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| I'm going to scream and shred a taco to smithereens
if I hear one more numbnut, with an institutional or personal Genovese Syndrome
or other neurosis, say that enforcing our immigration laws is a federal responsibility
and that it is none of our business as (lowly) citizens of towns, counties, and
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| No, you jerks, it is our responsibility and it is
our business! Let me scream that again: IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY AND IT IS OUR
BUSINESS! Why? Because we are CITIZENS. This is OUR country. It is OUR home. We
own it. We not only have a right to ensure that our country isn't invaded, it's
our responsibility. Our country is being murdered before our eyes, and we have
the responsibility to stop it. If we don't do it, no one will. Certainly, we can't
rely on the vast majority of our foo foo politicians. Many citizens believe that
too many of these politicians are craven and stupid self promoters who should
be dragged out of their offices as their historic counterparts in France once
were. Personally, when I see national politicians doing nothing about our immigration
problems, and when I hear state and local political hacks say that immigration
is a federal problem, I'm sometimes reminded of Kitty Genovese. |
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the mostly white citizens watching Genovese's murder didn't get involved: Kitty
was white and her attacker was non-white. For some whites, given the conditioning
they have experienced in this nation, such a situation probably caused an approach/avoidance
conflict that they couldn't resolve. They may have wanted to approach the situation
to save Kitty, and probably would have, had the attacker been white, but, in this
case, they also wanted to avoid the situation because the attacker was non-white.
They may have feared, perhaps subconsciously, that their intervention might really
be motivated by what society had been telling them was their inborn but often
hidden racism (racism is defined here to mean racial hatred). Thus, some may have
been psychologically paralyzed. |
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subconscious mind is very open and receptive to suggestion. Tell people that they
are born racists long enough and many will internalize this as uncritically as
a stage hypnotist's subject will internalize the belief that he or she is a chicken.
Soon, these whites, who may otherwise be perfectly normal, become neurotic about
race and treat it almost like a hidden birth defect or, like an original sin that
they were born with. Thereafter, they often try to expiate this original sin of
racism, that they think they have, by treating non-whites differently, usually
better, than whites, and to give non-whites the benefit of the doubt. "Gee,
maybe that woman down there who is being stabbed, had it coming. Golly, maybe
she's a racist."|
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some cases, the whites who failed to act to save Kitty may have simply been afraid
that others would see them as racists if they reported an attack on a white by
a non-white, especially if it later turned out to be a simple domestic dispute
of some type where the white wasn't really in danger. "You're just a racist.
You reported this nothing argument because it was a black man and a white woman,
right?"Today, some of the hateful dopes who want open borders
are trying to play on this white neurosis and fear by using the word racist and
its progeny to cudgel citizens into silence. While this still works with the hopelessly
neurotic, the terminally stupid, and the congenitally cowardly, it may actually
be backfiring on the haters who have let the term drool from their flaccid lips
and slack jaws with such regularity over the years that the term is starting to
lose its sting among most good, decent, mentally healthy white people. At least
it appears that many white people are speaking out on issues such as massive Third
World immigration, and more and more aren't first timidly saying (in an attempt
to head off the inevitable charge of racism with a preemptive denial), "Oh,
I'm not a racist, this is about immigration, not race." Those who do try
to head off the charge of racism this way are just telegraphing their internal
sensitivity to the issue. This quickly tells the haters that charges of racism
can be used to neutralize the person and hijack the issue of immigration. |
At
any rate, we need to reverse the Genovesing of America. Having a nice, safe, prosperous
nation where citizens can pursue happiness should be every citizen's concern.
Indeed, even on a more basic level, we, as human beings, have a responsibility
to ensure that we and our families are safe, happy and prosperous. That's the
whole reason for having nations--to serve the common good of the members of the
nations--its citizens. If our nation doesn't ensure the safety and prosperity
of its citizens so that they can find happiness, then why even have a nation?
What use is it? We'd be better off in another nation or as lone individuals without
the burden of being part of a nation that is dysfunctional and, in many cases,
works against our own best interests. And, yes, the elites who are running America
today really are making our nation a place that is working against the best interests
of us. |
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They're
allowing the invasion of millions of Third Worlders. They're deindustrializing
America. They're importing engineers to replace American engineers. They're sending
billions of OUR dollars to foreign nations. What are these elites doing for us?
Not much. Instead, they're treating us as though we are peasants who must do what
these elites want.| Some will say that we are a complex society and therefore
it is naive to believe that citizens should be responsible for their own well
being as it relates to "national" issues such as immigration. I say,
nonsense. In the first place, those who try to dismiss citizens with talk of complexity
are either confusing complexity with size or are trying to diminish the role of
citizens in our society. "Oh, golly Beaver, our betters are right. We're
a complex society. We'd better leave everything to the grownups--the politicians."
