JUDICIAL WATCH:
America builds the La Raza
“The Race” Mexican welfare state
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a
Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year
IT’S MEXICO
SUCKING THE BLOOD OF AMERICA…. HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS FOR WELFARE, “FREE”
HEALTHCARE, HEROIN SALES, CRIME COST AND THEN THEY SEND TENS OF BILLIONS BACK
TO NARCOMEX
“In the U.S. the remittances that come of illegal immigration
drive down U.S. wages, particularly of those on the lowest-skilled parts of the
ladder, and as money flows out from local communities, leaves them
underinvested and run-down. Nobody can live two places at once. Illegal
immigrants live here but their money lives in Mexico. And it's often untaxed.”
MONICA SHOWALTER
Los Angeles County Pays
Over a Billion in Welfare to Illegal Aliens Over Two Years
In 2015 and 2016, Los Angeles County paid
nearly $1.3 billion in welfare funds to illegal aliens and their families. That
figure amounts to 25 percent of the total spent on the county’s entire needy
population, according to Fox News.
The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other
state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in
California, Pew reported.
Approximately a quarter of California’s 4 million illegal immigrants
reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows illegal immigrant parents with
children born in the United States to seek welfare and food stamp benefits.
The welfare benefits data acquired by Fox News comes from the Los
Angeles County Department of Public Social Services and shows welfare and food
stamp costs for the county’s entire population were $3.1 billion in 2015, $2.9
billion in 2016.
The data also shows that during the first five months of 2017, more than
60,000 families received a total of $181 million.
Over 58,000 families received a total of $602 million in benefits in
2015 and more than 64,000 families received a total of $675 million in 2016.
Whitewashing the Swedish Nightmare
Whitewashing the Swedish Nightmare
Sometimes libertarianism is the enemy of liberty.
Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the author of While Europe Slept and Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom, among others.
Poking around YouTube the other day, I stumbled across a 2018 documentary that was written and hosted by Johan Norberg, a 46-year-old Swedish economist who is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank in Washington, and who is one of his country’s leading boosters of free trade and free markets. This was hardly Norberg’s first venture into the documentary form: in 2003, Britain’s Channel 4 aired Globalisation is Good, in which Norberg celebrated the prosperity created in Taiwan and Vietnam through the outsourcing of factory jobs from the U.S. – but neglected to breathe a word about the catastrophic impact of that outsourcing on millions of American workers.
Norberg’s 2018 documentary is entitled Sweden: Lessons for America? In it, he traces Sweden’s economic ups and downs over the last couple of centuries: once a dirt-poor land in the grip of guilds and regulations, Sweden embraced the free market and low taxes – resulting in a century of burgeoning prosperity – only to “screw it up” in the 1960s by introducing a big-government welfare state that charged Pippi Longstocking author Astrid Lindgren a 102% income rate and Ingmar Bergman 139%. (He fled to Germany.) From 1976 to 1995, Sweden went downhill; interest rates hit 500%; IKEA moved its headquarters abroad. But the story, as Norberg tells it, has a happy ending: the 1990s brought reforms – deregulation, lower taxes, school vouchers, widespread privatization of public services, no minimum wage – that resulted in a first-rate climate for entrepreneurship and innovation and a “very productive private economy” that yields enough wealth to fund generous welfare benefits and pensions. America, we’re urged in Norberg’s conclusion, should look to Sweden as a model.
Some observers would contest Norberg’s explanation of how Sweden attained economic success. “It got to be one of the richest countries in the world,” Swedish comedian Aron Flam said on a 2017 podcast, ”by staying out of two world wars and selling arms to both sides” and, during the Cold War, relying on NATO (which it never joined) for free defense. But let’s put history aside for now and focus on the present. At the outset of his documentary, Norberg promises to show us “what it’s like to live in Sweden today.” When it comes to this topic, his show is a masterpiece of evasion – one that echoes much of the nonsense one often encounters in glowing libertarian accounts of the “Swedish model.” Libertarians, when they talk about Sweden, like to deny that Sweden is socialist, even though the country was ruled for decades by a party that identified as socialist; in any event, the fact remains that Swedes are, by nature, collectivist, statist, consensus-oriented, and anti-individualistic – scared to challenge received opinion and eager to join in ostracizing those who do.
