May 27, 2006
Saturday’s Letters: A Southern
Reader Says Dixie Took A Stand Against Senate Sell-Out; etc.
From:
Mike Scruggs [e-mail
him]
Re: Bryanna
Bevens’s Column:
The U.S. Senate Tackles Immigration Reform…But There’s A
Flag On The Field, Folks
There is a silver
lining in the vote on S. 2611 (which I like to call
“Bush-Kennedy” or "the Bill of Abominations"
after the
Tariffs of Abomination of 1828 and 1832 that caused
the Nullification crisis of 1832). It showed the
South still has a sense of honor.
Of the thirty
Senators from fifteen Southern states, including
Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and West Virginia,
twenty-three voted against the
Bush-Kennedy-McCain bill, i.e.
Shamnesty.
So while I shudder
to think that S.2611 was passed 62 to 36, I, a
Southerner, take some comfort and pride that it was
beaten in the
South.
But sadly, some
scalawags surfaced: both Democratic Senators from
Arkansas, Lincoln and Pryor; both Florida Senators,
Martinez (R) and Nelson (D); as well as Frist (R) of
Tennessee; Landrieu (D) of Louisiana; Warner (R) of
Virginia; and Lindsey Graham (R) of South Carolina all
voted “yea”. [Jay Rockefeller (D) of West
Virginia, abstained.]
One Southern
Democrat, Byrd of West Virginia, a
faithful Constitution man, also voted against
S.2611.
Besides Byrd,
there were three other Democrats who voted against
Bush-Kennedy: Dorgan of North Dakota; Nelson of
Nebraska; and Stabenow of Michigan.
In addition to the
four Southern Republicans the following eighteen
Northern Republicans disgraced themselves enough to earn
the title of “New Radical Republican” by voting
for S. 2611:
Specter of Pennsylvania; Bennett of Utah;
Brownback of Kansas; Chafee of Rhode Island; Coleman
of Minnesota; both Collins and Snowe of Maine; Craig of
Idaho; both DeWine of Ohio (and he’s up for reelection)
and Voinovich of Ohio; Domenici of New Mexico; Hagel of
Nebraska (also up for reelection!); Lugar of Indiana;
Mulkowski and Stevens of Alaska; Greg of New Hampshire;
Smith of Oregon; and of course
superscum John McCain of Arizona.
If anything
similar to S.2611 passes the House, you can expect at
least 32 million more new unskilled and poorly educated
immigrants in the next ten years…perhaps even as many as
50 million.
Advantage liberal
Democrats! This would turn the U.S. into a despotic
and corrupt Banana Republic within
ten to twenty years.
There is still
time, but very little. To quote Patrick Henry, “
Our
brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here
idle?”
Scruggs, a
former Republican County Chairman, is a retired
financial consultant and corporate business executive
living in North Carolina.
He holds an
MBA from Stanford University and a BS from the
University of Georgia. Scruggs is a USAF combat veteran
of the
Vietnam War,
holding a Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart.
VDARE.COM
comment: Read Lawrence Auster’s
View From The Right post on the remarkable religious breakdown of the S.2611
vote
here.
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Saturday’s Letters: DHS
Whistleblower Says VDARE.COM’s Edwin S. Rubenstein Tells
It Like It Is
Re: Edwin S.
Rubenstein’s Column:
The Privatized Amnesty Pencedream
I fully agree with Rubenstein’s postulation that the
entire idea—and any idea even remotely similar—of having
illegal aliens leave the country and then report back to
work through application at a private hiring agency will
never succeed.
As I work for the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), I can most
assuredly state that it will NEVER share or allow access
to any database or information files - regardless of the
purpose.
DHS barely shares info between agencies within its
service umbrella.
Furthermore, I would not put any faith or trust in a
background check that relied solely on the Internet and
I would never rely on information from the
Government of Mexico since its system is too corrupt
and has no "national data accessibility". Each
state in Mexico maintains its own style of records. No
state conforms to any other.
Regarding the lawsuits that Rubenstein mentions against
Tyson Foods and
Wal-Mart...the case against Tyson has been mitigated
down from the original multi-million dollar fine to
ZERO.
Wal-Mart has also escaped unscathed by simply
claiming that any illegals that "may" have worked
at its locations were hired by sub-contractors or
through hiring agencies.
Wal-Mart claims it is not its responsibility to
check the legal status of these indirectly-hired
employees. This is how all companies big and small get
around being heavily fined by the federal government.
Of course, this also doesn't take into account the
political pressure applied by "major interests"
to force
ICE not to perform worksite enforcement or enforce
the employer sanction laws.
Many years ago, someone once said that sometime in the
not too distant future there would no longer be
governments, and that corporations would make all the
important decisions for the masses.
