September 24, 2003
Miller Is Mad; etc
John J. Miller just posted this in National
Review’s The Corner:
”FOR
SHAME [John J. Miller]
”I just spent a few minutes on Nexis reviewing coverage
of the recent Oath of Allegiance
controversy, drummed up in part by NRO. In an
Associated Press story (sorry, no link - Nexis ain’t
free), [VDARE.COM note: Oh
yeah? See below] Tim Edgar of the ACLU
had this to say:
“I think some are
confused about this new oath, maybe trying to invent
controversy for the purpose of casting doubt on the
loyalty of new Americans and on the dedication of the
immigration service, and I think that’s a shame.”
“What a despicable
comment--a gross ad hominem attack on people like
Lamar Alexander, who have expressed a sincere
concern about a bureaucratic revision to an important
statement. The shame is all yours, Mr. Edgar.
Posted at
07:52 AM
Well, without wanting to shock Miller, at VDARE.COM
we have, in fact, expressed fairly consistent doubts
about
“the loyalty of new Americans” and the
“dedication of the immigration service.”
I personally don’t see what’s wrong with that.
You can, pace Miller, read the
full AP story online, thanks to the Houston
Chronicle. And in it,
Tamar Jacoby asking, “Is it that they [i.e.
Americans favoring immigration reform] want
citizenship to be
less inviting? Do they want the country to be
less inviting?”
Er, yes, in fact we do. In fact, that would be
terrific.
Again, what’s wrong with that?
Reference the above piece using this permanent URL:
http://www.vdare.com/fulford/miller_etc.htm#mad
Stupid And Evil, Yet Again
“With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?”
asked a reader, who forwarded this LA
Times story about collusion between Democrats and
Republicans to get a stealth amnesty bill passed:
“The lawmakers involved in the deal span the
ideological spectrum, enhancing the chances that the
legislation could become law. Kennedy is one of the most
liberal members of the Senate and Craig one of the most
conservative.
“Republican sponsors of
the bill said they relished the opportunity to help both
agricultural interests and farm worker groups.”
[“Migrant
Workers Legislation Secured,” By Nick Anderson,
LA Times, September 23, 2003]
Anderson also refers to Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho), as
“citing government estimates that as much as half of
the agricultural workforce lacks documentation…”
Actually, many of them have
documentation. What they lack is
permission.
I’m going to repeat this story, which many readers
have heard
before, but which I suggest you get by heart, so you
can repeat it at parties:
"In America, we have a
two-party system," a Republican congressional staffer is
supposed to have told a visiting group of Russian
legislators some years ago.
"There is the stupid party. And there is the evil
party. I am proud to be a member of the stupid party."
He added: "Periodically,
the two parties get together and do something that is
both stupid and evil. This is called–bipartisanship."
Reference the above piece using this permanent URL:
http://www.vdare.com/fulford/miller_etc.htm#stupid
Not Albert Einstein
Dr. Victor Souaid of Coral Springs, Florida was
recently
convicted of defrauding cancer patients by
pretending to inject them with Lupron, which costs $695
a shot. He injected them with (probably) water instead.
Souiad not only billed insurance companies for
injections he wasn’t giving, he was wholesaling the
drugs themselves to other doctors.
Excerpts from the AP story:
“Lupron doesn't cure prostate cancer but is supposed
to stop the cancer from worsening by halting production
of testosterone. Souaid billed his patients' insurance
companies between $644 and $693 for an office visit and
injection with the drug. He billed the companies for up
to four times the amount of the drug he administered.
“Prosecutors said that Souaid sold $1.4 million worth
of Lupron to wholesale brokers that was supposed to go
to patients. He did not have a license to sell the drugs.”
[Doctor pleads guilty to falsely billing cancer
patients, September 23, 2003, Associated Press]
The news story says that Souaid “faces possible
deportation.” He’s a Canadian citizen, graduate of a
Canadian medical school, although I believe he’s
originally from Lebanon.
