Friday, December 29, 2006

How To Destroy America...The DIY Guide

In his book, "Mexifornia," Victor Hansen explains how immigration - both legal and illegal is destroying the entire state of California and that it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.

Former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm suggests that destroying America is not very difficult to accomplish. He says if we believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, we should then destroy America. Arnold Toynbee has observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.'" Lamm suggests the following eight ways to destroy America:

(1) 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.

(2) Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. Make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal; that there are no cultural differences. 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.

(3) 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. 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.

(4) 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.

(5) 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.

(6) Include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide a re 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.

(7) 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.

(8) 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.

Every “thinking” American understands these are indeed the steps 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.

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.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Civilian Governments Can Declare War But They Cannot Fight Them.

It has to be extremely difficult to be President today. The President has almost as many people critiquing him as an NFL Head Coach. He cannot change a decision because if he does the public will be all over him for every decision. It should not be like this but it is and it will change our country. GW, as a good cowboy, went to Iraq with vengeance in his eye because Saddam tried to kill his father. He thought he would ride in, arrest the varmit, and ride out. But it was bigger than he thought and he has sacrificed thousands of lives and altered tens of thousands of other lives because of his bad decision.

Now he cannot do anything until the new Secretary of Defense is up to speed or he will be accused of making Gates a puppet, which he is, but is not to be admitted. Meanwhile Americans are dying, for no good purpose. GW will be insignificant for the remainder of his term. As the United States fought the Russians by supporting their enemy, Afghanistan, Syria and Iran are fighting the United States by supporting our enemy, their covert military. Being stuck in Iraq, unable to win and unable to leave the United States is a sitting duck for all the small whiny countries to pick at and we will be unable to react.

During WWI General Pershing the command, once he was in France, it was the civilian government's job to support his decisions. Presidents and their cabinets cannot fight wars. Invariably they just screw things up... As Dirty Harry said, "A man has got to know his limitations."

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Iraq, a Major Error

From the beginning of its involvement in the internal affairs of Iraq the United States was doomed to failure. The reasons are many and include Intelligence failure, Presidential arrogance, House and Senate ineffectiveness, and a citizenry ignorant of its own Constitution.

Prior to the invasion of Iraq, a Sunni ruled the Shia and Kurd population with violence. Iran, being majority Shia, and a Sunni led Iraq are natural enemies. Intelligence would have warned that Iran would seek to become involved in an unstable Iraq.

Recently Saudi Arabia has informed the United States they would support the minority Sunni if the United States left Iraq unsupported.

IRAQ Majority Shia
IRAN Majority Shia

SAUDI ARABIA Majority Sunni

SYRIA Majority Sunni
LEBANON Majority Shia
PALESTINIANS Majority Sunni

Our President has made a major error and as a result has made himself and his generals liable to War Crimes Trials, if the United States loses in Iraq. The real problem is there is no way for the United States to win.

Monday, December 11, 2006

What is an Apology?

Americans make too much of an individual apologizing for an act or comment.

An apology is an acknowledgement of some fault, injury, insult, etc. with an expression of regret and a plea for pardon and we insist the individual express that remorse or regret before we are willing to move on.

Americans of all ilks have their likes and dislikes; they have prejudices; they discriminate. Those are not bad terms unless they cause an individual to break a law or even worse, have an opinion different than our opinion. Remember the Constitution defines what the government can do not the people.

Celebrities will, on occasion say or do something that is upsetting to the public. They do not regret thinking the way they think or feeling the way they feel but they regret having to deal with the public's reaction to their thoughts or feelings. They are sorry…they were caught.

When an individual is convicted of committing a crime, Americans want to know why, so before we move on we demand an explanation. Of course, once convicted, the individual is sorry…they were caught.

Americans need to accept that we do not all think alike and as long as no law is broken that is OK. We may disagree and that is OK also. Some crimes have no rational explanation. We need to move past the infraction with those differences in place.