They’re also, thanks to years of suicidal immigration policies, living in a social, economic, and cultural nightmare – to quote Flam, “a slow, simmering war zone.” In the cities, violent crime, shootings, gang rapes, car burnings, massive explosions, and even grenade-throwing have become routine. Just in the last couple of weeks, the chief of the National Police, Anders Thonberg, has put in an urgent request for backup from the military, and Ulf Kristersson, head of the Moderate Party, has charged the government with losing “control of what is happening in Sweden.” A few weeks ago, after a gang of armed thugs raided a Christmas party at a private home in the city of Västerås, robbing and brutalizing twenty or so guests, a neighbor commented: “It’s the Wild West here in Sweden.” (Not true: Wild West crime rates were almost surely lower, and settlers had guns to defend themselves.)
In a January 13 blog post, a cleric named Helena Edlund observed that in her hometown of Malmö it became normal some time ago “to wake up to bombs and bullets”; now, she laments, the same is the case in the most exclusive parts of central Stockholm, where she lives now. “I have lost count of the friends whose family members have been robbed, beaten, raped, or had their cars burned or stairs blown up,” she wrote. “For those who have lived in relative security in the country's more privileged areas, this is something new, but those who live in vulnerable areas have had it this way for many years.” The same politicians whom Norberg extols unreservedly for making today’s Sweden wealthy and dynamic are accused by Edlund of having “destroyed” the country with their open-border policy and their readiness to roll out the welcome mat for “terrorists.” Addressing those pols, Edlund asks: “What advice do you have for those of us who loved Sweden’s peace and security? Where should we go to seek asylum?” The perpetrators of all this mayhem, of course, are Muslims, either immigrants or the children of immigrants – people to whom Sweden provided refuge and whom it has rewarded lavishly for not working. Most of them reside in no-go sharia enclaves where even the cops fear to tread. In 2016, a 60 Minutes Australia film crew was beaten by Somali migrants in Rinkeby, a no-go zone in Stockholm that is also known as “Little Mogadishu.” (“This,” said host Liz Hayes, “is a country that’s barely coping”; in an interview, an activist told her that Sweden is “on the brink of an economic and cultural disaster.”) Last September, a news team for Sweden’s SVT was targeted by stone throwers at the construction site for a new mosque in Stenhagen (“stone grove”), a no-go zone in Uppsala.
Then, last December 12, journalist Joakim Lamotte ventured, video camera in hand, into the town square of another no-go zone, Kronogården in the city of Trollhätten, thereby attracting the attention of several dozen young Muslim men, most of them masked, who (as can be seen here and here) gradually closed in on him, verbally harassed him, demanded that he leave “their” turf, and finally struck him repeatedly and stole his video equipment. Several police officers were present, but did nothing to protect Lamotte and made no arrests, even though a couple of them were also physically assaulted by the thugs. How did Lamotte’s fellow Swedish journalists respond to this horror show? By mocking him and expressing support for his attackers. Robert Aschberg, a prominent Aftonbladet columnist, accused Lamotte of being a profiteering, self-dramatizing attention-seeker; Mathias Ståhle of Svenska Dagbladet tweeted that Lamotte’s account of being beaten and robbed made him “giggle.” The Swedish media’s take on this story was so egregious that even the BBC ran a report calling them out and treating Lamotte sympathetically.
Fortunately, after decades of polite PC silence, more and more Swedes are finally admitting that they’re in deep trouble – hence the fast-rising support for the upstart Sweden Democrats, who call for serious immigration controls. Yet too many mainstream politicians and journalists remain in denial. Legislator Isabella Lövin asserted in 2016 that Sweden, with “the world’s first feminist government,” is nothing less than a beacon of hope for the Western world; as of last November, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven was still sticking to the line that the underlying cause of all this lawlessness is high unemployment in certain neighborhoods; the felons’ cultural and religious backgrounds, he insisted, are irrelevant. In Sweden: Lessons for America?, Norberg lauds the newspaper Aftonbladet; in a bracingly blunt 2019 op-ed about elite Swedish views on immigration, Norwegian author Kjetil Rolness accused that paper (the flagship publication of the Swedish elite) of “almost pathological denial of realities, in favor of wishful thinking and virtue signaling.”