Baloney. In the first place, we don't have any betters. We are a citizen driven
country. Secondly, America is no more complex than a small village where one guy
makes shoes and trades them to another guy who makes arrow heads. Repeat that
system millions of times with slight variations while factoring in logical permutations
and those things that flow from that system and you have our society. It's all
just simple elements repeated and repeated. Period. The basic elements and principles
that are true at the neighborhood or town level are also true on the national
level. |
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Some
people might be confused about our role as citizens because we have delegated
certain of our authority to others to protect and serve us--a simple division
of labor (shoes and arrowheads, again). However, we have not, and never can, delegate
our responsibility to others or groups of others. We are always, at all times,
in all ways, responsible for our own safety and for our own prosperity or lack
thereof. If we make arrowheads and have delegated our authority to another to
make our shoes, and if he fails to make our shoes, are we simply to go shoeless?
Of course not. If he fails us, then we have to make our own shoes.|
Again, in our society, we have only delegated our authority,
not our responsibility, to those who govern. They are our shoemakers. It is a
fool who thinks that the federal authorities, local police, or anyone else has
been given the responsibility by us to act in our stead. We can not give responsibility.
We have only given them the authority that we possess, and we may take it back
if they fail us. This same principle of delegating authority extends out in ever
widening circles beginning with us as lone individuals, then to our families,
then to our neighborhoods and finally to the whole nation. Unfortunately, as our
delegation of authority extends out, it is only natural to feel more isolated
and confused about the principle, which, again, is: We can delegate authority,
but we can't delegate responsibility. |
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So
here we are. We've delegated the authority to protect our borders to the federal
government. In exchange we're paying taxes and doing other things. We're upholding
our part of the bargain, but the feds are failing us. They're leaving us shoeless.
Our federal officials, from George Bush on down, are not wisely using the authority
that we gave them to protect us. We have laws and we have borders. We want the
former enforced and the latter protected. Is Bush doing either? Nope. Figuratively
speaking, we are a nation of Kitty Genoveses being attacked and murdered on the
streets by illegal aliens, while our elite politicians look out their windows
and do nothing all the while telling us that we should leave immigration control
to the federal government. Well, the friggin' federal government isn't doing what
it's supposed to be doing. I know that isn't a revelation to anyone with any half-bright
level of consciousness of what's going on in this nation, but it needs to be repeated
over and over again. President Bush and his pals, would rather send our soldiers
to protect the borders of Iraq than to put them on our own borders to protect
our borders for the citizens of this country. They would rather send our tax money
(more than $87 billion, remember) over there to benefit citizens of a foreign
nation than using it right here to help us. This stinks. This is obscene and it
has to stop. However, when citizens complain we are given neo-let-them-eat-cake
types of answers.|
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Citizens
need to start taking personal responsibility for this nation just as they do when
they join neighborhood watch groups and report suspicious activity. America was
built on citizen involvement, but many citizens seem to have forgotten this. Citizens
should be reporting illegal aliens just as they report other suspicious persons.
Of course, the problem with this is that President Bush and his administration
aren't on the side of citizens of the U.S. They treat us as though we are poor,
dumb relatives who they can just smile at and dismiss with sweet nothings as they
change the subject away from illegal immigration.|
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Citizens
can't afford to just sit back and wish and hope that the political hacks will
fix things. We can no longer just whine and call into conservative radio programs.
However, it's just not practical to take up arms to try to defend the border in
the present political climate. There are too many slimy haters who will try to
create incidents making the armed citizens look like whack jobs, and the government
won't back up these citizens against illegal aliens and their supporters. However,
if we ever get a government that is responsive to the needs of citizens and if
the "government of the people" (what a difference that would be from
our present government) ever does call for armed citizens on the border, then
you'd see the flow of illegal aliens into this nation stop almost immediately.|
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Of
course, the reality is that we're not going to get a government of the people
until we take back our government. So, what can powerless ordinary citizens do?
First, they can stop thinking that they are powerless ordinary citizens. Then,
they can start getting themselves into politics by running for office. Yup, as
distasteful as that may sound to some citizens, that's the way you get power.
In the past, when some on our side of this issue have tried to get into office,
they have often run for very high offices that they didn't have a chance of winning.
Also, many ran campaigns on one issue: stopping illegal immigration. This was
and is a mistake.|
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Now
we need to get realistic, and we need to start moving into positions where we
can fix this broken country. The place to start is with city governments. Immigration
activists need to start getting themselves on the many city committees that all
cities have. They also need to start regularly attending city council and planning
commission meetings to learn how things work and to network with others who regularly
attend these meetings. Then, they need to start running for their local city council.
City council seats are winnable for good candidates who are pragmatic and who
have some political instincts and who tune into the discontent that they are sure
to find in their communities on a number of different issues. The campaigns are
also relatively inexpensive. Candidates shouldn't run from the illegal alien issue,
but that should only be one part of a winning campaign--perhaps not even the main
part--that should be rounded out with other local issues.|
If we want to win, we have to be smarter than the other side and we need to have political power. |
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