads as if it belongs to a Republican National Convention delegate, which, incidentally, he was in 2004.
He was an official for the Environmental Protection Agency under President Reagan and chairman of the Utah Republican Party. As editor of The Deseret News, he published editorials condemning deficit spending, same-sex marriage and lenient alcohol laws.
So it was something of a head-scratcher, Cannon said, when his voice mail and e-mail started filling up with messages from people calling him a "liberal freak" for the sympathetic way his paper often writes about illegal immigrants.
"You have become a dangerous newspaper, one that I am on the verge of discontinuing," one outraged reader wrote.
The newspaper's push for a more liberal embrace of illegal immigrants has led to a collision between its editorial mission and its conservative, mostly Mormon, readers. But if this issue seems to stray from the reliably conservative politics of The News, Utah's second-largest newspaper, that may be in part because it is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
(MEXICANS LOATHE ENGLISH, THE LANGUAGE OF THE OCCUPIED AND DEMAND THAT LEGALS LEARN SPANISH, AND PAY MILLIONS TO HAVE EVERYTHING BI-LINGUAL. JUDICIAL, LAW ENFORCEMENT, SCHOOLS, ETC. MUST BE MADE BI-LINGUAL TO ACCOMMODATE THIS LA RAZA SUPREMACY!)
Hispanics are the most populous minority group in the country — and they represent a vast potential constituency for the Mormon church, which already has made considerable efforts to develop strong relations with Hispanic communities. Those efforts include, since February, a Spanish-language paper called El Observador.
"The church's practice is to say, 'Look, we're not immigration agents. We care for the soul,' " Cannon said.
Both The News and El Observador are owned by the Deseret Media Companies (named after the provisional state of Deseret founded by Mormons in the Salt Lake Valley in 1849). Utah's largest television station, KSL, and its largest news website, KSL.com, also are part of the media empire.
Because any editorial that appears under the Deseret Media masthead carries the unofficial imprimatur of the church in many Mormons' eyes, Deseret editors and executives could help shape opinions in the heavily Mormon state Legislature, where lawmakers are debating a zero-tolerance illegal-immigration law similar to the one passed in Arizona.
For now, church leaders seem uninterested in wading into the debate by taking an official policy position, as they did by declaring support for the referendum to ban same-sex marriage in California. Rather, the church has made only a benign public appeal for "careful reflection and civil discourse" on the issue. But that has hardly soothed matters.
That the main sponsor of the Arizona law, Russell Pearce, is a Mormon has not been lost on many Hispanics in Utah. And some active Mormons said they thought the church, through its media properties, was trying to reassure Hispanics who were suspicious that it condoned anti-immigrant attitudes.
"Some of my Latino friends have said, 'I'm going to leave the church over this,' " said Tony Yapias, director of Proyecto Latino de Utah, a Latino outreach group. "My view is that this is an aggressive way for the LDS church to very effectively use their media power to try to soften up the community. They're sending a message to their members."
Both Cannon and Deseret Media's chief executive, Mark Willes, said they never sought approval from church officials on any editorial or article. They said the church also never asked to see an article before it was printed, although former editors said the practice had been to fax drafts of editorials to church headquarters.
Cannon makes one thing clear, however: The Deseret News is hardly going to run something that would offend its owners.
Themes that appear in The Deseret News' coverage of immigration often are echoed in El Observador, which typically devotes two or three articles in each edition to immigration-related topics. A major theme is the effect that deportation has on families.
"The breaking up of families is horrific, so we want to highlight that," said Patricia Dark, the editor. Among Mormons, whose faith teaches that the family bond should be eternally inviolate, the issue of severing families is especially resonant.
Selecting themes and story lines that will appeal to Mormon values has been one way Deseret Media has tried to shift the debate.
Willes last month took the highly unusual step of writing an editorial that simultaneously ran on the front pages of The News and El Observador. The editorial, accompanied in print by an image of the Statue of Liberty with its famous inscription "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," also was read by Willes on KSL, Salt Lake City's NBC affiliate, and the KSL radio station.
"We, of all people, should be sensitive to the desire of others to provide more opportunities for themselves and their families," Willes wrote, making a direct appeal to Mormons' sense of their history. Like Mormons, who fled the Midwest in the mid-19th century after failing to assimilate into society, illegal immigrants know what it is like to be outcasts, Willes said.
But those who oppose relaxed immigration policies see journalistic bias, not Mormon values, at work.
"Obviously, they're trying to sway public opinion in a big way," said Stephen Sandstrom, a Republican state representative who is sponsoring a bill that would create a set of strict immigration laws similar to Arizona's. Sandstrom, a Mormon, said he was not deterred. "I do have people in e-mails saying, 'You'd better not back down or I'll know the church got to you.' And I just assure them that the LDS church is not directing me one way or another on this."
Cannon acknowledged that changing minds would be difficult, but he said he hoped at least to challenge readers to reflect on immigration through the teachings of their religion.
"What are the two commandments? Love God and love your neighbor," he said. "These people are our neighbors — incontestably, by any definition, they are our neighbors."
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GOV. DICK LAMM of COLORADO
ON MEX LA RAZA SUPREMACY
DICK LAMM, GOVERNOR OF COLORADO
Thoughts on the LA RAZA Invasion
We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of America's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, "Mexifornia," explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, "If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy! America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.'"
"Here is how they do it," Lamm said: "First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country." History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: "The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy." Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans."
Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, "Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. I would make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and
discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.
Third, "We could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: "The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we! are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together." Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have
various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."
"Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school."
"My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all
minority failure on the majority population."
"My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. "E. Pluribus Unum" -- From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,' we will balkanize America as surely as Kosovo."
"Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits; make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the! doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them."
In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said,. "Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis's book "Mexifornia." His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America. deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book."
There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today.
Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America - take note of California and other states - to date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book "1984." In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery," and "Ignorance is strength."
Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path, especially The American Dream.
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