In 2016, the Spectator ran an unusually frank article by Tove Lifvendahl, the political editor of Svenska Dagbladet, about Sweden’s immigration challenges; but its subtitle was telling: “We’ve taken in far too many people and we’re letting them down badly – especially the children.” This is the Swedish establishment mentality in a nutshell: even when they’re being honest about the problem, they reflexively feel obliged to express more concern for immigrants than for native Swedes – more concern for evildoers, indeed, than for their victims. Note the comment made by Stockholm police chief Jan Evensson a couple of years ago: “It’s hard to be a criminal. We want to help them get out of it.”
BLOG: 93% OF THE MURDERS IN MEXICO'S SECOND LARGEST CITY OF LOS ANGELES ARE BY MEXICANS. IN CALIFORNIA HALF THE MURDERS ARE COMMITTED BY MEX GANGS.
The anarchy in the streets is only part of the big scary picture. Norberg’s documentary portrays a Sweden where retirement homes, pensions, schools, and health care are just plain terrific. On the contrary: the immense cost of providing for immigrants (Muslims make up over 8% of Sweden’s population, the second highest figure in Europe, and the yearly bill for housing, feeding, and clothing the huge percentage of them who are on the dole is colossal) – has drained more and more money from basic services and benefits for hard-working native Swedes (this, moreover, in a country where people with jobs are so heavily taxed, supposedly to cover those basic services and benefits, that a citizen with a purportedly decent income has to struggle to get by). In recent years, while the national mainstream media have all but ignored this mass redirection of taxpayer funds, alternative news sites and local papers have told one horror story after another about retired Swedes who’ve been unceremoniously tossed out of their residences to make room for newly arrived Muslims.
Mass immigration, Swedish businessman Henrik Jönsson told Dave Rubin on a January 17 podcast, is causing Sweden to go broke “because we have the most expensive welfare system in the world.” And yet last year the Swedish parliament, the Riksdag, voted to increase the annual number of immigrants. Rolness, again, had it right when he wrote that too many Swedes prefer foreign refugees to Swedish babies; similarly, Swedish journalist Kajsa Norman assailed police and media for downplaying assaults on Swedish girls by Muslim men, maintaining that "sympathy for the refugees trumps sympathy for the girls."
What did Sweden: Lessons for America? have to say about this crisis that seems destined to drag Sweden into anarchy, civil war, and/or sharia? Nothing whatsoever. About forty minutes into his paean to contemporary Sweden, Norberg visits a private school, and the camera pans quickly past a girl in a hijab, a potent symbol of female subordination: that’s the closest Norberg’s program comes to acknowledging the grim truth about the cultural challenges facing Sweden today. Does Norberg comment on the hijab? No. For that matter, does he mention that Jews are leaving Sweden in droves because of Muslim harassment (and worse)? No. For that matter, while touting Sweden as an economic success story, Norberg omits to mention its dramatic decline in GDP, GDP per capita, and current account balance during the last few years (a trend that was already clear when he made his documentary).
None of which should surprise anybody. Norberg is one of those libertarians who, for all their repeatedly professed love of liberty, refuse to oppose the disastrous immigration policies that have already done serious damage to individual freedom throughout the West – witness, for example, the prosecution in Britain, Austria, Denmark, Canada, and elsewhere of citizens accused of offending Muslims. Watching Norberg’s documentary on Sweden, one can’t help thinking of an observation by Aron Flam: “Swedes don’t really understand the concept of liberty.” For people like Norberg, regrettably, the totally unhindered movement of people and goods across borders is a veritable religious doctrine to which they cling in the name of freedom but to which they’ll brook no exception at all, no matter what the actual consequences to individual freedom. That a citizen of Sweden, where at present the perils of this kind of thinking are perhaps more clearly in evidence than in anywhere else on earth, can so lustily sing the praises of his country’s cockeyed policies shows just how delusionary – and dangerous – certain strands of libertarianism can be in the face of manifest threats to human liberty.