That day is fast approaching and it will be the death of
the free market and the end of
national borders. Everything will be globalized and
there will be no separate nation-states.
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Saturday’s Letters: Another
New York Reader Turns Off “Conservative” Radio When
Larry Kudlow Touts More Immigration
From:
Liz Smith [e-mail
her]
Re:
A New Jersey Reader Says “Conservative” Talk Radio Not
So Conservative After All
I'm glad someone else heard the Kudlow insanity besides
me. I've been too busy calling, faxing, and visiting
our pathetic Senators in the Northeast.
I have one additional comment about Kudlow’s broadcast
that truly disturbed me. Kudlow had
Steve Moore on the same show, one of those typical
Wall Street Journal open-borders
cheerleaders.
The segment sounded scripted like an infomercial.
Kudlow and Moore were talking about how these new "citizens"
will save
Social Security and that they really have “no
effect on our population because they are in essence
making up for the terrible tragedy of abortion that has
happened over the past 30 years."
They cited 40 million abortions as the population aliens
must replace.
I’ve never heard
abortion used as an excuse for illegal immigration.
It almost sounded like a desperate attempt to get
pro-life conservatives on board with their pro-illegal
alien views.
Neither Kudlow nor Moore mentioned that most of the 40
million would have been American citizens and not
hostile Third World residents bent on destroying our
nation.
Smith is a
part-time healthcare technology consultant,
a
conservative issues activist and the mother of three
school-aged children.
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Saturday’s Letters: Still
Another New York Reader Says Kudlow Has Lost It…If He
Ever Had It
From:
Dan Hayes
Re:
A New Jersey Reader Says “Conservative” Talk Radio Not
So Conservative After All
Regarding Larry
Kudlow, what do you expect from a
dope-head, recovering or otherwise.
In the lexicon of
our
victimhood society, Kudlow is a "recovering"
cocaine addict. The white lady did a nice job on his
neuron factory.
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Saturday’s Letters:
A Vietnam Veteran Challenges Henry Lenoir’s View Of POWs
From:
Ron Foreman [e-mail
him]
Re:
An Ex-Fighter Pilot Confirms Bryanna’s Theory: McCain Is
Insane
I am not sure how
many
POWs Mr. Lenoir knows but his blanket negative
observations about them are unfair.
Lenoir doesn’t say
if he is Air Force, Army, Navy or Marine. Nor does Mr.
Lenoir state his combat experience or his direct
encounters with enemy forces.
As Lenoir
indicated, many POWs have had problems, who would not?
Most are divorced. The strain on marriages even for
those of us who were not captives was very severe.
When my five
uncles returned from
WWII, all were addicted to booze. So it is not
strange for men under stress to break.
I do not agree
with
McCain but I will always remember the picture of him
in a hospital bed broken up while our
news media like Walter Cronkite
played into the hands of the North Vietnamese.
We should be
addressing the immigration issues with
McCain by presenting a strong case based on the
facts. Calling
McCain an idiot because he was a POW is not
productive.
Since Lenoir was
not a POW perhaps he should walk in their shoes for a
while before commenting further.
Foreman was a
Captain in the USMC from 1961-1968; he resigned his
commission after returning from Nam. He entered the
Foreign Service and retired in 2001.
VDARE.COM
comment: While we are sorry to learn about Captain Foreman’s
brothers, the point is that he presumably would not have
placed the
fate of the Republic
in their hands—or in the hands of any other impaired
veteran. And the fact is that Senator McCain has
distinguished himself by his
boorish and
dogmatic dismissal of all immigration reform arguments.
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Saturday’s Letters: A
Washington State Reader Recalls A Mexican Song About
Home
From:
Robin Corkery [e-mail
him]
Re: Joe Guzzardi’s
Column:
Going Home…
There is a song Mexicans always sing with great
sentiment:
Mexico
lindo y querido
Si
muero lejos de ti
Digan
que estoy dormido
y
que me traigan aqui
(Mexico
beautiful and dear
If I die far
from you
Say that I am
sleeping
And have them
bring me here)
It is quite moving when you hear it put to music and
reflects the powerful attachment that Mexicans feel for
their true home.
Unfortunately, their emotion is combined with
extreme nationalism and xenophobia. Combine those
traits with the
false belief that California and the Southwest are
rightfully Mexican, and the
invasion of our country by millions of Mexicans who
are impoverished and poorly educated and you have a
foolproof recipe for Balkanization.
Corkery is an alumnus of Notre
Dame who served in the U.S. Marines. He became an
officer of a New York Stock Exchange member firm that,
according to him, “long ago became lost in the dismal
swamp of political correctness.”
Corkery adds
that: “he
admired Mexicans while living in Mexico, but doesn't
share George Bush's deranged obsession that Americans
need to be displaced with Mexicans or any other
foreigners.”
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