We frequently hear that America needs
foreign doctors to do work that “Americans won’t
do.” But sometimes we want doctors who won’t
do things that Americans won’t do. Souaid’s kind of
deliberate medical fraud, much more
typical of the Third World than America, is one of
them.
Dr. Souaid is another example of the counter-argument
to what Peter Brimelow
called “immigration enthusiasts' silly ploy of
reeling off, in place of argument, the names of
distinguished immigrants” like Albert Einstein.
Dr. Souaid is no Einstein. More of a Sirhan Sirhan or
an Al Capone.
Reference the above piece using this permanent URL:
http://www.vdare.com/fulford/miller_etc.htm#einstein
Hispanic Heritage Month
President
Bush has
proclaimed National Hispanic Heritage Month, 2003. I
suppose you could make up your own jokes here, but I’ll
note that he mentions
“Businessman Roberto Goizueta, a refugee from Cuba who
rose to become the CEO of one of America's largest
corporations, is an inspiring example of what immigrants
to America can achieve through hard work and character.”
It’s a style
thing, but I don’t think that if Ronald Reagan had made
this proclamation, he would have been embarrassed to
mention that Goizueta was president of
Coca-Cola.
Goizueta’s
success is a great free-market success story (Goizueta
and his 32,000 American employees
earned more than the entire Gross National Product
of Castro’s Cuba), But it’s not exactly typical.
Reference the above piece using this permanent URL:
http://www.vdare.com/fulford/miller_etc.htm#hispanic
Another Fraternity Party
At Duke University. the Sigma Chi
fraternity had a Mexican themed party, with a
mock border patrol checkpoint at the door.
“Fraternity brothers from
Sigma Chi designed fliers that looked like expired green
cards, issued T-shirts with the image of a drunk Mexican
and built a mock border patrol checkpoint at the dorm's
door for the Sept. 13 party, held three days before
Mexican Independence Day.”
The usual suspects were
“Outraged, outraged.”
“Sandra
Sánchez, a senior and first-generation Mexican-American,
said the party ‘disgusted and outraged’ her.
“‘Everything that I am --
my family, customs, culture and language -- was
violated,’ said Sánchez, who helped organize the
demonstration. ‘The
stereotypes of drunk Mexicans and
border crossing was hurtful.’”
I assume that the T-shirt with the
picture of the drunk Mexican on it was not intended to
suggest that that Mexicans
drink more than Americans—although they do
drink more than Americans, of course.
23 percent of Mexican-American men are "frequent heavy
drinkers", according to Larry Elder. But the Sigma
Chi’s didn’t know that. They were simply encouraging the
guests at the party to be drunken Americans.
As for the border crossing “stereotype,”
how else do illegal Mexican aliens get from Mexico to
North Carolina? Parachute?
Erin O’Connor’s
Critical Mass blog has an entry headed
Duke gets it mostly right, noting that Duke is not
going to punish the frat brothers for having a party.
“…the Duke administration
is stating up front that there will be no punishment for
the fraternity or for individual students.
“Less
hopeful, but still entirely predictable: the Duke
administration is bending over backwards to (at least
seem to) accommodate the various demands of the
protesters. They want better recruitment of Latino
students and faculty, more institutional support for
Latinos, and a Latino studies program.”
Apparently, Duke’s President
Keohane,
president@duke.edu, told them that
“...a
new committee, to be announced Thursday, will help
recruit a more diverse faculty and staff. She also said
Duke was building an Americas Studies program, a
curriculum designed for the study of cultures from
North, Central and South America.”
That is, she is not only giving
them what they want, but, as far as the Latino Studies
program is concerned, she was giving it to them
before they even asked.
Diverse recruiting may violate
civil rights, equal protection, immigration laws etc.
etc., But, as we noted in May after the announcement of
a
Latinos-only medical fund,
Duke University doesn’t care.
Reference the above piece using this permanent URL:
http://www.vdare.com/fulford/miller_etc.htm#party