“What is
driving that kind of growth? Over 10-12 million legal immigrants in California
were born abroad. Immigrants birth 900,000 babies annually. (www.cis.org, Dr.
Steven Camarata) Something in the range of 4 to 5 million illegal immigrants
live and work in California. Most do not pay taxes and others pay on forged
identification.”
Therefore, when we say the Golden State "won't be much
like anything that people who have lived here for awhile have known," that
isn't hyperbole or agenda motivated exaggeration. It's simply reality. The most
basic function of government is to protect people and property. California's
government increasingly can't because the money is all gone, and so are many of
the citizen taxpayers who never wanted any part of this grand liberal
immigration experiment and politically correct nonsense, to begin with.
CALIFORNIA:
AMERICA'S FIRST FAILED STATE
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com
In 1965, California housed a
reasonable 15 million people. No traffic jams, little air pollution and
everyone spoke English. Route 66, from Chicago to Los Angeles, ended at the
Santa Monica Pier. Americans drove to Yosemite National Park for a delightful
weekend of hiking. Tony Bennett sang, “I left my heart in San Francisco.”
California ranked among the top
five educational systems in America. Hollywood produced incredible movies with
Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Robert
Redford, Paul Newman and Jane Russell. I loved Gary Cooper. Bing Crosby sang
away our troubles and Bob Hope laughed away our cares.
Few criminals plied the streets of
cities in California. Everyone pledged their allegiance to the United States of
America and our stars and stripes. Skiers and surfers plied the waves and
moguls.
But in 1965, something happened in
the Halls of Congress called the “Immigration Reform Act” pushed by the late
Teddy Kennedy that changed the 200,000 annual incoming immigrants from
compatible countries to 1.2 million third world immigrants annually. Senator
Howard Metzenbaum said, “He let the flood gates wide open.”
Within 40 years, the United States
galloped from193 million people to 315 million in 2012. Kennedy’s bill will add
another 138 million people by 2050-a scant 38 years from now. From a net
exporter of oil, we now import 7 out of 10 barrels at a cost of trillions of
dollars. Kennedy’s egregious mistake changed the ethnic, linguistic and
cultural foundation of America into what we see in California today. Also,
Houston, Chicago, Miami, Detroit and New York.
His single act changed the entire
history of America from success to utter and growing chaos on multiple levels.
California reached a mind-blowing
38 million people in 2011. It adds 1,655 people net gain daily. It adds over
400 vehicles 24/7 on its already crushed highways. (Source:www.CapsWeb.org)
California expects to add 20 million people within 30 years.
What is driving that kind of growth? Over 10-12 million legal
immigrants in California were born abroad. Immigrants birth 900,000 babies
annually. (www.cis.org, Dr. Steven Camarata) Something in the range of 4 to 5
million illegal immigrants live and work in California. Most do not pay taxes
and others pay on forged identification.
For every added person, 25.4 acres
of land must be destroyed to build homes, schools, roads, malls and everything
else to support that person. Known as “ecological footprint”, it destroys
wilderness and arable land. Thus, California leads the country in animal and
plant extinction rates.
Worse, California with its
seething, hungry human mob sucks up so much water from the Colorado River that
it fails to reach the ocean. As it adds another 20 million people, it will
destroy millions upon millions of acres of farmland.
On the educational front, over 100
languages now paralyze California school systems. From the top five states in
education, California sank to the bottom five in the United States. English has
become a foreign language in California.
As to crime, MS-13 gangs work with
the 20,000 member “18th Street Gang” to power drugs, guns and other contraband
into the streets of America. Pot farms grow in national parks.
As to cultural breakdown,
California now features major Mexican cock fighting organizations throughout
the state. Police caught one group of 300 Mexicans last week as they roared and
screamed at their blood sport:
In Freemont, California, the call
to worship for its dominant Muslim immigrant audience heralds from the growing
network of Mosques. Women’s rights degrade, female genital mutilation grows,
arranged marriages are commonplace and honor killings take place. (Covered up
by the liberal press, of course.)
Yosemite features wall to wall
crowds that make any chance for a wilderness experience a hike into human
dominated wilderness frenzy.
