July 03, 2007
Independence Day AND Immigration - Time To
Declare Independence From Five Billion Potential
Immigrants
A Google search for
Independence Day AND Immigration will lead you to
VDARE.COM, including pieces by
me and by
Peter Brimelow. It will also lead you to some other
things, such as this one, about another Independence Day
being celebrated in the United States:
Mexican Independence Day parade becomes immigration
protest, September 17, 2005
That's from a website called
Infowars.com and refers to
September 16, the anniversary of Mexico's
independence from Spain. (Cinco de Mayo is
something else, it celebrates Mexico's victory
over some foreign invaders, always
a good thing to celebrate. ) Gray Davis, former,
repeat former, Governor of California was
proud to participate in a Mexican Independence Day
parade just before being thrown out of office.
The Fourth Of July is also the
occasion of mass swearing-in ceremonies for legal
immigrants, as in this 2004 story:
DHS: USCIS to Welcome 16,000 New Citizens During 4th of
July Celebrations.
But for an example of modern
multiculturalism, in which the Fourth Of July has noting
to do with the
Founding Fathers, this New York Times article
takes the
red, white, and blue cake:
In Queens, It's the Glorious 4th, and 6th, and 16th, and
25th... - By Michelle O’Donnell, New
York Times, July 4, 2006
“Independence Day is celebrated once a year in most of
America. In Queens, the most ethnically diverse county
in the nation, where an estimated 44 percent of the 2.2
million residents are foreign born, it is celebrated
again and again and again.
“On
March 25, Astoria was aflutter with blue and white
flags, commemorating the 185th anniversary of the
beginning of the
Greek war of independence from the
Ottoman Empire. The next day, Bangladeshi immigrants
from Woodside to Bayside marked
Bangladesh's secession from Pakistan. And on May 5,
Mexicans across the borough
loudly celebrated a national holiday that has come
to eclipse the country's actual Independence Day of
Sept. 16. …
“Not
long ago, two flags hung side by side outside Mr.
Ramdayal's house on 128th Street. But recently the
Guyanese flag fell and he carried it inside, leaving
only the American flag. Mr. Ramdayal said he was not
sure if he would re-hang the flag from Guyana, whose
independence he recalled being won when he was 9.
[VDARE.COM
note: Correct—Guyana
is the country formerly known as
British Guiana. It
was granted its
independence in 1966.]
"’We
had a good celebration and enjoyed it at first, but then
the politics came in,’ he said. ‘It was a disaster.’"
[VDARE.COM note:
Correct again. Guyana, once it was abandoned by the
British Colonial Office,
had to deal with the
following demographics—“Ethnic
groups: East Indian 50%, black 36%, Amerindian 7%,
white, Chinese, and mixed 7%-- Religions: Christian 50%,
Hindu 35%, Muslim 10%, other 5%.” This is not a
recipe for peace, and the factions started rioting even
before independence.]
Crime was
high in Guyana, he said, and he appreciated the
sense of security in the United States.”
Immigrants do not come to the
United States because it’s a “Nation
Of Immigrants”. They come because it’s a nation
of Americans. They like the peace, and the low crime
rate.
Everything you’ve heard from gun
control advocates about America having a high crime rate
has always been by comparison with
“other industrialized countries” i.e.
Europe, the
Anglosphere, and Japan. Places like Guatemala,
Mexico, all of Africa, and the Middle East are usually
worse.
In the past, people coming to
America were declaring their independence of their
native lands. They were abandoning the old, and
embracing the new. But in Queens, New York and in
colonias throughout the
American Southwest, they’re bringing their countries
with them.
The New York Times’
enthusiastic Queens story is a symptom of
“Post-Americanism”—the belief that the old
America is over, and the modern American must
adapt to a polyglot, polynational, community coming and
living in his home.
And that means that there won’t
be an America for people to move to.
If you were a Salvadoran
gangster, trying to escape the
Salvadoran gang lifestyle, you wouldn’t be able to
“declare your independence” from MS-13 by coming
to America, because
MS-13 is almost
everywhere in America where immigrants are.
My humble suggestion: Americans
should declare their independence of the various nations
of the world who are clamoring at the gates to get in.
Immigration is
not a civil right. (Ask anybody
overseas, and they’ll tell you.)
There are five billion potential
immigrants for America to declare its independence from.
And the Fourth Of July is a good day to do it.
The day after the
Declaration of Independence was proclaimed, John Adams
said this:
“The fourth of July,
1776, will be a memorable epoch in the history of
America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated by
succeeding generations, as the great anniversary
festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of
deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God.
It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games,
sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations this
from one end of the continent to the other, from this
time forward forever.”
The late
Robert A. Heinlein, whose centenary is on July 7,
had a small brass cannon that he’d fire off (carefully)
on the Fourth of July.
We wish all of VDARE.com’s
readers a noisy Independence Day.
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