If Americans cannot forgive or forget at least we must stop insisting on being lied to.


Recently the Amish have exhibited an example of forgiveness from which we can all learn.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Iraq - Quagmire

The United States complains that Iran is providing money and weapons to the "bad guys" in Iraq. Remember the many times the United States provided money and weapons to people fighting our enemies? It was our way of fighting our enemy while maintaining space for a plausible denial. Are we so naïve that we do not recognize that we are fighting Iran AND Syria?

If the “bad guys” really wanted the United States to leave Iraq they would let things settle down. The United States would congratulate themselves on a job well done and leave, maybe leaving a token force as we do so often. The “bad guys” could then comeback and takeover the country with minimal fighting while the United States talked about what we should do. They might even kill some of our token force since it would be unable to defend itself.

But Iran and Syria do not want the United States to leave. They want to keep us there using up our resources and giving them opportunities to kill our military personnel and to make us look weak. They are behind the problems in Lebanon for the same reasons. Israel is using up their resources and it is an opportunity for Hezbollah to kill Israelis.

The United States is in a quagmire. We cannot win and we cannot leave.

There have been stories concerning what happens if we lose in Iraq? How about war crimes trials of Bush and Rumsfeld and all of the generals who have been in charge of the fiasco? We are kidding ourselves if we do not think it could happen.

Friday, December 01, 2006

Using Suffering to Promote Moral Goals

This past July, Dottie and I attended Summer Celebration at Lipscomb University in Nashville. One of the sessions was on the "Status of the Church of Christ." The speaker said we do not need the Bible nor do we need Jesus to:
  • do no harm;
  • do good (especially when it does not cost you much);
  • tell the truth;
  • practice fairness;
  • keep your promises;
  • respect autonomy;
  • make reparations if you can.

His point was that being a Christian means more than those attributes.

He asked:

  • Have you voluntarily reduced your standard of living in the past year and given the savings to help someone?
  • Have you had the poor in your house?
  • In the past 10 years is the church more diverse?

In his book “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Sam Harris writes “Christians believe that unless the Bible is accepted as the word of God, there can be no universal standard of morality But we can easily think of objective sources of moral order that do not require the existence of a lawgiving God.”

The speaker at Lipscomb was making a similar point.

One of the effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human suffering. Religion allows Christians to imagine that our concerns are moral when they have nothing to do with suffering or its alleviation or when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why we expend more “moral” energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide and why we are more concerned about human embryos than about the life saving promise of stem cell research and it explains why we preach against condom use while millions die from AIDS each year.

We direct our efforts to constrain the sexual behavior of consenting adults---and to discourage our children from having premarital sex--- are almost never geared toward the relief of human suffering. Relieving human suffering seems to rank low on our list of priorities.

Christians are not principally concerned about teen pregnancy and the spread of disease. That is we are not concerned with the suffering caused by sex; we are worried about sex.

I have noticed that people who say they are “pro life” are really “pro unborn life.” We do little for life once it is born. Handicapped, abused, genocide, orphaned, children of incest or rape, are categories in which we show little interest. Our President is against stem cell research that offers to improve the lives of the citizens of the United States and of the world but he is willing to sacrifice the lives of our citizens for people who do like us and in reality hate us as their religion approves the killing of those whom they label as “unbelievers.” We permit our government to sacrifice our fellow citizens on the altar of politics.

Various sexually transmitted diseases effect a large number of our citizens. One of which is HPV, which is believed to cause cervical cancer; the CDC estimates 5,000 women in the US of A and 200,000 women worldwide die each year. Tests show it appears to be safe and effective. Some Christian Conservatives in our government have resisted a vaccination program on the grounds that HPV is a valuable impediment to premarital sex. They want to preserve cervical cancer as an incentive toward abstinence, even if it means sacrificing the lives of thousands of women each year. I imagine some of those women are on the prayer list of some congregations, somewhere.