Most of the children born in
California today feature Mexican parents living on American welfare. The EBT
program or Electronic Benefits Transfers rewards single mothers unlimited
financial support for every baby they produce. And they produce them by the
tens of thousands. One mother said on a recording, “I get everything for free…I
don’t know why anyone would want to work in America.”Write me at
frostyw@juno.com and I will send you the live video of the interview.
Thus, California runs a $24 billion
debt that cannot be paid. Ultimately, California will bankrupt into chaos. It
suffers from a Faustian Bargain that degrades into Hobson’s Choice.
With so many languages, so many
ethnic tribes and so many cultures fighting for dominance in California, how
will it survive the next 20 million added people? The TV journalist Bill Moyers
asked the famed science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, “Which is the greater
danger - nuclear warfare or the population explosion?
“The latter absolutely!” said
Asimov. “To bring about nuclear war, someone has to DO something; someone has
to press a button. To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation,
anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values—there is no need to do
anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally—and breed. And
how easy it is to do nothing."
Asimov followed up with a
penetrating reality check brought about by overpopulation: “...democracy cannot
survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and
decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the
value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone
dies. The more people there are, the less one individual matters.”
California will become our first third world country within
our country. It pretty well has reached that status in 2012. It’s a failing
state like Mexico. Corruption is a mechanism by which a third world country
operates. Illiteracy drives a failed state. California defines that reality.
I suspect that Houston, Chicago,
Detroit and other heavily dominated immigrant cities will follow California.
How come I see this “thing” accelerating and most Americans apathetically sit
by and do nothing? Our kids will curse our inaction and historians will laugh
at the stupidity of mass immigration, diversity and multiculturalism as it took
the greatest country in the world down to its knees. Tragically, we did nothing
to stop it.
To show you where we’re headed
in-depth, read Pat Buchanan’s epic work: Suicide of a Superpower.
Listen to Frosty Wooldridge on
Wednesdays as he interviews top national leaders on his radio show
"Connecting the Dots" at www.themicroeffect.com at 6:00 PM Mountain
Time. Adjust tuning in to your time zone.
BOOK: Mexifornia: SHATTERING OF AN AMERICAN DREAM
(illegals call it their DREAM ACT)
BOOK:
MEXIFORNIA –
THE SHATTERING OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
WITH THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION
"Victor Davis Hanson brings a lifetime of experience in
California's Central Valley to this indictment of multiculturalism and mass
immigration." -- Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies
READER’S REVIEW (source: AMAZON)
If you don't understand something or disagree with a concept
then the best way to conceal your ignorance or discredit the idea is to call it
"racist". Dr. Hanson did not have to go very far out on a limb to
make the point that non assimilation of Chicanos to American culture is
divisive and destructive - and that it is the new immigrant that is failing to
adapt. Great book, on point and very timely.
*Starred Review*
Classics professor Hanson is also, like generations of his
family before him, a fruit farmer in California's central valley. He has
employed immigrants, seen them flood his community during the last 30 years of
mass flight from Mexico, and endured the crime associated with illegal
immigrants. Hanson is immensely sympathetic to poor Mexicans, however, and the
most powerful chapter here outlines the harried life of the illegal alien. But
he hates to see the ordered culture in which he grew up drowned by an alien
inundation whose undeserving beneficiaries are Mexico's kleptocratic rulers,
for whom an open border is a safety valve expelling the potential for
democratic change. The four solutions to the mess that Hanson enumerates
include continuing de facto open borders but insisting on rapid acculturation;
patrolling the border effectively and reducing legal immigration; imposing
"sweeping restrictions on immigration" and ending Mexican chauvinism
in the U.S.; and allowing present policies to make California increasingly
mirror an unreformed Mexico. Hanson thinks that the U.S. "still need not
do everything right" to prevent social collapse in the Southwest and that
the totalitarian uniformity of valueless mass culture may soften that collapse.
He also sees very clearly what has brought this crisis on: the American
globalist ideology's lust for cheap labor and emphasis on "raw
inclusiveness" instead of "standards and taste."
*
Review
"Hanson's 'Mexifornia' is that rare book that combines
scholarship with personal experience to provide genuine insight into a complex
issue." -- Linda Chavez, author of An Unlikely Conservative
"Victor Davis Hanson brings a lifetime of experience in
California's Central Valley to this indictment of multiculturalism and mass
immigration." -- Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies
• Hardcover: 150 pages
• Publisher: Encounter Books; 1 edition (July 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893554732
• ISBN-13: 978-1893554733
ALL REVIEWS ARE FROM AMAZON.com
REVIEW 1
This review is from: Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
(Hardcover)
This book shows how Mexico sends their poor to America to
work, so they don't have to improve their own country, and how we use these
people for cheap labor so that we can sell things for less. It's a deal made
between the two countries. The trouble is, it's not what American citizens
want. The "servants of the people", the representatives, are not
listening to us, so it's always exciting to read something that really tells it
like it is.
This book is written from the viewpoint of someone who
actually lives with these Mexican immigrants. The rich people who want to use
them in their businesses for cheap labor don't live with them; the liberal
elites who push for them to get amnesty don't live with them. This guy lives
among them, and knows the problems first hand, and as I suspected, there are
many, and they're not pretty.
He writes very bluntly about the problems, but not without
sympathy for the Mexican immigrants whose own country won't take care of them.
With all the new books out and the discussions going on about legal and illegal
immigration, and what the American people want, I'm hoping that these problems
will be solved. This book is one of the best on the subject, because it is
written from a viewpoint of personal experience.
*
REVIEW 2
Victor Hanson combines scholarship (Professor at Cal State)
with personal experience (life long resident and farmer in central CA. who has
Mexican-American family and friends) to present a thoughtful look at the
illegal Mexican immigration crisis. Hanson argues that the reason for this crisis
is that both ends of the political spectrum have vested interests in continuing
the unabated entry of illegal Mexicans. Republicans wish to placate business
interests with cheap labor and Democrats hope for a future electoral base.
Hanson further explains that this wave is not like the earlier waves of Polish,
Jewish, or Italian immigration which was of a fixed duration and where the
connection of the new immigrant to the Homeland was more thoroughly severed.
This book is well written and to the point (approx. 140
pages). I have also seen Victor Hanson on several political talk shows. He is
well spoken and mild mannered which is a welcome relief from the cacophonous
diatribe we too often get on cable news channels.
*
REVIEW 3
As one who shares the author's ethnic,cultural and
geographical heritage, I thought Hanson did a marvelous job of assessing
California's major social issue, and one of America's primary problems. Like
Hanson, I was born and reared in Fresno County, albeit some 25 miles from his native
Selma. I can attest to the accuracy of his description of Selma and the Central
Valley in the 1950's.
As a child, my associates included Hispanics; as a teenager
working in the fig and peach orchards, my fellow workers were Hispanic. During
my professional career, I have hired and promoted many Hispanics.
Hanson's Scandinavian ancestors (from Sweden) and mine (from
Denmark) came to America legally and without speaking English, but they
succeeded--without bilingual classes, welfare, government subsidies, or that
phenomenon known as "affirmative action", which is being rapidly
unmasked as nothing, more or less, than "reverse discrimination".
Hanson deftly exposes the race industry as an amalgam of organizations and
individuals who are quick to attack the Anglo for any slight, either real or
imagined, but who, in the long run, seem not to do much for those whom they
purport to serve.
As a criminologist, I am well aware of the violence committed
by Hispanic Gangs, and the fact that those gangsters who do not wind up in the
morgue soon become expensive inmates in our overcrowded prison system, costing
taxpayers some $25k per year each. I am equally aware of the many outstanding
Hispanic officers, prosecutors, and judges with whom I've worked.
Hanson has eloquently described the failure of our
educational programs to work toward an assimilated America, as well as the
failure of the "separatists" in the race industry.
The one failure which, to my surprise, he did not identify is
that of our elected officials who establish public policy. When Hanson and I
were youngsters/young men in the Central Valley, the politicians seemed to act
in the best interests of their constituencies. Today,by and large, our
politicians have little integrity, but rather pander incessantly to special
interests which, in turn, provide them with campaign funds, endorsements,and
precinct workers.It is common knowledge that, in Sacramento, legislative votes
are "for sale" almost daily. Until we can restore some integrity
among our public officials, we will not move toward a better California--better
for Hispanics, Anglos, African Americans, Asians, and all others!
Except for his failure to discuss the lack of integrity among
many of our elected officials, Hanson has done an admirable job. Mexifornia
should be on the "must read" list of all who are concerned about the
future of Californians, nothwithstanding the color of their skins!
*
DICK LAMM, GOVERNOR OF COLORADO
REVIEW 4
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.
California's
Accelerating Demise
The end is
nearing, and it's not that far away anymore. Oh, make no mistake, California
will still be here, but very shortly, it won't be much like anything that
people who have lived here for awhile have known.
The culture, the quality of life,
pristine environment, and enviable public school systems are rapidly being
segregated into ever-shrinking areas of affluence.
Anyone who has read this blog
knows that the focus here is on illegal immigration. Is the presence of people who are unlawfully
in the country the only thing that has led to the Golden State's desperate
financial and demographic situation, however? Clearly, no. There's been plenty
of irresponsible spending by California politicians that is, at most, only
marginally related to the millions of the undocumented who have set up house
here.
Still, you can't escape the facts;
facts that are so plain and obvious that one doesn't need to hold an MBA degree
to see that much of California's economic ruin has resulted from nearly
unfettered unlawful immigration from Latin America. We're rapidly absorbing the
poorest and least educated that countries in that area of the world gladly send
north, and the bills for having done this are coming due. California's illegal
alien and anchor baby population is well over twice the size of any other
state's, and not surprisingly, our state's budget deficit is also over twice
the size of any other state's.
When you lack money, you borrow.
California certainly has, out the yin yang. In fact, California is so far in
debt that its credit rating is the lowest of all 50 states. And when you can't borrow anymore, you do
without. California is ...
Because we have been so busy
building public schools (among other things) to keep up with an exploding
Hispanic population, and repeatedly raising public school teachers'
compensation to convince educators to work in dreary academic conditions
surrounded by limited-English learners and street criminals, we essentially
stopped constructing prisons. Well the illegal alien children, and the
offspring of current and former illegal aliens, who now make up the bulk of
public school students here, have been graduating at rates below 50%.
Where does a person with little
education, who has been raised in a family where skirting laws is everyday
conduct, commonly wind up? You guessed
it. Over half of the people in
California jails and prisons are current and former illegal aliens, and their
children. In fact, we have so many
illegals and anchor babies that our "gray bar hotels" are
stuffed. Jam-packed to the degree that
the Supreme Court recently ruled they violate 8th Amendment protections against
cruel and unusual punishment
OK, so just build more prisons,
right? Sure ... with what money? We already spent it on teachers, free public
school breakfasts and lunches, new grade school campuses, discounted college
tuition for illegal aliens, and prison guards who watch over our growing
population of people who didn't seem to benefit from the money we've been
laying out to educate/babysit them.
The bottom line: California will be
releasing tens of thousands of convicts because government officials don't have
any other choice.
Therefore, when we say the Golden State "won't be much
like anything that people who have lived here for awhile have known," that
isn't hyperbole or agenda motivated exaggeration. It's simply reality. The most
basic function of government is to protect people and property. California's
government increasingly can't because the money is all gone, and so are many of
the citizen taxpayers who never wanted any part of this grand liberal
immigration experiment and politically correct nonsense, to begin with.
“What is
driving that kind of growth? Over 10-12 million legal immigrants in California
were born abroad. Immigrants birth 900,000 babies annually. (www.cis.org, Dr.
Steven Camarata) Something in the range of 4 to 5 million illegal immigrants
live and work in California. Most do not pay taxes and others pay on forged
identification.”
Therefore, when we say the Golden State "won't be
much like anything that people who have lived here for awhile have known,"
that isn't hyperbole or agenda motivated exaggeration. It's simply reality. The
most basic function of government is to protect people and property.
California's government increasingly can't because the money is all gone, and
so are many of the citizen taxpayers who never wanted any part of this grand
liberal immigration experiment and politically correct nonsense, to begin with.
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